Author: Scott Sonner
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Trump budget would allow sale of wild horses for slaughter
PALOMINO VALLEY, Nev. — President Donald Trump’s budget proposal calls for saving $10 million next year by selling wild horses captured throughout the U.S. West without the requirement that buyers guarantee the animals won’t be resold for slaughter. Wild-horse advocates say the change would gut nearly a half-century of protection for an icon of the…
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Lawsuit: Dude ranch owner asked chef for ‘black people food’
In this July 25, 2006, file photo, Oklahoma energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, right, with his wife, Madeleine, appear at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A federal lawsuit accuses Madeleine Pickens, the ex-wife Pickens, of racial discrimination at her rural Nevada dude ranch. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)
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Drought drawing bears near people at Lake Tahoe
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Long accustomed to dealing with bad news “garbage” bears that become hooked on improperly stored trash at homes and businesses around Lake Tahoe, Nevada wildlife officials say they’re increasingly responding to a new kind of troublemaker they’ve started calling “drought” bears. Experts have been predicting for months the lingering drought will…
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Panel: US should let nature cull wild horse herds
RENO, Nev. – A scathing independent scientific review of the U.S. government’s management of wild horses concludes the continued emphasis on mustang roundups to help protect the public rangeland is doomed to financial, social and political failure. In short: it’s probably time to let nature cull the herds. A 14-member panel assembled by the National…
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UPDATE: At least 3 dead, more than 50 injured in Reno air race crash
RENO, Nev. — As thousands watched in horror, a World War II-era fighter plane competing in a Nevada event described as a car race in the sky suddenly pitched upward, rolled and did a nose-dive toward the crowded grandstand. The plane, flown by a 74-year-old veteran Hollywood stunt pilot, then slammed into the…