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• Video purportedly made by IS shows killing of Ethiopian Christians

  19-04-2015 23:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The video, in which militants call Christians “crusaders” who are out to kill Muslims, showed about 15 men being beheaded on a beach and another group of the same size, in an area of shrubland, being shot in the head.
  
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• WHO admits to serious failure to effectively handle Ebola crisis

  19-04-2015 23:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The World Health Organization has admitted serious failings in its handling of the Ebola crisis and pledged reforms to enable it to do better next time, its leadership said in a statement seen by Reuters on Sunday.
  
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• Watch the Australian Prime Minister down a beer in 7 seconds — VIDEO

  19-04-2015 23:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  His feat of swift consumption in a crowded bar impressed some people but annoyed others. And observers were quick to point out that Abbott had previously criticized binge drinking in Australia.
  
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• Police save unconscious woman from burning car —VIDEO

  19-04-2015 23:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The overturned convertible was smoldering, when police pulled up to it on a New Jersey roadway. The driver was pinned inside — and unconscious.
  
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• Penn & Teller join Las Vegas for AFAN AIDS Walk — PHOTOS

  19-04-2015 23:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Penn Jillette spoke to the crowd prior to the start of the Aid for AIDS of Nevada (AFAN) 25th Annual AIDS Walk Las Vegas at Town Square Las Vegas on Sunday.
  
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• Germanwings victim families could seek damages in the U.S.

  19-04-2015 22:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Families of the victims of the Germanwings crash are considering filing a claim for damages in the United States if they cannot reach agreement with parent airline Lufthansa in Germany, a lawyer representing the families said on Sunday.
  
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• Las Vegas lawyer seeking redemption comes clean about troubled past

  19-04-2015 22:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas attorney Alex Ghibaudo has decided to tell his story publicly — all of it: the alcohol abuse, the prostitutes, the suicide attempts, the jail time. ALL of it.
  
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• FBI and DOJ acknowledge forensic unit gave false testimony

  19-04-2015 22:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The FBI and U.S. Justice Department have acknowledged that almost all of the experts in a forensic unit dedicated to microscopic hair comparison gave flawed testimony against defendants before 2000, the Washington Post said.
  
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• Central valley crash shuts down traffic

  19-04-2015 21:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two northbound lanes on South Jones are closed, Goodwin said.
  
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• All lanes reopened after central valley crash

  19-04-2015 21:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two northbound lanes on South Jones were closed for just over an hour Sunday afternoon
  
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• Roads torn up again? Reasons for the Vegas madness

  19-04-2015 21:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  There’s a pot of gold at the end of this Las Vegas road construction traffic jam, er, rainbow, on the 215 Beltway.
  
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• Las Vegas teen soldier dies at Louisiana Army base

  19-04-2015 21:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The 19-year-old paratrooper, a former football star and 2014 graduate of Legacy High School, died at the Army Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana, officials announced Saturday.
  
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• Friends, family remember Las Vegas soldier who died in training

  19-04-2015 21:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Over 300 friends, family and former teammates of a 19-year-old North Las Vegas paratrooper lined the football field of Legacy High School on Sunday night to commemorate the life of the man, who died at an Army base on Thursday after his parachute failed to open during a jump.
  
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• Hundreds of residents evacuated as wildfire threatens homes

  19-04-2015 17:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The “Highway Fire” was incinerating 300 acres in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, early Sunday, and emergency officials have evacuated many residents, said Fire Captain Mike Mohler.
  
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• Body camera captures police shooting man with knife — VIDEO

  19-04-2015 17:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 23-year-old African-American man who barricaded himself in his mother’s house in a St. Louis suburb was shot and killed by police when he rushed at them with a knife in one hand and a Bible in the other, authorities said on Saturday.
  
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• 700 migrants feared dead after boat capsizes in Mediterranean

  19-04-2015 17:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  As many as 700 migrants were feared dead on Sunday after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, raising pressure on Europe to face down anti-immigrant bias and find money for support as turmoil in Libya and the Middle East worsens the crisis.
  
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• 700 feared dead after migrant boat capsizes near Libya

  19-04-2015 17:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It was the latest in a series of dangerous voyages as hundreds of men, women and children boarded a boat in Libya, hoping to make it safely to Europe.
  
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• Reid eye injury gives rise to rumor and legend

  19-04-2015 10:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  To most people it seemed curious but straightforward enough when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada said he suffered a serious facial injury while exercising at his Henderson home on New Year’s Day.
  
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• Washington Digest: Congress completes Medicare payment overhaul

  19-04-2015 09:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Congress completed work last week on a bill that overhauls the way Medicare pays doctors, ending a long practice of short-term fixes that was threatening medical services to seniors.
  
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• Significant progress for Carson City’s Capitol Mall hoped for by 2017

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  The private sector Capitol Mall project, which just reached Carson City government’s review stage, is big by local standards and has big implications for traffic, water and the like.Project documents detailing a special use permit request and a growth management application went into the Community Development Department hopper last week showing significant downtown traffic impacts may result and water usage triggered the need for the growth management review. Such details are yet to be aired
  
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• Second major legislative deadline hits Tuesday

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  The 2015 Legislature faces its second major deadline this week — bills must be voted out of the house where they originated before midnight Tuesday or they die.The exceptions, of course, are those granted a waiver by leadership of both houses or those labeled exempt because they have a financial impact on the state budget.The Senate made significant progress toward processing its remaining legislation Thursday and Friday.Majority Leader Michael Roberson said earlier in the week he intended to
  
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• Rotary clean up day in Carson City

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  Rotarians Alan Glover and Gary Aites clean up the garden area at Fremont Elementary School as part of ‘Rotary at Work Worldwide’ Saturday morning. The Rotary Club of Carson City and the Carson City Sunset Rotary Club participated. The major fundraiser, the Rotary Beer and Pizza Championships is next Saturday, April 25 in the Carson Mall. Craft beer brewers and microbreweries, 16 in all, will offer their top selections to attendees as they compete for several awards during the championships.
  
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• Officials: Busy bear summer

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  Now entering the fourth year of drought, wildlife officials are expecting a growing number of conflicts between western Nevada residents and bears this summer.Chris Healy of the Nevada Wildlife Department said when habitat conditions are good, “we don’t see many bears” because they can find the food they need in the mountains. But when drought or a late freeze stunts the growth of natural food sources, he said urban fruit trees and garbage cans are a magnet for the animals.And Carson City
  
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• Nevada springs to action

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  MINDEN — Brian Polian welcomed a little change of scenery on Saturday.And the third-year University of Nevada football coach welcomed an opportunity to view and evaluate his team Saturday during scrimmage action in its first public appearance of spring ball at Douglas High School.An estimated 500 fans turned out to watch the Wolf Pack work out for two hours on a warm and sunny day at Keith Roman Field.The outing provided an opportunity for the Wolf Pack to “get a change of scenery and to pl
  
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• Local sports roundup: Carson track teams win own invitational

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  Both teams win titles in their own invitationalCarson High’s boys and girls enjoyed big days en route to winning their respective titles at the Carson Invitational Saturday at the Jim Frank Track & Field Complex.The Carson boys fnished with 136 points, 25 ahead of second-place Dayton and 50 ahead of third-place Hug. The Carson girls finished with 144.5, 18 ahead of Spanish Springs. Galena was third with 79 and Dayton was sixth with 46.Asa Carter set a school record with a 44-9 mark in the tri
  
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• EMT training day in Carson City

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  Carson High senior Mariah Olvera supports the head of mock auto accident victim Sierra Freyer prior to extraction and placement on a backboard Saturday during EMT training at Station 52 in Carson City. Carson High senior Sierra Freyer prepares to load a gurney with a mock patient into the back of an ambulance Saturday morning during EMT training at Station 52.…
  
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• Carson uses big innings to sweep Wooster

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  RENO — Big innings were the name of the game for Carson on Saturday.In the opener against Wooster, the Senators scored seven runs in the top of the seventh to wipe out a 5-2 deficit and win 9-7, and a five-run outburst in the fifth inning snapped a scoreless tie and led to a 5-1 win in a Northern Division I doubleheader.Carson, coming off a home loss to North Valleys on Thursday, improved to 9-7. Wooster dropped to 0-16. Carson faces league-leading Damonte Ranch Tuesday at 3:45 in Reno.“We
  
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• Carson City’s WNC teams sweep

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  After two weekends on the road against two of the best teams in the nation, the Western Nevada College softball team showed it knows how to win when the playing field levels.WNC completed a four-game Scenic West Athletic Conference softball sweep of Colorado Northwestern on Saturday at Edmonds Sports Complex.The Wildcats backed the six-hit pitching of Kristina George by lining a homer and five doubles in a 6-3 opening-game victory, then Gabriella Canibeyaz delivered two hits and two RBI in a 7-
  
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• Carson City’s Whitt ties record in Pack’s win

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  SAN DIEGO – The Nevada baseball team vaulted to first place in Mountain West standings Saturday afternoon, defeating San Diego State by an 8-5 margin at Tony Gwynn Stadium.The Pack scored eight runs on eight hits to clinch the series victory while improving to 30-9 overall and 15-5 in league play. With two straight wins over the Aztecs, the Wolf Pack now holds a one-game advantage in the conference standings entering today’s series finale. Nevada also became the second fastest team in progr
  
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• Carson City Little League’s opening day

  19-04-2015 09:25
  
  Carson City Little Leaguers pose for a opening day group photo Saturday afternoon at Governor’s Field.…
  
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• Western Nevada College News & Notes: Student’s dedication to community earns regents scholar recognition

  19-04-2015 09:06
  
  Spending a year attending at a Southern California college revealed to Western Nevada College student Robyn Openshaw just how much her community means to her and her future. Openshaw began to realize she could work on bettering herself by returning to the familiar faces of her Fallon home.Since then, Openshaw has immersed herself in earning a Western Nevada College education and becoming active in Fallon community service organizations who are not usually frequented by 20-year-olds.Openshaw’s
  
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• Virginia City’s ‘Chili on the Comstock’ returning May 2-3

  19-04-2015 09:06
  
  The 32nd annual Chili on the Comstock will bring the heat to the Comstock from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 2-3 in Virginia City, where more than 30 professional chili cooks will be on hand. This year’s event includes #CrawlBackInTime Fireball Saloon Crawl, a sampling of themed beverages from 15 locations. New this year is the Fun with the Runs, an inaugural 5K that starts at 10 a.m. on C Street. Runners and walkers will make their way through the hilly terrain and back to the cook-off venue. Partic
  
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• Medical tourism in Las Vegas not just a dream for Eric Hilton

  19-04-2015 08:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  When Eric Hilton speaks, the clarity of his message is undeniable: Las Vegas can be known as a great place for medical care.
  
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• Bill would stop Las Vegas court from operating as ‘collection agency’

  19-04-2015 08:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Nevada assemblywoman and Las Vegas bail bondsmen are fighting a Las Vegas Municipal Court they say is “money hungry” and bad for business.
  
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• Cheri Garner strives to instill Steele students with love of learning

  19-04-2015 06:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  When learning gets messy, Steele Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Cheri Garner gets happy. Garner was named Clark County’s March Educator of the Month.
  
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• Sandoval’s painkillers plan faces Senate deadline

  19-04-2015 05:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval’s prescription drug proposal, designed to help prevent highly addictive painkillers from being dispensed to people without a medical need, must pass out of the Senate by Tuesday to stay alive.
  
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• New housing projects target 55-and-older crowd in Vegas Valley

  19-04-2015 05:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With the end of a 15-year drought in local development of communities for people 55 and older, the Las Vegas Valley is set to harvest a bumper crop of age-qualified neighborhoods.
  
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• Arizona advocates begin campaign to legalize marijuana

  19-04-2015 04:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Advocates for legalizing marijuana launched a petition campaign in Phoenix on Friday seeking a ballot measure that could make Arizona the fifth U.S. state to allow small amounts of pot for recreational use.
  
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• Lingering feud persists between GOP Assembly members

  19-04-2015 04:51
  
  Assembly Judiciary Chairman Ira Hansen, R-Sparks, on Saturday fired back at Victoria Seaman, the Republican freshman who accused him of threatening her because she complained he refused to hold a vote on one of her bills.He issued a statement Saturday saying Seaman has been disruption, pouting and throwing tantrums and mistreating both fellow committee members and witnesses.He said both in Assembly caucus and in meetings with fellow Republicans on the committee she “speaks out of turn, repeat
  
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• Armenian-Americans open honorary consulate in Henderson

  19-04-2015 04:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  About 100 Armenian-Americans, politicians and others from the Las Vegas Valley gathered in Henderson on Saturday to celebrate a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the United States’ first Honorary Consulate of Armenia.
  
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• Runnin’ for the (Ronald McDonald) House — PHOTOS

  19-04-2015 04:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Ronald McDonald got everyone off on the right foot by leading the 11th annual Ronald McDonald House Charities Runnin’ for the House 5K Run and 1 Mile Walk on Saturday.
  
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• Behind the scenes of a Las Vegas marijuana testing lab

  19-04-2015 03:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After a year and $1.4 million spent getting ready, one of the labs that will have to test all the marijuana sold in Nevada is almost open for business.
  
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• Further Future festival scrambles for new location

  19-04-2015 02:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The website for the inaugural Further Future festival describes it as “a shared experience that’s beyond our future.” Think Burning Man, only smaller and more exclusive.
  
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• Nevada receives $2.2 million for veteran housing projects

  19-04-2015 00:33
  
  Nevada has been awarded $2,220,253 in Veterans Affairs funding for veteran housing projects across Nevada.Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nv., said the funding is for housing choice vouchers for homeless veterans who receive care at VA medical centers and community outreach clinics.“No veteran in Nevada or across America should be homeless after sacrificing so much to protect our freedoms,” said Reid.The vast majority of the money will go to the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority and Southern Ne
  
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• Plenty of 2016 races to draw out Hispanic voters in Nevada

  19-04-2015 00:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  There will be plenty of reasons for Nevada Latinos to turn out in record numbers for the 2016 election, say insiders who predict Hispanics will account for 20 percent of the state’s electorate, or one out of every five votes cast in the West’s most competitive battleground state.
  
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• Downtown Project breaks through with apartment building

  19-04-2015 00:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For the past two years, Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project has absorbed criticism for developing bars, restaurants and tech startups — but no places to live in downtown Las Vegas. No more.
  
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