Nevada news

• Fremont Street Experience looking up, as crowds, live music return

  15-06-2021 05:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  “We expect this year to be better than any year in our history… it’s as good as it’s ever been out here,” Fremont Street Experience CEO Andrew Simon said last week.
  
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• ‘Exciting’ prizes planned to spur COVID vaccinations

  15-06-2021 03:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Steve Sisolak hints that Nevada will soon be offering “exciting” prizes to get more residents vaccinated against COVID-19.
  
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• Granholm promotes lithium mining for clean-energy batteries

  15-06-2021 01:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Monday promoted responsible extraction of lithium in Nevada as part of a national blueprint to manufacture more lithium-ion batteries.
  
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• Nevada reports 439 new coronavirus cases, 4 deaths over weekend

  14-06-2021 20:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The new numbers cover Friday through Sunday and push cumulative totals in Nevada to 327,579 cases and 5,626 deaths.
  
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• NSA contractor in leak case out of prison

  14-06-2021 20:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Reality Winner, 29, has been moved to home confinement and remains in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons.
  
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• Girl Scouts have millions of unsold cookies

  14-06-2021 19:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  As the pandemic wore into the spring selling season, many troops nixed their traditional cookie booths for safety reasons.
  
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• NHP using AI technology to reduce speeding, crashes on Las Vegas highways

  14-06-2021 16:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The use of artificial intelligence to strategically position law enforcement vehicles on Las Vegas’ busiest highways appears to have had some initial success in reducing dangerous driving.
  
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• Mix of AI, messaging and NHP troopers leads to fewer crashes, speeders

  14-06-2021 16:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Waycare, an AI traffic management and transit solutions provider, used algorithms to pinpoint areas that have a high risk of crashes occurring based on existing crash data from local authorities.
  
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• Actor Ned Beatty, indelible in ‘Deliverance’ dies at 83

  14-06-2021 01:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Ned Beatty, the indelible character actor whose first film role as a genial vacationer brutally raped by a backwoodsman in 1972’s “Deliverance” launched him on a long, prolific and accomplished career, has died. He was 83.
  
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• ‘Beyond rare:’ State drops water for bighorn sheep as drought persists

  14-06-2021 00:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  State wildlife department officials are replenishing the desert bighorn sheeps’ only source of water. Without the emergency intervention, animal populations are threatened.
  
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• Netanyahu’s reign ending as Israel set to swear in government

  13-06-2021 19:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Naftali Bennett, the head of a small ultranationalist party, will take over as prime minister.
  
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• Israel swears in new coalition, ending Netanyahu’s reign

  13-06-2021 19:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Naftali Bennett, a former ally of Netanyahu turned rival, will preside over a diverse and fragile coalition comprised of eight parties with deep ideological differences.
  
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• G-7 leaders agree on vaccines, China and taxing corporations

  13-06-2021 17:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Joe Biden, who was making his first foreign trip as leader, said it was an “extraordinary, collaborative and productive meeting.”
  
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• $28M bid gets ride into space with Jeff Bezos

  13-06-2021 00:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Amazon founder’s rocket company, Blue Origin, did not disclose the winner’s name following the live online auction. The identity will be revealed in a couple weeks.
  
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• How Biden’s free community college proposal could impact Nevada

  12-06-2021 22:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Under the American Families Plan announced in late April, an estimated $109 billion would fund universal community college.
  
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• Pulse Nightclub to be designated national memorial

  12-06-2021 21:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The deadliest attack on the LGBTQ community in U.S. history left 49 people dead and 53 people wounded as “Latin Night” was being celebrated at the club.
  
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• Georgia shooting leaves 1 dead, several critically injured

  12-06-2021 18:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Among those injured were at least two children.
  
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• 2 sought in Texas mass shooting that wounded 14

  12-06-2021 17:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The gunfire erupted just before 1:30 a.m. along 6th Street, a popular area filled with bars and restaurants.
  
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• 13 wounded, shooter escapes in Texas entertainment district attack

  12-06-2021 17:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The gunfire erupted just before 1:30 a.m. along 6th Street, a popular area filled with bars and restaurants.
  
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• Biden urges G-7 leaders to call out, compete with China

  12-06-2021 17:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The president hopes the denunciation will be part of a joint communique to be released Sunday when the summit ends.
  
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• Teen who recorded Floyd’s arrest, death wins Pulitzer citation

  12-06-2021 08:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The teenager who pulled out her cellphone and began recording when she saw George Floyd being pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer was given a special citation by the Pulitzer Prizes on Friday for her video that helped to launch a global movement to protest racial injustice.
  
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• Sisolak vetoes 4 bills from 2021 Legislature

  12-06-2021 04:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Steve Sisolak announced Friday that he’d vetoed four bills passed during the 2021 Legislature, ranging from housing discrimination, tourism districts and the creation of legislative ethics commissions.
  
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• Nevada’s higher ed system places limits on remote work policies

  12-06-2021 02:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents voted Friday to add a new section to the board handbook. The step comes as offices and campuses prepare to reopen July 1.
  
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• Fatal plane crash in Las Vegas result of flap issue, report says

  12-06-2021 02:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A fatal plane crash last month near Nellis Air Force Base was the result of a flap issue, according to a preliminary report released Friday.
  
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• Seized House records show how far Trump administration would go

  12-06-2021 01:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two House Democrats disclosed this week that their smartphone data was secretly obtained by the Trump Justice Department as part of an effort to uncover the source of leaks related to the investigation of Russian-related election interference.
  
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• Energy secretary promotes solar energy in Southern Nevada visit

  12-06-2021 00:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met with state Rep. Susie Lee and workers at the Townsite solar facility in Boulder City on Friday.
  
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• Gun rights group sues over law banning ‘ghost guns’

  11-06-2021 22:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Second Amendment rights group has filed a lawsuit challenging Nevada’s recently-passed law that bans the sale, use and ownership of untraceable “ghost guns.”
  
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• Sisolak signs mail voting, presidential primary bills into law

  11-06-2021 22:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Steve Sisolak signed several bills in Las Vegas Friday that will expand voting access, abolish the state’s caucuses and move Nevada into a first-in-the-nation presidential preference primary election in 2024.
  
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• Fearing slaughter of wild horses, lawmakers seek to halt adoption program

  11-06-2021 21:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Outraged lawmakers are saying a wild horse adoption program should be halted and an investigation should be conducted following a report that some of the horses were sold to buyers and slaughtered for meat.
  
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• $200M renovation project completed at Harrah’s

  11-06-2021 20:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The center-Strip hotel-casino received 2,542 guest room upgrades, a remodeled casino floor and new LED marquees at its north and south entrances, parent company Caesars Entertainment Corp. announced.
  
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• Nevada reports 262 new coronavirus cases, 1 additional death

  11-06-2021 20:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada on Friday reported 262 new coronavirus cases and one additional death, according to state data.
  
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• Sisolak says campaign against Lombardo would be ‘spirited’

  11-06-2021 18:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Steve Sisolak might well battle his “good friend” Sherrif Joe Lombardo for the Nevada statehouse.
  
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• Critical race theory debate heats up in Nevada schools

  11-06-2021 18:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clashes over how to teach students about racism and its role in U.S. history are raging in school districts across Nevada and elsewhere, stoking culture wars over curriculums that have previously received less attention.
  
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• Source: Troubled factory to throw out many J&J vaccine doses

  11-06-2021 18:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. regulators are allowing for the release of 10 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine from a troubled Baltimore factory, but material to make many more must be thrown out.
  
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• Las Vegas aims to open Nevada’s first city-run public charter school

  11-06-2021 16:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The city has filed a letter of intent with the state. If an application is submitted and approved, CLV Strong Start Academy Elementary School would open in August 2022.
  
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• Liliam Lujan Hickey, former Latin Chamber leader, dies

  11-06-2021 15:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Liliam Lujan Hickey, co-founder of the Latin Chamber of Commerce in Las Vegas and a champion for education in Nevada, died Thursday. She was 88.
  
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• Less costly housing markets attracted many Americans in 2020

  11-06-2021 06:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  On average, people who moved to a different city in 2020 ended up in a ZIP code where average home values were nearly $27,000 lower than in their previous ZIP code, according to Zillow.
  
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• Granholm touts Biden jobs plan in Las Vegas visit

  11-06-2021 03:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm hosted a series of discussions with Nevada elected officials and advocacy groups during her visit to Las Vegas on Thursday and Friday.
  
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• Nevada’s newest monument? Proponents want it to be Avi Kwa Ame.

  11-06-2021 02:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A broad swath of territory in Southern Clark County has long been important to roughly a dozen indigenous tribes, and it even includes a ranch with Hollywood connections.
  
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• Nevada State College has an acting president for 6 weeks

  11-06-2021 02:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents voted Thursday to appoint Vickie Shields to the position until new President DeRionne Pollard starts in mid-August.
  
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• Las Vegas police show use-of-force training techniques

  11-06-2021 02:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Journalists participated in three use-of-force scenarios Thursday at the Metropolitan Police Department’s Reality Based Training Center.
  
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• Passage of new state legislation aims to help Nevada start-ups

  10-06-2021 22:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada incubators and investment groups are looking forward to a change in private investment regulations known as blue sky laws through the passage of new legislation.
  
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• Nun embezzled over $800K to support gambling habit, Vegas trips

  10-06-2021 22:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Los Angeles nun who took a vow of poverty has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges for stealing more than $800,000 to pay for a gambling habit, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
  
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• Nevada Supreme Court rejects new election in close commission race

  10-06-2021 21:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday denied Las Vegas Councilman Stavros Anthony’s bid to force a new election after a razor-thin defeat to Ross Miller for a Clark County Commission seat in November.
  
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• Nevada adds 295 coronavirus cases, 4 deaths

  10-06-2021 20:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The new report pushed the state’s totals to 326,878 cases and 5,621 deaths. The two-week moving average of new cases increased slightly to 118.
  
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• COVID vaccination clinic offers free look at Allegiant Stadium

  10-06-2021 20:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Beginning Thursday afternoon, Southern Nevadans can get a dose of vaccine at Allegiant Stadium.
  
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• COVID-19 shot can get you a free look inside Allegiant Stadium

  10-06-2021 20:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One official says the new vaccine clinic on seating near the 50-yard line in the Las Vegas Raiders stadium offers a $50,000 view.
  
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• Lake Mead water level dips to record low

  10-06-2021 19:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The lake had been projected to match its previous low point on Thursday but dipped below the old record of 1,071.61 feet above sea level late Wednesday.
  
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• Ex-Trump campaign employee to seek GOP nod in 4th Congressional District

  10-06-2021 18:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former Trump campaign employee and Las Vegas resident Carolina Serrano announced Thursday she will seek the Republican nomination in Nevada’s 4th Congressional District.
  
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• Wife of drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty in US

  10-06-2021 17:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Emma Coronel Aispuro, wearing a green jail uniform, appeared in federal court in Washington and pleaded guilty to three federal offenses as part of a plea deal.
  
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