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• Mile High Jazz Band celebrating 14 years April 14

  02-04-2015 23:56
  
  A celebration to mark 14 years of weekly performances in Carson City by the Mile High Jazz Band will be at 7:30 p.m. April 14 at Comma Coffee, where cake will be served and the group will play big-band music with vocalists Cindee LeVal and June Joplin. The Mile High Jazz Band includes trumpets, trombones, saxophones, keyboard, guitar, bass, drums and singers. It plays about 20 tunes from its ever-expanding repertoire of selections in the style of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and other contempora
  
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• Cabbie hit by car at McCarran International Airport

  02-04-2015 23:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A cabbie was hospitalized Thursday after being struck by a vehicle at McCarran International Airport, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Arkansas governor signs revised religious freedom bill

  02-04-2015 22:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a religious freedom measure into law on Thursday after state lawmakers overhauled their proposal so that it mirrors the federal law.
  
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• Bill to boost maximum speed limit to 80 mph advances

  02-04-2015 22:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would raise the speed limit to 80 mph on some freeways and highways if the Department of Transportation deems it is safe.
  
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• Sandoval picks two new Clark County judges

  02-04-2015 22:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Governor Brian Sandoval appointed a U.S. prosecutor and a private lawyer in Las Vegas on Thursday to fill two judicial seats in Clark County courts.
  
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• Report: Kidnapper in ‘76 Chowchilla abduction gets initial approval for parole

  02-04-2015 22:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One of three men who kidnapped a busload of school children in California more than three decades ago and buried them alive in a van won initial approval for parole on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reported.
  
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• Eclipse will be shortest of century, feature a ‘blood moon’

  02-04-2015 21:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  They say the early bird gets the worm, but in this case, it’s the blood moon on Saturday.
  
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• Here’s what you need to know about Iran’s nuclear deal

  02-04-2015 21:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Six world powers led by the United States announced on Thursday a framework deal with Iran limiting its nuclear program.
  
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• Toddler struck, killed by father’s pickup in North Las Vegas

  02-04-2015 21:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 23-month-old girl died after her father, who did not see she was in the driveway, struck her with a pickup Thursday morning in a North Las Vegas neighborhood, police said.
  
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• Toddler struck, killed by car in North Las Vegas

  02-04-2015 21:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 23-month-old girl died Thursday after being struck by a car in the 400 block of Yarnell Drive, near the intersection of Washburn Road and Commerce Street.
  
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• NCAA says organization is not responsible for students’ actual education

  02-04-2015 21:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After years of making the case that the education of athletes is paramount, the NCAA now says it has no legal responsibility to make sure education is actually delivered.
  
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• DA’s office must turn over witness payment documents, judge rules

  02-04-2015 21:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County District Attorney’s Office must make public dozens of records about payments made to witnesses in criminal cases, a judge ruled Thursday.
  
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• Doctor in deadly Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak guilty of fraud conspiracy

  02-04-2015 20:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Dr. Dipak Desai pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday in a health care fraud conspiracy stemming from the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.
  
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• Metro police union president vows to fight for his job

  02-04-2015 20:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas Police Protective Association Executive Director Chris Collins said Thursday he plans to fight to keep his job and refuted allegations that he has made decisions to hurt the union.
  
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• Robert Durst expected in New Orleans court on weapons charges

  02-04-2015 20:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, is due in a New Orleans courtroom on Thursday on weapons charges his attorneys are expected to say stem from an improper search.
  
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• No-show witness delays Robert Durst court appearance

  02-04-2015 20:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, will remain jailed in Louisiana after investigators his attorneys wanted to question did not appear at a court hearing on Thursday.
  
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• Investigation report into Rolling Stone rape article to get early release

  02-04-2015 20:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Columbia University’s investigation into the misreporting of Rolling Stone magazine’s “Rape on Campus” article will be released on Sunday evening, the university said Thursday.
  
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• Chinese ministry officials angry after 2 U.S. military jets land in Taiwan

  02-04-2015 19:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  China’s Foreign Ministry expressed anger on Thursday after two U.S. fighter jets landed in Taiwan, in a rare official contact between the militaries of the United States and the self-ruled democratic island.
  
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• Las Vegas gets a $2 million bump in counterterrorism funds

  02-04-2015 19:55
  
  Las Vegas is scheduled to receive a $3 million federal grant to fund counterterrorism efforts. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that the Las Vegas urban area would receive a $3 million grant as part of the department’s Urban Area Security Initiative. The grant is a $2 million bump from last year. The city was not included in the program in 2013. Republican Sen. Dean Heller and Democratic Rep. Dina Titus released statements thanking the department and said past fundi
  
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• Two New York women arrested in alleged ISIS-inspired bomb plot

  02-04-2015 19:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Noelle Velentzas, 28, could not understand why U.S. citizens like her were traveling overseas to wage jihad when they could simply stay and “make history” by unleashing terrorist attacks on American soil, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Thursday.
  
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• Indiana fire official demoted after tying noose at training exercise

  02-04-2015 19:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An assistant chief of an Indiana city’s fire department has agreed to a demotion after being accused by a fellow firefighter of tying a noose with rope during a training exercise, local media reported on Wednesday.
  
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• Mark Ficarra leaving as RJ publisher, chief revenue officer

  02-04-2015 18:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Mark Ficarra is leaving the Las Vegas Review-Journal as publisher and chief revenue officer.
  
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• Las Vegas marshals looking for suspects in car burglaries

  02-04-2015 18:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  City marshals are trying to identify people they say are connected to a series of vehicle burglaries where windows were broken and credit cards were stolen, Las Vegas officials said.
  
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• Lawyer: Legislature ‘extortion’ probe aims to quiet lobbyist

  02-04-2015 18:17
  
  LAS VEGAS — A lawyer for a Nevada automated phone call lobbyist is waging a federal court fight against warrants he says amount to a fishing expedition in a state Legislature bribery and extortion investigation. Attorney David Otto declares in documents filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas that his client, political consultant Tony Dane, has committed no crime. Otto says searches of properties in Virginia, Utah and Nevada amount to political intimidation and an attempt to shut Dane up. T
  
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• Germanwings co-pilot had researched suicide methods

  02-04-2015 18:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Analysis of a tablet device belonging to Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz shows he researched methods of suicide on the Internet in the days leading up to the crash, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Dusseldorf, Germany, said Thursday.
  
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• Man makes court appearance in bus stop crash that killed girl, grandmother

  02-04-2015 18:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 20-year-old man appeared in court Thursday to face charges in a hit-and-run car crash at a bus stop that left a woman and her 6-year-old granddaughter dead.
  
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• Coroner IDs body found at Lake Mohave as missing teen

  02-04-2015 17:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A body recovered Wednesday evening at Lake Mohave is the teen boy who went missing after jumping from a cliff hours before, Lake Mead National Recreation Area officials said.
  
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• Death toll rises to 70 in Islamic militant attack on Kenyan university

  02-04-2015 17:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Seventy people were killed and 79 others were wounded in the Al-Shabaab terror attack on Garissa University in Kenya, the Kenya National Disaster Operation Center said Thursday.
  
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• Death toll rises to 147 in Islamic militant attack on Kenyan university

  02-04-2015 17:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The death toll in the attack by Somali Islamists on a university in northeastern Kenya on Thursday has risen to 147 and the siege has ended, the country’s disaster response agency said.
  
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• 14 killed, hundreds missing after Islamic group attacks Kenyan university

  02-04-2015 17:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least 14 people were killed on Thursday when Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed a Kenyan university campus, taking Christians hostage and engaging security forces in a shootout for several hours.
  
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• Vegas gets boost in homeland security grant

  02-04-2015 16:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas will receive $3 million from the federal government to guard against terrorism, a three-fold increase over last year, sources said on Thursday.
  
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• Vegas gets $3 million boost in homeland security grant

  02-04-2015 16:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Southern Nevada will receive $3 million from the federal government to guard against terrorism, a three-fold increase over last year and a boost to local homeland security.
  
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• 1 killed, several injured in motel fire near LA

  02-04-2015 15:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person was killed and 15 others, including a child, suffered injuries Thursday morning after a fire ripped through a two-story Wilmington, California, motel, forcing many people trapped in their rooms to jump out windows to escape the intense flames.
  
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• Harry Reid Hopes to Ensure Democrats’ Success as Tenure Winds Down

  02-04-2015 12:12
  The Senate minority leader, who announced his retirement last week, vowed to deploy all of his resources to make sure Democrats hold on to his seat.
  
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• Updates on prior columns: E-cigarettes and access for the handicapped to the state museum

  02-04-2015 09:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Readers routinely complain that the news media give the beginning but not the end of a story. Well, here are a few endings of note involving e-cigarettes and equal access to the Nevada State Museum at the Springs Preserve. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t find a link to tie them together, so they’ll have to hang separately.
  
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• Utah State Route 14: The road to everywhere

  02-04-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  Craggy forests, carved rocks and a rainbow of squirrels along Utah’s scenic highway.
  
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• Rim-to-rim is heaven and hell for Grand Canyon extreme runners

  02-04-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  Why would anyone go through this leg-pummeling, mentally punishing trip from one side of the Grand Canyon to the other?
  
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• Kickass climber Alex Johnson on first ascents and finding home in Las Vegas

  02-04-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  She drinks her coffee with butter. Her Chihuahua runs 8-minute miles. And she can hang her entire body weight on two fingers. Something tells me Alex Johnson would be good at Two Truths and a Lie.
  
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• Bag-o-gourmet! A taste test of campsite meals

  02-04-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  Rehydrated food might not sound appetizing, but some of these meals are so delectable we might even make them at home.
  
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• Add some smart and stylish gear to your active life

  02-04-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  You need a giant purple galaxy yoga mat. And some compression toe socks.
  
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• A dance with the Colorado River—four kayakers, one current

  02-04-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  No destination other than “up-river.”
  
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• A bar in the desert? It’s not a mirage

  02-04-2015 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  Miller Lite. Pork nachos. Swamp coolers. And miles and miles of Arizona desert.
  
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• Masked gunmen storm Kenyan university

  02-04-2015 08:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least 30 people were hospitalized when gunmen attacked a university in south central Kenya before dawn Thursday, firing indiscriminately and sending students scrambling for cover, witnesses and media reports said.
  
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• The Bryce is right for CHS

  02-04-2015 08:26
  
  After being routed by Cougars, Moyle leads turnaround with 10 strikeouts vs. Spanish SpringsCarson High showed it has a very short memory.The Senators rebounded from an ugly 15-run loss to Spanish Springs on Tuesday afternoon to blank the Cougars, 3-0, on a combined 4-hit shutout by Bryce Moyle and Joe Nelson Wednesday night at Ron McNutt Field.Carson improved to 5-5 in Northern Division I play heading into a two-game series against Bishop Manogue. The teams play Saturday at 11 a.m. at Manogue a
  
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• Pablo Cruise, Ambrosia to be featured in Carson City concert

  02-04-2015 08:26
  
  Everyone grab your calendars and circle Wednesday, July 8, when you’ll want to be in the best company possible for the seventh annual Concert Under the Stars, A Benefit for The Greenhouse Project, which this year features Pablo Cruise and Ambrosia at Cafe at Adele’s in Carson City.This event, which started 10 years ago as an expression of Chef Charlie Abowd’s lifelong love of music, has evolved into the primary fund-raising vehicle for The Greenhouse Project, a state-of-the-art growing fac
  
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• ‘Nevada lands bill unconstitutional’ says Legislative Counsel

  02-04-2015 08:26
  
  The Legislative Counsel has issued a letter stating in her opinion, AB408, which would claim state ownership and control over all federal lands in Nevada, is unconstitutional.”The authority of the United States to acquire and control the public lands located in this state is extensive and ample bases exist upon which a court could invalidate any state laws which are in direct conflict with existing federal laws concerning those public lands or which are hostile to or interfere with the exerci
  
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• National Child Abuse Prevention Month has organizations coming together

  02-04-2015 08:26
  
  Miss Carson City Briana Neben and Gracie Fields, 8, put a pinwheel in the ground in front of the Legislative Building during Pinwheels For Prevention Wednesday. The Division of Child and Family Services teamed with such partners as Prevent Child Abuse Nevada and Advocates to End Domestic Violence to present the awareness event. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.…
  
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• Local candidate campaign reports due Friday

  02-04-2015 08:26
  
  Friday is the deadline for municipal election candidates to file their second campaign contribution and expense report.The report covers contributions and expenses from March 14 through April 2 and must be filed electronically on the Secretary of State’s website.The third report is due May 12 and covers the period from April 3-May 8.Municipal election dates are Tuesday for the primary and June 2 for the general election.…
  
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• Free art show showcases artists with Dayton ties

  02-04-2015 08:26
  
  “Emanation,” a free art show featuring several artists with ties to Dayton, including Kapono Fuller, Blake Carter, Mallorie Gribble, Delia Diaz and Rebecca Bishop, will be from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Dayton Valley Community Center, 170 Pike St. Kapono Fuller, native of Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, is a senior at Dayton High School. His art style is realism, and he works primarily with India ink and watercolor, but also in acrylic and spray paint. Fuller received four Silv
  
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• Easter activities in Carson City area

  02-04-2015 08:26
  
  Easter Week is here, and with it is coming the Easter Bunny, who’s going to be leaving candy-filled eggs and other treats for area children. Check out the following events to join in on the springtime fun. Meet the Easter Bunny The Easter Bunny will be available for photos from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Carson Mall. Carson City Kiwanis Easter egg hunt Carson City Kiwanis’ 38th annual Easter Egg Hunt, which will offer more than 8,000 eggs and hundreds of prizes, will be at 11 a.m. Sa
  
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