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The Carson City Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help finding a man reported missing. 24-year-old Ryan Perkins girlfriend says she last heard from him by phone October 11th. Perkins is a Marine Corps veteran and may be headed to Texas, where his family lives. He is black 5'8" and 161 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He was last reported seen wearing a black sweatshirt and grey sweat pants, but had clothes in his car, a 2012 blue Ford Fusion with Texas license plate DV51882.

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Reno Police have arrested a man suspected in a kidnapping and sexual assault in Stead.

Reno Police have arrested a man suspected in a kidnapping and sexual assault in Stead.

The state legislatures interim finance committee has approved spending more that a million dollars to fight the opioid epidemic. The plan, pushed by the Attorney General's Office includes incinerators to dispose of drugs, supplying anti overdose medications to first responders, and a full time Nevada investigator on the FBI's opioid task force. It's being funded by the Volkswagen fraud settlement. Adam Laxalt says a Nevadan dies every day from a drug overdose.....

The hazardous material that closed I-80 in both directions starting at about 530 Thursday morning was Ammonium Bisulfate. It was spilled when the driver for Anderson Trucking fell asleep, rolled into the median, and the trailer seperated from the tractor and flipped. Ammonium Bisulfate is an inhalation hazard. The highway fully reopened about 1:45pm, and alternative routes were used to keep interstate traffic moving.

The U.S. Senate passed Senator Dean Heller’s amendment to provide tax relief for families with children. Heller says "passage of the amendment is a recognition that we must reduce the burden on hardworking Nevadans who are raising children and struggling to make ends meet.”

Sentencing for a Reno doctor charged with being involved in an illegal prescription drug ring has been moved to November. Dr. Robert Rand was originally supposed to appear in court on October 23rd. It has now been pushed back to November 20th.

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto cosponsored legislation to create Medicare-X, a public plan that would offer low-cost health insurance choices.

Washoe County School Superintendent Tracie Davis is sending a big thumbs up out to all students who helped the district achieve an 84% graduation rate in 2017.