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• Maryland police ID, charge suspect in fatal Popeyes stabbing

  13-11-2019 04:52 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Police Chief Hank Stawinski has said only 15 seconds elapsed from when the Nov. 4 altercation started to when it ended with the stabbing.
  
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• Gin maker uses elephant dung to add ‘spicy, earthy’ flavor

  13-11-2019 04:48 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The makers of Indlovu, which means elephant in the Zulu language, swear their use of the animal’s excrement is no gimmick.
  
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• Pilot gets $300K from city of Denver in indecent exposure case

  13-11-2019 01:57 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  He was arrested after being accused of standing naked in front of his 10th-floor hotel window overlooking the Denver International Airport terminal.
  
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• How to watch Trump impeachment hearing

  13-11-2019 01:03 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The first House Intelligence Committee open impeachment hearing is scheduled for 7 a.m. PST on Wednesday.
  
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• Republicans, Democrats prepare for public impeachment hearings

  13-11-2019 00:54 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Congressional Republicans are offering a united defense of President Donald Trump as the first public hearings in the impeachment inquiry are set to begin Wednesday.
  
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• Michigan teen gets double lung transplant after vaping damage

  13-11-2019 00:30 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  More than 2,000 Americans who vape have gotten sick since March, many of them teenagers and young adults, and at least 40 people have died.
  
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• Swenson Street near UNLV renamed University Center Drive

  13-11-2019 00:16 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  University Center Drive runs out of McCarran International Airport, past the Thomas & Mack Center and the UNLV campus, winding down to Desert Inn Road.
  
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• Trump’s $16B bailout for farmers favors South, rich, report says

  12-11-2019 23:36 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The USDA said in a statement that payments are based on trade damage, not regions or farm size.
  
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• Body cam video shows aftermath of helicopter crash near Red Rock

  12-11-2019 21:47 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  A helicopter that crashed in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, killing two, was so badly damaged that state troopers could barely recognize it.
  
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• Second Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon OK’d for Las Vegas Strip in 2021

  12-11-2019 19:57 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Beginning in 2021, organizers of the Las Vegas Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon will add a spring race on a Saturday night in April and expected to draw more than 15,000 participants.
  
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• Second Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon OK’d for Las Vegas Strip in 2020

  12-11-2019 19:57 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Beginning in 2021, organizers of the Las Vegas Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon will add a spring race on a Saturday night in April and expected to draw more than 15,000 participants.
  
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• US held nearly 70K migrant children in custody in 2019

  12-11-2019 16:51 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The nearly 70,000 migrant children who were held in government custody this year — up 42 percent in fiscal year 2019 from 2018 — spent more time in shelters and away from their families than in prior years.
  
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• Carter, 95, recovering after surgery to relieve pressure on brain

  12-11-2019 16:23 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Jimmy Carter’s spokeswoman says the former president is recovering at Emory University Hospital following surgery to relieve pressure from bleeding on his brain.
  
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• New school gives Clark County dropouts another chance at diploma

  12-11-2019 15:59 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Students who have dropped out of Clark County high schools can earn their diplomas after all through a new program that allows them to make up missing credits at their own pace.
  
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• Justices allow Sandy Hook shooting lawsuit about rifle go forward

  12-11-2019 15:57 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The Supreme Court said Tuesday a survivor and relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting can pursue their lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 26 people.
  
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• Supreme Court’s conservatives seem to back Trump on DACA

  12-11-2019 14:05 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  There did not appear to be any support among the five conservatives in extended arguments Tuesday for blocking the administration’s decision to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
  
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• Protections for DACA immigrants on line at Supreme Court

  12-11-2019 14:05 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday on the Trump administration’s bid to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that shields 660K immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation and allows them to work in the United States legally.
  
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• ‘Dreamers’ get their day in court

  12-11-2019 14:05 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case that could end a program that allows people brought to the United States illegally as children to obtain temporary protected status. A decision is expected by June.
  
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• Catastrophic fire warning in Sydney as wildfires ravage Australia

  12-11-2019 13:52 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  New South Wales state is under a weeklong state of emergency, a declaration that gives the Rural Fire Service powers to control resources and direct other agencies in its efforts to battle fires.
  
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• Wounded veterans honored on Las Vegas Strip in emotional ceremony

  12-11-2019 06:10 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Gov. Steve Sisolak shed a tear Monday afternoon as he addressed dozens of wounded veterans at the front of the Grand Colonnade in The Venetian’s lobby, then shook each veteran’s hand.
  
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• Israeli airstrike kills senior Islamic Jihad chief in Gaza home

  12-11-2019 05:15 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Gaza’s Health Ministry said a man and a woman were killed in an airstrike at a house and two other people were wounded.
  
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• Former President Jimmy Carter enters hospital for brain surgery

  12-11-2019 03:36 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  President Carter is resting comfortably, and his wife, Rosalynn, is with him.
  
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• Land near Mesquite withdrawn from BLM oil lease auction, critic says

  12-11-2019 03:14 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  A swath of federal land in southeastern Nevada will not be auctioned off as planned after warnings that fracking there could threaten Mesquite’s water supply.
  
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• 2 women detained for selling churros in NYC subway stations

  12-11-2019 02:20 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The New York Police Department said the woman had received 10 summonses over the past six months for “unlicensed vending.”
  
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• New Yorkers make clear how they feel about President Trump

  12-11-2019 01:49 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  As a motorcade carried Trump from his long-time home at Trump Tower to Madison Square Park, signs saying “IMPEACH” and “CONVICT” hung from high-rise windows.
  
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• Lawyers: Trump chief of staff to file own impeachment lawsuit

  12-11-2019 01:32 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Mulvaney faced opposition from lawyers for both Kupperman and House lawmakers in his bid to join the lawsuit.
  
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• Uber chief regrets comment on Saudi journalist’s slaying

  12-11-2019 00:11 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Khashoggi was killed and dismembered by Saudi intelligence officials and a forensic doctor last year at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
  
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• Court holds hearing on plan to pipe water to Las Vegas Valley

  12-11-2019 00:03 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  A two-day court hearing on a controversial and embattled proposal to pump groundwater from rural eastern Nevada to the Las Vegas Valley gets underway Tuesday in Ely.
  
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• Trump denounces historic impeachment hearings as witch hunt, ’fraud’

  11-11-2019 23:59 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The hearings are only the fourth time in history that Congress has launched a public investigation into the president’s activities with the possibility of removing him from office.
  
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• Transit of Mercury brings out stargazers around the world

  11-11-2019 22:12 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes to spot Mercury — a tiny black dot — as it passed directly between Earth and the sun on Monday.
  
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• College of Southern Nevada faculty enter 4th year without contract

  11-11-2019 22:02 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Faculty members at the College of Southern Nevada are entering their fourth year without a contract, and there’s no end to the impasse in sight.
  
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• College of Southern Nevada faculty enter 4th year with no contract

  11-11-2019 22:02 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Faculty members at the College of Southern Nevada are entering their fourth year without a contract, and there’s no end to the impasse in sight.
  
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• Veterans Day parade in Las Vegas lives up to its big billing

  11-11-2019 19:04 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Thousands of spectators lined Fourth Street, applauding as roughly 5,000 participants in nearly 100 parade groups made their way down the street in the two-hour parade.
  
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• Veterans celebrated in downtown Las Vegas parade — LIVESTREAM

  11-11-2019 19:04 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The city of Las Vegas will celebrate and thank veterans at the 2019 Veterans Day Parade today in downtown Las Vegas.
  
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• Veterans celebrated in downtown Las Vegas parade

  11-11-2019 19:04 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The city of Las Vegas will celebrate and thank veterans at the 2019 Veterans Day Parade today in downtown Las Vegas.
  
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• Pete Buttigieg releases veterans, military personnel plan

  11-11-2019 17:28 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg unveils his plan for veterans and service members in an interview with the Review-Journal.
  
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• Impairment continues to play big role in fatal crashes in Nevada

  11-11-2019 16:55 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Between 2016 and 2018, 55.4 percent of fatal crashes were caused by a driver under the influence of alcohol, drugs or a combination of the two.
  
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• NY Rep. Peter King retiring, giving Dems a new target

  11-11-2019 14:58 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The decision comes days after voters flocked to Democratic candidates in state elections in Kentucky and Virginia, underscoring Republican vulnerability in a suburban revolt against President Donald Trump.
  
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• Man shot, another burns; Hong Kong leader vows to end protests

  11-11-2019 14:28 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Carrie Lam’s comments are likely to fuel speculation that harsher legal and police measures may be in the works to curb the protests.
  
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• 1 man shot, another burns; Hong Kong leader vows to end protests

  11-11-2019 14:28 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Carrie Lam’s comments are likely to fuel speculation that harsher legal and police measures may be in the works to curb the protests.
  
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• Conference organizers focus on need for more angel investors in the Valley

  11-11-2019 06:00 via Las Vegas Weekly Stories: News
  Jeff Saling, co-founder and executive director of StartUpNV, said the goal of the inaugural Southern Nevada Angel Conference was to give Nevada’s startup community a jolt and raise awareness of investor options.
  
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• 2 killed in NJ after Porsche crashes into building’s 2nd floor

  11-11-2019 04:23 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Police said the structure, which was unoccupied at the time, had been deemed unsafe by a building inspector.
  
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• Maine lobsterman rescues deer trapped in water off coast

  11-11-2019 04:10 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Dorr says that he has seen deer swimming before but that this was different.
  
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• Justices take up high-profile case over young immigrants

  11-11-2019 03:55 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Trump has said he favors legislation on DACA, but that it will take a Supreme Court ruling for the administration to spur Congress to act.
  
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• Trump to confront Turkey about buying Russian defense system

  11-11-2019 03:32 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The U.S. says the system is not compatible with NATO forces and could compromise the F-35 fighter jet program and aid Russian intelligence.
  
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• Motorcyclist killed in collision on state Route 163 near Laughlin

  11-11-2019 03:18 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The motorcyclist crossed into oncoming traffic and hit another vehicle head-on, NHP said.
  
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• Henderson’s Veterans Memorial Wall has 2 new panels

  11-11-2019 02:40 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The wall — a Henderson-funded project adjacent to City Hall — now recognizes veterans who served in Persian Gulf War and Global War on Terror.
  
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• American Legion post in Las Vegas plans big as it regains its feet

  11-11-2019 01:03 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  American Legion Post 10 is pursuing an ambitious plan to play a role in tackling the city’s homelessness, with an emphasis on veterans and families.
  
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• Michigan man uses battle ax to fight off home invader

  11-11-2019 00:12 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  Ben Ball, 36, said he grabbed the ax, took two steps forward and struck the intruder in the torso.
  
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• House Democrats to lay out case for impeachment in public hearings

  10-11-2019 23:14 via Las Vegas News, Breaking News, Local News, Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
  The historic public hearings are the next phase in the impeachment process that could have political ramifications for both Trump and Democrats in the 2020 elections.
  
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