Washoe County (Nev)

Jeremy Renner Was Run Over by 7-Ton Snow Plow, Authorities Say

The actor Jeremy Renner, who was critically injured on Sunday, was run over by a snow plow weighing more than 14,000 pounds that he had used to tow his car on a snowed-in private road near his home in Reno, Nev., the authorities said on Tuesday. Mr. Renner, 51, had been helping a family member […]

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Snow Closed the Highways. GPS Mapped a Harrowing Detour in the Sierra Nevada.

The road once carried stagecoaches during the Gold Rush, twisting its way through what is now a national forest and an area of the Sierra Nevada known for snowmobiling. In the winter, the rugged passage, known as the Quincy-La Porte Road or County Road 511 in Plumas County, Calif., is closed. But Wendy Becktold, an […]

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