Raveca and Octavian Pintea ran an elderly care facility in California before coming to the University of Nevada, Reno.

They saved to pay for their first semester in the nursing program out of pocket. And while the business pulls in about $100,000 a year, profit margins are much less, Octavian Pintea, 27, said. As tuition and books soared to $4,000-plus for each of them, they looked for loans.

The University of Nevada, Reno Honors Program will move to the Manzanita Lake Room in the coming months, drawing some complaints from the student government over losing space students eat in.

For the second time in three years, University of Nevada, Reno professor Hussein S. Hussein is alleging someone purposely ruined his research.

Over the winter break, someone left open the door to a walk-in freezer in the Fleischmann Agriculture building. Several research samples thawed and possibly spoiled during the undetermined amount of time, Hussein said. He valued the damage at $300,000.

Hussein filed a police report Jan. 9, hours after his assistant, Laurie Bollinger, reported the damage. Police stopped their investigation about three weeks later, saying it is an administrative matter for the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources.

UNR police chief Adam Garcia and Cmdr. Ron Holladay of the Reno police talk to the press Thursday about the new link to the Denison disappearance

Reno police have linked another case from November to the Brianna Denison disappearance using DNA evidence, Reno police said at a Thursday press conference.

Police also said that the media coverage of the Denison disappearance prompted a female student to report another sexual assault that happened Oct. 22. Police said they have no definite link between the other cases and the October assault.

A former University of Nevada, Reno pharmacy director pleaded guilty Thursday to theft charges for buying items like Disney World tickets and an antique doctor’s bag.

John Q. Adams will pay restitution to the state for using its money to buy more than $4,000 worth of goods between May 2004 and June 2005. The charges were dropped from felony to misdemeanor theft.

Liz Gadsden has multiple sclerosis and wants to cut the distance she walks to work every day by a fourth. But she can’t use the shorter route because it’s not public, said Chuck Price, director of the Joe Crowley Student Union.

The disease attacks Gadsden’s nerves and hampers her ability to walk. Gadsden, who works in the Graduate Student Association in The Joe, walks with a crutch and said she gets easily winded.

To cut the walk, Gadsden occasionally uses the service door near the third-floor movie theater. The entrance is half the distance of the American Disabilities Act-approved sliding glass doors everyone is meant to use.

You could say “Rambo” is about the horrors of war. You could say “Rambo” is glamorizing it. But you would be wrong.

The delegates made no promises to support a specific candidate in the county or state caucuses, which will be held in the coming months. Theoretically, Romney could lose the majority of Republican delegates despite winning the presidential preference polls. Same with the Democrats.

Theory aside, if more youth caucused then Obama would have likely claimed initial victory, said Eric Herzik, a University of Nevada, Reno political science professor.

The money to protect the owners of four mistakenly released Social Security numbers is coming from the general student government account, student president Sarah Ragsdale said.

It cost about $100 per person to protect the people, who visited the campus on speaking tours. The account it came from is generally used for office supplies and other needs that aren’t department specific, said Ragsdale, who signed off on the expenditure.

At 11 a.m. Saturday, on the fourth floor of the Joe Crowley Student Union, hundreds of Democrats and soon-to-be’s filed into registration lines and tried to figure out the caucus.

By 1:15 p.m., only a few stragglers and disheveled stacks of papers told people the story of how The Joe helped make history as a center for numerous precincts in the first early Nevada caucus.

Yells erupted in the Great Room of the Joe Crowley Student Union Friday night when Elizabeth Kucinich brought up the question of her husband’s viability.

Sen. Barack Obama, D.-Ill., fired shot after shot at fellow presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D.-N.Y., Friday morning at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The senator, in his second stop to Reno this week, spoke to about 2,000 people in the Virginia Street Gym. It was first time a Democratic candidate has visited campus since spring.

Obama singled out Clinton, the current Nevada poll leader, on her economic stimulus plan and even her political experience in spinning questions.

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards made a final rallying call Thursday night trying to push supporters to the Saturday caucus.
The former North Carolina senator spoke at the Carpenter Union hall for about 15 minutes. He touched on many of his major campaign goals but in the time: universal health care, pulling America out of Iraq [...]

Before Saturday’s caucuses, the top three Democrats and one Republican are scheduled to visit Reno.
Republican Duncan Hunter will be at the Gold Dust West casino, 444 Vine Street, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Democrat John Edwards will be at the Carpenters Hall, 1150 Terminal Way, Thursday at 6:15 p.m.
Sen. Barack Obama, D.-Ill., will be at [...]