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yesterday, lyon county school superintendent wayne workman issued an immediate apology, reading in part, "we of the image and regret that it was used." workman could not say what consequences the teacher might face, citing personnel privacy issues. he did say the district was taking appropriate administrative action. in dayton, ed pearce kolo 8 news now solarcity says it's laid off 550 nevada employees. that's about a quarter of its workforce. two weeks ago solarcity announced it will halt the sale and installation of rooftop solar panels in nevada. the move comes after n-v energy cut the rate it pays solar customers for extra power. solarcity says the new rates make solar too expensive. n-v energy argues, solar customers avoided paying some of the utility's fixed costs in the past. las vegas data company-- "switch", has begun drawing exclusively from renewable energy, to power its facilities. switch has entered into an agreement with n-v energy, to use the utility's existing renewable sources, including geo-thermal, an historic hall of fame vote today in baseball plus...a reno bighorns

lyon county school superintendent wayne workman says he only learned about the issue yesterday. he quickly issued an apology which read in part "we understand the offensive nature of the image workman would not confirm that the teacher--who had taught at the school since 2013--had been fired, citing personnel privacy issues. he did say the district was taking appropriate action. nelson says all that is up to the school district. he says discussion of slavery is very appropriate in a u-s history course, but this image is not. nelson: "i doubt there are very many people who can draw any meaningful relation between that image and u-s history or slavery in any way." much of the reaction to this incident has played out on social media and the fallout continues there. this issue came to light through a local talk radio program 'armed nevada radio'. the host told us acting on complaints from students supporting the teacher, facebook has barred him from access to his own page for 24 hours. ed, thank you. solarcity says it's laid off 550 nevada employees. that's about a quarter of its wo

yesterday, lyon county school superintendent wayne workman issued an immediate apology, reading in part, "we understand the offensive nature of the image and regret that it was used." workman could not say what consequences the teacher might face, citing personnel privacy issues. he did say the district was taking appropriate administrative action. in dayton, ed pearce kolo 8 news now the numbers are in -- and you didn't win. no winning tickets were million powerball jackpot. it's now up to 675 million dollars-- the largest jackpot of any lottery game in u.s. history. the next drawing is saturday. which means there will most likely be a rush to buy tickets over the next few days. out at gold ranch in verdi... they've seen a huge uptick in business thanks to the recent lottery fever. trt: 15 tom macintosh, gm gold ranch casino & rv resort, "well it is an intrical part of our business. it generates a lot of traffic that would otherwise not come out here. some of our best zip codes for customers are in the sparks area. which shows the power of the lottery." in the past 13 years, 16 powerba

yesterday, lyon county school superintendent wayne workman issued an apology. workman said the district was taking the appropriate action. ### some parents are definitely getting less sleep-- than the rest of us. doctor timothy johnson has tonight's medical minute. script: the buzz of the alarm clock? do you have to drag yourself out of bed? it might be because you're a particular kind of parent. a single one. a new c-d-c study shows that when it comes to sleep, single mothers crave it, and are the most likely not to get it. researchers used a large national survey to look at sleep duration and quality? more than two in five single moms get less than seven hours of sleep a night. adults in two-parent families and adults living without children do better. even when they do get to sleep? single parents have worse sleep quality. that means roughly half of single parents said they frequently woke up feeling not well-rested. and they were more likely than two-parent- households to take medications to fall asleep or stay asleep. are single parents doomed, to have bag

the superintendent wayne workman says the image was used as a prompt for a writing assignment and a final exam. the picture and angry comments took off on social media, and we spoke to resident whose says the image sends the wrong message to kids. >> i don't think that is an appropriate assignment for a young child like that number one, they need to learn a lot of that stuff on their own by learning history, and is that is kind of putting anytime their face to me it is putting the cops in a bad light. >> i would be down at that school in a minute talking to the teacher. >> and coming up tonight on news 4 at 5:00, terri hendry of parents as well as the school superintendent. >>> a liberal talk radio host and former chairman of the washoe county democratic party has announced his candidacy for nevada congressional seat that no democrat has ever held chip evans formally announced his plans today to challenge the second district republican. he filed his candidacy papers on saturday with the northwesterly election commission. the republicans have held the largely rural district covering more t

lyon county superintendent wayne workman learned about this earlier today. he says it's a personnel issue he could not say a whole lot about the teacher involved or workman quickly and promptly apologized though to parents and students. >> the first thing that we would want to say the to the parents is that we hope that they would accept our sincereest apology for the offensive nature of the picture the message reflected in there no way is consistent with our views in regard to law enforcement. >> workman says this is an isolated case. he also says the district is now working to ensure that something like this does not happen again. >>> switching queers now the first major retail near 30 years may soon be coming to downtown reno. a midtown and downtown reno developer tells news 4 he signed a letter of intent to lease the first floor of the former post office to a national retail chain. parts of the letter of intent includes a nondisclose you are agreement though that prevents him from confirming the name of the chain. however there are a few rumors is a clot

. >> reporter: the school superintendent wayne workman says he learned of the >> it was actually part of a final examination, i believe it was meant to be a prompt for a writing assignment in a social studies class. >> reporter: workman describes the incident as a personnel issue and would not offer any specifics, but ask offering parents an apology. >> the first thing that we would want to say to the parents we hope that they would accept our sincerest apology for the offensive nature of the picture. >> reporter: workman says many view the image as offensive and and she agrees. >> and kkk with a gun in their hand shooting a kid with skittles not a good impression a child, i don't think. >> reporter: workman says he thinks the teacher was troy trying to provoke students in providing an argument of one side or the other for -- of a controversial subject. >> could have -- could that have been accomplished in a dinner manner and received the same result ? yeah, i think it has. >> reporter: workman says it is still under investigation and issue, he won't say much else about the teach and

lion county school superintendent wayne workman says he learned about this earlier yesterday. he says that it is a personnel issue so he really could not say a whole lot about the teacher or what happened next. he quickly and promptly apologized to both parents and students. >> the first thing that we would want to say to the parents is that we hope they would accept our sincerest apology for the offensive nature of the picture, the message reflected in there in no way is consistent with our views in regard to law enforcement. >> workman describes this incident as an isolated case. he also says the district is now working to ensure something like this never happens again. 30 years may soon be coming to downtown reno. there was a letter of intent signed to lease the first floor of the former post office building to i national retail chain. part of the letter of intent includes aen in disclosure agreement which prevents him from confirming the name of of the chain. however, there are a few rumors swirling around that the major retailer is either a clothing company or a home furn

yesterday, lyon county school superintendent wayne workman issued an immediate apology, reading in part, "we understand the offensive nature of the image and regret that it was used." workman could not say what consequences the teacher might face, citing personnel privacy issues. he did say the district was taking appropriate administrative action. in dayton, ed pearce kolo 8 news now the numbers are in -- and you didn't win. no winning tickets were sold in last night's 524- million powerball jackpot. it's now up to 675 million dollars-- the largest jackpot of any lottery game in u.s. history. the next drawing is saturday. which means there will most likely be a rush to buy tickets over the next few days. verdi... they've seen a huge uptick in business thanks to the recent lottery fever. trt: 15 tom macintosh, gm gold ranch casino & rv part lot of traffic that would otherwise not come out here. some of our best zip codes for customers are in the sparks area. which shows the power of the lottery." in the past 13 years, 16 powerball jackpot winners have bought their tickets in pennsylvani