West Wendover News

Police are warning residents in the Wendover area about a telephone sweepstakes scam aimed at bilking victims out of hundreds of dollars with bargain offers to purchase prepaid credit cards.

Police in West Wendover, Nevada say a missing teenage girl may be headed to the Reno area after she told her family she was leaving to be with a man she met over the internet.

Trucking company operators around the nation expressed surprise and disgust Friday about revelations that the Pilot Flying J truck-stop chain may have deliberately cheated its customers on rebates they were supposed to have earned on their diesel-fuel purchases.

Laura Ortiz was last seen by her family Friday at 2:09 p.m. She had made comments to family members of leaving to meet a man that she met online with the possible name of "Jesus." Ortiz was last seen wearing a white and black striped long sleeve shirt, black pants and white shoes.

A mentally challenged Riverton man who was last seen in the company of an unknown male adult in a car leaving a local business Tuesday night has been found alive and well in West Wendover, Nev.