Reno Gazette Journal
$350M Boulevard plan advances
An ambitious $350 million mixed-use entertainment district project cleared its first key hurdle with the city of Reno after a planning commission vote late Wednesday evening. The Reno Planning Commission voted unanimously in favor of a master plan and...
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WHAT’S UNDER CONSTRUCTION?
Motorists driving past the corner of Geiger Grade Road and South Virginia Street will notice ongoing construction near the busy south Reno intersection. The site, which is located just east of the Shayden Summit mall, has seen an assortment of...
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Movement touts addictive drug as beneficial, but dangers persist
An ironic development emerging alongside the “Make America Healthy Again” movement is the portrayal of nicotine as a wellness and performance-enhancing product. Across social media, podcasts, wellness communities and tech startups, prominent wellness...
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Wolf Pack hoops, Mark Twain Days headline busy week
Northern Nevada’s fall calendar is packed this week, with everything from glowing lantern displays and literary festivals to sporting events, concerts, theater and Halloween attractions. Highlights include the return of Dragon Lights Reno, the annual...
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Clock fight pits science vs. politics
Daylight is already fading, and soon Americans will set back the clocks, too. But this year, political support is building for doing away with seasonal time changes by switching to permanent daylight saving time. That would be a mistake, scientists...
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Q&A with candidates for Reno mayor
With Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve termed out from running again, two candidates are facing off to fill her seat: Kate Marshall and Kathleen Taylor. Both bring strong credentials in government. Marshall served as Nevada treasurer and lieutenant governor...
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USS Lincoln sailors return from deployment
SAN DIEGO – They survived almost a year of hostile seas, cramped quarters, weeks without touching dry land, and supply-chain problems that left their food less than ideal. But when the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln walked into the loving crowd at...
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Loud sounds have hidden health risks
Tyourhe human body is remarkably good at getting used to the environment around it. You’ve probably experienced this if you’ve ever gone to a matinee and emerged from the dark theater into sunshine. Your eyes sting, so you squint and shield face until...
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Colonel: Flippo fired over ‘ability to command’
U.S. House candidate David Flippo was fired from his role as aircraft maintenance squad commander in 2008 at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. Retired Col. Steven Lawlor, maintenance group commander at the time, told the Reno Gazette Journal he’d been...
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‘THE SPIRIT OF RENO’
Michael Salika never played football at Reno High, but he has become a longstanding tradition at the oldest school in Reno, one that’s full of traditions. Salika, who has Down syndrome, is at nearly every game, home and away, cheering on the Huskies...
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Nevada Air National Guard members return
Six months after a one-week notice federal callup, Nevada Air National Guardsmen and four C-130 aircraft returned home Sunday, Oct. 4 from deployment to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility in support of Operation Epic Fury. Sunday...
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Oddie District opens Innovation Center
A former Lowe’s hardware store took one more step in its transformation into an art and innovation campus in Reno-Sparks as it celebrated the opening of its business park. The 232,000-square-foot Oddie District project in Sparks held a grand opening...
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NOT DONE YET
Half a lifetime climbing some of the tallest mountains in the world should land a Northern Nevada resident in the Guinness World Records. h On Aug. 28, 2026, Jim Scott became the oldest known person in recorded history to climb 19,341-foot Mount...
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The AI of the storm
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized weather forecasting in just a few years, with global AI weather models now able to produce forecasts that rival some of the world’s best physics-based prediction systems. h This remarkable progress has been...
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Senate bill would overhaul college sports
WASHINGTON – A major bipartisan bill to overhaul college athletics nationwide passed the Senate, clearing a key hurdle and setting up a potentially divisive political showdown in the House of Representatives. The Protect College Sports Act, which aims...
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Investigation now with Internal Affairs
All six investigation reports on the former Reno police chief and five officers are in the hands of the Reno Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division, according to City Manager Jackie Bryant. Former Reno Police Chief Kathryn Nance, assistant...
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Nevada rejects claim of 185 noncitizen voters
The Department of Homeland Security spotlighted Nevada for possibly having almost 16,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls, then downgraded that to a more certain 185 cases in a list sent to the state for investigation. Now the number may be zero. “As...
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WCSD ENROLLMENT FALLS ONCE AGAIN
The Washoe County School District will lose around $10 million in per-pupil state funding after enrollment declined by more than 1,000 students this year. The number of students enrolled in 2026-27 is 57,911, down from 58,920 in 2025-26, according to...
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Cursive is making a comeback in schools
Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early 20th century, children in the United States were generally taught to write in cursive or script, rather than the print writing...
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Defense raises discovery concerns in homicide case
Significant pieces of evidence have not yet been provided in the homicide case involving 5-year-old Izabella Loving, according to attorneys representing Nicholas and Andrea Loving. The Cold Springs couple face charges of murder and child abuse that...
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Talks heat up in area
Kathleen Taylor and Kate Marshall, the two candidates running to replace termed-out Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve, clashed over data centers, homelessness and the city’s financial problems in a recent debate. A crowd of about 125 applauded every time a...
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Global diesel shortage unlikely to ease by 2027
NEW YORK – A global diesel shortage fueled by wars in Iran and Ukraine is unlikely to ease before next year, according to storage market indicators and industry participants, extending a spike in fuel costs that is weighing on economies worldwide. The...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd leads Street Vibrations 2026 lineup
The annual celebration of motorcycles, music and bike culture returns this weekend. Even if you don’t ride, there are dozens of events open to the public, including concerts, stunt shows and more, including headliner Lynyrd Skynyrd set to perform...
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RECORD HIGH FOR DIESEL
Nevada’s main candidates for governor are touting two different bits of economic news as a reason to vote for them: gas prices and unemployment. In recent days, the state keeps hitting a new record for highest diesel prices. According to auto club...
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‘They used … patients as a bargaining tool’
For Cynthia Richardson, 2026 was all about celebrating a marriage that’s still going strong after six decades. Just before the Reno resident and her husband were set to leave for a 60th anniversary trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast, however, Richardson was...
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FLORISTON FIRE BURNS INTO WEEKEND
The Floriston Fire continued burning in the Truckee River canyon near the Nevada-California border as firefighters worked to contain the blaze ahead of what was expected to be another warm, dry weekend. As of Friday, the fire was mapped at 622 acres...
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Poll: Trust in measles vaccines falls in U.S.
WASHINGTON – Americans’ trust in vaccines for deadly childhood diseases including measles has fallen in recent years, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, a troubling sign for the country as it experiences its worst measles outbreaks in decades. The...
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CBO: Iran war cost likely to grow rapidly
WASHINGTON – The six-month-old U.S. war with Iran has cost $38 billion so far and that amount is projected to rise by $3 billion a month, Congress’ nonpartisan bookkeeper reported on Sept. 15, as the Trump administration searches for ways to end the...
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U.S. Supreme Court ruling keeps Nevada mail ballot system the same
Nevada’s mail ballots will stay the same as in recent years after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Trump administration appeal that would’ve upended how the process works. The decision, which came down Monday, Sept. 14, found that the administration...
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Democrats say voters may be disenfranchised
A second federal judge moved late Sept. 13 to block President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing a new U.S. Postal Service rule that would tighten mail-in voting requirements, though the U.S. Supreme Court is still weighing the...
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New attacks test nerves in Mideast
DUBAI – New strikes on Saudi Arabia and on ships in the Persian Gulf tested nerves in the Middle East on Sept. 13 after an attack on a Saudi oil pipeline and an advance by Yemen’s Houthis threatened to worsen the wartime disruption to global energy...
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How wildfire and a stray cat brought area together
When Kimberly Offenbacher looked back, she saw Corkscrew, the stray cat she had fed for years, sitting in the middle of the street at the end of Peppermint Court. It was just before 7 p.m. Aug. 22, and the Hawk Fire was bearing down on Offenbacher’s...
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25th anniversary of 9/11 commemorated
NEW YORK – As the United States marked 25 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Americans across the country gathered to honor the nearly 3,000 people who perished and reflect on the day that forever changed the nation. A quarter-century...
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‘Reno City FC’
Soccer fans in Northern Nevada, your new team has a name. The pro soccer team coming to the City of Reno will be called “Reno City FC.” Team officials made the announcement of the name of its USL expansion team at community gathering in front of a...
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U.S. and Iran trade attacks on tankers
CAIRO – Iran said on Sept. 9 it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the United States sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old...
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FLOATING ABOVE
The Great Reno Balloon Race has been supersized this year. The 45th Great Reno Balloon Race is set for this Thursday through Sunday, adding a fourth day for the first time in the event’s history. While hot-air balloons will be visible on the horizon...
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Warmer weather, more snow for winter 2026
The Old Farmer’s Almanac recently released its 2026-27 Winter Weather Forecast, including what the long-running periodical predicts for Nevada’s coldest months. Across much of the United States, temperatures are forecast to be near or above normal....
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Iran aims to tackle economic issues
DUBAI – Iran said it will step up efforts to tackle problems created by the U.S. sanctions that are crippling its economy, while a senior Iranian official warned of a “painful response” if it comes under further attack. Six months after U.S.-Israeli...
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Do we have enough water for 600,000 people?
Reno-Sparks is expected to surpass 600,000 residents by the year 2044. This week’s column is part of a series that explores the opportunities and challenges that will come with projected population growth in the region. Southern Nevada is scrambling...
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L Schools rethink technology use in the classroom, examine student screen time
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced in-person classroom instruction to go virtual, students suddenly needed to have their own laptops or tablets in order to interact with teachers and complete assignments. Most states used federal pandemic funding to...
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PRESS UNDER PRESSURE
In his White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech on July 24, President Donald Trump made his usual diatribes against the news media. He derided the “failing” New York Times and reiterated his complaint that CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins...
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Airport runs on dust, volunteers and free rides
BLACK ROCK CITY — There’s no security screening, no baggage claim and no Uber rides, but for a week each year, a dusty patch of the Nevada desert claims it becomes one of the busiest airports in the United States. Here at the Black Rock City Municipal...
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Burning Man homicide still unsolved
Not far from where the Man burned as techno beats pulsed across the dusty playa, a neon-green kitchen knife lay beside Vadim Kruglov. The 37-year-old artist, a Russian national living in the U.S., was dead in a pool of blood at his first Burning Man....
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Burning Man returns
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada — Burning Man attendees are setting aside the “default world” and entering a weeklong celebration of art, experimentation and exploration. The sprawling weeklong event in the Northern Nevada desert effectively becomes the...
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Ribs, Nevada football and Numaga Days
Is Labor Day Week the best week on the calendar in Reno-Sparks and northwestern Nevada? The argument could be made. It has the Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off, Numaga Days Indian Powwow and Burning Man, and more underthe-radar festivals including...
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Camera backlash
While Northern Nevada law enforcement agencies expand the number of surveillance cameras they use, critics are upping their efforts, too, bringing statistics and horror stories to city council meetings. Nearly 200 automatic license plate reader...
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Colleges confront decline in reading
Anyone who has spent time on a college campus lately has probably heard laments from faculty about their students’ reading habits, or rather nonreading habits. Such complaints are more than an unfounded nostalgia for a bygone age. Reading – not just...
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‘Plan ahead and allow extra time’
The Reno airport is expecting a flood of passengers in the coming week as the one-two punch of Burning Man and Labor Day brings out more travelers. Reno-Tahoe International Airport is projecting passenger counts to reach approximately 20,000 people...
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‘It’s all gone. Everything’
At least 50 times over the past 30 years, Wendy and John Firestone watched smoke rise from Peavine Peak above their home on Mandan Way. Saturday, Aug. 22 seemed no different. There were warnings but no evacuation orders as news spread of the Hawk Fire...
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Nevada sues Interior over new water reduction plan
LAS VEGAS – Nevada filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of the Interior Aug. 24 over new rules that manage how water from the Colorado River is distributed among seven states. The lawsuit challenges an Interior plan, released Aug. 21, that...
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Thousands displaced in Hawk Fire
The Hawk Fire in northwest Reno canceled classes at Washoe County School District schools on Monday, and also forced the closure of Truckee Meadows Community College on what would have been the first day of the fall semester. Investigators were...
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Hawk Fire burns 10,000+ acres
The Hawk Fire grew to more than 10,000 acres over the weekend, prompting evacuation orders for more than 42,000 residents of northwest Reno and the North Valleys. Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve announced Saturday evening that structures had been lost as...
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‘We’ve been well-supported here’
Firefighters working the Bug and Stallion fires spent roughly 12 to 14 hours a day on the line before returning to camp to eat, sleep and shower. Then they went back out to keep the fires from burning toward homes. Truckee Meadows Fire Protection...
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Trump plan could hit science funding
Most Americans don’t read the rules that govern the federal grants funding science. Those rules, called the Uniform Guidance, shape how cancer research is funded, graduate students are trained, clinical trials are sustained, universities stock their...
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Record turnout for Remembrance Run
After leading more participants than ever in the Remembrance Run, Ku Stevens plans to make it even bigger. Steves guided 168 people 50 miles through the desert between Yerington and the Stewart Indian School south of Carson City, finishing the...
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New analyses give edge to Lombardo over Ford
With a bit over two months until the general election, two new analyses show incumbent Republican Joe Lombardo with an advantage over Democratic challenger Aaron Ford in the 2026 race for Nevada governor. One was done by statistician and election...
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DOJ pressed, dropped officer assault cases
Christian Garcia admits that he threw a water bottle toward officers guarding a federal building near Los Angeles during an immigration protest last summer. h The plastic bottle was empty, he said, and hit no one but Garcia himself – the wind blew it...
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Trump threatens Oman over Iran negotiations
blockade on Iranian ports that has sought to prevent Iranian ships from using the strait to transport oil. Trump said last week he’s ready to soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory of the United States.” Trump’s latest remarks came as a 60-day...
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Reno man lost his home to the Bug Fire. He won’t stop looking for his dogs ‘I feel like I failed them’
John Parsons’ voice echoed across the charred hillsides of what had once been his 55-acre paradise in Reno’s North Valleys He didn’t remember ever hearing an echo before when he called their names. But that was before metal from burned-out cars had...
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THE 600K QUESTION
The U.S. Census Bureau’s latest estimates put Washoe County’s population at 509,366. By the year 2044, the county’s population is forecast to surpass 600,000. That’s about 90,000 more people than we have now, a 15% bump from current levels. Nearly all...
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‘Fake electors’ figure holds White House role
A figure in Arizona’s “fake electors” case continues to have an influential role in President Donald Trump’s White House. Boris Epshteyn, an adviser and personal lawyer to Trump, was accused of working with Arizona Republicans and other Trump allies...
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Duffy touts ‘historic’ push to hire gamers
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Federal Aviation Administration has hired more than 2,000 people as air traffic controllers after launching a recruitment campaign aimed in part at video gamers. Duffy called the effort a game changer in a...
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Reno man saves home
With a shovel and a garden hose, Daniel Bartell has been fighting since just after midnight Sunday to save his 10-acre property, 45 animals and the home his wife loves in the North Valleys. Bartell and his wife, Monique, were among the first Reno-area...
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Fire crews continue ground, aerial attack on wildfires
The Bug Fire and Fred Mountain Fire merged overnight Monday into Tuesday, and firefighters also grappled with the Stallion Fire to the east. The fires have prompted a wide swath of evacuations north of Reno between the NevadaCalifornia state line and...
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Officials seek to stop mail-in ballot rules
Less than 90 days out from the midterms, election officials are pleading with the Supreme Court to block the Trump administration from making changes that would allow the U.S. Postal Service to decide who gets mail-in ballots. And after the Postal...
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UNR head: Mining grants ‘massive benefit’ to Nevada
The University of Nevada, Reno stands to benefit in the wake of President Donald Trump hosting a U.S. State Department meeting on the importance of critical minerals for national security. On Friday, Aug. 7, Trump announced $180 million in grants for...
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9 things to know before school starts in Reno-Sparks
With students returning to classrooms Monday, the Washoe County School District is beginning the new school year with new leadership, new schools and a school bus tracking system. Here are nine things to know before the first bell rings: 1. Tiffany...
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New Trump orders curb birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump is making another bid to curtail birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court ruled his earlier effort was unconstitutional, announcing a pair of executive orders limiting who qualifies for automatic citizenship and cracking...
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Trump returns to Vegas, touts ‘greatest economy’
LAS VEGAS – President Donald Trump returned to Las Vegas on Aug. 5 to make a familiar pitch: that his policies are lowering costs for Americans and putting money back in workers’ pockets. Speaking at Red Rock Casino, Trump highlighted several...
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Democrats say Nevada House seat is ‘in play’
Nevada’s northern U.S. House seat is in play for the first time in many years, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of House Democrats. The organization hasn’t given much attention in past election cycles to...
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Man arrested for arson in WA wildfires
Authorities in Washington have arrested a man for arson in connection with one of the major wildfires devastating the eastern part of the state, which has destroyed hundreds of homes and forced tens of thousands to flee. Aaron F. Farinacci, a...
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Blanche scraps Trump’s anti-weaponization fund
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said he is rescinding the nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund that stalled a Senate vote on his nomination for attorney general. Blanche announced the news Aug. 2 on X. The heavily criticized fund would...
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Will Hot August Nights allow cars from the ’80s?
The DMC Delorean. The Ferrari Testarossa. The Audi Quattro. The Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z. All five are iconic cars that defined the 1980s. All five cars are also banned from cruising at Hot August Nights — at least, for official events held during the...
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‘WAS I THE TARGET?’
The text messages from Dakota Hawver frightened Zoe Williams. “I got something for u,” he wrote to his ex-girlfriend on July 25, 2025. “I’m excited. Haha. Go to work or stay home either way.” A barrage of menacing texts began hours after a judge...
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Different kinds of justice
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett likes to note that the black robes she and her colleagues wear show that the nine justices are “united symbolically.” h Despite different personalities, legal philosophies and backgrounds, the robes...
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