When you call 9-1-1, it's because you need help now. While you'll probably never see a dispatcher at a scene, you wouldn't received any help without dispatchers taking your calls and relaying information. Of course, the job is a lot more than phone calls.
When tragedies such as drownings, fires or suicides happen, first responders are there. Alongside them, are specially trained citizens from the Trauma Intervention Program.
Washoe County Sheriff Chuck Allen on Monday announced that he has appointed Captain Tom Green to the position of Chief Deputy over the Administration Bureau.
Albert and Joan Musalo were married for 53 years, living in their Montreux dream home. Albert was a 75-year-old retired Pan Am pilot, while Joan was a homemaker that raised the couple's four children. The Musalos' lives came to an abrupt and tragic end on March 28, 2006.
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, awaiting sentencing in a hush-money case, had a stroke during the first week of November and has been hospitalized since then, his attorney said Thursday in a statement.
Washoe County Sheriff's Office Detectives need your help identifying two suspects who stole a car at gunpoint in Lemmon Valley on May 8th. A third suspect has since been identified as Holly Feflie.
Washoe County deputies say they have found human remains in the backyard of Colleen and Gerald Muhl's Spanish Springs home.
Washoe County Search and Rescue continued their search for evidence Wednesday in the case of missing Spanish Springs woman Colleen Muhl.
Authorities have identified a man's body found Monday near Ocean View Drive in Spanish Springs.