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RENO, Nev. -- A fight broke out Thursday at a Reno, Nev., clinic giving shots for swine flu when someone reportedly tried to cut in line. Washoe County Health District spokeswoman Judy Davis says she didn't have any details of the incident, but it involved people in high-risk groups waiting for a chance to get the shot. A witness told the Reno Gazette-Journal that a man took a swing at a woman, then jumped on her and they fell to the ground. They left after a security guard stepped in and broke up the fight. Davis says 1,200 vaccines were...

Link only - Housing forecast: Reno market is 'weakest' in country

RENO, NV - This is the 46th year of the air races, drawing fans from all over the world, and bringing millions of dollars to the local economy. The Air Races have been run since 1964 and are held at Reno Stead Airport just north of Reno. The US Navy "Blue Angels" return to Reno this year, their first visit since 2000. Race aircraft in the Unlimited Class reach speeds of over 500 mph - by far the fastest-moving machines in motorsports. The event also includes a world-class air show featuring the US Navy "Blue Angels" flying the F-18 Hornet....

<p>And the Tea Party Express launches today from Sacramento!! We're expecting a big crowd at our noon time Tea Party rally today at the Capitol, then we launch our cross-country tour!</p> <p>Woo hoo!! Thirty-five cities, thirty-five tea parties in sixteen days!!</p>

<p>And less than TWO days to go till the launch of the Tea Party Express!! We'll be loading up the FReepmobile and heading for Sacramento tomorrow afternoon to meet the express. We're expecting a big crowd at our high noon Tea Party rally at the State Capitol on Friday, then we launch our cross-country tour! Woo hoo!! Thirty-five cities in sixteen days!!</p>

Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, the No. 3 official in the Obama Justice Department, was consulted and ultimately approved a decision in May to reverse course and drop a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party of intimidating voters in Philadelphia during November's election, according to interviews. The department's career lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division who pursued the complaint for five months had recommended that Justice seek sanctions against the party and three of its members after the government had already won a default judgment in federal court against the...

An employee of Harrah's Lake Tahoe hotel in Nevada has claimed in a civil lawsuit that Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger sexually assaulted her in his room last July while he was in town for a celebrity golf tournament. The complaint, filed Friday in Washoe County, Nev., also names eight Harrah's employees accused of being part of a widespread cover-up in the Harrah's organization. They include the resort's president, security chief and other supervisors. Mr. Roethlisberger's lawyer yesterday denied that his client had sexually assaulted anyone. PDF Read the civil complaint Harrah's Entertainment spokeswoman Jacqueline Peterson today said the casino and...

"Only a day after he was shot in the face by an armed assailant, Reno the K-9 dog was released Wednesday afternoon from a Fresno veterinary hospital into the custody of his partner, deputy Robert Marean."

MIAMI - Miami-Dade officials have decided to name a new high school after former NBA star Alonzo Mourning. The Miami-Dade School Board voted today to name the new North Miami school after Mourning, rather than former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.

Fla. school likely named for Mourning over Reno By MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press Writer Advertisement Buy AP Photo Reprints Your Questions Answered Ask AP: Following Sotomayor, movie closed captions MIAMI (AP) -- Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno appears to have lost in an unlikely matchup with former NBA star Alonzo Mourning. A committee charged with deciding what to call a new high school in North Miami was considering naming it after one of the two, and last week chose the athlete and his wife.

Click here to watch the videoTalk on Nevada host Andy Matthews interviews Geoffrey Lawrence, NPRI's fiscal policy analyst, on Nevada's budget situation. Geoffrey is the author of Nevada's Freedom Budget: 2009-2011, which would fund priorities, eliminate waste and save Nevada over $1.7 billion compared to the legislature's budget. Andy and Geoffrey also talk about legislature's proposed job-killing, record-setting, billion dollar tax increase,

Link only - Several protest in downtown Reno against bailouts

RENO, Nev. (AP) — RENO, Nev. (AP) ? Nevada athletic director Cary Groth says she will consider prohibiting Wolf Pack athletes from possessing handguns

Referring to T.L.Sink's post: "... gang violence, particularly from Hispanic gangs like MS-13 and the Latin Kings. A great majority of these gangs are illegal aliens ..." , other than the Michael Savage lawsuit against NAPO, it seems like nothing else is being done to force this disgrace to step down ... instead of focusing on the illegals who are flooding up here, further franchising the MS-13 gangs, she is more concerned about spitting in the face of our Vets, putting them on the level of a suspected terrorist or a Timothy McVey. Is this country going totally upside down,...

Attorney General Eric Holder, left, kisses former Attorney General Janet Reno, right, as she is presented with the American Judicature Society 2009 Justice Award during a ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, Friday, April 17, 2009

Napolitano’s latest move: a report from her department telling local police to be on the lookout for “right-wing extremists.” The document, which reads like a relic from Janet Reno’s Justice Department, came out one week before conservatives held tea party rallies across the country to protest rising government taxes, spending and debt.

Video Story at link. Also see Reno Gazette Journal Story at RGJ.com. Copyright issue with the newspapaer.

This is really incredible. H-S Precision is sells hunting and tactical rifles. Here is a scan from the back cover of their Catalog. Note who did the write-up (circled in yellow):For the three of you who don't know who Lon Horiuchi is, he's the FBI sniper of Ruby Ridge infamy who murdered Vicki Weaver in cold blood while she was holding her baby. I'm not sure what H-S was thinking when they decided to hire this despicable thug as a spokesperson, but they are in dire need of remedial correction for this deplorable business decision. No gun decent gun owner/buyer...

Transition: Jamie Gorelick may be back, this time as attorney general. It was her "wall of separation" that that left us blind pre-9/11. And let's not forget her admirable service at Fannie Mae.Not many people can claim to have been at the center of arguably the greatest financial disaster and greatest national security disaster in American history. But Gorelick, said to be on the short list for attorney general by the New York Times, can. Surely that qualifies her for further government service. Gorelick earned an estimated $26 million serving as vice chair of Fannie Mae from 1998 to 2003....

Don't let them intimidate you or your neighbors at the polls... we voted in the swing ward of the swing county of the swing state. No campaigning around precincts (one lone small 0bama sign half a block away from the school). Lines minimal at around 1PM. Lots of people at local Starbucks for the free coffee. Boy Scouts raising money for their trip to NM for camp with a bake sale... that's it. BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!! GO VOTE!!! Cannot post from RGJ: Lawyers watching voting process for Obama in Washoe County

"The Stop Obama Tour" will be taking a stand in your cities on October 15th. If you live near those areas, you are encouraged to come and show your support for America. Bring your American flags, your Nobama signs, and you can even bring your resumes to show that you have better executive experience than Obama. If you pal around with terrorists, please list them in the References section, as that seems to be an essential qualification. The rallies are being run by Our Country Deserves Better (where you can find a schedule of where they will be next) and...

Text of the letter I rec'd from Rep. Dean Heller: September 30, 2008 Thank you for contacting me in opposition to the proposed federal financial bailout included in H.R. 3997, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. I appreciate your thoughts on this important issue, and want you to now that I agree with you. I voted against the bailout bill for a number of reasons, but most importantly I opposed this bill in defense of taxpayers and Nevada families. I could not in good conscience put Nevada's taxpayers on the hook for the foolish excesses of Wall Street. This...

Northern Nevada Freepers, please call Rep. Dean Heller’s office regarding the bailout: 202-225-6155 He shouldn’t sign the bailout bill unless all the following criteria are met: 1. NO PORK / EARMARKS 2. CUT OR ELIMINATE CAPITAL GAINS TAXES 3. NO NEW TAXES OR INCREASED TAXES 4. CREDIT DERIVATIVES MARKET REFORMS

Following a landmark lending discrimination settlement, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno recently issued a stern warning to all banks which practice red-lining--you're breaking the law and face possible litigation. Reno's warning came on the heels of a recent settlement of an unprecedented lending-bias case against Chevy Chase Federal Savings Bank, a suburban Washington, D.C., bank that was accused of bias in marketing services to predominantly Black and minority areas. It was revealed that until recently, Chevy Chase had no branches located in predominantly Black neighborhoods.

After capturing his seventh championship at the Reno National Championship Air Races, Bill "Tiger" Destefani says he's laying off the throttle.

A spokeswoman with the National Championship Air Races confirms to Channel 2 News that a pilot was killed in a plane wreck Saturday morning at Reno-Stead Airport...

Marilyn Dash of Hayward, who took her first flying lesson nine years ago on her 37th birthday, is now tearing around pylons at 180 miles per hour, 50 feet off the ground in her souped-up biplane, surrounded by a swarm of other planes all dashing to a finish line in the air. Dash will be one of more than 150 pilots competing in six classes of aircraft - from biplanes to jets - when the National Championship Air Races and Air Show take off Sept. 10 to 14 in Reno. In addition to dozens of wingtip-to-wingtip races at as much...

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HAVANA (CBS4) ― Eight years after a headline making international custody fight which ended with his return to his father in Cuba, Elian Gonzalez has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. In an article in Cuba's communist youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, the 14-year old Gonzalez said he would never let ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro down. He joined more than 18-thousand others who joined the group on Saturday. In 2000, Gonzalez' mother was killed when a boat carrying them to the U.S. capsized in the Florida Straits. Elian, who was 6 years old at the time..........."

Janet Reno's No. 2 possible AG for ObamaJamie Gorelick accused of treating terror suspects as mere criminals Posted: June 13, 2008 10:45 pm Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi © 2008 WorldNetDaily NEW YORK – A panel of Democratic Party legal heavyweights speculated Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, could be appointed attorney general if Barack Obama were elected president. In a panel chaired by Elena Kagan, dean and professor of law at Harvard Law School, Gorelick charged on the opening plenary panel of the American Constitution's Society two-day meeting in Washington that the Bush administration had...

Quakes Keep Shaking Reno; Scientists StumpedSandra Chereb in Reno, Nevada Associated PressApril 30, 2008 Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno, are scrutinizing seismic readings and studying damage at residents' homes to try to figure out what's happening beneath Earth's surface under a northwest Reno neighborhood rocked by a seemingly endless string of earthquakes. What they can't say is whether the hundreds of temblors that have rattled the area for two months—the largest a magnitude 4.7 Friday night—are subsiding or a prelude to bigger things to come. "You're not going to get an earthquake prediction today," John Anderson, director of...

Early Elián Gonzalez raid was planned BY WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA Before the forced removal of Elián González from his relatives' home in Little Havana eight years ago, federal agents had another plan to return the child to his father in Cuba. But an order from Washington canceled it at the last minute. According to statements by James Goldman, then head of operations for the U.S. immigration agency in Miami, federal agents had been instructed to seize Elián during a meeting in Miami Beach with his grandmothers at the home of Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, then-president of Barry University, in January 2000....

RENO, Nev. - Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors. ADVERTISEMENT More than 100 aftershocks were recorded on the western edge of the city after a magnitude 4.7 quake hit Friday night, the strongest quake around Reno since one measuring 5.2 in 1953, said researchers at the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno. The latest quake swept store shelves clean, cracked walls in homes and dislodged rocks on hillsides, but there were no reports of...

RENO, Nev. (AP) ― Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors. More than 100 aftershocks were recorded on the western edge of the city after a magnitude 4.7 quake hit Friday night, the strongest quake around Reno since one measuring 5.2 in 1953, said researchers at the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno. The latest quake swept store shelves clean, cracked walls in homes and dislodged rocks on hillsides, but there were no reports of...

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Two moderate earthquakes occurred this afternoon west of Reno, in the Mogul-Somerset area. These events are the largest in a continuing a series of earthquakes that began on Thursday February 28, 2008. The earthquakes today have been followed by numerous aftershocks, many large enough to be felt. Based on the magnitude of today’s earthquakes, felt aftershocks can be expected for several days. The activity west of Reno is unusual in that the largest earthquakes of the series have been the latest to occur. This is out of the normal pattern of mainshock followed by smaller aftershocks, such as has occurred...

Not that numbers mean all that much, but in the landmark case at the Supreme Court, District of Columbia vs. Heller, 45 organizations have filed amici briefs in support of Heller. That's more than twice as many as were filed by the anti-gun activists supporting D.C. The pro-Second Amendment crowd have a definite edge in big names and intellectual heft as well. The authors of the pro-Heller amici briefs are a constellation of rising stars, men and women with serious weight between their ears. *** D.C.'s got academics. So does Heller. D.C.'s got political bigwigs, 18 of them. Heller's got...

Three of the members from the “Westboro Baptist Church” dared to enter Nevada today to picket at the funeral of one of our fallen soldiers. The family of Staff Sergeant Sean Gaul was holding an open memorial service for their fallen son today at 11:00am in Reno, NV. The three scum were met by over 200 Patriot Guard Riders and FReepers. They stayed for about 10 minutes and then fled to their car about 500 feet from their original site across the street from the Church, where the services were being held. None of the family or attendees was exposed...

With few leads and little evidence, frustration is mounting in the search for Brianna Denison, the 19-year-old college student who mysteriously vanished five days ago. "Basically, Brianna has disappeared. She has fallen off the face of the Earth," said Adam Garcia, campus police chief at the University of Nevada, Reno. "From our perspective, we don't have any credible leads in which to follow up at this point," he told a Reno radio station Wednesday night. Police questioned a man who gave a ride home to Denison's friend the night Denison disappeared from the home near the UNR campus but investigators...

Duncan Hunter, Presidential Candidate Visits Fernley & Reno Presidential Candidate, will be to touring Fernley and the flood area with Fernley Mayor Todd Cutler this afternoon beginning about 2:30 PM. Hunter and his family know disaster firsthand having lost their family home in the wildfires of Southern California in 2003 and nearly losing their home again this year. Having served with Governor Jim Gibbons in Congress, Congressman Hunter was first to call Nevada’s Governor to offer any help at his disposal. Following the Fernley City and flood area tour, Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter will also accompany Mayor Todd Cutler...

RENO, Nev. (AP) - A puzzling W-2 form prompted last week's raids on eleven McDonald's stores in Reno and Fernley. A Fernley woman, whose name was not immediately available, became suspicious when she received a W-2 form early this year that reported more income than she had earned.

Janet Reno CD in stores now Published: Sept. 18, 2007 at 8:20 PM KENDALL, Fla., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A three-CD album of historical songs from former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno debuted Tuesday. "Song of America," a 50-tune "history book'" that Reno helped shepherd, is in stores now, the Miami Herald has reported. Reno is listed as an executive producer on the collection, which starts in 1492 with "Lakota Dream Song" and spans 25 eras of U.S. history, concluding with "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning," a song about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Reno said...

In Reno to address the American Legion convention Tuesday, President Bush's first order of business was to recognize a Nevada woman for her volunteerism. Upon arrival last night, Bush presented Cathy Levine of Reno with a pin and chatted with her a few minutes next to Air Force One about the impact of gambling on homelessness. Levine began collecting clothing and blankets for homeless families who were housed temporarily at a local shelter during a severe snowstorm in 1989.

Several gathered up at Mt. Rose on Tuesday with one goal, to bring the 2018 Winter Olympic Games to Reno-Tahoe. The 1960 Winter Games were held in Tahoe, but were confined to Squaw Valley. Those supporting the 2018 campaign told News 4 the Reno-Tahoe games would include more events and athletes, as well as have a huge impact on tourism in the region. They also said they are confident Reno-Tahoe has the capability to host such an event, with large venues like Lawlor Events Center, and the University of Nevada, Reno, to serve as a plausible Olympic Village.

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This week marks the one year anniversary of Darren Mack's murder of his estranged wife and shooting of a Nevada judge. The event is being recounted in several articles, including "One Year Anniversary Haunts Reno" (KREN, 6/12/07)[www.kren.com/news/7967782.html] and the more detailed "Violence reverberates through lives" (Reno Gazette-Journal, 6/10/07)[news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070610/NEWS/706100354/1002]. I've written about Mack on numerous occasions, including: "Do I Even Need to Say This?" (6/19/06, see below) "Thomas Jefferson Murdered Women?" (6/26/06): www.glennsacks.com/enewsletters/enews_6_27_06.htm "First Darren Mack, Now Herbert Chalmers--More Radical Fathers' Rights Idiocy" (2/10/07): glennsacks.com/blog/?p=205 "Darren Mack and the Presumption of Innocence" (2/24/07): glennsacks.com/blog/?p=288 The evidence of Mack's guilt seems overwhelming,...

For all of the posturing by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee during the testimony of former Department of Justice political appointee Monica Goodling, they and their Democrat colleagues in the Clinton administration went to far greater lengths to identify and track the political activities of career and politically appointed lawyers in the Department of Justice and elsewhere. "We knew the political affiliation of every lawyer and political appointee we hired at the Department of Justice from January 1993 to the end of the Administration," says a former Clinton Department of Justice political appointee. "We kept charts and used them...

Peter Zefo, blogger and seminary student posed for a picture with Dennis Kucinich. Pete flashed a "W" sign while both he and Kucinich grinned widely adding Kucinich to the "Hall of Democrats Who Have Been Dubya'd." He joins Janet Reno and Patrick Leahy there. Click here to view the picturesFeel free to make your own additions to the Hall!

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) -- Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno encouraged lawyers to become more familiar with forensics to prevent innocent people from going to prison. Reno told members of the Manatee Bar Association on Wednesday that ``there's nothing more horrible (than) being told you're going away for life for a crime you didn't commit. Let's file charges based on solid evidence.'' Reno is on the board of directors for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that has helped exonerate 197 prisoners through DNA testing. The former Miami-Dade County state attorney also discussed concerns for juvenile justice, child welfare and...

RENO, Nev. - An early season wildfire in Reno burned at least two homes and temporarily shut down Interstate 80's westbound lanes, officials said. An undetermined number of people were evacuated from homes and businesses after the brush fire broke out at Saturday afternoon. The fast-moving fire burned near a shopping center, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. No injuries were reported. The extent of damage to the homes could not be immediately confirmed by officials, but KOLO-TV in Reno reported one home was destroyed and another was severely damaged. The flames were fanned by wind gusts of up to 20 mph...