Month: August 2021

A historic Carson City bookstore will close today. Rich Hancock has the story; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-081321-HANCOCK-No%20More%20Morleys.mp3 More at; carsonnow.org

Rich Hancock reports a historic Carson City bookstore will close today; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-081321-HANCOCK-No%20More%20Morleys.mp3 More at; carsonnow.org

A historic Carson City bookstore will close today. Rich Hancock has more; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-081321-HANCOCK-No%20More%20Morleys.mp3 More at; carsonnow.org

We’re learning more about a large COVID-19 exposure at Marce Herz Middle School. The health district says more than 80 people were exposed after a student who tested positive attended school for two days. The health district says the parent of the student refused to communicate with school staff and sent the child to school … Read more

Reno police vehicles are getting dash cams. Reno City Council approved funding for the cameras Wednesday. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports more than $1 million will be spent on 112 dash cams that will switch on automatically when an officer is dispatched to a call. The cameras will face both inward and outwards promoting both officer … Read more

Gunfire rings out in a restaurant. Police say the man fired off a shot inside SK Noodle Restaurant at North McCarran Boulevard and Pyramid Way in Sparks Monday. Police say the man left before officers arrived and hasn’t been found yet. They say he fled the scene in a white work truck with a ladder … Read more

Sparks police are looking for the man who carjacked an elderly woman. Police say it happened last week after midnight at East Emerson and Probasco ways. Police say the 80-year-old woman was returning home from a trip when a man demanded her keys and struck her in the face. He fled in her 2003 Green … Read more

A wrongfully convicted woman who spent more than three decades behind bars in Nevada has died off the coast of Washington, according to The Reno Gazette-Journal. Cathy Woods was exonerated and received millions after wrongfully spending 35 years in prison for the killing of 19-year-old UNIR student Michelle Mitchell. Woods was 72.

A $1,000 reward is being offered in an illegal poaching incident in Elko County. Game wardens say someone killed a deer and left it in a residential neighborhood near South Fork Reservoir in late July.

With more on volunteers for Carson City’s VIPs program, Rich Hancock reports; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-081221-HANCOCK-VIPs.mp3 More at; carsonnow.org