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• Crews installing new medians on Blue Diamond Road

  09-11-2019 22:17
  LAS VEGAS (KLAS) —  A project
  meant to make Blue Diamond safer is underway. Crews are installing new medians
  near the intersections of both Rainbow and Jones.
  Crews began installing the
  medians at 7:30 Saturday night. The installation is part of an effort to make
  this road safer after some deadly crashes over the years.Chris Gatling drives the
  busy street often between Las Vegas and Pahrump. He...
  
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• Rockefeller Center Christmas tree set in place

  09-11-2019 21:31
  NEW YORK CITY, NY (WPIX) — This year’s Rockefeller
  Center Christmas tree was set up in Manhattan Saturday ahead of the annual tree
  lighting ceremony. It’s a Norway spruce that was cut down on Thursday from a
  community in New York.
  The 77-foot, 14-ton tree was brought to the Big Apple on a
  trailer. It was then untied and raised with a crane Saturday, onto its new home
  on the Center Plaza.
  The 87th...
  
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• Kansas State topples UNLV 60-56 in overtime

  09-11-2019 20:17
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — As Xavier Sneed clutched his right ankle and writhed in pain on the floor in front of Kansas State’s bench near the end of the first half Saturday and coach Bruce Weber was more concerned with his senior guard’s long-term health just two games into the season.
  The concern didn’t last long.
  Sneed started the second half, eventually buried back-to-back 3-pointers that tied the game...
  
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• NHL-leading Capitals beat Knights for 6th consecutive win

  09-11-2019 20:12
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The bird is back, and the Capitals keep soaring.
  Evgeny Kuznetsov scored his sixth goal of the season and unleashed his famous flapping bird celebration for the first time this season to help Washington beat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-2 Saturday night in a meeting of the 2018 Stanley Cup finalists. The Capitals have won six in a row and 10 of 11 and are chugging along as the top...
  
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• Pot or not? Busts highlight growing confusion over hemp

  09-11-2019 19:51
  NEW YORK (AP) — The CBD craze might be leaving the war on drugs a bit dazed and confused.
  The extract that’s been showing up in everything from candy to coffee is legally derived from hemp plants, which look and smell an awful lot like that other cannabis — marijuana. They’re so similar, police officers and the field tests they use on suspected drugs sometimes can’t tell the difference.
  Case in...
  
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• Metro helps arrest suspect charged with murder in Iowa

  09-11-2019 13:02
  LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — With the help of Metro, a Des Moines man was arrested in connection to an October murder in Des Moines, Iowa.KCCI, the CBS station in Des Moines, says Des Moines police were trying to locate 39-year-old Nicky Joe Beery after a 43-year-old man died from injuries inside his residence on Oct. 5.
  Police say Beery was near the scene during or around when the incident took place....
  
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• ‘Jersey Shore’ star pleads not guilty to domestic violence

  09-11-2019 11:45
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jersey Shore” star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro has pleaded not guilty to domestic violence, child endangerment, false imprisonment and other misdemeanors after his arrest last month in the Hollywood Hills.
  The 33-year-old Ortiz-Magro entered the plea Friday in Los Angeles to seven misdemeanor counts that also included criminal threats, brandishing a weapon and resisting arrest.
  Police...
  
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• Local woman seeks help finding her stolen dog

  09-11-2019 11:00
  LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas resident is hoping the public can help her find her dog and the men who stole her. Judy Gardner says her miniature schnauzer, Zoey, was taken from her driveway near Vegas Drive and Rancho Drive in the morning on Sunday, Nov. 3.Surveillance video, from the business next door to Gardner’s 4-plex, shows a man walking into her driveway, and waving to others to...
  
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• Germany, allies mark 30 years since Berlin Wall fell

  09-11-2019 09:34
  BERLIN (AP) — Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe.
  FILE – In this Nov. 13, 1989, file photo, East German border guards stand in front of segments of the Berlin Wall, which were removed to open the wall at Potsdamer Platz passage in Berlin. Months before the Berlin Wall fell on...
  
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• 14 fraternities at SDSU suspended after student death

  09-11-2019 09:00
  SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CNN) — 14 fraternities at San Diego State University have been suspended after a student died earlier this week. Dylan Hernandez, 19, suffered a head injury when he fell out of his bunk bed inside a residence hall Wednesday night. School officials believe he had attended a fraternity event that evening.
  According to a close friend, it was a six foot drop that led to a head...
  
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• 2 dead after fiery crash near Boulder Highway, Flamingo Road

  09-11-2019 08:31
  LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Metro is investigating a fiery crash that left two people dead in east Las Vegas.
  Police say the crash, involving two cars and a suspected impaired driver, happened near Boulder Highway and Flamingo Road early Saturday morning, just after 3 a.m.
  The Toyota that was involved in the crash caught fire, resulting in the deaths of both occupants.
  The driver of the second vehicle,...
  
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• Despite fires, California wine is doing just fine – for now

  09-11-2019 07:18
  HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — If you’re worried that wildfires might have created shortages of Northern California’s 2019 cabernet sauvignon, or even just imparted it with an undesirable smoky flavor, you can relax. The wine is just fine. For now.
  Despite a late October blaze that raged through one of the world’s best-known wine-growing regions, forcing evacuations in two mid-sized towns, wine...
  
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