Not much to sum up this morning, the first day the Nevada Appeal starts charging to read at least part of their news online. Just signed up, and it's a pretty backwards way of handing online subscriptions. Perhaps they've never heard the term "ecommerce" before. But enough about that.

Most of the news today that is locked behind the wall are stories we've already brought to you for free, such as the lawsuit alleging that state Sen. Mo Denis can't serve in the legislature while working for the Nevada Public Utilities Commission. Then there is the announcement that open enrollment for Nevada's prepaid college tuition plan begins today. And then there is this story about the committee that is looking at how Nevada funds education.

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Bethlehem Lutheran School won the trophy for collecting the most cans of food for FISH's annual Trick-or-Treat Fall Food Drive.

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A theater class at Carson High School has created an original play that they are performing for CHS health classes.

Authorities are still on the lookout for a mountain lion that chased after a jogger yesterday on Kings Canyon Road. Residents are warned to keep an eye out for the big cat, and to keep close tabs on children and pets. KOLO8 has this video report:

Update: The Nevada Appeal has a story quoting Chris Healy from Nevada Department of Wildlife that they have been looking but have not seen the big cat since the jogger reported it on Monday.

To welcome readers to the -'s online All Access subscription plan, the newspaper is continuing to make the service free for the remainder of November.Just go to www.nevadaappeal.com, where you'll b...

Greater Nevada Credit Union gained new customers on national Bank Transfer Day on Saturday, a protest against rising fees at large corporate banks. The protest called for people to move their accounts to credit unions and non-profit banks, and also coincides with the growing Occupy Wall Street protests.

GNCU wouldn't release any numbers, but said they had twice the number of people there on a Saturday, and people were definitely moving their money because of dissatisfaction with the big banks.

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The Nevada Appeal follows up on the Chobani yogurt factory story we broke last week, saying the reason the factory decided to locate in Twin Falls, Idaho and not Carson City is because we lack cows. According to Rob Hooper, executive director of the Northern Nevada Development Authority, Chobani needs 100,000 cows to supply their milk needs, and there are only 20,000 dairy cows in the entire state of Nevada. Twin Falls also bribed them with $29 million in "incentives."

When I read last month that the Nevada Appeal planned to start charging readers to access their web content, a tune began playing in my head: "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."

Since the first step of their paywall (as we in the industry refer to paid access systems) was erected on Wednesday, traffic for Carson Now shot up 50 percent. I expect that to grow even more when the first free trial period ends and they begin asking readers for their credit cards.

AP New information from police says a northern Nevada gunman feared demons were after him in the months before his deadly rampage at a Carson City IHOP restaurant. The Nevada Appeal reports ( http://bit.ly/tH2qcp) that 32-year-old Eduardo Sencion had ...

AP A Carson City man has been arrested on suspicion of molesting 11-year-old twin sisters. The Nevada Appeal reports 37-year-old Jorge Gomez-Dominguez was ...

It was announced Monday that the Safeway supermarket on North Carson Street would be closing Nov. 23 after spending 38 years in their location at 2035 North Carson Street.

But what wasn't apparent at the time is that Safeway's closing would mean an end to the second-oldest continually operating business in Carson City, according to retired state archivist Guy Rocha.

(Editor's note 10/21: After further review, Rocha found one other business that has been in operation longer, the Carson Hot Springs Resort, which began as a business in 1879, operating under different names and owners. That would make Safeway the third-oldest business in Carson City.)

Second Place: Class I _ Nevada Appeal (Carson City); Class II _ Elko Daily Free Press; Class III _ In Business Las Vegas; Class IV _ Vegas Seven; Magazines _ Reno Magazine. Third Place: Class I _ Las Vegas Sun; Class II _ Desert Valley Times (Mesquite) ...

AP A month after a mentally unstable gunman went on a deadly rampage at a Carson City IHOP, residents are split over what to do with the restaurant. The Nevada Appeal of Carson City reports that while some want the restaurant to reopen at the same site ...

The Nevada Appeal of Carson City reports it was the second longest field goal in Nevada history. In 1985, Reno High's Dirk Borgognone kicked a 68-yarder ...

Paul Cirac of Virginia City filed the appeal Friday over the Storey County Planning Commission's recommendation to grant Comstock Mining Inc. a special use permit to expand its exploration drilling, the Nevada Appeal of Carson City reported. ...

Wrap up of stories from local media:

Carson Now:
2 p.m. update Carson City IHOP shooting

Witnesses speak out

Photos from shooting scene

RGJ:
Live video of 3 p.m. press conference

Photos from scene of shooting

KTVN Reno:
Five of nine people shot were National Guard

10 people shot

Channel 4 Reno:
Witnesses speak out (video)

Gov. Sandoval returns to Carson City in wake of shooting

Breaking News: Carson City shooting

Nevada Appeal:
12:30 update on shooting

A Carson City man was shot and killed this morning in the Brunswick Canyon area following an apparent argument that involved two other local men, authorities said.

The body of the dead man was recovered at around noon after a Carson City man went to the Sheriff's Office on Musser Street at around 9 a.m. to report the shooting, said Sheriff Ken Furlong. A second man was found later in Brunswick Canyon, he added.

KOLO-TV of Reno and the Nevada Appeal of Carson City report that border patrol agents last week for the first time acquired mustangs that were trained by ...

Editor's note: This is a letter to the editor submitted to the Nevada Appeal last month that they chose not to run.

Dear Editor,

Is it the policy of the Nevada Appeal to print demonstrably false attacks on the editorial page? I'm referring to the letter to the editor on June 25 that claims, "There is incontrovertible proof that an ineligible usurper sits in the White House."

AP A Nevada woman is going to prison for 16 to 48 months for driving across graves while leading police on a high-speed chase that ended at a Carson City cemetery. The Nevada Appeal reports that Carson City District Court Judge Todd Russell sentenced ...

CARSON CITY – Efforts to resolve Nevada’s redistricting impasse remain a work in progress after a proposal floated Tuesday by a Carson City judge to use county election officials to draw new legislative and congressional lines ran into some opposition.
The job of redrawing Nevada’s political lines has fallen to District Judge James Todd Russell after two Democrat-approved redistricting plans were vetoed by Gov. Brian Sandoval. Sandoval vetoed the measures after concluding the proposals did not follow the federal Voting Rights Act.

AP A Nevada Highway Patrol report says a Carson City man who died in an April traffic accident along with his two young children had high levels of methamphetamine in his system at the time. The Nevada Appeal of Carson City says the report concludes ...

By Deborah Stevenson
In honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Nevada Territory, The Nevada State Museum staff designed a unique raffle prize to celebrate this year’s coin show in Carson City, August 26-27, 2011. Raffle tickets are now on sale for the Grand Prize, featuring three special commemoratives: one ounce .999 fine silver medallion, celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Nevada Territory; copper Abraham Lincoln Medallion; and brass Nevada State Seal Medallion.

AP A 74-year-old Carson City man has earned a doctorate in psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno. The Nevada Appeal of Carson City reports Don Karr received the doctorate during a ceremony Friday on the campus. The former airline transport ...

The - editorial staff recently won six awards in the Suburban Newspapers of America 2010 editorial contest.Reporters Sandi Hoover and Brian Duggan won first place in the best continuing coverage ca...

“Confessions of a Paper Pimp,” by Sam Bauman. Slalom Press, 2011. Hard copy available at Amazon, $18.95; Kindle version, $10.

By Guy W. Farmer

An unemployed Carson City man wanted on felony sexual assault and kidnapping charges was arrested at a motel room in the 200 block of West Caroline on Tuesday morning.

Brandon Hicks, 18, is being held on $200,000 bail. A warrant for his arrest was issued on March 25 in Carson City Justice Court on the alleged felony crimes of first degree kidnapping, battery with intent to commit sexual assault committed by strangulation and sexual assault.