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• Brian Williams taking himself off NBC newscast temporarily

  07-02-2015 22:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Brian Williams said he will take a break “for the next several days” from “NBC Nightly News,” the network’s flagship evening newscast, in the wake of his disclosure this week that he had made false claims about a 2003 newsgathering expedition in Iraq.
  
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• Man used couple’s stolen checks to pay rent to store their bodies

  07-02-2015 22:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Robert Dixon Dunn, 52, is accused of killing Joaquin and Eleanor Sierra in 2003, keeping their bodies in a Las Vegas storage unit and writing more than 100 checks in the couple’s name long after they were dead.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office saturation patrols lead to 60 citations

  07-02-2015 21:55
  
  During the month of January the Carson City Sheriff’s Office conducted saturation patrols in the Carson City area. The focus of these patrols was to reduce crashes in areas that many crashes have occurred in the past.Deputies patrolled the roadways leading to intersections where crashes have occurred as well as monitored the intersections themselves looking for traffic violations which can lead to car crashes.Deputies iss
  
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• Parents of American ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller ‘still hopeful’

  07-02-2015 20:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The parents of Kayla Mueller are imploring ISIS to contact them. They believe — or at least hope — that their daughter may still be alive.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: What’s ahead during the 2nd week?

  07-02-2015 20:19
  
  The first week of the 2015 Nevada Legislature was anything but slow, and lawmakers shouldn’t expect much rest during the second week of the 120-day session. Legislators not only have a bevy of deadlines and important tax discussions to dig into it, but also the possible launch of recall attempts and an alternative budget to watch out for. BILL DRAFT REQUEST DEADLINE Monday is an important deadline for lawmakers, as it mar
  
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• Four Carson City businesses cited for selling alcohol to minors

  07-02-2015 19:47
  Four Carson City businesses failed an “Alcohol Sale to Minors Compliance Check” held recently by the Carson City Sheriff’s Office.Of the 28 local businesses that were checked, four failed to fall into compliance: The Blue Bull, 107 East Telegraph St.; Frickin & Fox bar, 310 South Carson St.; Terribles Gas Station, 4640 South Carson St.; and AM/PM, 4340 North Carson St.The check was completed by the Sheriff’s Office
  
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• Rich people 8 times more likely to graduate college than poor

  07-02-2015 19:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Some 77% of students from wealthy families earned bachelor’s degrees by age 24 in 2013, compared to only 9% of those from poor families, a new report has found.
  
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• Rollover crash blocking airport exit to EB 215

  07-02-2015 18:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A single-vehicle rollover crash is partially blocking the southbound Airport Connector ramp to the eastbound 215 Beltway Saturday morning.
  
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• Driver arrested on DUI charge after rollover on Beltway

  07-02-2015 18:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A female driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Saturday morning after the SUV she was in rolled over on the 215 Beltway, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• 13-year-old boy ‘extremely critical’ after Friday crash

  07-02-2015 17:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 13-year-old boy is in “extremely critical” condition after being struck by a vehicle in the southwest valley Friday night.
  
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• Man in custody after nine-vehicle crash kills woman

  07-02-2015 16:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 56-year-old Las Vegas woman is dead and three others suffered serious injuries in a northwest valley nine-vehicle crash Friday afternoon.
  
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• Man arrested on drug charges after nine-vehicle crash kills woman

  07-02-2015 16:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man who police said ran through a red light causing a nine-vehicle crash, which killed a woman and seriously injured three others Friday afternoon, was arrested on drug charges, according to a police news release.
  
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• Teri’s Notebook: Carson City’s Struble running for Alzheimer’s research

  07-02-2015 09:23
  
  Mark Struble says he has a common goal with fellow runners. “They all want to be able to say three words,” he said. “I finished Boston.“That’s what I want to be able to say. And I want to say I did it, while at the same time, raising a significant amount of money for Alzheimer’s research.”As part of a 20-person team, Struble is trying to raise $200,000 for Alzheimer’s research and assis
  
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• Teri Vance: Carson City’s Struble running for Alzheimer’s research

  07-02-2015 09:23
  
  Mark Struble says he has a common goal with fellow runners. “They all want to be able to say three words,” he said. “I finished Boston.“That’s what I want to be able to say. And I want to say I did it, while at the same time, raising a significant amount of money for Alzheimer’s research.”As part of a 20-person team, Struble is trying to raise $200,000 for Alzheimer’s research and assis
  
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• Health officer says no scientific connection between vaccines and autism

  07-02-2015 09:23
  
  State Health Officer Tracey Green told lawmakers on Friday despite the concerns raised by some parents, there’s no proven connection between vaccinations — including for measles — and autism in children.Green said she and county health officials have been closely monitoring potential cases of measles in Nevada since the outbreak at Disneyland a month ago. She said more than 90 percent of Nevada children have been immu
  
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• Are lawmakers’ day jobs conflicts of interest?

  07-02-2015 09:23
  
  CARSON CITY — Powerful law firm Snell and Wilmer had good news for its clients three days after the Nov. 4 election. Legislative leaders chose Republican state Sen. Greg Brower, a partner at the firm, as the new chairman of the Senate’s judiciary committee. The law firm, which specializes in government affairs and employs lobbyists, spread the news about the prestigious and influential nod with a public memo. The announ
  
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• Local sports roundup: CHS wrestling fifth, Carson City’s WNC teams beat nation’s No. 3 clubs

  07-02-2015 09:15
  
  RENO — The Carson High wrestling team has a great deal of ground to make up today in the final day of the NIAA Regional Championships at Reno High School.Carson is in fifth place after the first day of competition with 42 points, trailing Damonte Ranch (63), Reno (64 1/2), McQueen (72) and Spanish Springs (79).Carson does have five wrestlers in today’s championship semifinals — Brandon Basa, 1-0 at 113 pounds; Nolan S
  
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• CHS tied up by Galena (with video)

  07-02-2015 09:15
  
  Tied up with two games to go.That is the situation atop the Sierra League standings entering the final week of the regular season after Galena slammed Carson, 64-42, Friday night at Morse Burley Gymnasium to snap the Senators’ nine-game winning streak.Carson and Galena are tied at 11-3. Manogue, which has a make-up game against Reed today, is at 10-3. Galena has the easier finishing schedu
  
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• CHS tied up by Galena

  07-02-2015 09:15
  
  Tied up with two games to go.That is the situation atop the Sierra League standings entering the final week of the regular season after Galena slammed Carson, 64-42, Friday night at Morse Burley Gymnasium to snap the Senators’ nine-game winning streak.Carson and Galena are tied at 11-3. Manogue, which has a make-up game against Reed today, is at 10-3. Galena has the easier finishing schedu
  
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• Carson City gallery puts art photos of drought on display

  07-02-2015 09:15
  
  The Capital City Arts Initiative is hosting The Driest State: Nevada Watersheds, a photo exhibition by Nolan Preece, through May 28 at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery, 885 E. Musser St.The exhibit includes 29 of Preece’s photographs, many taken from an aerial perspective, that feature desert land forms and show the lack of water and the range of water needs and uses.Preece took these images over the past five years
  
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• Bizarre finish costs Carson girls

  07-02-2015 09:15
  
  Senators let one slip away in bizarre finishIt was a risky move, and it backfired in a big way on the Carson High girls basketball team.Leading 48-47 with 8 seconds to go and Melissa Glanzmann at the line, Carson coach Nate Tolbert called time after Glanzmann missed the first of two shots. He instructed her to miss intentionally off the rim.Instead, Glanzmann glanced it off the backboard, and also step
  
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• Author seeks input about book on Minden library cats

  07-02-2015 09:15
  
  Lisa Rogak, a journalist and author who’s working with Minden’s Jan Louch about the story of Baker and Taylor, two Scottish Fold cats, internationally famous in the 1980s and 90s as the mascots of the book wholesaler Baker & Taylor, wants to interview area residents who spent time with the cats during their stint at the Minden library. Jan Louch, a retired librarian at the Douglas County Public Library and th
  
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• Readers react strongly to expanded background checks

  07-02-2015 08:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Mention the subject of gun safety in Nevada, and you’re bound to draw metaphorical fire from every angle.
  
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• Vegas constable deputies who lost jobs lost COBRA, too

  07-02-2015 06:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former deputies of ousted Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura aren’t just out of a job — they don’t even have the option to get the high-priced health insurance that terminated employees usually can obtain under a federal law.
  
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• 12-year-old on bicycle hit by vehicle in southwest valley

  07-02-2015 06:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 12-year-old boy on a bicycle was in “extremely critical” condition Friday night after being hit by a vehicle in the southwest valley, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• 12-year-old hit by vehicle in southwest valley

  07-02-2015 06:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 12-year-old pedestrian was hospitalized Friday night after being hit by a vehicle in the southwest valley, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Northeast valley kitchen fire displaces 6 people

  07-02-2015 05:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A northeast valley mobile-home blaze displaced six people on Friday afternoon, according to the Clark County Fire Department.
  
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• All LV, NLV council incumbents draw opponents

  07-02-2015 05:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  None of Las Vegas or North Las Vegas’ City Council incumbents will win re-election without a fight. Three might even have to fight a soccer stadium.
  
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• Man beaten backstage of ‘Thunder From Down Under’ files suit

  07-02-2015 04:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man accused of robbing male dancers of “Thunder From Down Under” has filed a lawsuit that claims he was the actual victim on March 18.
  
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• 2 men plead guilty in 2008 Las Vegas chapel melee

  07-02-2015 03:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two men pleaded guilty Friday in the 2008 attack at a downtown Las Vegas wedding chapel on rivals of the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
  
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• Nevada legislators told of ‘loopholes’ in live entertainment tax

  07-02-2015 03:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A panel of lawmakers spent Friday afternoon learning about Nevada’s live entertainment tax, a levy that generates more than $150 million a year but is filled with loopholes.
  
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• Ice rink downtown closes for season

  07-02-2015 02:27
  
  Carson City ice rink closes for season …
  
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• Carson City ice rink closes for season

  07-02-2015 02:27
  
  The Arlington Square Ice Rink in downtown Carson City was closed Friday for the season due to uncooperative weather, a city official reported.Meagan Soracco, recreation program manager with the Parks and Recreation Department, said the decision to close the rink for the season came just a few of days early.“We were supposed to be closing on Sunday, the 8th,” she said, blaming the early closure on a combination of ongoin
  
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• High Desert inmate dies

  07-02-2015 02:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An inmate died Thursday in Indian Springs, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced Friday. Dale Prater, 60, was committed to High Desert State Prison from Washoe County and was serving a sentence of 12 to 30 months for possession of a controlled substance for sale. He had been in prison since May 21.
  
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• DNC official meets with Nevada Democrats over voter ID law

  07-02-2015 02:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The head of the Democratic National Committee met Friday with Nevada activists to discuss strategies to defeat a proposed voter ID law that could hurt the party’s turnout here in the 2016 presidential election.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Log: Man arrested on suspicion of felony attempted burglary

  07-02-2015 02:03
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.THURSDAY• At 11:45 a.m., Celestino de la Cruz, 24, was arrested on suspicion of felony attempted burglary and possession of stolen property after deputies were called to a parking lot on South Stewart Street for a report of a man trying to enter a locked vehicle. The vehicle’s owner said he didn’t know
  
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• Study: Climate change will increase demand, evaporation on Colorado

  07-02-2015 01:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Colorado River faces a dual threat from climate change as rising temperatures increase the demand for irrigation water and accelerate evaporation at the river’s two largest reservoirs, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
  
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• Climate change will increase evaporation of Colorado River

  07-02-2015 01:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Colorado River faces a dual threat from climate change as rising temperatures increase the demand for irrigation water and accelerate evaporation at the river’s two largest reservoirs, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office bust nets 10 pounds of pot

  07-02-2015 01:39
  
  Acting on an informant’s tip, Carson City Sheriff’s deputies Thursday arrested two Californians and seized 10.6 pounds of marijuana.Derek Peterson, 24, and Maile Rose Daugherty, 20, were both arrested on suspicion of felony transportation of a drug for sale and felony possession of marijuana.According to the arrest report, after receiving a tip the men were bringing marijuana to Carson City and a home on Coloma Drive, d
  
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• ROTC cadets take over UNLV ‘battleground’ for mental, physical exercise

  07-02-2015 01:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Sixty-five Army ROTC cadets turned UNLV’s practice football field into a battleground Friday in an exercise to combine their math and science coursework with leadership skills to apply what they know about leverage, tensile strength, teamwork and trust.
  
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• NV Energy’s smart meters to be tested by outside laboratory

  07-02-2015 01:15
  
  State regulators have ordered independent tests of NV Energy’s smart meters as part of a probe into whether they pose a fire hazard. After reviewing hundreds of documents submitted by the utility, the Public Utilities Commission directed NV Energy to hire an outside laboratory to conduct the tests. Company spokesman Rob Stillwell said the utility has already hired Underwriters Laboratory. The PUC decided to launch the inq
  
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• Sparks Sen. Debbie Smith recovering after brain surgery in Texas

  07-02-2015 01:07
  
  Nevada state Sen. Debbie Smith is recovering after undergoing surgery in a Texas hospital to remove a brain tumor. Smith’s doctors reported that the operation was successful Friday afternoon and that the Sparks Democrat is awake, talking and resting, according to a statement from the Nevada Senate Democratic Caucus. Smith, 59, had the surgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Her
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Bill to build schools, suspend prevailing wage OK’d by committee

  07-02-2015 01:07
  
  A Senate committee has passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would provide money to build new schools but suspend wage rules favored by unions. The Senate Government Affairs Committee approved Senate Bill 119 on Friday, two days after crowds of opponents helped filled two large hearing rooms. Both parties support the bill’s proposal to give school boards authority to continue issuing bonds for 10 years beyond the time p
  
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• Cheyenne and Jones closed after multi-car crash

  07-02-2015 00:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The intersection of Cheyenne Avenue and Jones Boulevard is closed after a multiple-vehicle crash hurt several people, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• 1 person dies in northwest valley multiple-vehicle crash

  07-02-2015 00:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least one person died and several people were injured Friday afternoon in a multiple-vehicle crash in the northwest valley, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• 1 dead in crash at Cheyenne and Jones; intersection still closed

  07-02-2015 00:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least one person is dead and others are hurt after a crash that has closed the intersection of Cheyenne Avenue and Jones Boulevard, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• University of California to require student vaccinations by 2016

  07-02-2015 00:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Students at all 10 campuses of the University of California will be required to be screened for tuberculosis and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella and other diseases
  
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• Disfigured soldier speaks out in Las Vegas for veterans suffering pain, injuries

  07-02-2015 00:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The standing ovation for retired Army Staff Sgt. Shilo Harris was so long and loud that he pulled his ears off — the artificial ones doctors had made for him during his long road to recovery from a bomb blast in Iraq.
  
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