On a tip to the Sheriff’s Office, Carson City Schools Police and Sheriff’s deputies intercepted a plot that would have not only disrupted the start of classes today, but also may have hurt someone. Thus far two high school males have been arrested while investigators talk to 7 others. All have been suspended from school.

A baseball fanatic’s dream to help lift a struggling Washington Senators over the perennial powerhouse New York Yankees to win the World Series is put to the test by the Devil himself. The fanatic wound up learning a very powerful life lesson about dreams and real life…all of it done to music, dance and great singing of such classics as “You gotta have heart”, “What Lola wants Lola gets,” and “Six months out of every year.” Western Nevada Musical Company’s production of Damn Yankees is a “must see.”

Despite deep slashes and gaping holes in his victims, one with a collapsed lung, Marvin Dressler says he did not assault the two with a knife outside Katie’s Bar last month.

Governor Gibbons’ continuous mantra of “Cuts, cuts, cuts and no new taxes” will be put to the test as he launches what he’s calling the Sage Commission…Spending And Government Efficiency Commission. He will appoint six members and legislative leaders will pick the other six. No time line for a final report to the Governor’s Office.

In a meticulous defensive game, the Carson Senators beat the Wooster Colts 4 to 1 today, taking game two of a three game series at Ron McNutt Field.  Wednesday, the Senators beat Wooster at Wooster 1-0 by scoring a run in the top of the 7th.  So, the Senators will go into game three tomorrow, Carson leading the Colts in the series 2-0.  Thus far, Carson appears to be holding onto third place in league standings.  They begin end of season playoff games next week, to be played at either Manogue or Damonte.

Sheriff Ken Furlong says up to nine students were going to take advantage of a late 10am start time for classes today at Carson High, and launch an ink and smoke bomb attack on the school, including fireworks. Deputies got a tip that the operation had already been launched and positioned themselves to intercept the students involved. Five of the nine were intercepted as they came onto campus. None were carrying any devices necessary to pull off the incident. The five are being questioned as to the exact details of the planned incident. The other four are being located and will be questioned.

Deputies say they interecepted the five at 7:30 this morning when they stuck out like a sore thumb against empty hallways, since classes were not starting until 10am. Deputies and school administrators quesitoned the five and confirmed that they had plotted to disrupt the start of classes at 10am. They entered the main building this morning to figure out where to plant the smoke bombs and firecrackers so as to avoid surveillance cameras. When the students converged at a pre-arranged meeting place, they were surrounded and detained. Deputies say at no time was there any threat to anyone on the campus.

The five so-far questioned, and the other four are expected to be suspended from school and then be re-assigned to the district’s “alternative” high school campus on Corbett. In addition, all class credits accrued by the 9 suspects will be cancelled. All are said to be 15 to 17 years of age. Two students were arrested just prior to the noon hour, one for threatening a student who he believed had “snitched” on them to the sheriff’s office.

Oddly enough, none of the students believed involved have any serious criminal record. However a few of them have been disruptive on campus triggering disciplinary action by school officials.

Lead investigator Sgt. Daren Sloan said the Sheriff’s Office “takes very seriously these kinds of incidents, for as the national media has shown us repeatedly, it’s a short distance between pranks and lethal behavior.”

Carson plays Wooster two more times between now at the regional tournaments that start next week.  Carson plays Wooster Thursday 3:30pm at Carson, and again Friday at Carson at 3:30pm.  Although the next two games are regular league plays (they also beat McQueen in a non-league game on Monday) Carson has already won a birth in the playoffs next week.