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• Gnarly crash leaves van wedged under semi; no one seriously hurt

  12-02-2015 23:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A crash that left a minivan wedged under semi-trailer Thursday in the southeast Las Vegas Valley looked terrible, but no one was seriously hurt.
  
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• Business is brisk at Las Vegas wedding chapels on Valentines Day

  12-02-2015 22:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At A Little White Chapel in Downtown Las Vegas, owner Charolette Richards is gearing up for what she calls, “an exceptionally busy day of weddings.”
  
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• Sex-ed for adults: Toyboxx is not your typical sex-toy store

  12-02-2015 22:31 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  While Toyboxx's gallery will transition into a retail space, it's already functioning as an offbeat forum for new ways to talk—and think—about sex.
  
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• Henderson City Manager Snow plans to leave city in summer

  12-02-2015 22:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Henderson City Manager Jacob Snow will leave his job after three years and retire this summer, he announced Thursday.
  
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• Henderson City Manager Snow plans to leave city in June

  12-02-2015 22:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Henderson City Manager Jacob Snow will leave the city at the end of June, Councilwoman Debra March said Thursday.
  
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• Northern Nevada land bill couples development, scenic wilderness

  12-02-2015 22:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A bill submitted to Congress on Thursday would realign federal lands in Douglas County in Northern Nevada, opening some for development while creating a 12,330-acre scenic wilderness.
  
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• Rap mogul Suge Knight hit with new charges in camera theft case

  12-02-2015 20:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight, already in custody in connection with a hit-and-run death, has now been charged with making a terroristic threat in connection with the 2014 theft of a camera from a celebrity photographer, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
  
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• Nevada board gives up supermajority rule for switching unions

  12-02-2015 20:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A state board overseeing worker elections of unions said it will change its 13-year-old policy that a supermajority is needed for one union to oust another, noting that it was “a failed experiment.”
  
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• Vegas cop’s alleged assault of prostitute may endanger federal gun case

  12-02-2015 20:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The arrest of a veteran Las Vegas police detective charged with beating and robbing a prostitute has led defense lawyers to challenge his credibility as a key witness in a federal weapons case he helped put together.
  
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• Scientists to conduct tests to determine cause of mysterious ‘milky rain’

  12-02-2015 20:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Scientists from two U.S. Pacific Northwest laboratories plan to conduct tests of unusual precipitation that fell across the region over the weekend in hopes of pinpointing the origins of so-called “milky rain” that has mystified residents, officials said on Wednesday.
  
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• Nevada lawmakers tell treasurer his budget proposal is embarrassing

  12-02-2015 20:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  State Treasurer Dan Schwartz on Thursday ran into a bipartisan buzz saw of lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee who called his alternative budget proposal embarrassing and politically motivated.
  
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• Mont. man gets 70 years for killing German student

  12-02-2015 20:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Montana homeowner who was convicted of deliberate homicide last year for fatally shooting an unarmed 17-year-old German exchange student who entered his garage was sentenced to 70 years in prison on Thursday.
  
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• Utah mom pleads guilty to killing 6 of her newborns

  12-02-2015 18:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Utah mother pleaded guilty to murder on Thursday in the slayings of six of her newborn infants whose remains were found stuffed inside cardboard boxes inside the garage of her former home last spring.
  
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• Man accused of keeping bodies in storage unit pleads not guilty

  12-02-2015 18:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Robert Dixon Dunn, 52, is accused of killing Joaquin and Eleanor Sierra and keeping their bodies inside trash bins at a Las Vegas storage unit for 10 years while he stole their federal benefits.
  
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• Nevada justices say no to parole hearing for man who killed his baby girl

  12-02-2015 18:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision granting a new parole revocation hearing to a Las Vegas man who sold and then killed his baby daughter in 1990.
  
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• Families, residents grieve for 3 students killed in North Carolina

  12-02-2015 17:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Much of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is grieving at vigils and prayer services after three students were found shot to death.
  
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• Reid completes second surgery, outcome for full vision still unclear

  12-02-2015 16:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Following a second surgery on Wednesday, the outcome still is unclear whether Sen. Harry Reid will regain full vision in his damaged right eye.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Treasurer plans to present alternative budget

  12-02-2015 16:11
  
  Nevada state Treasurer Dan Schwartz is planning to give the first public presentation of his alternative budget proposal to the Nevada Legislature. Schwartz will present his budget to the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday nearly a week after first announcing his proposed alternative to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s spending plan. The Republican governor’s budget involves $1.1 billion in new and extended taxes, whic
  
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• Nevada leads U.S. in per-capita growth in solar jobs

  12-02-2015 16:11
  
  RENO — The number of solar industry jobs in Nevada more than doubled last year, the fastest per capita growth in the nation. The nonprofit Solar Foundation said in a report Thursday California became the first state to surpass 50,000 solar jobs with a U.S.-leading 54,680 in 2014. Nevada has added 3,500 solar jobs since 2013, an increase of 146 percent from last year. It puts Nevada seventh on the list overall wi
  
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• NHL ticket drive already halfway to goal

  12-02-2015 14:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The ownership group of a prospective NHL franchise in Las Vegas that launched a ticket drive on Tuesday has exploded out of the box by receiving 5,000 deposits in the first day and a half.
  
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• Literary Las Vegas: Heidi Loeb Hegerich

  12-02-2015 09:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Like her “Love Target” protagonist, Nevada author Heidi Loeb Hegerich was an underage Las Vegas showgirl in the ’50s and swinging ’60s.
  
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• With new leadership and exhibits, the Erotic Heritage Museum evolves

  12-02-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  “This museum is not about one person, nor one collection, nor any particular mission. It’s about all of us as sexual beings … our fantasies, our sex practices, our history, our roots … and how these aspects have shaped us erotically."
  
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• The real meaning behind Valentine's Day gifts

  12-02-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  I don't want you to hate me, but I'm lazy. Here's some gas-station fudge.
  
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• Sipping on romance: Liquid valentines for every taste

  12-02-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  Are you deep and smoky or bold and spicy?
  
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• Sentiment gets inclusive, thanks to local LGBT card company Teazled

  12-02-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  What if you're looking for a Mother's Day card for two moms?
  
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• On 'The Sex Factor', Buddy Hollywood could win big money and sex his way to stardom

  12-02-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  Judging them are the stars who do it best.
  
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• 'Fifty Shades of Grey' jumps from book clubs to a nearby brothel

  12-02-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  With the book's growing popularity and presence, BDSM fantasies—from adult novelty purchases to the Dungeon Room at Sheri's Ranch—are in demand.
  
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• Beloved lube Gun Oil is made right here in Las Vegas

  12-02-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  Local business Empowered Products makes gay users happy — and increasingly more heterosexual ones, too.
  
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• A historical tour of lust and romance, loosely inspired by the Strip

  12-02-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  We all know that Italy was full of sex-monkeys during the Black Death ...
  
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• Carson City Community Center hosts CHS Talent Show

  12-02-2015 08:27
  
  Daniel Cihigoyenetche and Brent Lauderbaugh perform a ‘Y2K Medley’ Wednesday night at the CHS Talent Show.Serena Herup sings ‘Make You Feel My Love’ at the Carson Community Center Wednesday.‘Big Thunder’ performs ‘Vehicle’ by the Ides of March at the talent show Wednesday night.Caitlyn Lee and Laney Kenison sing and dance to ‘I Am A Good Gi
  
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• Tark the Shark passes away at 84

  12-02-2015 08:19
  
  LAS VEGAS He couldn’t stop fighting the NCAA any more than he could give up chewing towels courtside. Jerry Tarkanian built a basketball dynasty in the desert, but it was his decades-long battle with the NCAA that defined him far more than
  
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• St. Patrick’s Day film contest in Carson City

  12-02-2015 08:19
  
  The Brewery Arts Center, Carson TV and Wired Wednesday Digital Arts Club will hold their inaugural St. Paddy’s Film Crawl, a short filmmaking competition whose screening and judging will be on March 14. Filmmakers are encouraged to partner with downtown businesses, which will show their film repeatedly from 4 to 10 p.m. March 14. The audience will “crawl” from location to location to view films, then voting
  
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• Small firm drought impact loans available

  12-02-2015 08:19
  
  Businesses are eligible in every Nevada county, including the consolidated Carson City, and several counties in neighboring states for federal drought disaster loans.The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) said small, non-farm firms in the Silver State’s 17 counties, along with some in Arizona, California, Idaho and Oregon, are now eligible to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans from the agency to
  
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• Nevada Supreme Court upholds retroactive reclassification of sex offenders

  12-02-2015 08:19
  
  The Nevada Supreme Court has voted 6-1 to uphold a state statute that retroactively reclassifies sex offenders into more restrictive reporting requirements.The case involves a juvenile offender who served a year in prison in South Carolina for his crime, eventually moving to Nevada after his release in 2000.He was originally categorized as a Tier-I offender under Nevada’s existing registration system.But, after
  
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• Health Exchange working much better this year, director says

  12-02-2015 08:19
  
  After a disastrous first year, the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange is working much more smoothly this year.The state dropped its independent website and went with the federal exchange this time around and, according to exchange Director Bruce Gilbert, things are working much more smoothly with nearly 39,000 Nevadans enrolled in health insurance plans.He also assured a joint Assembly Ways and Means/Senate Fi
  
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• Carson City Symphony celebrates the seasons

  12-02-2015 08:19
  
  The Carson City Symphony is hosting a concert celebrating the seasons at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at the Carson City Community Center, 801 E. William St. The program features eight seasons — “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi and “The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires” by Astor Piazzolla; both are directed by David Bugli and feature guest violin soloist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio and narrator Rita
  
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• Carson City downtown street closures upcoming soon

  12-02-2015 08:19
  
  Parts of Carson Street will be closed to traffic downtown the next two Sundays for a preliminary design assessment leading into the makeover project in the core of Carson City.In addition, for the same reason Curry Street from Robinson to Musser streets and West 3rd Street from Carson to Curry will be closed from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.That is the same time frame — from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. —
  
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• Miller should have pursued Dane more aggressively

  12-02-2015 08:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Let’s hope Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske takes a more skeptical approach to Tony Dane than her predecessor, Ross Miller did.
  
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• FIFA Women’s World Cup bound: Team from Carson City CPAC program fundraising for trip

  12-02-2015 08:11
  
  Gaby Avina, 12, is in her second season playing soccer in her neighborhood CPAC program.“When I started I barely knew how to kick a ball,” she said. “I didn’t do anything right. But I felt a positive vibe. And now I feel like I’ve know everybody forever.”She and her teammates have an opportunity to compete in an international tournament in Canada during the F
  
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• Outcome of Teamsters’ bid to represent CCSD workers pending

  12-02-2015 06:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  On Thursday morning the Nevada Local Government Employee-Management Relations Board will rule on the validity of Teamsters Local 14’s bid to take over as the Clark County School District’s support staff union, a role now filled by the Education Support Employees Association.
  
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• Part Villain, Part Victim, Jerry Tarkanian Simply Won

  12-02-2015 06:00
  Tarkanian showed that what we want from our college coaches are, mostly, wins and entertainment.
  
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• Laughlin man faces murder charge in father’s death

  12-02-2015 05:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Laughlin man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the September death of his father, Las Vegas police announced.
  
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• Body found in east valley

  12-02-2015 05:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating the discovery of a body found Wednesday night in a mountainous area east of the valley. Officers responded about 7 p.m. to the scene about a mile east of Hollywood Regional Park, near East Charleston and South Hollywood Boulevards, according to Metro Lt. W. Graham.
  
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• Measles 101: What it is, who it attacks and how to stop it

  12-02-2015 05:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  With all the hype, it's hard to know what's true. We tapped an SNHD official to get the facts.
  
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• CSN unveils renovations

  12-02-2015 04:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The College of Southern Nevada has renovated 26,000 square feet and added another 5,000 square feet to the oldest building on its Charleston campus.
  
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• Man who vanished returns to plead guilty in Primm casino heist

  12-02-2015 03:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After disappearing for two years, a 24-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday to two felony counts in the theft of $160,000 from a Primm casino vault.
  
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• Man gone for 2 years returns to plead guilty in Primm casino heist

  12-02-2015 03:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After disappearing for two years, a 24-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday to two felony counts in the theft of $160,000 from a Primm casino vault.
  
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• State Senate panel hears bill to allow UMC board secrecy

  12-02-2015 03:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County Commission and UMC’s governing board would be able to close off more hospital meetings and records from public scrutiny under a bill heard for the first time in the Nevada Legislature.
  
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• RTC chief: Broad Las Vegas transit plan won’t gather dust

  12-02-2015 02:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Tina Quigley made one promise to the 160 people attending Wednesday’s celebratory handoff of Southern Nevada Strong’s regional plan to her: She won’t let it gather dust on some shelf within the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada’s offices.
  
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• U.S. judge temporarily blocks wild horse roundup in Nevada

  12-02-2015 02:11
  
  RENO — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the roundup of more than 300 wild horses in northern Nevada. U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks said in a ruling Wednesday he’s not convinced the government can rely on a nearly five-year-old environmental analysis that critics say ignores the latest scientific evidence about potential harm to the mustangs. He granted the rare temporary restraining order halting the
  
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