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RENO— The coldest weather to hit the Reno-Tahoe area in nearly five years is expected to arrive by the weekend on the heels of a series of storms that have dumped more than 10 feet of snow on parts of the Sierra over the last week and continue to wreak havoc on travel. The aftermath of the storms again snarled traffic on Interstate 80 and state highways around Lake Tahoe on Wednesday.... Steve Sisolak declared a state of emergency for northern Nevada along the Sierra’s eastern front due to the

Moneyball author Michael Lewis has opened up about his 19-year-old daughter’s sudden death in a car crash, saying his life has been “ permanently changed ”.... “ The question is what do you grow in that hole and how do you grow from this experience, ” the author continued, describing grief as “ exhausting ”.... “ Less exhausting than it was a month ago, ” Lewis, who has two other children with his wife Tabitha Soren, a former MTV correspondent, admitted....

John Ascuaga, the son of Basque sheepherders who became a northern Nevada gambling icon after he bought a small coffee shop with a few slot machines in 1960 and turned it into a major hotel-casino he operated for more than a half century, has died at age 96. Ascuaga was known for roaming the floor and greeting patrons personally at the casino he named John Ascuaga’s Nugget along Interstate 80 in Sparks, just east of Reno, until it was sold in 2013. Anthony Marnell III, chief executive of Marnell

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