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• ‘Alice’ flips the looking glass on usual journey to Vegas stage

  10-02-2015 23:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Late-night dance revue created by and for show people moves into a monthly berth at the Hard Rock Hotel.
  
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• Henderson police ask for help finding clues in 2014 homicide

  10-02-2015 23:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Henderson police have asked the public for help in finding answers about how a man died nearly a year ago.
  
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• Nevada Senate upholds governor’s gun background check veto

  10-02-2015 23:31
  
  The Nevada Senate has upheld Gov. Brian Sandoval’s 2013 veto of a bill that would have expanded background checks on gun purchases. Senators voted along party lines Tuesday not to overturn the veto of SB221, which passed both houses of the Democrat-controlled Legislature two years ago. Republicans prevailed this time. The measure would have required a background check almost any time a firearm changed hands, and
  
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• Gov. Jindal: Flap over ‘white’ portrait ‘silly’

  10-02-2015 23:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday slammed liberals for being “obsessed with race,” calling it “silly” to divide people by their race.
  
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• 9th Circuit reverses decision in copyright suit linked to ‘Jersey Boys’

  10-02-2015 23:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An appeals court has reversed a decision in a copyright lawsuit against a founder of the Four Seasons whose biography was used in the popular Strip musical “Jersey Boys.”
  
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• 9th Circuit reverses copyright suit linked to ‘Jersey Boys’

  10-02-2015 23:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An appeals court has reversed a decision in a copyright lawsuit against a founder of the Four Seasons whose biography was used in the popular Strip musical “Jersey Boys.”
  
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• Veterans advocate files motion to get back property seized in Nevada legislator extortion probe

  10-02-2015 23:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas veterans advocate filed a court petition Tuesday seeking the return of his property seized by Metro on Jan. 31 when detectives executed a search warrant in their investigation into the alleged extortion of Assemblyman Chris Edwards.
  
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• Man files motion to get back property seized by Metro in extortion case

  10-02-2015 23:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas veterans advocate filed a court petition Tuesday seeking the return of his property seized by Metro on Jan. 31 when detectives executed a search warrant in their investigation into the alleged extortion of Assemblyman Chris Edwards.
  
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• GOP activist Dane’s financial transactions part of Metro extortion probe

  10-02-2015 23:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The financial transactions of longtime Nevada GOP activist Tony Dane’s political action committee are part of the Las Vegas police investigation into allegations of attempted extortion against Republican Assemblyman Chris Edwards, search warrant records obtained Tuesday show.
  
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• Calif. health officials warn parents on measles exposure

  10-02-2015 22:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  California health officials on Monday warned parents against intentionally exposing their children to measles, which could worsen an outbreak in the state.
  
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• Calif teacher accused of sex abuse in YouTube video gets 10 years

  10-02-2015 22:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A California educator who resigned after a woman accused her in a YouTube video of abusing her when she was a 12-year-old student was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
  
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• NYC cop indicted for shooting, killing unarmed man in stairwell

  10-02-2015 22:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A New York City rookie police officer was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday for the shooting of an unarmed man while patrolling the darkened stairwell of a housing project last November, the Wall Street Journal reported.
  
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• Reid to staff: Full speed ahead to 2016

  10-02-2015 22:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Moving to end speculation about his political future, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada delivered a message to his staff on Tuesday that he is moving full speed ahead to run for re-election in 2016.
  
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• Nevada board picks Ohio company to sell Nevada to tourists

  10-02-2015 22:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A state board on Tuesday approved a $20.2 million contract with an out-of-state firm to market Nevada to tourists.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office participating in Joining Forces

  10-02-2015 22:03
  
  The Carson City Sheriff’s Office along with other law enforcement agencies throughout the state, will be participating in Joining Forces through the month of February. The focus of this event will be Distracted Drivers.Grant funding for this event is provided by the Nevada Department of Public Safety-Office of Traffic Safety. These funds are used to pay for additional deputies who will be out looking for distrac
  
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• Meadows School students take top honors in art awards

  10-02-2015 22:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For a school that stresses academics, The Meadows School has an art program that is making an impact of its own. Six of its students were art award recipients in the recent Scholastic Art & Writing Awards., with their work set to be displayed this month at the Springs Preserve.
  
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• Statewide chiropractic association established

  10-02-2015 21:15
  
  Nevada Chiropractic Council — whose mission is to protect the integrity of chiropractic, according to its secretary, Dr. Brad Pastro of Advanced Chiropractic and Wellness Center in Carson City — has been established in Nevada.“Our founding members have, through a lot of hard work, created a body where other like-minded practitioners can participate and be heard by working to legislatively shape future outcom
  
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• Nevada high court: Citizen Outreach must register, disclose contributors

  10-02-2015 21:15
  
  The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld the district court order requiring Citizen Outreach to register with the Secretary of State’s Elections Division and disclose both its list of contributors and expenditures.Then-Secretary of State Ross Miller ordered the organization to comply with Nevada law in a battle over Citizen Outreach’s advertising and fliers calling for the defeat of congressional candidate John Oce
  
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• High court rules against conservative group over fliers

  10-02-2015 21:15
  
  Nevada’s Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a conservative activist group accused of violating campaign finance law. The court found in a 5-2 decision that Las Vegas-based advocacy group Citizen Outreach violated campaign finance law by publishing fliers attacking former Democratic Assemblyman John Oceguera in 2010 without disclosing contributors or expenses. The majority opinion issued Monday disputed the g
  
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• High court: Citizen Outreach must register, disclose contributors

  10-02-2015 21:15
  
  The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld the district court order requiring Citizen Outreach to register with the Secretary of State’s Elections Division and disclose both its list of contributors and expenditures.Secretary of State Ross Miller ordered the organization to comply with Nevada law in a battle over Citizen Outreach’s advertising and fliers calling for the defeat of congressional candidate John Oceguera
  
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• Smiley face in space captured by Hubble Telescope

  10-02-2015 21:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It sure looks like a smiley face beaming down from the heavens, but actually it’s a massive galaxy cluster known as SDSS J1038+4849.
  
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• Upgrade of Strip pedestrian bridges months behind schedule

  10-02-2015 20:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two decades ago, local leaders took innovative steps to move pedestrian traffic across the Las Vegas Strip at what then was the busiest intersection in town.
  
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• Strip pedestrian safety work months behind schedule

  10-02-2015 20:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two decades ago, local leaders took innovative steps to move pedestrian traffic across the Las Vegas Strip at what then was the busiest intersection in town.
  
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• District names 5 Vegas “turnaround” schools in need of extra help

  10-02-2015 20:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Five under-performing Clark County schools have been given the “turnaround” tag, meaning those campuses will receive extra money and undergo significant staff changes to improve student performance.
  
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• Pedestrian dies after being struck by car on Lake Mead Boulevard

  10-02-2015 20:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 54-year-old man died Monday night after he was struck by a car while walking across Lake Mead Boulevard in the northeast valley, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Items intended to be left on moon found in Neil Armstrong’s closet

  10-02-2015 20:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A treasure trove of objects that were supposed to have been left behind after the first moon landing have turned up in the closet of Neil Armstrong, the first man to step onto the lunar surface, the Smithsonian Institution has said.
  
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• Man critical after being shot Monday by Las Vegas cop

  10-02-2015 19:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro officers shot and critically wounded a man they said pointed a gun at them Monday night during a robbery investigation in the southeast valley, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• 11-year-old girl charged with murder in baby’s beating death

  10-02-2015 19:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An 11-year-old girl in Ohio has been charged with murder after she allegedly beat a 2-month-old baby to death.
  
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• Report: Church council excommunicates Mormon activist

  10-02-2015 19:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A prominent Mormon activist who has gone against the church by supporting same-sex marriage and questioning church doctrine has been excommunicated by a church council that found he committed apostasy, the Salt Lake Tribune reported on Tuesday.
  
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• Mormon activist confirms excommunication by church

  10-02-2015 19:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A prominent Mormon activist who has gone against the church by supporting same-sex marriage and questioning doctrine has been excommunicated by a council that found he publicly doubted the faith’s core principles, the activist said on Tuesday.
  
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• Mormon activist confirms excommunication by chuch council

  10-02-2015 19:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A prominent Mormon activist who has gone against the church by supporting same-sex marriage and questioning doctrine has been excommunicated by a council that found he publicly doubted the faith’s core principles, the activist said on Tuesday.
  
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• Tesla offering up to 350 internships through University of Nevada, Reno

  10-02-2015 19:07
  
  RENO — Tesla Motors is looking for a few good interns — as many as 350 in Northern Nevada this summer. Company spokesman Kohbi Brooklyn said it’s one way the electric-car maker keeps its pipeline full of skilled workers. The Summer Job and Internship Expo kicks off Feb. 17 with a general information session open to all student on the University of Nevada, Reno campus from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The expo itself run
  
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• Bill would further clear records of sex trafficking victims

  10-02-2015 19:07
  
  Nevada lawmakers are reviewing a bill that would further clear the criminal records of sex trafficking victims. Democratic Assemblyman Elliot Anderson is sponsoring AB108, which would add trespassing to the list of crimes that trafficking victims could have expunged from their records. Existing law allows victims to have prostitution and solicitation convictions removed. Anderson says much of the prostitution acti
  
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• Nevada justices: Citizen Outreach fliers supporters must be reported

  10-02-2015 19:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling finding that political fliers distributed by Citizen Outreach in 2010 were “express advocacy” requiring disclosure of who paid for them to the secretary of state.
  
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• Hackers post threat to Obama, family on Newsweek Twitter account

  10-02-2015 18:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Newsweek magazine’s Twitter account was the victim of hackers on Tuesday who posted a threat to President Barack Obama and his family and the words “CyberCaliphate” and “Je suis IS,” a reference to Islamic State and the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
  
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• Man charged with murder in death of UVa student

  10-02-2015 18:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Prosecutors have charged a Charlottesville, Virginia, man with first-degree murder and abduction in the death of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, authorities said on Tuesday.
  
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• Man killed in Monday scooter crash identified

  10-02-2015 17:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man who died when a scooter and an ambulance crashed in the area where Boulder Highway becomes Fremont Street on Monday was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday.
  
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• Off-Strip casino implosion the first in Vegas since 2007

  10-02-2015 17:39
  
  LAS VEGAS — It doesn’t have the storied past of a Stardust or Frontier, but another hotel just off the Las Vegas Strip will soon join the implosion club shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday. The very Vegas pastime of imploding the past to make way for the future will claim the 12-story Clarion hotel-casino next. If it’s felt like awhile since a casino-hotel was felled by controlled explosives, it has been. Between 2
  
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• Most of Vegas Clarion hotel-casino imploded

  10-02-2015 17:39
  
  LAS VEGAS — Workers were hoping Tuesday that a crane and cables could finish a job that a 2-ton explosive punch didn’t quite do: Reduce an elevator shaft to rubble like the rest of an imploded a Las Vegas casino-hotel around it.With no wrecking balls immediately available, demolition crews are wrapping cables around the tilting structure and hoped to pull it down by the end of the day, Cl
  
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• Cables, cranes topple Vegas implosion tower

  10-02-2015 17:39
  
  LAS VEGAS — Workers were hoping Tuesday that a crane and cables could finish a job that a 2-ton explosive punch didn’t quite do: Reduce an elevator shaft to rubble like the rest of an imploded a Las Vegas casino-hotel around it.With no wrecking balls immediately available, demolition crews are wrapping cables around the tilting structure and hoped to pull it down by the end of the day, Cl
  
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• Cables, cranes enlisted to topple Las Vegas implosion tower

  10-02-2015 17:39
  
  LAS VEGAS — Workers were hoping Tuesday that a crane and cables could finish a job that a 2-ton explosive punch didn’t quite do: Reduce an elevator shaft to rubble like the rest of an imploded a Las Vegas casino-hotel around it.With no wrecking balls immediately available, demolition crews are wrapping cables around the tilting structure and hoped to pull it down by the end of the day, Cl
  
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• Las Vegas home sale prices jump up in January

  10-02-2015 16:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  New numbers show that Southern Nevada’s housing market began 2015 on solid footing. Housing prices jumped in January even as the market slowed and fewer homes sold, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Monday.
  
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• US aid worker held by Islamic State has died

  10-02-2015 16:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Barack Obama and the family of U.S. aid worker Kayla Mueller confirmed on Tuesday that the last-known American hostage held by Islamic State militants had died.
  
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• American held by Islamic State has died, White House confirms

  10-02-2015 16:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. aid worker and hostage Kayla Mueller was determined to have died after her Islamic State captors reached out privately to her family over the weekend, a White House spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
  
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• Six displaced after Monday night house fire

  10-02-2015 16:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Six people were displaced after a house fire late Monday night near the intersection of Vegas and Torrey Pines drives, according to the Las Vegas Fire Department.
  
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• Man shot dead near UNLV

  10-02-2015 15:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was found shot to death on the ground at an apartment complex near the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Tamarus Street late Monday night, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Las Vegas police investigate homicide in southeast valley

  10-02-2015 15:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Detectives are investigating a homicide near Tropicana Avenue and Tamarus Street, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Tower being torn down after incomplete Clarion Hotel implosion — PHOTOS

  10-02-2015 12:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Crews are working to tear down a tower that was the last standing piece of the off-Strip Clarion Hotel and Casino, which was imploded Tuesday.
  
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• Implosion of Clarion Hotel livens up early morning hours

  10-02-2015 12:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clarion Hotel and Casino was imploded during the wee hours of Tuesday morning, sending up a cloud of dust as the 44-year-old resort came down.
  
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• Implosion of Clarion Hotel leaves elevator shaft standing — PHOTOS

  10-02-2015 12:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clarion Hotel and Casino was imploded during the wee hours of Tuesday morning, sending up a cloud of dust as the 44-year-old resort came down.
  
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