Carson City News

Shannon Litz / Nevada Appeal Dee and Ed Johnson of Carson City plant flags at veteran's graves at Lone Mountain Cemetery on Friday afternoon.

A moderate earthquake in far northeastern California damaged some homes and caused the rupture of a tank that supplies hundreds of homes with drinking water.

Special to The RC Gov. Brian Sandoval signs the prison preservation bill as retired Douglas High School teacher Myron Carpenter, Assemblyman Peter Livermore and his wife Laurie look on.

Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent unless proved guilty in court.

Shannon Litz / Nevada Appeal Friends embrace at the candlelight vigil for 12-year-old Gage Wilkinson on Thursday evening at the Roadrunner Cafe in Dayton.

Nevada Assemblyman James Healey, D-Las Vegas, speaks about his former partner who died in an accident in 2010, during an Assembly floor debate on gay marriage at the Legislative Building, in Carson City on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

Air Force pilot Scott Powell returned home three weeks early from a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, surprising his children at school.

A bill providing tax incentives to lure major film producers to Nevada has been amended to appease critics and better its chances of passage.

The Washoe school tax bill, AB46, passed out of the Assembly Ways & Means Committee Thursday morning on a party-line vote, 10-5. The measure, which would raise property taxes by 5 cents per $100 of value and sales tax by 0.25 percent in Washoe County, now goes to the Assembly floor.

John Barrette / Nevada Appeal Andrew Edlefsen, standing, from the Las Vegas office of the U.S. Commerce Department commercial services division, and Robert Francis, far left, of Core4Consultants in Reno, discussed manufacturing and exporting during Wednesday morning's Northern Nevada Development Authority breakfast meeting .

Shannon Litz / Nevada Appeal Rachel Andersen talks about the International Harvester 300 Utility she re-built for her senior project Wednesday at Carson High School.

Last October, a young woman in Milwaukee named Zina Daniel filed a domestic violence restraining order against her husband.

A Carson City man was sentenced to two to six years in prison on one count of home invasion and one count of subordination of perjury Tuesday morning in district court.

Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court: MONDAY a 9:06 a.m.: Tanya Farinacci, 26, of Carson City was arrested at the Carson City Jail after turning herself in on a domestic battery warrant.

COURTESY This Cobra helicopter is part of the Cactus Air Force fleet of military aircraft and vehicles that will become part of displays at the Wings and Vehicle Museum planned for the Carson City Airport.

Clark County students experience some the largest classes in the country. Although the overcrowding is expected to decrease by one or two students next year, the vast majority of kids won't see any significant change.

For Neil Heslin, a construction worker from Newtown, Conn., it's not difficult to talk about his brave and loving son, Jesse.

With two weeks remaining in the Legislature, the Washoe County delegation of state lawmakers is not showing a unified front on the Washoe school tax bill.

Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court: THURSDAY a 1:20 p.m.: A 27-year-old Fallon woman was arrested at the Carson City Jail on a Carson violation-of-a-suspended-sentence warrant after being transported from Churchill County.

Though it was overshadowed by capital spending issues, Carson City government's no-tax-hike general fund budget of nearly $60 million won approval Monday.