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• Operation Homefront gives 500 gift bags to Las Vegas area military families

  17-12-2014 23:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Santa Claus and helpers from Operation Homefront doled out 500 holiday gift bags for military families who flocked to VFW Post 10047 across from Nellis Air Force Base.
  
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• 3rd person arrested in connection with Oregon school shooting

  17-12-2014 23:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police in Oregon have arrested a 16-year-old boy suspected of involvement in a shooting incident outside a Portland high school last week that wounded four people, including three teenagers, authorities said on Wednesday.
  
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• Bang for your booze: Jackpot Vodka gets you resort credit at the Palms

  17-12-2014 22:49 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  How about some three-chili chicken from Lao Sze Chuan to complement your next bottle buy?
  
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• Yerington man dies Monday in single vehicle rollover

  17-12-2014 22:43
  
  A 58-year-old Yerington man died Monday night after a single vehicle rollover accident that occurred on State Route 208 near mile marker 26 south of Yerington. Nevada Highway Patrol unites responded about 7 p.m. to a crash that killed Mark Allen Thorpe, 58, of Yerington. The investigation indicates that Thorpe’s 2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser was traveling East on SR 208 approaching mile marker 26 when for unknown reasons the vehicle d
  
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• Gov. Brian Sandoval names appellate justices including Douglas County’s Michael Gibbons

  17-12-2014 22:19
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday named the three justices who will be the first to sit on Nevada’s newly-created appellate court. That puts the new court on course to begin hearing cases in January as planned by Supreme Court Justice Jim Hardesty who spearheaded creation of the new court. They are Jerry Tao, Michael Gibbons and Abbi Silver. Sandoval made the selections from a list of three finalists for each post presented by t
  
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• Gov. Brian Sandoval names appellate justices

  17-12-2014 22:19
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday named the three justices who will be the first to sit on Nevada’s newly-created appellate court. That puts the new court on course to begin hearing casts in January as planned by Supreme Court Justice Jim Hardesty who spearheaded creation of the new court. They are Jerry Tao, Michael Gibbons and Abbi Silver. Sandoval made the selections from a list of three finalist for each post presented by th
  
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• Lake Mead “Samaritan” bill dies in Senate

  17-12-2014 22:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  By STEVE TETREAULT
  
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• Embracing History: The stories in and of the F Street underpass

  17-12-2014 22:11 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  A public nod to Las Vegas history like none other in this town.
  
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• Hakkasan steps into the light

  17-12-2014 21:57 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  So many venues involved in Hakkasan Group’s $36 million buyout of Light Group, so many questions to ask.
  
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• Drizzle won’t hang around Las Vegas, but cool temps will

  17-12-2014 21:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The rain that trickled down throughout the Las Vegas Valley on Wednesday is not here to stay - but cool temps are.
  
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• Phoenix officer shoots, kills soldier who shot 12-year-old

  17-12-2014 21:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Phoenix police say an officer fatally wounded an 18-year-old soldier clad in fatigues who shot a young girl as he tried to get into her home.
  
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• Mont. man found guilty in killing of German exchange student

  17-12-2014 21:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A jury found a Montana homeowner guilty of deliberate homicide on Wednesday in the shooting death of a German high school exchange student who entered his garage in a case that tested the state’s version of a “castle doctrine” self-defense law.
  
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• Mont. man accused of killing German exchange student found guilty

  17-12-2014 21:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A jury found a Montana homeowner guilty of deliberate homicide on Wednesday in the shooting death of a German high school exchange student who entered his garage, in a trial that tested the state’s version of a “castle doctrine” self-defense law.
  
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• Want to see your favorite bands at Life Is Beautiful? Speak up

  17-12-2014 21:30 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  “We’re always looking to connect with attendees and see what they would love."
  
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• UNLV football’s gutsy coaching choice brings a much-needed energy infusion

  17-12-2014 21:30 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  The last time the Rebel football program made a move this bold was the 1998 hiring of John Robinson.
  
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• Two Vegas judges appointed to new state court of appeals

  17-12-2014 20:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval today named Jerome “Jerry” Tao, Michael Patrick Gibbons, and Abbi Silver as inaugural appointments to the newly created Nevada Court of Appeals.
  
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• Alcatraz prisoners could have survived 1962 escape, scientists say

  17-12-2014 20:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Scientists say the three prisoners who escaped from Alcatraz in one of the most famous and elaborate prison breaks in U.S. history could have survived and made it to land.
  
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• What you should know about US policy shift with Cuba

  17-12-2014 19:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. and Cuba will begin taking steps to restore full diplomatic relations, marking the most significant shift in U.S. policy toward the communist island in more than half a century. Key elements of changes to U.S. policy toward Cuba, some of which President Barack Obama announced at the White House on Wednesday.
  
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• Prosecutors charge 14 in deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak

  17-12-2014 17:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Fourteen people, including the owners of a Massachusetts pharmacy, have been arrested and charged in connection with a deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
  
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• Obama: U.S., Cuba moving to normalize relations

  17-12-2014 16:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Barack Obama announced a move to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba on Wednesday, saying it is time to “cut loose the shackles of the past.”
  
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• Obama to announce policy shift with Cuba

  17-12-2014 16:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama was set to announce a shift in policy toward Cuba on Wednesday and the Associated Press reported the changes would include the opening of an embassy in Cuba and the start of talks to normalize relations.
  
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• Cuba releases American imprisoned for 5 years

  17-12-2014 16:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Cuba has released American aid worker Alan Gross after five years in prison in a reported prisoner exchange with Havana that the United States said on Wednesday heralds an overhaul of U.S. policy toward Cuba.
  
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• Finally: Las Vegas officially gets 40 millionth annual visitor

  17-12-2014 15:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For the past two years, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has said that it would attract a record-breaking 40 million tourists to Southern Nevada, toppling a record that has stood since 2012. Now it’s happened
  
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• Weekly Q&A: Amid protests and backlash, magician Dirk Arthur brings big cats back

  17-12-2014 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  If anything, he says he spoils his cats to a fault.
  
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• Linda Marrone: Add Italian Nut Sticks to your holiday tradition

  17-12-2014 08:27
  
  This time of year I’m reminded of a quote from Herb Caen, the late columnist from the San Francisco Chronicle, “I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.” In your mind it always seems better than it probably was and things were simpler. I have always like celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah with our family, grand kids and friends. I like putting up and even taking down the ornaments and
  
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• Kyle Horvath takes lead at Brewery Arts Center

  17-12-2014 08:27
  
  After some upheaval in the past year at the Brewery Arts Center, Kyle Horvath, new president of the board of directors, said the board and volunteers are ready to move forward. “We’re not going to nitpick who did what to put us in this position,” Horvath said. “Everyone before us did something really well to help us put the pieces together to be successful. That’s the attitude I want to be surrounded by, people
  
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• Get Healthy Carson City: Make sure little ones stay safe with appropriate holiday gifts

  17-12-2014 08:27
  
  In just over a week, many of us will gather with family and friends in celebration of Christmas. For many families with children, the focus will be all on the kids this time of year, as they excitedly open gifts and play with their new treasures. Make sure that the day begins – and ends – merrily by giving the children in your life gifts that are safe and age-appropriate, and be sure to provide supervision and direction to youn
  
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• Economists predict state labor market will continue to improve

  17-12-2014 08:27
  
  The chief economist for the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation says Nevada’s labor market should continue to improve for the coming two years. Bill Anderson said the forecast is the first in which they are predicting employment will surpass the state’s peak set in 2007. The state lost about 175,000 jobs during the recession. While the total number of jobs still is some 116,000 jobs below that peak, he projected a gain o
  
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• Cultural master plan process eyed for Carson City

  17-12-2014 08:27
  
  A master plan for culture in Carson City is on the radar screen if the Board of Supervisors agrees with the Cultural Commission. The commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to recommend that the board direct commissioners to take the lead, with city staff help in finding Nevada Arts Council grants and other grant funding to pursue a Cultural Master Plan for the capital city eventually. Support was voiced from the arts community in various
  
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• Cheer squad wins regional competition

  17-12-2014 08:27
  
  The Carson Pop Warner Pee-Wee cheer squad won first place in a recent regional competition in Santa Clara. Members of the team are Sierra Braun, Angelica Luna-Meza, Savanah Ray, Keela Rupert. Kimmy Barry, Nitza Velasquez, Angelina Mendez and Melanie Sepulveda. The coach of the team is Trisha Duncan. Special at Greenhorn Creek If you’re looking for a pleasant golfing experience, check into Greenhorn Creek’s Stay and P
  
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• Carson boys open league season on Thursday

  17-12-2014 08:27
  
  With the first league game just a day away, Carson High boys basketball coach Carlos Mendeguia doesn’t have a good read on his team, and that’s not surprising when you consider he’s only had his full team for less than three weeks. “It’s too early,” said Mendeguia, whose team opens its 2014-15 home schedule with crossover games against Spanish Springs and Hug (Thursday and Friday). “We’ve played three games, and it�
  
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• Ametherm more than doubles its output

  17-12-2014 08:27
  
  Ametherm has more than doubled manufacturing since 2013, when it made making an acquisition from Measurement Specialties, Inc., the Carson City company said Tuesday. Ametherm, Inc., located at 961 Fairview Drive, said the surge came after acquiring the SURGE-GARD line of inrush current limiting thermistors, in addition to a wide range of NTC chip, surface-mount and disc thermistors for inclusion in the firm’s product line. The company, foun
  
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• Details of fatal Strip shootout questioned by witness, deceased man’s friends

  17-12-2014 07:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Friends of the man who was killed in a Strip shootout with a bus security officer Monday want him to be remembered differently than he is being portrayed in the media. A man claiming to be an eyewitness also contends details released by Las Vegas police are inaccurate.
  
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• Close to 2,000 students graduate UNLV — PHOTOS

  17-12-2014 05:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Close to 2,000 students graduated received their diplomas in Tuesday’s ceremony. According to UNLV, graduated ranged in ages from 19 to 70 and came from 56 foreign countries. Eighty-two percent of the grads were local.
  
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• TSA exempt from new Obama administration rule against racial profiling

  17-12-2014 05:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The TSA could target travelers for extra scrutiny based on their nationality and gender, the head of the agency said Tuesday.
  
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• ‘Money, money, money’ stressed in education reform talks

  17-12-2014 04:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A lot of plans and not enough money. That was the message running throughout Tuesday’s conversation for improving Nevada’s public schools, as stated by some of Nevada’s leading education officials and a reform-minded state lawmaker.
  
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• Nazarian out of day-to-day operations at SLS

  17-12-2014 04:00 via vegasinc.com
  Sam Nazarian has been the driving force behind the property — his company SBE Entertainment bought it when it was still the Sahara in 2007 — but he encountered serious difficulty two weeks ago at a public hearing before ...
  
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• Caesars security discovered World Cup betting room before feds brought in, witness says

  17-12-2014 03:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A top casino security officer testified Tuesday how his internal investigation led to an FBI raid on an alleged World Cup betting scheme operating out of luxury Caesars Palace villas.
  
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• Regents hire outgoing AG for higher education job

  17-12-2014 03:15
  
  LAS VEGAS — Nevada regents have hired the state’s outgoing attorney general as executive vice chancellor for $215,000 a year. Nevada System of Higher Education regents voted unanimously Tuesday to hire Catherine Cortez Masto for the Las Vegas-based position beginning Jan. 1. She will serve as the system’s chief operating officer and assist Chancellor Dan Klaich. Cortez Masto is a Democrat and has been attorney general since 2007. She co
  
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• 4-vehicle crash slowing traffic on 215 Southern Beltway

  17-12-2014 02:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A four-vehicle crash is causing delays on the 215 Southern Beltway, west of Las Vegas Boulevard, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• VA to host town hall Thursday in North Las Vegas

  17-12-2014 02:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas Valley VA officials will hold the second in a series of town hall meetings Thursday to air veterans’ concerns with health care and services offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
  
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• Review-Journal sues DA Wolfson for public records access

  17-12-2014 02:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas Review-Journal filed suit Monday to force District Attorney Steve Wolfson to turn over public records in an ongoing newspaper investigation into a secretive witness payment program.
  
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• Lake Havasu police shooting found justified

  17-12-2014 01:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Three Lake Havasu City police officers were justified when they opened fire Nov. 23, killing a Lake Havasu City man who pointed his firearm at them, the Kingman Police Department determined after an independent review of the incident.
  
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• Vegas assemblywoman blames employee for tax liens

  17-12-2014 01:23
  
  LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas assemblywoman and head of the taxation committee broke her weeklong silence about dozens of tax liens filed against her and her companies, saying an unnamed employee who stole from her and systematically deceived her accountant was at the root of the problem. Taxation Committee Chairwoman Michele Fiore, a sophomore Republican lawmaker and Assembly majority leader, told conservative radio host Alan Stock on Tuesday th
  
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• Panel appoints parks director to Assembly vacancy

  17-12-2014 01:23
  
  LAS VEGAS — Clark County commissioners unanimously selected a professional boxing judge and the county’s former longtime parks and recreation director to fill a vacancy in the Nevada Assembly left by a Republican lawmaker who resigned for another job. Commissioners voted Tuesday to appoint Glenn Trowbridge, a self-described “pragmatic political moderate,” to represent Assembly District 37. He was chosen from a pool of 12 applicants an
  
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• Fiore blames employee for tax liens

  17-12-2014 01:23
  
  LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas assemblywoman and head of the taxation committee broke her weeklong silence about dozens of tax liens filed against her and her companies, saying an unnamed employee who stole from her and systematically deceived her accountant was at the root of the problem. Taxation Committee Chairwoman Michele Fiore, a sophomore Republican lawmaker and Assembly majority leader, told conservative radio host Alan Stock on Tuesday th
  
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• Regents approve Masto’s $215,000 salary as executive vice chancellor

  17-12-2014 00:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada Board of Regents approved a $215,000 annual salary Tuesday for its new executive vice chancellor, outgoing state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto.
  
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• Clark County officials OK measures to aid Monorail Co.’s fees

  17-12-2014 00:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County commissioners on Tuesday approved two measures that will aid Las Vegas Monorail Co.’s county business license fees, which increased after the company restructured its debt.
  
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• NASA rover discovers methane gas, organic molecules on Mars

  17-12-2014 00:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has found carbon-containing compounds in samples drilled out of an ancient rock, the first definitive detection of organics on the surface of Earth’s neighbor planet, scientists said on Tuesday.
  
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• Nightclub operator Hakkasan acquiring Light Group in $36 million deal

  17-12-2014 00:32 via vegasinc.com
  Hakkasan Group initiated a major shakeup of the Strip’s nightlife business today with plans to acquire another prominent nightlife company, The Light Group, for $36 million. Morgans Hotel Group ...
  
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