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• New equal work bill to help Nevada women, families

  23-02-2015 23:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Legislative Democratic leaders Monday announced plans to introduce a bill requiring equal pay for equal work in Nevada.
  
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• Nevada Democrats planning pay equity bill

  23-02-2015 23:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  CARSON CITY — Legislative Democratic leaders Monday announced plans to introduce a bill requiring equal pay for equal work in Nevada.
  
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• Democrats look to rebuilding Latino base after 2014 drubbing

  23-02-2015 23:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Latino voter turnout fell in 2014 below both 2012 and 2010, accounting in part for the drop in Democratic votes and the rising Republican wave that gave the GOP control of the U.S. Senate and both houses of the Nevada Legislature.
  
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• Mother of slain man asks prosecutors to drop death penalty

  23-02-2015 23:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Prosecutors withdrew the death penalty Monday for a man convicted of fatally shooting of 22-year-old Mike Portaro outside a tavern in the northwest valley after Portaro’s mother said she did not want to see another death.
  
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• Bill to change PERS introduced in Nevada Assembly

  23-02-2015 22:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A bill seeking to change the public employees retirement system for future hires by switching to a mostly defined-contribution plan was introduced Monday in the Assembly.
  
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• 40 detained, more arrests coming in Conn. cockfighting ring

  23-02-2015 22:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police in Connecticut plan to arrest nearly 70 more people after netting 40 suspects in a weekend raid on a cockfighting ring, state police officials said on Monday.
  
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• Gunman in deadly Ga. shooting was former officer

  23-02-2015 22:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Questions swirled Monday about how a woman, a former police officer and another man were killed, while a sheriff and deputy suffered gunshot wounds.
  
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• Lawmakers hear debate over ‘presumed’ benefits for workers

  23-02-2015 22:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Local governments want to limit presumed benefits for public safety workers who develop heart or lung disease, cancer or hepatitis, but police, fire and other labor organizations Monday denounced cost concerns as unfounded.
  
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• Police investigating ‘safety incident’ at Calif. high school; students evacuated

  23-02-2015 21:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A high school in Redwood City, California, was evacuated on Monday following a 911 call, although police reported no confirmed gunman or shooting.
  
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• As ‘American Sniper’ trial ends, questions remain over motive

  23-02-2015 21:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After eight days of testimony, the murder trial in the “American Sniper’s” deaths has not answered the one question that still haunts the families of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield.
  
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• Texas ice storm knocks out power, cancels flights

  23-02-2015 20:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An ice storm that hit wide parts of Texas and neighboring states on Monday knocked out power to thousands of people, led to hundreds of traffic accidents and caused nearly 1,500 flight cancellations nationwide.
  
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• Wintry weather strands 3 hikers at Red Rock

  23-02-2015 20:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police resumed the search Monday for three hikers stranded by wintry weather at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
  
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• Stranded Red Rock hikers found

  23-02-2015 20:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Search and rescue crews found three hikers who had been stranded in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area on Monday afternoon.
  
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• Dog owner faces charges in mauling

  23-02-2015 20:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The owner of four dogs that mauled a 65-year-old Las Vegas woman and her neighbor Friday has ben jailed in the attack.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: ‘Pop-Tart gun’ bill sponsored by GOP

  23-02-2015 20:11
  
  Nevada Assembly Republicans plan to introduce a bill that would bar schools from punishing students who play with toy firearms. Assemblyman Jim Wheeler is sponsoring the AB121, which would forbid schools from punishing students that play with toy guns or pretend to use a firearm. The bill is scheduled to be heard in the Assembly Education Committee on Monday. The bill also extends protections to students who wear
  
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• British, Turkey officials search for 3 teens before they join ISIS

  23-02-2015 19:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Amira Abase told her father she was going to a wedding. Instead, the 15-year-old British girl hopped on a plane with two friends to Turkey and police fear they are headed to Syria to join ISIS.
  
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• ‘50 Shades’ spoof not always funny, but never painful

  23-02-2015 19:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Musical parody does a fair job of appealing to both fans of the book and sketch comedy
  
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• DOJ requests stay to allow action on immigration

  23-02-2015 18:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Justice Department on Monday formally requested an emergency stay to put on hold a Texas judge’s decision that temporarily blocked President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration from taking effect.
  
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• Las Vegas doctor accused of taking kickbacks to refer patients to agency

  23-02-2015 18:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A longtime Las Vegas physician has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of taking $5,400 in kickbacks to refer Medicare patients to a home health agency.
  
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• Return 186 mustangs to range in NV on hold

  23-02-2015 18:11
  
  RENO — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is holding off on plans to return 186 wild horses to the range in central Nevada pending the review of an appeal filed by a rancher and rural county opposed to the move. The agency originally had planned to return 104 mares treated with a fertility control vaccine and 82 studs to the sprawling Fish Creek Herd Management Area (HMA) near Eureka on Friday. They were among 4
  
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• BLM holds off on plan to return 186 mustangs to range in NV

  23-02-2015 18:11
  
  RENO — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is holding off on plans to return 186 wild horses to the range in central Nevada pending the review of an appeal filed by a rancher and rural county opposed to the move. The agency originally had planned to return 104 mares treated with a fertility control vaccine and 82 studs to the sprawling Fish Creek Herd Management Area (HMA) near Eureka on Friday. They were among 4
  
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• Battle over Tahoe bears gets ugly; suit cites death threats

  23-02-2015 18:11
  RENO — A Lake Tahoe woman is suing a longtime bear protection group after she says she got death threats for reporting an aggressive black bear to Nevada authorities, who then killed the animal. Adrienne Evans, a professional mountain bike racer and high school science teacher, accuses the BEAR League of igniting an ugly social media campaign that turned into a vengeful attempt to run her and her husband out of
  
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• Texas shooting leaves 4 dead, 1 wounded

  23-02-2015 18:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Four people were dead and one woman was in serious condition on Monday after gunfire erupted at two homes in Killeen, Texas, according to local police.
  
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• Suspect in Tammy Meyers’ shooting death makes court appearance

  23-02-2015 17:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Erich Nowsch, the 19-year-old accused of gunning down 44-year-old Tammy Meyers on Feb. 12, made his first appearance in a Las Vegas courtroom Monday.
  
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• Suspect in mother’s shooting death makes court appearance

  23-02-2015 17:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Erich Nowsch, the 19-year-old accused of gunning down 44-year-old Tammy Meyers on Feb. 12, made his first appearance in a Las Vegas courtroom Monday.
  
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• Ed Vogel, top Nevada newspaper reporter for 4 decades, dies

  23-02-2015 17:15
  
  MINDEN — Edison “Ed” Vogel, whose career as a top Nevada newspaper reporter spanned four decades, died Sunday at his Minden home. He was 66. Vogel received cancer treatment for months and suffered a stroke brought on by the disease on Feb. 11, family members said. He retired last year as state capitol bureau chief for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, ending a 37-year career with Nevada’s largest newspaper. Vo
  
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• Overturned truck cleared on 215 Beltway, airport connector

  23-02-2015 16:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An overturned semitrailer on the 215 Beltway near the airport connector has been cleared from the roadway Monday morning.
  
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• Overturned truck blocks traffic on 215 Beltway and airport connector

  23-02-2015 16:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An overturned box truck on the 215 Beltway near the airport connector was backing up traffic early Monday morning.
  
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• Winter returns with snow in Las Vegas Valley — PHOTOS

  23-02-2015 16:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After a night of showers, some Las Vegas valley residents woke up to a cool surprise: Snow!
  
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• Winter returns with snow in Las Vegas Valley

  23-02-2015 16:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After a night of showers, some Las Vegas valley residents woke up to a cool surprise: Snow!
  
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• Washoe home sales edge up 1 percent during January

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  Washoe County existing homes sales showed a slight gain of 1 percent in January but the market continues to give little indication that inventory levels are finally poised to rise. The Truckee Meadows region’s median sales price rose 15 percent in January from a year earlier to $252,000, according to a report from the Reno/Sparks Association of Realtors. Based on data from the Northern Nevada Region
  
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• UNR office to forge new ties with business

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  The University of Nevada, Reno is expanding its office for commercializing research in an effort to open its doors wider to business.The Technology Transfer Office, which now helps both UNR and the Desert Research Institute move research out of their labs and into the marketplace, is being renamed the Office of Enterprise and Innovation.The newly-named office will have four functions, all designed to
  
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• Reno lands cyber security company

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  This may be the year your 20-something millennial gets out of the house and finds a job. One business clearly looking to hire tech-savvy young people is BlackRidge Technology, a cyber-security company from Santa Clara, which will relocate its headquarters and operations to Reno. The Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada and Northern Nevada Development Authority jointly assisted BlackRidge i
  
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• Northern Nevada 2015 lease negotiations

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  There is no doubt the Northern Nevada economy is rebounding. Inbound companies continue to show interest in the market, property values are recovering and vacancy rates, especially in industrial product, are headed lower. With all of that comes a shift to a landlord’s market. Essentially, landlords are beginning to feel like they can increase rents and decrease the amount of lease incenti
  
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• Making the case for flights between Elko and Reno

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  Air service between Elko and Reno has been attempted twice before and ended abruptly when subsidy funds ran out. Now there is a new initiative to get this service back in the air.There has only been one previous attempt by Elko Regional Airport to establish an Elko-Reno flight using a subsidy provided through a grant. Awarded in 2005, the Small Community Air Service Development Grant provid
  
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• Making room for those new habits

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  You can learn a lot about forming new habits by looking at Pavlov’s dog, who learned to salivate at the sound of a bell. He (the dog, not Pavlov) used his brain’s basal ganglia to make the task of drooling automatic. In the middle of the brain, sitting next to your thalamus, is a bundle of brain cells called the basal ganglia. These are not much different from the ones Pavlov’s dog used to drool
  
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• In his own words: Chamber’s Tray Abney

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  Northern Nevada Business Weekly: Tell about your job at the Chamber?Tray Abney: I represent the 1,800 chamber members in the various halls of power, with the vast majority of those being small businesses. I represent them before Reno and Sparks city councils and right now in the state legislature. The average business owner doesn’t have time to sit at the Reno city council or in Carson Ci
  
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• Furniture dealer finds right fit in Reno

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  Henriksen/Butler’s new showroom on First Street in the heart of downtown Reno follows company tradition.“Part of our mission is to reuse and repurpose,” said Ian Anderson, president of H/B Nevada, who will be relocating from Las Vegas to Reno in April to manage the commercial furniture dealer’s new location. “In Salt Lake City we’re in a 130-year-old synagogue. In Las Vegas we�
  
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• Food supplier gobbles up Reno site

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  An Ohio-based food merchandise supplier is joining Reno’s expanding distribution industry.Hubert, a 68-year-old business based in Harrison, Ohio and owned by Germany’s TAKKT AG, is leasing a 145,000-square-foot facility on Industry Circle.The company plans to spend $2.7 million on building improvements and equipment to outfit the distribution center.Hubert looked elsewhere in the west, including S
  
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• Entering the drone zone

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  Flirtey’s future may be up in the air, but the bucks to grow the northern Nevada-based drone-maker startup are clearly being raised on terra firma.Flirtey announced last week that it has recently received accelerated funding from Sierra Angels, Nevada’s foremost angel investment group, to help drive its continued development on the UNR campus.According to a spokeswoman for Sierra Angels
  
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• Business bankruptcy basics

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  Although bankruptcy fillings have significantly slowed down in recent months, the recent filing of Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, a well-known Las Vegas-based gaming company, serves as an important reminder that every company you do business with is potentially at risk of declaring bankruptcy. This article addresses several basic bankruptcy principles to keep in mind so that you are prepared
  
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• A hive of activity

  23-02-2015 08:07
  
  About 100 or so beekeepers will gather this weekend in Yerington to talk bees.That’s more than 10 times the nine attendees who showed up to the first Mason Valley Beekeepers annual conference five years ago and something of a sign of the growing popularity of beekeeping in northern Nevada.“We have more colonies than we’ve had before. We don’t have data, but tha
  
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• Georgia sheriff, deputy shot responding to domestic call

  23-02-2015 07:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Georgia sheriff and a deputy were shot Sunday night when they responded to a domestic violence call. The alleged shooter? A former police officer.
  
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• Past Nevada U.S. senator’s legacy under debate

  23-02-2015 06:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The legacy of one of Nevada’s early leaders is under fire in one of the more upscale neighborhoods of the nation’s capital.
  
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• Former Nevada U.S. senator’s legacy under debate

  23-02-2015 06:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The legacy of one of Nevada’s early leaders is under fire in one of the more upscale neighborhoods of the nation’s capital.
  
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• Nevada AG Laxalt getting national exposure in immigration clash

  23-02-2015 06:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt, on the job less than two months, is getting some national exposure this week.
  
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• Van rollover crash kills one, injures nine on 215 Beltway

  23-02-2015 06:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One woman died and nine other people were sent to the hospital after a vana rolled over on the 215 Beltway on Sunday night, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• Rollover crash kills one, injures nine on 215

  23-02-2015 06:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One woman died and nine other people were sent to the hospital after a van rolled over on the 215 Beltway on Sunday night, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• NHP responding to fatal crash on 215 beltway

  23-02-2015 06:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada Highway Patrol responded to a fatal crash on the 215 beltway on Sunday night.
  
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• NLV parks chief out after 1 year on job, replacement picked

  23-02-2015 04:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Not even a year on the job and North Las Vegas’ director of neighborhood and leisure services has decided to call it quits.
  
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