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• Teen accused of killing 5-year-old cousin, faking abduction

  19-12-2014 23:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 19-year old New York woman is accused of killing a 5-year-old cousin in her care and then calling in a false report that two masked intruders took the boy from their Albany-area home.
  
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• Motorcyclist dies in crash on state Route 160 near Red Rock Canyon

  19-12-2014 23:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One motorcyclist is dead and another was airlifted to University Medical Center in critical condition after the crash about 1:45 p.m. on State Route 160, about 5 miles west of State Route 159, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• Motorcyclist dies after crash on State Route 160 near Red Rock Canyon

  19-12-2014 23:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One motorcyclist is dead and another was airlifted to University Medical Center in critical condition after the crash about 1:45 p.m. on State Route 160, about 5 miles west of State Route 159, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• Fatal crash shuts down State Route 160 near Red Rock Canyon

  19-12-2014 23:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One motorcyclist is dead and another was airlifted to University Medical Center in critical condition after a Friday afternoon crash near Red Rock Canyon, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• Fatal crash shuts down Blue Diamond near Red Rock

  19-12-2014 23:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A fatal crash on Blue Diamond Road near Red Rock Road is blocking traffic, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol’s website.
  
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• Spring Valley’s Ian Salzman named Nevada teacher of the year

  19-12-2014 22:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada’s Teacher of the Year is Spring Valley High School’s Ian Salzman, who’s been teaching English at the Las Vegas school for eight-and-a-half years.
  
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• Spring Valley English teacher named Nevada Teacher of the Year

  19-12-2014 22:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada’s Teacher of the Year is Spring Valley High School’s Ian Salzman, who’s been teaching English at the Las Vegas school for eight-and-a-half years.
  
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• Woman arrested in deaths of 8 Australian children

  19-12-2014 22:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An woman has been arrested for murder in the killings of 8 children in an Australian home.
  
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• Mom arrested in killing of 7 kids, niece in Australia

  19-12-2014 22:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Australian woman was arrested for murder in the killings of eight children, seven of whom are believed to be her own, police said Saturday. The children were found dead inside the woman’s home.
  
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• 5 dead, 21 hospitalized from bacteria linked to caramel apples

  19-12-2014 22:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Five people have died and 21 others have been hospitalized in recent weeks in a listeria outbreak linked to caramel apples, federal health officials said on Friday.
  
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• Colo. neighbors sue over pot crossing borders

  19-12-2014 20:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nebraska and Oklahoma challenged neighboring Colorado’s recreational marijuana laws in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday amid complaints its pot was seeping across their borders, and Colorado vowed to defend its laws.
  
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• 2 states sue Colo. over legalized pot

  19-12-2014 20:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nebraska and Oklahoma challenged neighboring Colorado’s recreational marijuana laws in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday amid complaints its pot was seeping across their borders, and Colorado vowed to defend its laws.
  
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• Arson caused massive LA construction fire, authorities say

  19-12-2014 19:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A construction fire that gutted an entire city block of downtown Los Angeles and caused up to $30 million in damages was an act of arson, authorities said on Thursday.
  
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• NASA can see your Christmas lights from space

  19-12-2014 19:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Those lights you put up for the holidays don’t just brighten your neighborhood — they are providing NASA with new data about how cities illuminate the night.
  
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• Parents of Colorado theater shooter plead for son’s life

  19-12-2014 19:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Don’t kill our son, the parents of Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes pleaded Friday in their first public statement since the July 2012 attack that left 12 people dead.
  
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• Woman arrested after car drives into Minden business

  19-12-2014 19:23
  
  A woman arrested after she drove through the wall of a Minden coin shop told deputies she’d only had one drink.Driver Cheryl Kaye Smith, 74, and a male passenger were in a handicapped spot in the parking lot shared by Saletti’s restaurant and Northern Nevada Coin around 4:30 p.m. Thursday.The Pontiac Grand Am backed into a Honda parked in front of Saletti’s and then wit
  
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• Vehicle hits Minden coin store (with video)

  19-12-2014 19:23
  
  A 74-year-old Minden woman accused using her car to ram her way into Northern Nevada Gold and Coin on Thursday night is free on $31,509 bail this morning. Cheryl Smith was released after family members posted the bail on charges of driving under the influence, assault with a deadly weapon and felony destruction of property. Witnesses said Smith drove her Pontiac Grand Am into
  
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• Vehicle hits Minden coin store

  19-12-2014 19:23
  
  A 74-year-old Minden woman accused using her car to ram her way into Northern Nevada Gold and Coin on Thursday night is free on $31,509 bail this morning. Cheryl Smith was released after family members posted the bail on charges of driving under the influence, assault with a deadly weapon and felony destruction of property. Witnesses said Smith drove her Pontiac Grand Am into
  
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• Woman purchases abandoned storage unit, finds 2 small bodies

  19-12-2014 19:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  When Regina Zimmer bid $40 on an abandoned storage unit in Colfax, California, near Sacramento, all she did before the purchase was look at the unit from the outside and hope to find something valuable.
  
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• Education Notebook, Dec. 25-31, 2014

  19-12-2014 19:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
  
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• Inmate serving time for murder conviction dies

  19-12-2014 18:11
  
  Authorities say a 73-year-old convicted murderer died at a Carson City prison hospital. Nevada Department of Corrections Officials said Gary Blevins died Dec. 11 at the Regional Medical Facility at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. Officials say an autopsy was planned. Blevins was serving two consecutive sentences of 10 years to life for first-degree murder in Clark County and using a deadly weapon. He had been in prison since December
  
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• Carson City inmate serving time for murder conviction dies

  19-12-2014 18:11
  
  Authorities say a 73-year-old convicted murderer died at a Carson City prison hospital. Nevada Department of Corrections Officials said Gary Blevins died Dec. 11 at the Regional Medical Facility at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. Officials say an autopsy was planned. Blevins was serving two consecutive sentences of 10 years to life for first-degree murder in Clark County and using a deadly weapon. He had been in prison since December
  
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• Judge increases bail for woman accused in fatal hit-and-run

  19-12-2014 18:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A judge increased bail Friday for a woman accused of leaving the scene of a hat killed a man while he was pushing his granddaughter in stroller in November.
  
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• Woman killed in Thursday night U.S. 95 crash identified

  19-12-2014 17:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the person who died in Thursday evening’s crash on U.S. Highway 95 and the Craig Road off ramp.
  
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• Coroner IDs woman killed in southeast valley crash

  19-12-2014 15:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman who died Thursday night after a sedan struck a trailer and a wall in the southeast valley was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office Friday.
  
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• 1 dead in southeast valley crash

  19-12-2014 15:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 19-year-old woman died Thursday night after a car struck multiple fixed objects in the southeast valley, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Wolf Pack hopes to wipe out 2012 bowl memory

  19-12-2014 09:15
  
  The Nevada Wolf Pack has a bad taste in its mouth that has lasted two years. “Every time I think about a bowl game I think about New Mexico and how Arizona came back to beat us,” senior linebacker Jonathan McNeal said of Nevada¹s last appearance in a bowl game in the 2012 New Mexico Bowl. “It¹s a bad memory.” By the time the Wolf Pack and Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns meet in the New Orleans Bowl on Saturday morning
  
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• Tahoe Brewery liquor manager approved for Carson City location

  19-12-2014 09:15
  
  Tahoe Brewing Co. licensing action taken Thursday by Carson City’s Liquor and Entertainment Board set the stage for the brewery to open soon. The city board, made up of the Board of Supervisors and Sheriff Ken Furlong, approved licensing for Morgan E. Davis as liquor manager at the brewing firm’s outlet, which will open in the rehabilitated brewery on the northwest corner of West Proctor and North Carson streets no later than Jan. 19, 201
  
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• Nevada Public Works Board: Gov. Sandoval, 2015 Legislature can’t ignore neglected building maintenance

  19-12-2014 09:15
  
  The Public Works Board said Thursday the state is making a grave error ignoring and putting off work needed to maintain its more than 23 million square feet of buildings. Public Works Manager Gus Nuñez told the board maintenance projects have been repeatedly delayed through the recession and that the needs are growing yearly but there has simply been no money to do the work. He said the budget instructions tell agencies to take care of maint
  
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• Make-A-Wish sending Carson girl to Hawaii

  19-12-2014 09:15
  
  The Northeastern California and Northern Nevada Chapter of Make-A-Wish is giving a trip to Maui to Alexis “Lexi” Speer-Edwards, a 14-year-old Silver State Charter School student who was diagnosed with lymphoma more than a year ago. Speer-Edwards was chosen as one of more than 50 Make-A-Wish ambassadors throughout the country. Speer-Edwards, who has never been out of the continental United States, spent the first eight years of
  
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• Carson High boys basketball team struggles offensively in league opener

  19-12-2014 09:15
  
  Carson High looked like a team that hadn’t played in 10 days, especially at the offensive end. The Senators shot just 18 percent from the floor and 58 percent from the line in dropping a hard-fought 36-33 Division I crossover game to Spanish Springs in their Division I boys basketball opener Thursday night at Morse Burley Gymnasium. Carson, which hosts Hug tonight at 7, falls to 1-3 overall and 0-1 in league
  
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• Carson girls basketball | Defense stifles mistake-prone Cougars

  19-12-2014 09:15
  
  This was a win for the defense. Carson’s pressure held Spanish Springs scoreless for 15 minutes, and the Senators were just good enough at the offensive end to walk away with their first win in league play, 41-25, Thursday night at Morse Burley Gymnasium. Carson improved to 1-2 in league and 4-3 overall. The Senators look to make it two straight tonight when they host Hug at 5:15. “The press worked pretty
  
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• Carson City law enforcement labor agreements to cost $1.3 million

  19-12-2014 09:15
  
  Law enforcement labor agreements approved Thursday by Carson City’s Board of Supervisors will cost city government in excess of $1.3 million more in coming years. The bargaining agreements, the largest of which calls for 3 percent more regular pay this and next fiscal year for the deputies at the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, carries a price tag of more than $946,000, said City Manager Nick Marano. It covers the current fiscal year, Fisca
  
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• Las Vegas swells turn out to tout Mayor Goodman’s re-election bid

  19-12-2014 09:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman sent an undeniable message with her Tuesday re-election kickoff at Cili: Her popularity and powerful friends cross party lines.
  
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• Eight Australian children killed in mass stabbing, police say

  19-12-2014 07:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Queensland state police said in a statement they were called to a house in the Cairns suburb of Manoora just before midday after reports of a woman with serious injuries on the premises.
  
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• Land, water rights needed for Nevada nuclear dump

  19-12-2014 06:43
  
  LAS VEGAS — The federal Energy Department will need to acquire water and land rights before it gets approval to entomb the nation’s most radioactive waste beneath a mountain in the Nevada desert, according to a report released Thursday by an the agency being asked to license the project. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission report said most administrative and program elements of the Yucca Mountain repository reviewed by NRC staff
  
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• Vets sound off about care at forum

  19-12-2014 05:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For the most part, health care provided by Veterans Affairs facilities in Southern Nevada meets or exceeds expectations of veterans who receive it, and has saved lives in some cases. But getting access to it in a timely fashion needs improvement, as does the system for processing disability claims and communicating with branches of the military about veterans’ medical records. That was the message from some of the 20 speakers who expressed concerns to a panel of VA officials Thursday night
  
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• Three women arrested in robbery of 99-year-old Carson City woman

  19-12-2014 04:19
  Carson City Sheriff’s investigators have arrested three women on charges in the strong-arm robbery of a 99-year-old Carson woman Dec. 4. The victim, Tory Radford, told deputies she was confronted in her garage by a woman who forcefully took her purse containing $300-$500 in cash along with personal belongings. She was not injured in the robbery. A release by the department charged that Joanna Krys
  

• NHP investigating fatal crash on 95 and Craig

  19-12-2014 03:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least one person is dead following a single-vehicle crash on U.S Highway 95 and the Craig Road off ramp, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• Driver crashes, bails out on I-15 trying to evade Metro

  19-12-2014 03:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A driver trying to evade Las Vegas police was taken into custody after the vehicle he was in collided with several other vehicles Thursday near the Spaghetti Bowl.
  
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• Video: Burglar breaks into home of security company owners

  19-12-2014 03:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas burglar caught on video just so happened to pick the home of a family that owns a security company.
  
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• Burglar breaks into home of security company owners — VIDEO

  19-12-2014 03:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas burglar caught on video just so happened to pick the home of a family that owns a security company.
  
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• Santas with sirens deliver to North Las Vegas school —PHOTOS

  19-12-2014 03:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Christmas arrived at Antonello Elementary School on Thursday in the back of a bright red 1950s-vintage fire engine, under the watchful eye of a stuffed Dalmatian riding shotgun.
  
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• Santas with sirens deliver to North Las Vegas school

  19-12-2014 03:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Christmas arrived at Lee Antonello Elementary School Thursday in the back of a bright red 1950s-vintage fire engine, under the watchful eye of a stuffed dalmatian, riding shotgun.
  
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• Mark of ‘Mark & Mercedes in the Morning’ leaves; J.C. Fernandez steps in Jan. 5

  19-12-2014 03:00 via lasvegassun.com
  Half of the long-running and market-topping KXMB 94.1 “The Mix” morning radio team has announced a departure. Mark DiCiero, who teamed with Mercedes Martinez for 18 years ...
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Log: Man arrested on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia

  19-12-2014 02:27
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court. TUESDAY • At 4:14 p.m., a 35-year-old transient was arrested on suspicion of petit larceny for allegedly attempting to take several DVDs from the store along with other miscellaneous items work an estimated $150. Bail was set at $250. WEDNESDAY • At 4:19 p.m., the passenger in a vehicle stopped for a broken taillight on Sa
  
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• Your Waitress, Your Professor

  19-12-2014 02:15
  Why do we draw a line between blue-collar and white-collar work?
  
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• AG: 2 rulings save Nevada $200 million

  19-12-2014 02:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two recent court decisions regarding the collection of use taxes on coal used by utility companies will save Nevada $200 million, state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Thursday.
  
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• CCSD teacher arrested for selling marijuana to undercover officer

  19-12-2014 01:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A valley elementary school teacher was arrested Wednesday and is facing two drug charges following an undercover operation in June, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• CCSD teacher accused of selling marijuana to undercover cop

  19-12-2014 01:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A valley elementary school teacher was arrested Wednesday and is facing two drug charges following an undercover operation in June, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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