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• Traffic flowing again on 95 NB in east valley

  20-03-2015 23:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Traffic is flowing smoothly again after a rollover crash on northbound U.S. Highway 95 just north of Boulder Highway caused traffic problems Friday afternoon, according to the Regional Transportation Commission.
  
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• Crash blocking traffic on 95 NB near Boulder Highway

  20-03-2015 23:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A rollover crash on northbound U.S. Highway 95 just north of Boulder Highway is blocking several lanes according to the Regional Transportation Commission.
  
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• Crash blocking traffic on 95 NB from Russell to Boulder Highway

  20-03-2015 23:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A rollover crash on northbound U.S. Highway 95 just north of Boulder Highway is blocking several lanes according to the Regional Transportation Commission.
  
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• Reno-area water users urged to cut use 10 percent in drought

  20-03-2015 23:21
  
  RENO — The lowest Sierra snowpack in more than a century means more cutbacks for Reno-area water users and offers no relief from four years of drought, officials said. The Truckee River Basin snowpack was 27 percent of normal earlier this week, while the Lake Tahoe Basin’s snowpack measured at only 9 percent. “This year, it’s going to be considerably worse,” water supply director Bill Hauck told the util
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Committee OKs bill changing rules for drivers with epilepsy

  20-03-2015 23:21
  
  A Nevada Assembly committee has approved a bill giving doctors more discretion in reporting patients’ epilepsy to the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. The Assembly Health and Human Services Committee approved AB248 on Friday. It now heads for a vote of the full Assembly. Existing law requires doctors to tell the state Division of Public Health the name, age and address of anyone diagnosed with epilepsy. The
  
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• Death of child found on school bus remains a mystery

  20-03-2015 23:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A New Haven, Conn., elementary student died after she was found unresponsive on a school bus earlier this week.
  
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• New rules for fracking on federal lands draw criticism

  20-03-2015 23:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Obama administration’s new rules governing fracking on federal lands drew swift criticism from all sides on Friday, with green groups calling the measures “toothless” and the energy industry slamming “unnecessary” regulation of a drilling process that has brought the United States to the cusp of oil and gas self-sufficiency.
  
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• Report reveals felon allowed through TSA pre-check

  20-03-2015 22:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Transportation Security Administration allowed an individual who was a felon and former member of a domestic terror group through TSA pre-check at a U.S. airport last summer, according to a new government watchdog report.
  
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• Navy SEAL killed in California parachute accident

  20-03-2015 22:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A U.S. Navy SEAL was killed in a parachute accident in Perris, California, near Riverside, a U.S. Navy official told CNN on Wednesday.
  
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• Protect the Earth from asteroids with NASA’s free program

  20-03-2015 22:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Amateur astronomers can help NASA “protect the planet” by becoming an asteroid data hunter.
  
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• NASA needs your help protecting Earth from asteroids

  20-03-2015 22:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Amateur astronomers can help NASA “protect the planet” by becoming an asteroid data hunter.
  
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• 30 killed, 50 injured in Indian train derailment

  20-03-2015 22:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least 30 people were killed and 50 injured when an express train overshot a railway signal and some carriages went off the rails in a northern Indian state on Friday, officials said.
  
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• Walking to honor veterans — PHOTOS

  20-03-2015 21:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Pastor Walter “Chick” McGill, a Vietnam veteran, started walking in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., about 200 days ago and he hasn’t stopped.
  
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• FBI investigates Robert Durst’s possible ties to cold cases

  20-03-2015 21:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The FBI is asking detectives across the country to dust off their cold case murder files and see whether millionaire heir Robert Durst could be connected to any other unsolved crimes.
  
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• Early voting starts in Southern Nevada municipal races

  20-03-2015 21:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Municipal election candidates in Southern Nevada still have hands to shake, stump speeches to make, and babies to kiss before the April 7 primary, but their window of opportunity to convince voters that they’re the best candidate will start narrowing Saturday when early voting kicks off for Henderson and Las Vegas.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Bill would require students to learn cursive

  20-03-2015 21:20
  
  A Nevada Republican is sponsoring a bill requiring elementary schools to teach students cursive handwriting. Senator Don Gustavson is the primary bill sponsor and plans to testify for SB 287 on Friday in the Senate Education Committee. The bill would require public and charter schools to teach students how to read and write cursive handwriting by the end of the third grade. Gustavson said students should learn cur
  
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• Republicans amend OT bill to boost minimum wage in Nevada

  20-03-2015 20:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Republicans blindsided Democrats on a Nevada Senate committee Friday when they amended an overtime bill to raise Nevada’s minimum wage to $9 an hour, which would be a 75-cent increase for workers who do not receive employer-paid insurance..
  
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• Move to raise Nevada minimum wage to $9 blindsides Dems

  20-03-2015 20:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Republicans blindsided Democrats on a Nevada Senate committee Friday when they amended an overtime bill to raise Nevada’s minimum wage to $9 an hour, which would be a 75-cent increase for workers who do not receive employer-paid insurance.
  
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• Live stream: Western Nevada College hosts Mt Hood

  20-03-2015 20:33
  
  Western Nevada College’s baseball team starts a four-game series with Mt. Hood. Catch all the action on the live stream below. …
  
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• Kingman man gets prison for beating disabled roommate to death

  20-03-2015 20:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 20-year prison term was imposed Friday for Robert Adkins, 53, of Kingman, Ariz., who was convicted in the beating death of his disabled roommate.
  
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• Metro looking for bad drivers, jaywalkers on Maryland Parkway

  20-03-2015 20:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Speeding drivers and jaywalkers beware: Las Vegas police will be on the lookout today.
  
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• Grand jury indicts Erich Nowsch’s alleged getaway driver

  20-03-2015 19:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man suspected of driving a car Erich Nowsch was riding in when he shot and killed Tammy Meyers has been indicted, prosecutors said Friday.
  
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• Erich Nowsch’s suspected getaway driver arrested

  20-03-2015 19:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police tweeted at 1:10 p.m. that a second person a second person linked to Tammy Meyers killing was in custody. A police spokesman later confirmed it was Derek Andrews.
  
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• “Pill Take Back” set for Saturday at Arbor View High School

  20-03-2015 19:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Southern Nevadans looking for a safe, convenient and responsible way to dispose of prescription drugs have an opportunity Saturday at Arbor View High School, 7500 Whispering Sands Dr. in Las Vegas.
  
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• Obama calls for release of detained Americans on Iranian holiday

  20-03-2015 19:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday called on Iran’s government to immediately release three detained Americans - Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati and Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian - and to help find Robert Levinson, an American who disappeared in Iran eight years ago, the White House said.
  
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• Nigerian soldiers discover 70 bodies near liberated town

  20-03-2015 18:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The skeletal bodies were partially mummified by the dry desert atmosphere.
  
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• Suicide bombings kill more than 130; ISIS claiming responsibility

  20-03-2015 18:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The written statement, posted on a site that has carried ISIS statements in the past, called Friday’s attacks “a tip of an iceberg.”
  
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• Education Notebook, March 26-April 1, 2015

  20-03-2015 18:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
  
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• Ex-NFL player Darren Sharper faces Las Vegas rape charges

  20-03-2015 18:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former NFL player Darren Sharper faces two counts of sexual assault in Las Vegas, according to court records.
  
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• Darren Sharper faces Las Vegas rape charges

  20-03-2015 18:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former NFL player Darren Sharper faces two counts of sexual assault in Las Vegas, according to court records.
  
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• Border Patrol agent fatally shoots man at US-Canadian border

  20-03-2015 18:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Federal and local authorities are investigating a deadly shooting by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Washington state.
  
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• Metro asks for help finding convenience store robber

  20-03-2015 17:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police asked for help identifying a woman who robbed Speedee Mart at 3670 Paradise Road, near Twain Avenue, on Jan. 25.
  
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• Craigslist ad led pregnant woman to her attacker

  20-03-2015 16:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The grisly cutting of a fetus from a woman began with a Craigslist ad about baby clothes for sale.
  
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• Senate plans vote on Sandoval tax plan by end of March

  20-03-2015 08:13
  
  The Nevada Senate held a three-hour hearing Thursday to comb through details and raise technical concerns about Gov. Brian Sandoval’s business license tax plan, which could be ready for a vote by the end of March.The meeting came after a 10-hour hearing Wednesday that featured a presentation from Sandoval himself on the plan, which is projected to raise around $437 million over two years
  
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• Carson City Board of Supervisors approve $627K to buy 6 trucks

  20-03-2015 08:13
  
  Bolstering city government’s truck fleet Thursday accompanied two separate reports to Carson City’s Board of Supervisors regarding lack of snow melt but no lack of state legislation.The board voted unanimously to spend $627,442 to purchase a half dozen trucks for the city’s Public Works Department to replace old vehicles going to auction after up to 138,000 miles of wear. The old trucks were model years rang
  
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• Carson batters McQueen

  20-03-2015 08:13
  
  One big inning proved more than enough to carry Carson High to its fourth win in five Northern Division I games.The Senators, fresh off a win over Reed on Tuesday, scored seven runs in the bottom of the first inning to wipe out a two-run deficit and beat McQueen, 11-4,Thursday night at Ron McNutt Field.Carson, 4-1, goes after its second series sweep of the year Saturday at 11 a.m.
  
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• FBI investigating death of black man found hanging from tree

  20-03-2015 05:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The hanging death of an African-American man who had been missing since early this month and was found Thursday by local authorities in Mississippi has drawn the scrutiny of the FBI and the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.
  
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• Carson City meth bust ends in nine arrests by Tri-NET

  20-03-2015 04:35
  
  A total of nine people were arrested in Carson City Thursday on major drug charges after a three-month investigation by the Tri-NET Narcotics Task Force.Agents took over a house in the 3500 block of Desatoya Drive early Thursday and, during the course of the day, seized some 300 grams — nearly 11 ounces — of meth.Elvin Lee Fred, 32, was arrested on suspicion of multiple trafficking charges in addi
  
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• Rogers Foundation gifts $20 million to UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute

  20-03-2015 04:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After donating $10 million in December to UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute, philanthropist Beverly Rogers on Thursday evening announced an additional $20 million gift from the Rogers Foundation to the literary center.
  
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• Carson City meth drug bust ends in nine arrests by Tri-NET

  20-03-2015 04:16
  
  A total of nine people were arrested in Carson City Thursday on major drug charges after a three-month investigation by the Tri-NET Narcotics Task Force.Agents took over a house in the 3500 block of Desatoya Drive early Thursday and, during the course of the day, seized some 300 grams — nearly 11 ounces — of meth.Elvin Lee Fred, 32, was arrested on suspicion of multiple trafficking charges in additi
  
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• Former sheriff McCarthy remembered for battling mob

  20-03-2015 03:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  John McCarthy lasted just one term as Clark County sheriff, but he will forever be remembered for pursuing organized crime with unprecedented gusto.
  
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• Ex-LAPD cop wanted for murder likely fled to Texas

  20-03-2015 03:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A rookie Los Angeles police officer accused of killing a man after a fight in the bar district of a Southern California community was driven to a Texas city on the Mexican border by his father last week and has not been seen since, according to court documents filed on Thursday.
  
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• Assemblyman pushing for lottery at Nevada Legislature

  20-03-2015 02:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It is said that the average person has a better chance of being struck by lightning than winning the lottery, but that’s nothing compared to Assemblyman Harvey Munford’s quest to get a proposal through the Legislature to allow a lottery to operate in Nevada.
  
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• Assemblyman pushes for lottery at Nevada Legislature

  20-03-2015 02:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It is said that the average person has a better chance of being struck by lightning than winning the lottery, but that’s nothing compared to Assemblyman Harvey Munford’s quest to get a proposal through the Legislature to allow a lottery to operate in Nevada.
  
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• Assemblyman a long shot to ignite lottery fever at Legislature

  20-03-2015 02:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It is said that the average person has a better chance of being struck by lightning than winning the lottery, but that’s nothing compared to Assemblyman Harvey Munford’s quest to get a proposal through the Legislature to allow a lottery to operate in Nevada.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Bill would have commission, not lawmakers, do redistricting

  20-03-2015 02:18
  
  Nevada lawmakers are reviewing a bill that would have an appointed panel redraw voting districts instead of the Legislature. Republican Assemblyman Lynn Stewart presented AB 252 on Thursday to the Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee. The bill would create a five-person commission to present redistricting options to the Legislature the year after a census. Majority and minority parties would app
  
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• Great-grandfather accused of sex offenses in Bullhead City

  20-03-2015 02:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Bullhead City, Ariz., man has been arrested after police say he molested his 7, 8, 10 and 11-year-old great-granddaughters.
  
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• Fragment from Malaysian Airlines crash site might support missile theory

  20-03-2015 01:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A metal fragment from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 matches a surface-to-air BUK rocket, a Dutch broadcaster said on Thursday, supporting a theory that the plane was downed by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
  
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• 4, including ex-boxing champ, sentenced in racketeering scheme

  20-03-2015 01:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Four people, including a former boxing champion, were sentenced in federal court Thursday in a multimillion-dollar racketeering scheme run out of a longtime limousine company that operated on the Strip.
  
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• Nevada appeals court sets first oral arguments

  20-03-2015 01:37
  
  Nevada’s newly-created Appellate Court has set its first oral arguments for March 25 in Las Vegas.The three-member court was approved by voters in November and fast-tracked to get under way by the Supreme Court.The panel will hear arguments in four cases assigned by the Supreme Court including two major criminal cases.Gonzales v. State is an appeal following a jury conviction on charges of robbery with a deadly
  
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