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Sept. 12, 1945 - Jan. 18, 2015 Pete Aja died Jan. 18 after having a heart attack on Jan. 14. He was born in Gard...

Funeral services for Nevada Assemblyman Pete Livermore of Carson City will be Monday, Oct. 27, 11 a.m., at St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church. Livermore died Monday, Oct. 20, 2014 at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center. He was 73.

A good friend of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce passed away Monday of a heart attack. Pete Livermore was a community icon and did much for the community we know today. He was the “father of youth sports” and worked diligently to make certain the children of Carson City played on the best fields money could buy.

Pete Livermore, a longtime Carson City elected leader and business owner, died Monday at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center. He was 73.

Livermore was a Nevada Assemblyman who decided this year that he would not seek re-election. He began in the Assembly District 40 on Feb. 7 2011. Before that, Livermore was a member of the Carson City Board of Supervisors, 1998-2010; was Mayor pro Tem, Carson City, 2004-2006.

Plaques bearing the names of Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Engineer John T. Delucchi and Hungry Valley VFD Assistant Chief Donovan Garcia, Jr., were added to those of other Nevada firefighters who have lost their lives in the line of duty at a Nevada Firefighters Memorial ceremony Saturday at Mills Park in Carson City.

Assistant Fire Chief Garcia, 52, was participating in wildland fire training when he collapsed and died from a heart attack.

Merritt W. Dunlap, MD, AAFP, has affiliated with MDVIP, the leader in personalized healthcare with nearly 700 affiliates nationwide. MDVIP’s personalized healthcare program empowers people to reach their health and wellness goals through in-depth knowledge, expertise and one-on-one coaching with some of the finest primary care doctors in America. Dunlap is the first doctor in Northern Nevada to affiliate with MDVIP.

Minden Republican Assemblyman Jim Wheeler had two stents implanted on Saturday but his spokesman says it wasn't a result of a heart attack and the press was wrong to say he had one, according to a news release.

Nevada District 39 Assemblyman, Jim Wheeler, checked into the Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center Hospital early this Saturday morning after awakening with chest pains, said his press spokesman Steve Donahue.

Here is the news release:

Nevada Assemblyman Jim Wheeler, R-Minden, suffered a heart attack and will undergo surgery Saturday, according to his fellow lawmakers. Doctors planned to put in a stent, the lawmakers said. It’s a common procedure when there is some sort of blockage.

Oct. 26, 1963 - Sep. 19, 2013 Richard Ratliff was taken from us by suffering a heart attack. He was a painter by trade but could do anything that needed to be fixed. He loved...

Carson City department heads responded to questions from locals Monday in a town hall meeting. While the public was given plenty of opportunity and notice to attend and encouraged to speak, three actually came to the podium, including two Carson High School students and the chair of the Carson Animal Services Initiative.

The 53rd annual Virginia City Camel Races will begin on Sept. 6, and once again the media will enlighten us on how the race was born over a half century ago, with a hoax published in the Territorial Enterprise in 1959 by then editor, Bob Richards.

The story is true. Richards, however, was a hellava lot more than the father of the Virginia City Camel Races. A talented individual with a creative mind, Richards was a driving force for the promotion of tourism on the Comstock for the 14 years he lived here.

June 28, 2013 Steve Larson, 56, of Dayton, Nevada, passed away on June 28, 2013 of a heart attack in Santa Rosa, NM while traveling home from work in Texas. He was a loving...

July 7, 1940 - May 20, 2013 Passed away unexpectedly at home of a heart attack May 20, 2013 he was 72. He was born July 7, 1940 to Leo H. Black and Mary Ellen Huff...

Popular 1980s-90s era Reno disc jockey Wild Bill Cody died of an apparent heart attack at his home in Colorado on Christmas Day at the age of 62. He was recuperating from a heart attack he suffered months earlier.

Fred Kessler, President of Anchorage Construction Management in Carson City, passed away on Nov. 22, 2012 after suffering a heart attack. Fred was born in Queens, N.Y. on March 30, 1948. He atten...

Ron passed away from a sudden and massive heart attack. He will be remembered for his love of fishing, piloting, EMT, raising kids and animals. He is survived by his wife, Jill Martin; six sons...

Are you a mystery lover? Then you won't be disappointed by Jasmin Palo's new medical thriller “Heart Attack” that takes the reader for a journey through the streets of Reno in a hunt for a killer. This recently released novel engages the reader from the beginning and is already getting praises from its readers - calling it intense, intriguing and full of suspense.

Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of men and women in the United States – more than cancer, accidents, and communicable diseases.

Each year, nearly one in four deaths is caused by heart disease, but luckily, this is something we can all work together to change. There are many risk factors for heart disease: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, cigarette smoking, overweight and obesity, poor diet, physical inactivity and alcohol use. Many of these risk factors can be modified or eliminated by choosing to lead a healthy lifestyle.

A 62-year-old man died of an apparent heart attack Monday afternoon after he was detained for shoplifting at the Safeway store on North Carson Street.

The subject was detained by store security for alleged shoplifting and Carson City Sheriff's deputies were called to the scene. While in the store manager's office, the subject turned pale and began having difficulty breathing, at which time paramedics were called.

It was the worst day of my life, with the exception of the death from a heart attack of my father at the age of 73.I didn't view my dad in his coffin, as I wanted to remember him as he had been in ...

RENO, Nev. – University of Nevada, Reno Orvis School of Nursing researcher Michele Pelter has been awarded $377,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study detection of ischemia, a condition that can lead to heart attacks.

Over the two-year course of the study, Pelter will work with two local cardiologists, Dr. Richard Ganchan and Dr. Anita Kedia, who will serve as consultants on the study. She wants to see if different monitoring of patients experiencing symptoms of possible ischemia could lead to better care.

Former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn, who guided Nevada from January 1999 through the end of his second term in 2006, died this morning of a heart attack in Las Vegas, according to the Las Vegas Sun.

Tracking Sunday's congressional health care vote, Carson Now quoted Congressman Dean Heller with a statement from his Web site.

Congressman Dean Heller, firmly standing with his party and the health insurance industry, rejected a Democratic-led plan to provide affordable health care for Northern Nevadans.

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