Mar
27
Casino cook held in deadly reno hotel fire a woman on parole after serving time for second-degree murder was arrested Wednesday and accused of setting a blaze that killed six people and gutted much of a historic brick building in Reno's downtown casino district.
Valerie Moore, 47, a casino cook, was arrested on arson and murder charges stemming from Tuesday night's blaze at the Mizpah Hotel, which police said began when she set fire to a mattress. It was the city's deadliest blaze in more than 40 years.
About 30 people were injured, some of them after they leaped out the windows of the three-story building, which
