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RAIDERS LOSE IN OT Arizona makes a stunning rally against Oakland to take a 34-31 victory. NFL Monday, 10 MAVS USURP KINGS weather Dallas spoils Sacramento's homecourt win 40 24 COm Forest Service to begin public hearings on ski resort 's plans for major improvements. 1B streak with a 120-114 defeat in overtime. Sports, 30 HIGH LOW Cloudy skies today and tonight. Details, 1 0A ZETTE-JOURNA MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2001 FINAL EDITION cn nLTMTC Maybehigher JU OEIM I outside metro area MT.

ROSE UPGRADES Reno Ga Snow, strong winds close 1-80, some ski areas Blizzard conditions in mountains: Airport problems affect hundreds. i here for a while. We did some good business," Perkins said. National Weather Service meteorologists said the intense storm, the latest and strongest in a series, should taper off this morning but noted unsettled conditions are in the forecast for the remainder of the week. School officials in Washoe County said they will decide early this morning whether to close any schools.

Parents can call 334-8373 (then 7 and the pound sign) for information or they can check out the following Web site: See WEATHER on 6A foothills remained closed because of blizzard conditions that dropped visibility to zero, forcing travelers back to Reno to find rooms for the night. At Gold Ranch, casino shift manager Bob Perkins said the estimated 300-400 people who stayed for hours during the day hoping for the highway to re-open so they could get home to California finally gave up about 6 p.m. Many of them watched the Oakland Raiders game on TV, grabbed a meal or tried their luck in the casino. "They made the best of it. And things were jumping ternational Airport and one departure halted when the instrument landing system failed at 6:30 p.m., said spokesman Adam Mayberry.

Several hundred people were affected until the system was restored at 1 0: 1 5 p.m., he said. "By and large, we're at a standstill," he said at 10 p.m. "This is the worst snowstorm we've had at the airport in about four years. Late Sunday evening, Interstate 80 between the Nevada border and the California Candice TowellReno Gazette-Journal STORM: Westbound traffic on Interstate 80 was closed Sunday afternoon because blizzard conditions caused poor visibility. mi Mi 1DDDSS1 I 4101(10 MPAOUg 470102 MP JUWnBe HfiWWlKttrf ftfJmJh.

Lrs-Wjct, IIHUMIItJU 1 "iWJ 4dUMkb "fl- By Tim Anderson RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL A powerful pre-winter storm pounded the northern Sierra Sunday, as heavy snowfall and extreme winds shut down the main transportation route across the range, forced ski resorts throughout the region to close temporarily and caused scattered traffic accidents and power outages in the Reno area. Four arriving flights were diverted from Reno-Tahoe In For months last summer, the disappearance of Washington, D.C., intern Chandra Levy was frontpage news and focused national attention on missing-person cases. Despite the fact that most of the thousands of persons reported missing are found alive, family members and friends still seek knowledge of the fate of the few who remain missing. Included in that number are these northern Nevada cases. Star Palumbo Spoke of a younger, nonexistent sister and left a car full of her clothing at ttie Reno-Tahoe .4 International Airport the night she disappeared 19 months ago.

Source: Reno Gazette-Journal research 'mi fjmr ft zr'z i i 1 fflO K.H'iWV tck wm numfi hct va tft.POHYUlL II i iSJ Mark Poe: Left wife, business and Golden Valley home, taking not so much as his car keys and I.D. when he left five years ago. TODAY Nevada Hispanics more segregated A language barrier continues to keep Hispanics apart from the more assimilated ethnic minority communities in Nevada, census figures showed Sunday. An Associated Press review of U.S. Census information on race in communities with more than 100,000 residents found Hispanics have surpassed Hacks as the state's most segregated group.

Statewide, blacks and Asians remained most segregated in Reno in the 2000 census, but were more integrated than 1990. Hispanics are most segregated in North Las Vegas followed by Las Vegas and Reno, with the latter two cities showing an increase in Hispanic seclusion since 1990. Details, IB Church bombing hearing is today A hearing could finally resolve the question of whether a former Ku Klux Klansman will stand trial for murder in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls. Circuit Judge James Garrett today is to hear testimony and review reports from experts who observed Bobby Frank Cherry while he was confined at a state mental health facility for about 10 weeks. Garrett previously ruled Cherry, 72, was mentally incompetent to stand trial in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

He could either reverse or uphold that decision based on the experts' opinions. Details, 4A IN YOUR RGJ Reno Sparks Mark Twain's letters Mark Twain wrote tens of thousands of letters, and they keep turning up. Details, 1 Life Gifts for teachers Northern Nevada teachers recall some of the funnier gifts they've received. Details, 1C Sports Wolf Pack basketball After a good offensive show, Nevada turns its focus to defensive play. Details, 10 e(TECH) Home movies Over-the-counter equipment and inexpensive editing software make home digital movie making easy.

Details, 1 Wood burning JS mam Index 1-10A Movies 2C 2A TVHappenings 4C 9A Comics 5C 10A Sports 1-80 1-128 (Tech) 1-3E 2B ClanffMi C4F 11B Crossword 2F 1-6C DearAbby 2F 2C Horoscope 2F Briefing Opinion Weather Ram Lottery Obituaries Life Insider Latest war on terror news. Special pages, features, bonus comics. Updates on breaking news. Forconvenienthome defivery: (775)7864744 or (800)648-5048 wamMu Jm Sixth attack in 24 Scores injured on By Lee Hockstader WASHINGTON POST HAIFA, Israel A shaven and neatly dressed Palestinian man in his twenties boarded a crowded bus heading downtown in this port city just after noon Sunday and handed the driver a five-shekel coin, worth about $1.20. When the driver called af- ter him to take his change, man glanced back and triggered a bomb, killing himself and 15 passengers and injuring three dozen others.

In an instant, the bus became an inferno of death and blood. Corpses and fragments of bodies were strewn across the seats and aisles, and the wounded staggered out the doors and tumbled from the shattered windows. The bomb tore apart students and retirees, Filipino workers and Russian immigrants, soldiers and civilians a random sampling of this working-class city's diverse population. The assault capped what Israeli television called the bloodiest 24 hours of terrorism in the country's history at least a half-dozen serious attacks that left 26 Israelis dead and scores wounded, several of them critically. llllltrnT nil lliM MM if.

.1 7 4 if Terri'' 7 tourcner: Involved in drugs and prostitution, was last seen walking away from the Flamingo Hilton in downtown Reno in 1995. In the past 12 months, 91 adults were reported missing in Sparks. Two of the cases remain unsolved, including a man who is a suspected fugitive and a woman who may have disappeared to end a relationship. Ron Oden Reno Gazette-Journal troublesome relationship, or simply missing the last tourist bus out of town, rather than victims of foul play. But then there are those including Poe and Palumbo who leave families with grief and unanswered questions.

For me, the longer it goes, the worse it gets," Palumbo's mother, Gail, said last week. See MISSING on 6A train them ourselves," Cor-bett Elementary Principal Patricia Casarez said. "With candidates that I have interviewed over the last four years, the vast majority are unable to tell me how to teach reading." According to the U.S. Department of Education's inaugural report on the quality of teacher preparation programs nationwide, released Thursday, 96 percent See TEACHERS on 6A Despite slow, difficult investigations, families maintain hope for answers In the past four years, 1,483 adults have been reported missing in Reno. All but about 25 of the cases have been closed.

Last year, 55 missing adult cases were investigated and solved by the Washoe County Sheriff's Office. "For me, the longer it goes, the worse it gets." Gail Palumbo mother of Star Palumbo, who has been missing for 19 months And is Fourcher still alive? Authorities say the vast majority of the 427 adults reported missing in Washoe County last year were escaping from a hour period: bus in Haifa. INSIDE News analysis: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat can do little to control groups like -Hamas. Details, 7A Bush-Sharon meeting: Hopes for peace deal fade. Details, 7A The blast in Haifa, which occurred scarcely 12 hours after a pair of suicide bombers struck the heart of Jerusalem's nightlife district lOpeo-ple, left Israelis drained, shaken and angry.

Many called on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to take decisive military actionagainst Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, which the government accuses of sponsoring terrorists. "It's not enough to kill this terrorist or that terrorist," said Limor Livnat, the education minister from Sharon's hardline Likud Party. "We have to collapse the regime that gives power to terrorists. We have to understand Arafat leads the terrorists." The militant Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, took responsibility for the Haifa bus bombing, for Saturday's synchronized bombings in Jerusalem and for a drive-by shooting in the Gaza Strip Sunday morning. TT7TT INSIDE U.N.

Afghan talks: Standoff over who should govern keeps discussion stalled. Details, 2A CIA paramilitary forces: Covert operatives play an unseen but important role in war. Details, 2A said U.S. warplanes hit their intended targets around Tora Bora, the cave complex that is a suspected hideout for Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist organization. See MARINES on 2A be 21 to play.

Deads at dub Mage. By Anjeanette Damon RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Mark Poe left his car keys, wallet, cell phone, his business and his wife when he disappeared from his Golden Valley home five years ago. Star Palumbo rambled about a younger sister who doesn't exist and left a car full of her clothing at the RenoTahoe International Airport the night she disap Nationally, more than 875,000 adults were reported missing last year. The overwhelming majority turned up unharmed, according to FBI statistics quoted in the Washington Post. peared from the people who loved her 19 months ago.

And Terri Ann Fourcher, a 29-year-old woman involved in drugs and prostitution, was in Reno for justnine months before she vanished. Did Poe simply walk away from his life to start anew? Is Palumbo hiding from a drug debt gone bad, to the heartbreak ofhermotherwho described her as a dependable, warm-hearted woman? on Feb. 14 closed at $80 a share in New York Stock Exchange trading, closed Friday at 26 cents. Enron is the nation's seventh-largest company based on revenues of 1 00 billion. It grew exponentially throughout the late 1980s and 1990s based largely on a single idea: that it is more profitable to buy and sell energy than to See ENRON on 6A Marines could join ground assault on Taliban stronghold Study: Area teachers need better training Energy trader Enron declares bankruptcy By Kathy Gannon ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan Relentless U.S.

airstrikes pummeled the defenders of Kandahar Sunday with anti-Taliban forces within 20 miles of the last militia stronghold. A U.S. Marine officer said his troops might join the assault. In the east, a provincial military official said U.S. warplanes bombed an anti-Taliban headquarters Sunday, killing at least eight people.

The claim came a day after the official reported similar bombings killed scores of civilians nearby. Air Force Lt. Col. Mark Compton, a Central Command spokesman in Tampa, By Ben Holden RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL In one of the most dramatic falls in corporate American history, Enron the nation's largest energy trader, declared bankruptcy Sunday in a desperate attempt to salvage a business that had been worth $60 billion as recently as Valentine's Day. The Houston-based company's stock, which By Ronnie Lynn RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL A new national report says Nevada universities prepare prospective teachers to pass their licensing exams, but local educators and national experts say that's not enough to improve children's academic achievement.

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