This week's mug shot roundup kicks off with a 21-year-old Floridian who got rather banged up during a recent arrest.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Michael Jackson's doctor bought a powerful anesthetic in Nevada and had it shipped to California, where it was found at the pop singer's bedside after he died, court documents released Friday show.Search warrant records released despite

CHICAGO (AP) - For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.Now she's ready to say goodbye, leaving a huge void for broadcast

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care

Nevada falls to 13 percent; national rate upThe percentage of Nevadans out of work went down in October for the first time since February 2008.While the seasonally adjusted rate fell three-tenths to 13 percent, the unadjusted rate fell a full

WASHINGTON - The level of swine flu activity in the United States appears to be declining, although officials are worried about another increase of cases during the Thanksgiving holiday when many people travel and families gather.The number of states reporting

While a majority of the people in line at the USDA food handout Friday had taken advantage of the government program before, there were a few who had not. One Gardnerville woman said she and her husband recently found themselves

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - North Pole elves have good reason to celebrate again, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to resume a Santa Claus letter program that's thrilled children from around the world for decades."It's great!" Gabby

A 34-year-old Carson City man was jailed Thursday for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old family friend. Jason Elliot Parnham, a computer technician, was arrested at 3 p.m. Thursday on suspicion of felony statutory sexual seduction.According to the arrest report,

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A former Marine was charged Friday with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series

Storm causes power outages, accidentsA winter storm with winds gusting to more than 80 mph Friday knocked out power for 2,780 people in east Carson City, grounded flights in Reno and kicked up dust storms that contributed to a fatal

NEW YORK (AP) - The National Football League injury report, as provided by the league (OUT - Definitely will not play; DNP - Did not practice; LIMITED - Limited participation in practice; FULL - Full participation in practice): SUNDAYPITTSBURGH STEELERS

ROME - A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the

ATLANTA (AP) - Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up

NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. is finally becoming a nation of savers. Now if only we could get something for our money.Interest rates are sinking to near zero for the first time since last year's financial meltdown, dampening spending

WASHINGTON (AP) - Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.But the section's purpose is

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the daylong occupation to an end,

Police respond after woman spots man with weaponTom Metcalf said he was sending apology notes Friday morning after the Carson City Sheriff's Office responded to a call that a man was carrying a weapon on Roop Street near the Metcalf

Carson CityThe following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:* A 25-year-old electrician from Gardnerville was arrested at 11:41 p.m. Thursday in the 800 block of East Musser Street on

Rep. Dean Heller, we are counting on youOn Saturday, Nov. 7, when the House of Representatives voted on the Affordable Health Care for America Act, Dean Heller voted 'no.'Finally we have a chance to get health reform, which so many