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The newspaper came into being when the Nevada State Journal (founded on November 23, 1870) and the Reno Evening Gazette (founded on March 28, 1876) were combined on October 7, 1983. [ 2 ] Speidel Newspapers bought the Gazette on October 1, 1939, and bought the Journal a month later. [ 3 ]
In that capacity he arbitrated and mediated all manner of civil litigation, including intellectual property disputes, class-action lawsuits, gold mining claims, employment lawsuits and commercial contracts. He worked nationwide, but primarily in the Reno, Las Vegas, and San Francisco Bay areas. Hagen died on September 28, 2022, in Reno, Nevada. [1]
Kerns served as a firefighter with the Reno Fire Department and also owned his own real estate business. [2] [3] Kerns initially ran for the Nevada Assembly in 1980, but lost the primary to incumbent Patty Cafferata by one vote. In 1982, Cafferata vacated the seat and Kerns won election.
Brent Thomas Adams (June 3, 1948 - November 2, 2022) was an American judge in Nevada's Second Judicial District, located in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada.He served for 25 years, eventually becoming Chief Judge of that court.
Robert Earle Price, Jr. (May 23, 1936 – January 4, 2019), was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Nevada General Assembly for 28 years from 1974 to 2002.
In 1970 he founded Olds Securities Corporation (Olds was his mother's maiden name). He moved to San Francisco, California, in 1990, then to Reno, Nevada, in 1996; where he founded the non-profit Catamount Fund the following year. John H.O. La Gatta died in Reno in 2015. [11] [12]
Graves reacted by selling all of his premises in Idaho and moving to Nevada where he opened three clubs called "The Nugget" in Yerington, Carson City, and Reno within four months. [4] Graves brought the majority of his employees from Idaho with him. [5] Working with his food manager John Ascuaga, he opened Dick Graves' Nugget in Sparks in 1955.
Brianna Zunino Denison (March 29, 1988 – January 20, 2008) was a college student who was abducted on January 20, 2008, from a friend's house in Reno, Nevada. Her body was discovered on February 15, 2008, in a field near a Reno business park after being raped and murdered. A man named James Biela was convicted of the murder.