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• Nevada Legsilature: Republicans plan to introduce no new tax budget

  26-03-2015 23:59
  
  A group of conservative Nevada Republicans plan to introduce an alternative budget plan that doesn’t raise taxes. Republican Assemblyman Jim Wheeler said the plan would be introduced on Friday and wouldn’t raise taxes. The Gardnerville Republican refused to detail the plan and only said no taxes would be raised under the proposal. Another group of Republicans led by Assembly members Paul Anderson and Derek Armstrong introduced a separate plan on Monday to raise the state’s modified busine
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Lawmakers review bill to make expiring taxes permanent

  26-03-2015 23:59
  
  Nevada lawmakers are set to review a major portion of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s plan to raise and extend more than $1.1 billion in taxes. The Senate Revenue and Economic Development Committee will review SB 483 on Thursday, which would extend and make a number of expiring taxes permanent, including some on the payroll tax and a sales tax. The bill would also raise taxes on cigarette packages from 80 cents to $1.20 and raise the mining industry’s payroll tax rate to the same level covering finan
  
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• Threat to ‘blow up’ Ober Elementary leads to lockdown

  26-03-2015 23:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Ober Elementary School is on a “hard lock down” after a man called and threatened to blow it up, Las Vegas police said. No one is allowed in or out.
  
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• Threat that locked down Ober Elementary a hoax, police say

  26-03-2015 23:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County School District police said a phone call that caused a Summerlin elementary school to be locked down Thursday afternoon was a hoax.
  
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• Police: Threat that locked down Vegas school a hoax

  26-03-2015 23:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County School District police said a phone call that caused a Summerlin elementary school to be locked down Thursday afternoon was a hoax.
  
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• Do student-athletes get cheated out of an education?

  26-03-2015 23:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  As March Madness ignites Americans’ yearly obsession with college basketball games and broken brackets, a new book is calling attention to a different kind of madness: the systemic academic fraud at the center of college sports.
  
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• State’s silence on shooting of handcuffed prison inmates called deeply troubling

  26-03-2015 22:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday he has not yet spoken with Department of Corrections Director Greg Cox following revelations that one inmate was shot dead and another wounded by a guard four months ago.
  
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• Sandoval says he still hasn’t spoken to corrections head about slain inmate

  26-03-2015 22:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday he has not yet spoken with Department of Corrections Director Greg Cox following revelations that an inmate was shot and killed by a prison guard four months ago.
  
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• Russia wants a superhighway that will let you drive to London

  26-03-2015 22:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  According to a March 23 report in The Siberian Times, Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin has proposed a plan for a massive trans-Siberian highway that would link his country’s eastern border with the U.S. state of Alaska, crossing a narrow stretch of the Bering Sea that separates Asia and North America.
  
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• County dismisses Riverwood lawsuit

  26-03-2015 22:34
  
  Litigation over the large flat spot east of Highway 395 at the northern entrance of Douglas County wrapped up on Tuesday, according to a statement issued by District Attorney Mark Jackson.Jackson said the county filed a notice voluntarily dismissing its remaining claims against Riverwood Partners filed Nov. 1, 2010.Approved in 2007, Riverwood was a commercial project proposed to be similar to that across Highway 395 with Clear Creek and Carson Valley Plazas.Commissioners approved a settlement t
  
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• Boston bombing jury shown bomb mockups, autopsy photos

  26-03-2015 22:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Boston Marathon bombing jury on Thursday viewed mockups of the twin pressure-cooker bombs that ripped through the crowd at the race’s finish line in 2013 and autopsy photos of one of the three people they killed.
  
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• National Guardsman, cousin arrested in plot to support ISIS

  26-03-2015 22:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A U.S. Army National Guard soldier and his cousin have been arrested on charges of conspiring to support Islamic State, the Department of Justice said on Thursday.
  
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• Jury wants woman who ran granddaughter to death to get life in prison

  26-03-2015 22:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Alabama jury on Thursday recommended that a woman convicted of running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for having eaten chocolates spend the rest of her life in prison, a local ABC News affiliate reported.
  
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• Lawyer convicted in HOA takeover scheme to continue legal practice

  26-03-2015 22:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A federal judge Thursday denied a government request to bar convicted attorney Keith Gregory from practicing law while he waits to be sentenced in a high-profile scheme to defraud and take over homeowners associations in the Las Vegas Valley.
  
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• Former Station Casinos manager sentenced to prison for under-the-table payments

  26-03-2015 21:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former Station Casinos employee was sentenced to 366 days in federal prison Thursday for tax evasion related to a scheme to accept under-the-table payments related to his job.
  
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• Former casino worker sentenced to prison for under-the-table payments

  26-03-2015 21:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former Station Casinos employee was sentenced to 366 days in federal prison Thursday for tax evasion related to a scheme to accept under-the-table payments related to his job.
  
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• Unprecedented sage grouse protection deal signed in Nevada

  26-03-2015 21:48
  
  RENO — An unprecedented attempt to protect sage grouse habitat across parts of more than 900 square miles of privately owned land in Nevada will begin under a deal Thursday involving the federal government, an environmental group and the world’s largest gold mining company.The agreement comes as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approaches a fall deadline for a decision on whether to protect the greater sage grouse, a bird roughly the size of a chicken that ranges across the West, under th
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Bill would prevent smoking in cars with children present

  26-03-2015 21:48
  
  A Nevada Assembly member is bringing forward legislation making it a crime to smoke tobacco in a car with a minor present. Democratic Assemblyman Mike Sprinkle is sponsoring AB322 which was heard Thursday in the Assembly Judiciary Committee. The bill would prohibit motorists from smoking tobacco or electronic cigarettes in a moving or stopped car if there is a child under the age of 18 in the vehicle. The proposal would allow police to levy a $25 fine against smokers breaking the rule. Sprinkle
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Bill would exempt out of state gun buys from sales tax

  26-03-2015 21:48
  
  A group of Nevada Republicans are bringing forward a bill changing sales tax requirements on gun sales. Republican Assemblywoman Jill Dickman is sponsoring AB316 which is scheduled for a hearing Thursday in the Assembly Taxation Committee. Dickman said the bill would change current tax policy requiring gun sellers to levy sales taxes on out-of-state firearms sales. Current law requires out-of-state sales on firearms to be shipped to federally licensed dealers before a sale. The bill would requi
  
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• Blue ribbon committee calls for major change in Clark County child welfare system

  26-03-2015 21:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County’s child welfare and court systems are “overtaxed and under stress” with limited resources and policies and procedures that too often result in less-than-best outcomes for children, according to a report published Thursday.
  
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• Bergdahl says he tried to escape a dozen times, beaten each time

  26-03-2015 21:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl says he tried to escape his Taliban captors a dozen times, but each time he was found and brutally beaten.
  
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• UNLV president joins ‘overwhelming number’ opposed to campus carry bill

  26-03-2015 21:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  UNLV President Len Jessup broke his silence Thursday on a bill that would allow permit-holders to bring concealed weapons onto Nevada college campuses.
  
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• UNLV president joins opposition to campus carry bill

  26-03-2015 21:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  UNLV President Len Jessup broke his silence Thursday on a bill that would allow permit-holders to bring concealed weapons onto Nevada college campuses.
  
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• Mom to be charged with murder after children’s bodies found in freezer

  26-03-2015 21:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Michigan magistrate judge set a bond of $1 million on Thursday for a mother of two children found dead in a freezer in a Detroit apartment, after a prosecutor said that murder charges will be filed.
  
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• Injuries unknown after building collapses in NYC neighborhood

  26-03-2015 20:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A building collapsed on Thursday in New York City’s East Village neighborhood, police said. There was no immediate information on possible injuries, said a spokesman for the New York Police Department.
  
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• 12 injured in NYC building collapse

  26-03-2015 20:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Twelve people are injured, including four critically, after a residential apartment building collapsed and was engulfed in flames on Thursday in New York City’s East Village neighborhood, authorities said.
  
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• 1-known critically injured in NYC building collapse

  26-03-2015 20:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person was critically injured in a New York building collapse. Others are being assessed, fire department officials report.
  
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• Vegas is warming up; could hit 90 over weekend

  26-03-2015 20:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Temperatures could reach 90 degrees in Las Vegas this weekend, which would be the hottest for 2015 and at least 10 degrees above average, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Metro seeks pickup driver who hit teen; Hacienda closed at Topaz

  26-03-2015 20:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in locating the driver of a truck that hit a teenager in the southeast valley Thursday morning.
  
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• Metro: Driver of pickup that hit teen, left in custody

  26-03-2015 20:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police said the driver of a truck that hit a teenager in the southeast valley Thursday morning has been taken into custody for felony hit-and-run.
  
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• Will Congress have to tighten investor visa program?

  26-03-2015 19:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Congress might weigh tightening an investor visa program in the wake of an investigation that found a top Department of Homeland Security official pulled strings to process visas under pressure from powerful political figures including Sen. Harry Reid, according to a House committee chairman.
  
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• Congress might weigh tightening visa investor program

  26-03-2015 19:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Congress might weigh tightening an investor visa program in the wake of an investigation that found a top Department of Homeland Security official pulled strings to process visas under pressure from powerful political figures including Sen. Harry Reid, according to a House committee chairman.
  
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• Bicyclist died 17 days after February hit-and-run, police say

  26-03-2015 19:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A bicyclist died 17 days after a February hit-and-run crash in the east valley, Las Vegas police said Thursday.
  
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• Former foster parent gets prison in sex abuse case

  26-03-2015 19:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The former owner of a North Las Vegas behavioral health services company was sentenced Thursday to four to six years on child abuse and lewdness charges for encounters with his adopted son.
  
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• Road work underway at Desert National Wildlife Refuge

  26-03-2015 19:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Four miles of paving may delay traffic.
  
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• Man accused of impersonating cop in Georgia booked in Vegas

  26-03-2015 19:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Georgia fugitive accused of impersonating an officer has been arrested in Las Vegas, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday.
  
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• Veterans group criticizes new VA benefit, appeal forms

  26-03-2015 19:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Department of Veterans Affairs launched a “standardized forms” requirement this week for veterans seeking disability benefits and filing appeals, but the change has drawn criticism from the Disabled American Veterans.
  
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• Interstate bridge collapses in Texas

  26-03-2015 18:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A bridge collapsed on Interstate 35 in Salado, Texas, on Thursday, about 50 miles north of Austin.
  
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• 1 killed, several injured in Texas highway bridge collapse

  26-03-2015 18:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least one person was killed and several others were injured when a truck hit a support beam on a highway bridge under construction above Interstate 35 in central Texas, causing a collapse that showered debris on vehicles, officials said.
  
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• UPDATE: Union Pacific begins to remove cars from train derailment

  26-03-2015 18:37
  
  Union Pacific railroad crews began removing box and flat cars from one of the nation’s main east-west lines early Thursday morning after 34 freight cars derailed the day before, causing numerous delays on a stretch of rail 22 miles north of Fallon.UP Spokesman Francisco Castillo said the railroad hopes to remove all the cars and rebuild the track by late Thursday. In the meantime, he said many freight trains were rerouted. “They will build a completely new rail,” Castillo said, adding the
  
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• Ohio firefighter dies after falling 5-stories down elevator shaft

  26-03-2015 18:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A firefighter with three decades of service with Cincinnati’s fire department died on Thursday after falling five stories down an elevator shaft while fighting a multi-alarm apartment building blaze, officials said.
  
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• Woman charged in northeast valley slaying makes court appearance

  26-03-2015 17:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A judge set a preliminary hearing Thursday for a woman accused in a northeast valley slaying, while police continue to search for two other suspects in the case.
  
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• Health officials favor Nevada bill to ban smoking in cars with children

  26-03-2015 17:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The documented ill health effects from inhaling secondhand smoke were squared off against individual rights at a hearing Thursday on a bill that would ban smoking in cars while children are present.
  
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• Nowsch, suspected getaway driver plead not guilty in Meyers slaying

  26-03-2015 17:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Erich Nowsch and his accused getaway driver charged in the slaying of Tammy Meyers appeared in court together for the first time Thursday and pleaded not guilty.
  
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• Nowsch and getaway driver make court appearance in Meyers slaying

  26-03-2015 17:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Erich Nowsch and his accused getaway driver charged in the slaying of Tammy Meyers appeared in court together for the first time Thursday.
  
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• Water leak clogs Desert Inn-Maryland Parkway intersection

  26-03-2015 17:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Desert Inn Road and Maryland Parkway intersection travel lanes are limited to one direction each way while crews replace a leaking water valve, the Las Vegas Valley Water District said Thursday morning.
  
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• Police say California woman’s kidnapping a hoax

  26-03-2015 15:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The reported kidnapping of a Vallejo, California, woman for ransom this week was nothing but a hoax, police said.
  
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• 1 dead after tornados strike Oklahoma, Arkansas

  26-03-2015 15:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  About 15,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma and Arkansas were without power on Thursday after tornadoes touched down in the states a day earlier, leaving at least one person dead and scores of structures damaged.
  
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• Official: Co-pilot’s actions ‘deliberate’ to crash Germanwings plane

  26-03-2015 14:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Audio from the mangled voice recorder of Germanwings Flight 9525 reveals the captain was locked out of the cockpit while the co-pilot appeared to make a deliberate attempt to destroy the plane, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said Thursday.
  
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• Germanwings co-pilot’s actions were ‘deliberate’, ‘wanted to destroy’ plane

  26-03-2015 14:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The autopilot on the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday was switched to descend to 100 feet, its lowest possible setting, before it began its fatal plunge, according to data from a specialist aviation tracking service.
  
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