Coming Wednesday

- Winds of up to 60 mph stirred up the Larson fire near Coleville on Tuesday morning, forcing evacuations, closing schools and quickly spreading to 500 acres. Page A1

- The 97th annual Carson Valley Days starts Thursday and includes balloon launching, rodeo and the annual parade. Page A1

- After years of debate, commissioners Thursday could approve a 2 percent fixed growth cap for residential development in Douglas County. Page A1

- A South Lake Tahoe man who stabbed his estranged girlfriend 60 times, fractured her skull with a hammer and cut off her hair as she was dying was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole. Page A1

- A helicopter pilot killed when his aircraft crashed in Afghanistan was a Douglas High School graduate. Joshua Rodgers was a 1997 graduate. Page A2

- Members of the Douglas High School Block D Club climbed 'D' hill to touch up the large white letter on Saturday. Page A2

- A South Lake Tahoe man who escaped from Douglas County Jail at Stateline for nine months was sentenced Monday to three years in Nevada State Prison for possession of stolen property. Page A2

OBITUARIES

- Phillip E. Corbitt

- Bryan Charles Malone

- Phyllis Lucille Machado

- Zola Helen Murray

- Vance R. Strickland

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- Fiona's Bar and Grill is now open inside Carson Valley Inn with express lunches, new dinner menu, more seating for Sunday brunch and appetizers available at the bar from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Page A10

- A hair-cutting fundraiser to help pay for T.J. Spotts' medical bills related to a kidney transplant, Saturday at Shylocks Hair & Nail Design, raised $900. The funds will pay off one bill for the remaining deductible for Spotts kidney dialysis up to his transplant March 13. Page B1

- Katie Estes' Hodgkin's lymphoma treatments may be over, but the bills are still coming in. A barbecue dinner and silent auction will be held 5-8 p.m. June 14 in the CVIC Hall in Minden. Page B1

- While other high school graduates head for the beach, or the pillow, Patty Salazar is flying to Holmstad, Sweden. The Douglas High School senior is part of the Rotary Youth Exchange Program. Page B1

- The average farm animal in Wellington is a horse, cow, pig. But, one resident chose to raise Nigerian dwarf goats. Page B1

- Nate Whalin and Skylar Young were named The Record-Courier's athletes of the year. Whalin played football, baseball and basketball during his senior year at Douglas High School. A varsity letter winner in soccer, Young ran both track and cross country in her senior year. Page C1