Nevada news

• Nigerian immigrant learns U.S. due process comes at high cost

  21-03-2015 23:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas medical equipment supply store owner was convicted of Medicaid fraud for what he said were bookkeeping errors. Now his businesses is in tough times.
  
  Read more

• Rooftop solar power grows despite waning incentives

  21-03-2015 23:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Applications for rebates through NV Energy’s SolarGenerations program have jumped tenfold since August, to about 1,000 per month.
  
  Read more

• California first to feel hydro-power crunch of drought

  21-03-2015 22:51
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Flying over the Sierra Nevada as California entered its fourth year of drought, the state’s energy chief looked down and saw stark bare granite cloaked in dirty brown haze — not the usual pristine white peaks heaped with snow that would run the state’s hydroelectric dams for the year. Spring is arriving with the Pacific Northwest measuring near record-low-sn
  
  Read more

• ‘Poker Run’ a game of a different kind — PHOTOS

  21-03-2015 22:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Motorbikes, shooting and poker combined on Saturday to help Las Vegas police raise money to attend memorials for two officers killed last year.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Las Vegas woman dies after driving car into utility pole

  21-03-2015 22:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 22-year-old Las Vegas woman died after crashing a car into a utility pole near the intersection of Owens Avenue and Pecos Road on Saturday, police said.
  
  Read more

• Authorities confiscate $180M in cocaine from Colombian drug traffickers

  21-03-2015 21:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Drug Enforcement Administration found 5.28 tonnes of the drug aboard the vessel, captured in international waters off Central America.
  
  Read more

• Presidential campaign machinery comes hot and early to Nevada

  21-03-2015 20:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Presidential campaign teams are stepping up the pace in Nevada as the early primary state’s political operatives are in high demand on both the Republican and Democratic sides.
  
  Read more

• Vacant apartment fire causes estimated $100,000 in damage

  21-03-2015 20:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Fire crews responded at 8:22 a.m. to flames and smoke coming coming from a one-story, eight-unit apartment building at 2401 Sunrise Ave., near Stewart and Eastern, fire spokesman Tim Szymanski wrote in a release.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Prescribed burn in Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area

  21-03-2015 19:55
  
  CARSON CITY — The Nevada Division of Forestry will be conducting a prescribed burn at the Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area, north of Yerington. The prescribed burn will tentatively start on Tuesday, March 24, at about 10:00 a.m., weather permitting. The burning will go through the week and end on Friday, March 27.The Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area burn is being conducted in cooperation with the Depar
  
  Read more

• Prescribed burn in Mason Valley

  21-03-2015 19:55
  
  CARSON CITY — The Nevada Division of Forestry will be conducting a prescribed burn at the Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area, north of Yerington. The prescribed burn will tentatively start on Tuesday, March 24, at about 10:00 a.m., weather permitting. The burning will go through the week and end on Friday, March 27.The Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area burn is being conducted in cooperation with the Depar
  
  Read more

• Nevada Supreme Court extends Harvey Whittemore law suspension to 2017

  21-03-2015 19:35
  
  RENO — The Nevada Supreme Court ordered a four-year suspension of Harvey Whittemore’s law license Friday, more than doubling the punishment a state bar panel recommended after the ex-lobbyist and developer was convicted two years ago of making illegal campaign contributions to Sen. Harry Reid. The high court decided the 18-month suspension the state bar association’s Northern Nevada Disciplinary Board recomm
  
  Read more

• Lawsuit: Dangerous arsenic levels found in California wine

  21-03-2015 19:35
  
  LOS ANGELES — Dozens of bottles of low-priced California wines sold under such labels as Franzia, Mogen David and Almaden contain dangerously high levels of arsenic, according to a lawsuit filed by four California residents. The industry group Wine Institute dismissed the lawsuit as “irresponsible,” adding it has not called for any vintner to pull any of the wines named in the complaint from store
  
  Read more

• Teen in critical condition after early morning shooting

  21-03-2015 19:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  North Las Vegas police responded at 3:52 a.m. to a shooting in the 1800 block of Quartet Drive, near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Alexander Road.
  
  Read more

• Man who attacked TSA officers had 6 homemade bombs

  21-03-2015 18:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man who attacked security agents at a New Orleans airport on Friday night had six homemade bombs, or molotov cocktails, in a bag, officials said at a news conference on Saturday.
  
  Read more

• Man shot after attacking TSA officers with wasp spray, machete

  21-03-2015 18:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The incident started when White entered a security checkpoint for Concourse B and began spraying Transportation Security Administration agents and bystanders with a can of wasp spray, a sheriff’s office statement said.
  
  Read more

• U.S. pulling Special Operations soldiers out of Yemen

  21-03-2015 17:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Those being evacuated are the last American troops stationed in the Arab nation, which is home to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terrorist group also known as AQAP.
  
  Read more

• 7 children killed in Brooklyn home fire

  21-03-2015 16:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A “hot plate” keeping food warm in a kitchen overnight apparently started a fire that killed seven children in two-story house in Brooklyn early Saturday, New York City’s fire commissioner said.
  
  Read more

• Teri’s Notebook: Happiest birthdays are sometimes the worst

  21-03-2015 07:49
  
  I was talking this week to a friend about children’s birthdays. As a parent, he felt a lot of responsibility to make it a special day, and a lot of guilt and disappointment when it didn’t turn out as planned. And they should be special days. But it got me thinking about my own childhood birthdays, most of which blend in with all the faded images of a happy youth. But there are a couple that stand ou
  
  Read more

• Spring off to a cool start in Carson City

  21-03-2015 07:49
  
  A cloudy to partly sunny spring weekend, with a chance of showers at the end, is in store for Carson City and the region as winter recedes in the rearview mirror.The National Weather Service in Reno said, however, the chance for precipitation won’t be sufficient to make much dent in dryness for any length of time, let alone in the long term drought.“We do have a little, weak system for Sunday night
  
  Read more

• Sixth Cowboy Festival dates announced

  21-03-2015 07:49
  
  GENOA — Nevada’s oldest town announced that the sixth annual Genoa Cowboy Festival will take place from April 30 through May 2Previous Cowboy Festivals have attracted thousands of visitors to the community located at the base of the Sierra Nevada. This year’s event will feature performances by some of the best-known entertainers in Western music and cowboy poetry, including Lacy J. Dalton, Gary
  
  Read more

• Douglas lands bill knocking on door

  21-03-2015 07:49
  
  Like the old Saturday Night Live sketch introduced by a knock on a door, the Douglas County Conservation Act of 2015 could have been introduced in Congress with two words.“Lands bill.”As it was, the bill was introduced in February with words praising the public process used to generate the bill, something that surprised some Carson Valley residents.On Monday the bill, HR925, was referred to the House Subcommit
  
  Read more

• Carson City’s WNC softball splits with Snow

  21-03-2015 07:49
  
  Last spring Western Nevada College ousted Snow College from the Scenic West Athletic Conference tournament.Although Snow got some revenge by winning the first game of Friday’s SWAC doubleheader, 7-1, the Wildcats used a quick start in the second game to post a 7-4 win and gain a split at Edmonds Sports Complex.The teams complete the four-game series today with a noon doubleheader
  
  Read more

• Carson City’s WNC baseball sweeps doubleheader

  21-03-2015 07:49
  
  Freshman left-hander Matt Young on Friday nearly became the third Western Nevada College pitcher to throw a no-hitter. Young no-hit Mount Hood Community College of Gresham, Ore., until catcher Louis Wolf bunted down the third-base line for the Saints’ first hit with two outs in the seventh inning at John L. Harvey Field in Carson City.Young and reliever Kyle Johnson of Douglas Hi
  
  Read more

• Carson City’s Chamber Singers holding concerts

  21-03-2015 07:49
  
  The Carson Chamber Singers, directed by Michael Langham, will continue its 30th season with a pair of spring concerts, the first of which will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 314 N. Division St. The concert will include early music written for double choir by Giovanni Gabrielli, “Frostiana: Seven Country Songs,” the setting by Randall Thompson of poems by Robert Frost, an
  
  Read more

• Here are 10 sites that can change the way you travel

  21-03-2015 06:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Airbnb may be the poster child of the peer-to-peer movement, with more than 800,000 hosts and a valuation in excess of $13 billion. But it’s not the only platform out there giving tourists the chance to live like locals and locals the chance to make some extra income.
  
  Read more

• Venna Davis brought green to the Las Vegas Valley

  21-03-2015 06:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Venna Davis spent the better part of a long life helping to bring green to the desert.
  
  Read more

• Where you go to school probably won’t seal your whole fate

  21-03-2015 06:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  During a conversation with a professor at an Ivy League college, a mother nudges her daughter to share how she’s president of her school’s “survivors-of-bulimia” group.
  
  Read more

• Ohio to give access to birth records to 400,000 adoptees

  21-03-2015 04:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  More than 400,000 Ohioans adopted between 1964 and 1996 will be given access from Friday to their birth certificates with the names of their biological parents.
  
  Read more

• N.C. State University suspends fraternity after offensive book surfaces

  21-03-2015 04:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  North Carolina State University said on Friday it had suspended a fraternity after the discovery of a book filled with racially and sexually charged comments, and the school also halted social events involving alcohol for two dozen of its fraternities.
  
  Read more

• 5th person arrested in Copenhagen shooting attacks

  21-03-2015 04:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police have arrested a fifth man in connection with February shooting attacks at a free speech event and a synagogue that killed two people, police said on Friday.
  
  Read more

• ‘Newsies’ cast member show some moves — PHOTOS

  21-03-2015 03:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  “Newsies” cast members Chaz Wolcott and Jordan Samuels have some moves. That’s news to no one.
  
  Read more

• Shots reportedly fired at Louis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans

  21-03-2015 02:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Shots were fired inside the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Friday night, according to a CBS affiliate.
  
  Read more

• One shot at New Orleans airport after attacking TSA agent with machete

  21-03-2015 02:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Shots were fired inside the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Friday night, according to a CBS affiliate.
  
  Read more

• 1 left in federal HOA scheme investigation

  21-03-2015 02:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Stephanie Markham is the last woman standing in the wide-ranging government investigation into the massive scheme to take over and defraud homeowners associations.
  
  Read more

• The desert is blooming as spring arrives — PHOTOS

  21-03-2015 01:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Wildflowers were in bloom Friday — the first day of spring — at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Bicyclists and bees alike found splashes of bright yellow along Lakeshore Drive and the River Mountains Loop Trail.
  
  Read more

• The desert blooms as spring arrives — PHOTOS

  21-03-2015 01:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Wildflowers were in bloom Friday — the first day of spring — at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Bicyclists and bees alike found splashes of bright yellow along Lakeshore Drive and the River Mountains Loop Trail.
  
  Read more

• Government transparency: Nevada gets C, getting better

  21-03-2015 01:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A new report is giving Nevada a high-five for improving online transparency of government spending.
  
  Read more

• Missing North Las Vegas woman found at church

  21-03-2015 00:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A North Las Vegas woman who had been missing for just over a week has been found, police said Friday.
  
  Read more

• Body found in Carson City identified as female

  21-03-2015 00:42
  
  Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said Friday that a body found Tuesday near a walking trail near Newridge Drive and Northridge Drive, north of the Lone Mountain Cemetery was that of a woman. The body was found in a shallow gravesite wrapped in a sleeping bag.An autopsy performed at the Washoe County Medical Examiners Office revealed a female with reddish/blond hair, betwe
  
  Read more

• 8th arrest in Pahrump ID theft, check fraud probe

  21-03-2015 00:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 26-year-old Pahrump woman was arrested after Nye County sheriff’s deputies said she used a stolen debit card at several businesses there.
  
  Read more

• Nevada Legislature: Panel OKs bill requiring earlier release of union contracts

  21-03-2015 00:06
  
  A Nevada legislative committee has approved a bill that would require local governments to disclose details about proposed contracts with unions days before the agreements came up for a vote. The Senate Government Affairs Committee approved SB158 on Friday. The bill originally required details of the contracts 10 days before a vote, but the committee adopted an amendment that would change the timeframe to three da
  
  Read more

• Nevada Legislature: $9 minimum-wage provision added to overtime bill

  21-03-2015 00:06
  
  Republicans surprised their Democratic colleagues on Friday by tacking a provision raising Nevada’s minimum wage to $9 an hour to a bill that would repeal a law limiting the regular workday to eight hours. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Labor and Energy passed an amended version of SB193, in spite of indignation from Democratic committee members who said the matter was not thoroughly vetted and mar
  
  Read more

Follow @NewsNevada_ on Twitter!