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• Lake Tahoe Sustainability Action Plan wins national award

  17-04-2015 23:59
  
  The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s (TRPA) Lake Tahoe Sustainability Action Plan is being recognized this month with a National Planning Achievement Award for Environmental Planning from the American Planning Association.The Sustainability Action Plan is one of 12 plans nationwide that will be recognized with planning excellence awards during the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference on April 20.“This award shows Lake Tahoe is leading the way in planning to improve
  
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• Sony blasts Wikileaks over database of hacked emails

  17-04-2015 23:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Wikileaks on Thursday published a searchable database of every Sony email and document that was stolen by hackers last year.
  
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• Update: Fallon police find woman reportedly kidnapped.

  17-04-2015 23:28
  
  8 p.m. UPDATE: Capt. Vern Ulrich of the Fallon Police Department said Dorothy Mitchell, who was reportedly kidnapped Friday morning, was found Friday afternoon with her boyfriend. She told FPD she willingly went with her boyfriend.Ulrich, though said Mitchell was taken into custody and booked into Churchill County Jail.••••Fallon police are asking for the community’s help in finding a Fallon woman who was allegedly kidnapped Friday morning.Capt. Vern Ulrich said FPD are looking for Dor
  
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• Can You Be a Waitress and a Feminist?

  17-04-2015 23:25
  I put up with sexual harassment for the chance of a good tip.
  
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• US Coast Guard drug busts yield 14 tons of cocaine

  17-04-2015 23:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The offloading of tons of cocaine, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, was used as a backdrop to announce record-setting drug busts in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Suspect in 2 Milwaukee shooting deaths kills self

  17-04-2015 23:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The accidental death of a 2-year-old boy in Milwaukee on Sunday triggered a violent chain of events, eventually claiming the lives of three more people.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Dead bill sparks verbal altercation among Assembly GOP

  17-04-2015 22:52
  
  Nevada Assembly Republicans say they’re working to make amends after a verbal altercation in a private caucus meeting earlier this week. Republican Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman said she’s upset that fellow Republican Ira Hansen refused to hold a vote on AB282 by Friday’s legislative deadline, and said he made threatening comments to her during the meeting. Hansen disagreed with Seaman’s version of events and refused to comment further. The bill would have revised law related to foreclo
  
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• Fallon police look for alleged kidnap victim

  17-04-2015 22:52
  
  Fallon police are asking for the community’s help in finding a Fallon woman who was allegedly kidnapped Friday morning.Capt. Vern Ulrich said FPD are looking for Dorothy “Dot” Mitchell, 36. Ulrich said at about 10:44 a.m. in the 600 block of Douglas Street, witnesses observed Mitchell being grabbed around the neck by a caucasian man. Witnesses tell FPD the male suspect physically forced Mitchell into a primer black lifted Dodge pickup that is described as “very loud.”Ulrich said the su
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office seeks help in finding Deven Orlander Brawner

  17-04-2015 22:52
  
  The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is seeking information on the whereabouts of Deven Orlander Brawner, 16. He has been missing since Monday.Anyone with information is asked to call Det. Salvador Acosta at 775-283-7855 or call Secret Witness at 775-283-1799 or email [email protected].…
  
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• Man convicted after fatally shooting wife in front of 5 kids

  17-04-2015 22:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Clark County jury on Friday convicted a man of fatally shooting his estranged wife in front of their five children.
  
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• Jury convicts man in wife’s death

  17-04-2015 22:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Clark County jury on Friday convicted a man of fatally shooting his estranged wife in front of their five children.
  
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• Another Ala. death row inmate walks free after 15 years

  17-04-2015 22:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Alabama death row inmate who won a new trial and then reached a plea deal with prosecutors walked out of jail a free man on Thursday, the second condemned man to do so this month.
  
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• North Korea threatens US ambassador with violence over remarks

  17-04-2015 21:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A North Korean propaganda unit said the U.S. ambassador to South Korea could face a “bigger mishap” than the knife attack to his face last month if he does not stop insulting North Korea with “laughable” accusations.
  
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• Okla. reserve deputy charged in fatal shooting apologizes to victim’s family

  17-04-2015 21:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Oklahoma reserve deputy, who fatally shot a man when he said he accidentally grabbed his gun instead of his Taser, apologized to the victim’s family on Friday and said his mistake could have happened to anyone.
  
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• Pope may go to Cuba after US visit in September

  17-04-2015 21:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Pope Francis may add a trip to Cuba on to the itinerary of his visit to the United States in September, the Vatican said on Friday, adding that discussions with Cuban authorities were still at an early stage.
  
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• Wall recognizes Nevada Guard members who served in Gulf wars

  17-04-2015 21:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The names of the Nevada National Guard soldiers and airmen who have served in combat operations in the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom were unveiled Friday on 43 plaques stretching across an auditorium wall at the Office of the Adjutant General.
  
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• Grand jury indicts man in attack while searching for pit bulls

  17-04-2015 21:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 33-year-old man who attacked a woman while searching for his pit bulls has been indicted, prosecutors said Friday.
  
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• Rite of Passage sues Nevada over contract issues

  17-04-2015 21:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The nonprofit organization that was contracted to run the juvenile correctional facility for Nevada in Clark County has filed a lawsuit against the state over contract issues.
  
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• Bills would give more students breakfast, provide anti-bullying office

  17-04-2015 20:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Nevada Senate committee on Friday heard two bills tied to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s education agenda — providing breakfast in more schools for low-income students and establishing a new office within the Department of Education to combat bullying.
  
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• Federal judge declares FBI ruse violated gambler’s privacy rights

  17-04-2015 20:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A federal judge has ruled that FBI agents violated a wealthy Malaysian businessman’s privacy rights when they entered his luxury Caesars Palace villa last year posing as repairmen to secretly gather evidence before conducting a raid in an illegal sports betting investigation.
  
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• Need some time outdoors? National parks are free this weekend

  17-04-2015 20:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  From the giant sequoias of Yosemite to the geysers of Yellowstone, the United States’ national parks were made for you and me. And for Saturday and Sunday, they’re also free.
  
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• Police shoot dog they say attacked their K-9

  17-04-2015 20:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police shot a dog they say attacked one of their K-9s in the northeast valley Friday while they looked for someone in a stolen vehicle investigation.
  
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• Dog police shot for attacking their K-9 has died

  17-04-2015 20:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police shot a dog they say attacked one of their K-9s in the northeast valley Friday while they looked for someone in a stolen vehicle investigation. The shot dog later died.
  
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• Boston Marathon bombing victim’s parents want death penalty dropped

  17-04-2015 20:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The parents of the youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombings are making an emotional, passionate plea to take the death penalty off the table for the man convicted in the case.
  
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• Education Notebook, April 23-29, 2015

  17-04-2015 18:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
  
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• Man police killed near Jean in 2014 prompted 3 trespassing calls

  17-04-2015 18:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Ronald Wayne Tate had three separate run-ins with Las Vegas police within 48 hours of being shot and killed near the Jean Airport last year, police said during a public hearing Friday.
  
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• Man police killed near Jean had prompted 3 trespassing calls

  17-04-2015 18:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Ronald Wayne Tate had three separate run-ins with Las Vegas police within 48 hours of being shot and killed near the Jean Airport last year, police said during a public hearing Friday.
  
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• Tarkanians’ 5-year-old son suffers stroke

  17-04-2015 18:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Danny Tarkanian’s 5-year-old son, Jerry, suffered a stroke and was hospitalized at University Medical Center on Friday.
  
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• Tarkanian’s 5-year-old grandson suffers stroke

  17-04-2015 18:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Jerry Tarkanian’s 5-year-old grandson suffered a stroke and was hospitalized at University Medical Center on Friday.
  
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• Senate panel backs emergency money for Nevada Supreme Court

  17-04-2015 18:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A state Senate committee Friday passed a bill to keep the doors of the Nevada Supreme Court open after the chief justice said it was on the brink of going broke because of fewer traffic tickets and a decline in court assessments.
  
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• Coroner IDs 4 people killed in Wednesday crash

  17-04-2015 17:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The four people who were killed in a three-vehicle crash on Wednesday have been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
  
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• Phoenix man ‘snapped’ before killing 4 family members, self

  17-04-2015 17:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man apparently upset over a family business dispute “snapped” before fatally shooting his two brothers, his mother and his sister-in-law and then killing himself at a home in Phoenix, police said on Friday.
  
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• 5 family members found dead after standoff at Phoenix home

  17-04-2015 17:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Five adults were found shot to death inside a Phoenix home on Thursday at the end of a police standoff in an apparent murder-suicide over a possible family business dispute, officials said.
  
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• Napping luggage handler banned from Alaska Airlines

  17-04-2015 16:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The frantic 911 call came just as the Alaska Airlines flight had taken off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday afternoon. The caller was a ramp agent who fell asleep in the plane’s cargo hold.
  
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• Luggage handler made 911 call from plane’s cargo hold

  17-04-2015 16:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The frantic 911 call came just as the Alaska Airlines flight had taken off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday afternoon. The caller was a ramp agent who fell asleep in the plane’s cargo hold.
  
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• Gayle Robertson begins today as Carson City treasurer

  17-04-2015 10:23
  
  Gayle H. Robertson begins today as Carson City’s newly-appointed treasurer after her selection Thursday by the Board of Supervisors.She said during her interview with board members she would seek election to the office in November, 2016, which is required after such an appointment due to the office being vacant. Robertson, one of three candidates interviewed in a morning board session, was chosen by a 3-1 vote with Supervisor Jim Shirk dissenting and Supervisor Brad Bonkowski having recused hi
  
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• University of Nevada football coming to Douglas High

  17-04-2015 09:46
  
  Just past the midway mark of 15 spring practices allowed by NCAA rules, the University of Nevada football team will take its show on the road Saturday for two hours of live scrimmage work at Douglas High School.The gates at Douglas High will open at noon and coach Brian Polian will speak to fans and answer questions from 12:15-12:45 p.m. The team will hit the field at 1 p.m. and select players will be available to sign autographs afterward.“We’ll probably do more there in terms of scrimmagin
  
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• Schulz Ranch subdivision in Carson City clears hurdle

  17-04-2015 09:46
  
  The initial phase of a 424-house subdivision at Carson City’s south edge moved a big step closer to real activity this year due to a Thursday vote by the Board of Supervisors.That word came from Dean Wingert, who heads Crown West Land Group and is vice president of Crown West Realty, LLC, both in Arizona, after the unanimous board tally to approve and accept the Schulz Ranch landscape maintenance district petition and the Schulz Ranch maintenance district development agreement. The first phas
  
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• Nevada Hospital Association says Medicaid costs unsustainable

  17-04-2015 09:46
  
  The combination of rising costs, state cuts during the recession and the burgeoning Medicaid population under the Affordable Health Care Act has left Nevada’s hospitals with an unsustainable, unfunded burden.Bill Welch, head of the Nevada Hospital Association, told the joint human resources money committee of the Nevada Legislature on Thursday hospitals are now being reimbursed at 2001 levels for care.He said in Medicaid alone, 2013 reimbursements were $249 million short of costs.“That is u
  
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• Mad skills in Carson City

  17-04-2015 09:46
  
  Douglas High’s Seth Benedict throws flame in the welding division of the SkillsUSA competition Thurday at WNC. Nevada’s top community college and high school students in Career and Technical Education competed at WNC Thursday. Other disciplines including broadcast news production, commercial baking, electrical construction wiring, culinary arts, food and beverage service competition, information technology services, television video production, digital cinema production, architectural draft
  
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• Gayle Robertson begins today at Carson City treasurer

  17-04-2015 09:46
  
  Gayle H. Robertson begins today as Carson City’s newly-appointed treasurer after her selection Thursday by the Board of Supervisors.She said during her interview with board members she would seek election to the office in November, 2016, which is required after such an appointment due to the office being vacant. Robertson, one of three candidates interviewed in a morning board session, was chosen by a 3-1 vote with Supervisor Jim Shirk dissenting and Supervisor Brad Bonkowski having recused hi
  
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• Carson City’s WNC hosts Earth Week activities

  17-04-2015 09:46
  
  Western Nevada College celebrates Mother Earth with a variety of activities and free film screenings at the Carson City and Fallon campuses. The events are designed to generate conversation and enhance understanding about the environment. Events on the Carson City campus will include:Tuesday, April 21Two films from “Years of Living Dangerously,” the Emmy award-winning documentary film series on climate change, will be shown.“Dry Season” will be featured from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Joe
  
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• Carson City officials: Water supply OK; conservation urged for future

  17-04-2015 09:46
  
  Carson City water is like the marketing moxie in Las Vegas, a good thing here due to drought.That was one of the tidbits that could be gleaned during a city government look at the relatively sound situation here regarding local water supplies.What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, or so the marketing hoopla goes, but Carson City Public Works Director Darren Schulz upped the ante with a factoid that likened Eagle Valley to a kind of sponge.“Every drop of water that’s saved in Carson City stay
  
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• Carson City Capitol Mall project reaches city planners

  17-04-2015 09:46
  
  A 10.5-acre Carson City Capitol Mall project with a 10-story hotel, multi-story office structures and parking garages moved from the drawing board to city government Thursday.Manhard Consulting, on behalf of Carson City Development, LLC, filed a request at the Community Development Department for a special use permit to erect the multi-use downtown project on land near the Carson Nugget casino. Community Development Director Lee Plemel said planners will take it to the Planning Commission for po
  
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• ACLU of Nevada joins effort to reinstate Obama’s immigration plan

  17-04-2015 09:46
  
  CARSON CITY — The ACLU of Nevada is among about 150 organizations asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn an injunction which temporarily halted President Obama’s immigration programs. The court is expected to hear arguments today in the multi-state legal challenge over the programs that could allow several million undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. temporarily. On Feb. 17, a federal district court blocked implementation of the president’s initiative to expand Def
  
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• Senior/Senior Friendship Ball/Prom royalty

  17-04-2015 09:23
  
  Austin Mead and Kasey Camp, both 18, are nominated King and Queen Thursday night at the ‘Senior/Senior Friendship Ball/Prom’ at Carson High’s Morse Burley Gym. Gymnasium.…
  
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• North Valleys tops Carson

  17-04-2015 09:23
  
  Six times Carson High had runners in scoring position, and only once did the Senators come through with a key hit.Sean Flanary pitched a 6-hitter at the Senators, who dropped back to .500 after a 4-1 loss Thursday night at Ron McNutt Field.Carson is 7-7 heading into Saturday’s 11 a.m. doubleheader against winless Wooster. Carson started the day in seventh place, and the Senators need to chalk up a few more wins to solidify that playoff spot.The Senators left runners on third twice and on secon
  
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• Local sports roundup: Miners’ Henry 1-hits Senators

  17-04-2015 09:23
  
  Time is starting to run out on Carson High’s softball team.The Senators started the day two games out of the eighth and final playoff spot, and losing 10-0 to Bishop Manogue didn’t help any.Carson is 3-10 in league going into Saturday’s doubleheader at Galena. First pitch is 10 a.m.The Senators’ offense struggled against Klamath Henry, getting just four runners on base. Carson’s only it came in the fifth when Bailey Allen hit a two-out single to break up the no-hitter. Henry fanned se
  
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• Carson High students fund raise to go to the National History Day

  17-04-2015 09:23
  
  Students from Carson High School are raising money to attend the National History Day national competition in Boston. In March, groups of sophomores competed in the Nevada National History Day, where they presented history projects to compete against other high school students around Nevada. Twelve students from Carson High won first place in their categories ranging from individual exhibits to group websites, which qualified them to go onto the national competition at the University of Boston.
  
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• Carson City students perform Spring Fling concert April 23

  17-04-2015 09:23
  
  Carson City Symphony’s Strings in the Schools ensembles, with Sue Jesch, conductor, will play music by Antonio Vivaldi, Antonín Dvorak, John Lennon and Paul McCartney in their Spring Fling concert at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, at the Carson City Community Center. The free concert will feature performances by students in second grade through high school from beginning violins and cellos, intermediate String Ensemble, Pizzazz, and STRAZZ. David Bugli, conductor of the Carson City Symphony, s
  
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