This document summarizes news stories from across the United States. It discusses a contained brush fire in Reno, Nevada that destroyed 29 homes. It also discusses three men being charged with murder in Philadelphia for fatally beating a man who was trying to hail a cab. Additionally, it mentions a rare winter snowstorm that blanketed parts of the Northeast United States with a few inches of snow.

1. A The Daily Reflector, Sunday, January 22, 2012
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RENO, NEv. PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA
Crews contain Reno fire Three charged in fatal beating Snowstorm blankets Northeast
Rain and snow helped firefighters Philadelphia police have arrested and A few inches of snow coated the North-
surround a brush fire that destroyed 29 charged three men with murder in the east on Saturday in a storm so rare this
homes and forced thousands to flee near beating of a man who had been trying to season in the East that some welcomed it.
Reno, leading officials to declare the blaze hail a cab in the city’s historic district last “We’ve been very lucky, so we can’t
contained early Saturday and lift all re- weekend. complain,” said Gloria Fernandez of New
maining evacuations. Arrested Friday night were Steven Fer- York City, as she shoveled the sidewalk
Fueled by hurricane force winds, the guson, 20; Kenneth Santiago, 19; and Fe- outside her workplace. “It’s nice, it’s fluffy
blaze burned nearly 3,200 acres with lix Carrillo, 23, all of Philadelphia. They and it’s on the weekend,” she said of the
flames as high as 40 feet. are charged in the killing of 23-year-old snow, which hadn’t fallen in the city since
The break in the weather for firefighters ar- Kevin Kless. a rare October storm that that dumped
rived with calmer winds on Friday, allowing Homicide Capt. James Clark said police more than 2 feet of snow in parts and
crews to gain the upper hand on a blaze Gov. are “100 percent sure we have the right knocked out power to nearly 3 million
Brian Sandoval described as “horrendous.” three individuals.” homes and businesses in the region.
“There is nothing left in some of those Police said Kless had yelled at a cab By midafternoon, 4.3 inches of snow
places except for the chimneys and fire- near Independence Hall early Saturday had fallen in Central Park and 3.4 inches
places,” he said in a tour of the area Friday. morning when he got into a dispute with at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Most
Authorities said an “extremely remorse- a group of men in another car. Authorities the associated press of eastern Pennsylvania and central New
ful” elderly man admitted to accidentally said the men may have thought Kless was AN OvERNIgHt stORm blanketed Jersey Jersey saw about 4 inches of snow, with a
starting the fire Thursday when he im- yelling at them, sparking the confronta- city with snow for the first time this few places reporting up to 6 inches.
properly discarded fireplace ashes. tion. Kless later died at a hospital. winter. From Associated Press reports
Obama Primary day at hand, SC voters have their say
to give By KAsIE HUNt made plans to focus on uled campaign events for
address
AND sHANNON states where his libertar- the same time. Romney
mccAFFREy ian, Internet-driven mes- stopped by the breakfast
the associated press sage might find more of a restaurant 45 minutes
reception with voters; his ahead of schedule. When
■ President Barack GREENVILLE, S.C. — campaign said it had pur- Gingrich arrived, just min-
Obama will stand before Primary day at hand, fast- chased a substantial ad buy utes after Romney’s bus
climbing Newt Gingrich in Nevada and Minnesota, left the parking lot, he said:
the nation Tuesday night told South Carolinians which hold caucuses next “Where’s Mitt?”
determined to frame the on Saturday that he was month. Earlier, Gingrich had
election-year debate on “the only practical con- The first contest without a message for voters dur-
servative vote” able to stop Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who ing a stop at The Grape-
his terms. front-runner Mitt Rom- dropped out this past week vine restaurant in Boil-
ney in the GOP presiden- and endorsed Gingrich, ing Springs not long after
By BEN FELLER tial race. Romney said the was seen as Romney’s to the polls opened: Come
the associated press first-in-the-South contest lose just days ago. Instead, out and vote for me if you
“could be real close” as he the gap closed quickly be- want to help deny Romney
WASHINGTON — Vili- prepared for an extended tween the Massachusetts nomination.
fied by the Republicans fight by consenting to can- governor who portrays He told diners who were the associated press
who want his job, President didate debates in next-vot- himself as the Republicans enjoying plates of eggs and
Barack Obama will stand ing Florida. best positioned to defeat grits that he was the “the REPUBLIcAN PREsIDENtIAL candidate Newt Gingrich
takes part in a tV interview during a campaign event at the
before the nation Tuesday Former Pennsylvania President Barack Obama only practical conservative
Grapevine restaurant in spartanburg, s.c., on saturday.
night determined to frame Sen. Rick Santorum braced and Gingrich, the con- vote” to the rival he called
the election-year debate on for a setback and looked frontational former House a Massachusetts moderate.
his terms, using his State ahead to the Jan. 31 con- speaker from Georgia. “Polls are good, votes are olina’s voter ID and immi- and Thursday in Jack-
of the Union address to test after getting the most Romney avoided a run- better,” he said. gration laws. sonville was seen as an
outline a lasting economic votes in Iowa and besting in with Gingrich at Tom- Gingrich also said he Romney’s agreement to acknowledgement of a
recovery that will “work for Gingrich in New Hamp- my’s Country Ham House, would put a stop to federal participate in Florida de- prolonged battle with Gin-
everyone, not just a wealthy shire. Texas Rep. Ron Paul where both had sched- actions against South Car- bates Monday in Tampa grich.
few.”
As his most powerful
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