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• Annual Seattle May Day march turns violent, injures 3 officers

  02-05-2015 23:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Seattle’s annual May Day march turned violent Friday, with protesters hurling rocks, wrenches and burning objects at police officers — three of whom suffered what authorities described as serious injuries.
  
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• Photo gallery: Rally for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment

  02-05-2015 23:37
  
  Organizer Janette Dean’s remarks:Welcome, sisters! Welcome, brothers!Today, we stand up and walk together through our state Legislature–united in hope, united in strength, and united in the wisdom that human rights for all is the only path for a civilized society, the only road possible for an acceptable present and future.Most of humanity instinctively knows that human rights are elementary, that they are supreme, and that they are priceless. Nothing matters more than our human rights. It i
  
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• Metro investigates woman’s stabbing death in south valley

  02-05-2015 23:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal stabbing that happened early Saturday afternoon in a south valley neighborhood.
  
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• Body found in south valley; cause of death undetermined

  02-05-2015 23:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating a body found early Saturday afternoon in a south valley neighborhood.
  
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• Participants in Race for the Cure run for reasons dear to them

  02-05-2015 22:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Breast cancer survivor Sandra Rinker wasn’t only participating in the 20th Annual Susan G. Komen Southern Nevada Race for the Cure on Saturday on behalf of her own struggle.
  
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• CEO of SurveyMonkey dies unexpectedly Friday

  02-05-2015 22:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  SurveyMonkey CEO and husband of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, Dave Goldberg, died unexpectedly on Friday night, his brother wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday.
  
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• Nevada Legislature Week 14: Daylight Saving time all year round?

  02-05-2015 20:44
  
  The pressure of passing a revenue increase to fund Gov. Brian Sandoval’s two-year budget will continue to mount in Week 14 of the Nevada Legislature. With under a month to go in the session, Assembly Republicans are poised to start tackling a number of competing revenue plans that seek to fund the governor’s $7.3 billion budget. And a preview of the 2016 election will come in the form of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, who will stop in the battleground state for several days next week
  
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• 26 accusers in workers’ class-action suit v. Bully’s taverns

  02-05-2015 20:44
  
  RENO — A federal judge has granted class-action status for a lawsuit that more than two dozen cooks and kitchen workers want to join accusing northern Nevada’s largest chain of sports taverns of misclassifying them as salaried executives to skirt U.S. labor laws requiring overtime pay. Bully’s Sports Bar & Grill allegedly forced past and present kitchen staff to work up to 60 hours a week routinely without overtime pay for at least the last three years, according to the filing in U.S. Dis
  
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• Police: Ex-student pilot steals plane from North Las Vegas Airport

  02-05-2015 19:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Authorities were called shortly after midnight about a plane being stolen, Patty said.
  
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• Former student pilot steals plane from North Las Vegas airport

  02-05-2015 19:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Authorities were called shortly after midnight about a plane being stolen, Patty said.
  
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• Friday night crash leaves teenager seriously injured

  02-05-2015 17:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A wrong-way wreck Friday night left a teenager seriously injured and the woman who left her lane arrested on a DUI charge, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Newest member of the royal family is healthy baby princess

  02-05-2015 17:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The little girl came into the world at 8:34 a.m. Saturday at London’s St. Mary’s Hospital, Kensington Palace announced. She weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces.
  
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• Newest member of Britian’s royal family is healthy baby princess

  02-05-2015 17:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a girl on Saturday, the couple’s second child and a great-granddaughter to Queen Elizabeth.
  
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• Training for Carson City Sheriff’s Mounted Unit

  02-05-2015 09:09
  
  Sheriff’s Mounted Unit members take part in de-sensitization training for their horses Friday night at the Silver Saddle Ranch. Fireworks are lit off in an effort to make their horses comfortable in uncomfortable environments.…
  
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• Tesla, film tax credits leave hole in budget, Nevada Economic Forum projects

  02-05-2015 09:09
  
  A combination of flat projections for state General Fund revenues and the impact of tax credits given to Tesla, film companies and others blew a near $170 million hole in the proposed Nevada state budget on Friday.The Economic Forum projections added $30.8 million to the projected revenues for the remaining two months of Fiscal 2015 — nearly three quarters of it from an increase in the Net Proceeds of Mines tax.For the coming biennium, the forum projected less revenue than it did in December �
  
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• Teri Vance: Carson High School’s Angila Golik named Nevada’s best FBLA adviser

  02-05-2015 09:09
  
  Angila Golik wasn’t surprised to find she’d been nominated as the state FBLA Adviser of the year. Once her students filled out the application, they came to her for help in figuring out how to submit it. “They weren’t very good at keeping it secret,” she said with a laugh. Then at the state conference last week in Las Vegas, she listened as the winners were called out for the different regions. The winner from the northern region was announced, and it wasn’t her. “I just figured I
  
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• Partnership Carson City’s prescription drug roundup collects 166 pounds of pills

  02-05-2015 09:09
  
  They’re something we all have but rarely think about — prescription drugs, which are often not completely finished, and they are left in the medicine cabinet to expire. Partnership Carson City hosted a prescription drug roundup on April 25 when 166 pounds of prescription pills and liquids were eliminated and 30 pounds of syringes were collected to be destroyed. When asked why she thinks this is important, Partnership Carson City volunteer Tish Carpenter said, “It keeps it out of the water
  
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• On the ‘Lamb’ in Carson City

  02-05-2015 09:09
  
  Sheep staged for deployment on westside hills grazed on flatland along Kings Canyon Road in recent days, but were going to cross it and were headed for C Hill today at 9:30 a.m., according to Carson City Open Space Administrator Ann Bollinger. The sheep help keep down cheatgrass and other vegetation that could help fuel wildfires. Photo was submitted by John Petroulis.…
  
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• Historic preservation scavenger hunt has begun

  02-05-2015 09:09
  
  Carson City’s sixth annual Historic preservation scavenger Hunt, which began Friday, runs through May 27.The event, held in celebration of Historic Preservation Month, includes 30 architectural features to be found by adults in the historic district and 20 for kids in a smaller area. More information on details of how to participate are available from the city Planning Division at 108 E. Proctor St., which also is where entries must be submitted. The division telephone number is (775) 887-218
  
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• Event in Carson City brings awareness to veterans who commit suicide

  02-05-2015 09:09
  
  Volunteers and student veterans planted flags Friday on the lawn of the Western Nevada College campus. Each flag represents veterans who ended their lives by suicide. More than 8,000 veterans lose their lives in this manner annually. WNC’s Veterans Resource Center’s Awareness activities continue this morning as the entire community and college are invited take part in a Veterans Suicide Walk to honor and remember the many veterans who have suffered and/or taken their own lives. Participants
  
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• Carson City board to look at revenue, budget

  02-05-2015 09:09
  
  City revenue projections and work toward finalizing Carson’s City’s budget are on the Board of Supervisor’s horizon next week and later in May.On Thursday, a city revenue outlook projecting about $68 million in general fund money and a preliminary budget of about that amount next fiscal year are on tap, according to Finance Director Nick Providenti, providing him an opportunity for final guidance. Adoption of the spending guide is anticipated two weeks later. The general fund is the part
  
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• WNC, school district partners make Jump Start a success

  02-05-2015 08:58
  
  Jump Start, a collaborative effort between Western Nevada College and five Nevada school districts to offer early college opportunities, is a success. That’s the word from high schools in the region as its first year winds down. From the grades being earned to the opportunities being afforded, high school juniors and seniors from 11 high schools are about to finish the first year of the Jump Start partnership by succeeding at a high rate. First semester data shows Jump Start students completed
  
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• Local sports roundup: Carson City’s WNC baseball, softball split

  02-05-2015 08:58
  
  HENDERSON — Western Nevada College improved its chances of winning the Region 18 baseball title on Friday by clinching third place in the Scenic West Athletic Conference.By defeating 11th-ranked College of Southern Nevada, 4-1, in the opening game of a doubleheader in Henderson and with Salt Lake sweeping a twin bill from fourth-place College of Southern Idaho, the Wildcats avoid playing in the opening game of next week’s double-elimination tournament.“We’re on the lead lap, which feels
  
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• Carson’s Favero gunning for fast times, title

  02-05-2015 08:58
  
  When the NIAA Division I track trials kick off today, Carson High junior Athena Favero will be one of the busiest Carson High performers.Not only is Favero defending her championship in the 300-meter hurdles, she’s also running the 110-meter hurdles and running the lead leg on the 400 and 800-meter relay squads.The objective is the same for all four events today — run well enough to advance to next Saturday’s region finals and from there go to state on May 14-15 in Las Vegas.Favero’s ran
  
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• ‘Crazy Girls,’ iconic statue bound for Planet Hollywood

  02-05-2015 07:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  “Crazy Girls” may have had its last show at the Riviera on Friday, but the topless revue is headed for Planet Hollywood, the owner said Friday night.
  
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• ‘Crazy Girls’ bound for Planet Hollywood, contract not yet signed

  02-05-2015 07:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  “Crazy Girls” may have had its last show at the Riviera on Friday, but the topless revue is headed for Planet Hollywood, the owner said Friday night.
  
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• Floyd Mayweather Jr., a Champion in the Ring, Is Something Very Different Out of It

  02-05-2015 06:00
  Mayweather, who on Saturday will meet Manny Pacquiao in a money swamp of a championship welterweight bout, has a long and documented history of employing brutality beyond the boxing ring.
  
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• Expect traffic and crowds on the Strip for fight night

  02-05-2015 04:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  In case you missed it, there’s a big boxing match Saturday night on the Strip, and getting around might be tough.
  
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• 13th day of deliberation in Etan Patz case ends without decision

  02-05-2015 03:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Jury deliberations ended a 13th day on Friday with no verdict in the trial of a former deli worker who confessed to the 1979 killing of Etan Patz, a New York City boy whose picture was among the first to appear on milk cartons in a U.S. campaign to locate missing children.
  
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• 19 photos of Nevada’s fallen sought for Vietnam War project

  02-05-2015 03:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Janna Hoehn is close to notching another state to her photo collage list for the “Faces Never Forgotten” project. She needs some help, however, to find the last 19 photographs of Nevada’s fallen military personnel from the Vietnam War.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Woman arrested on DUI-third offense

  02-05-2015 02:52
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.THURSDAYAt 11:33 a.m., Paula Chandler, 61, of Carson City was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI-third offense after deputies responded to reports of a woman nearly hitting a parked car in the Highway 50 Save Mart. Bail was set at $20,000.At 6:24 p.m., Jimmy Andrews, 56, a transient, was arrested on suspicion of felony failure to appear. No bail was set. At 8:41 p.m., David Torr
  
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• Dumped metal poles blocking I-15 SB near Lake Mead Boulevard

  02-05-2015 02:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two right lanes of southbound Interstate 15 near the Lake Mead Boulevard exit are blocked after a semi-truck overturned, dumping metal poles onto the roadway.
  
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• Nevada Supreme Court chief justice wants statewide review of guardianship

  02-05-2015 02:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada’s top judge wants to dig into problems plaguing the guardianship system far beyond the Las Vegas Valley.
  
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• Detroit prosecutor resigns after controversial Facebook post

  02-05-2015 01:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Detroit prosecutor who said on Facebook that people involved in Baltimore rioting should be shot has resigned, after her comments ignited fierce criticism, the prosecutor’s office said on Friday.
  
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• Iowa declared state of emergency as bird flu spreads

  02-05-2015 01:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Iowa Governor Terry Branstad declared a state of emergency on Friday due to a rapidly expanding avian flu outbreak, saying the entire state was at risk from the spread of the disease.
  
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• Fire closes Chili’s, customers not charged for meals

  02-05-2015 01:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It wasn’t sizzling fajitas that had firefighters responding to a blaze at a south valley Chili’s on Friday, the Clark County Fire Department said. The department responded to a dumpster fire that spread to the building at 7530 Las Vegas Blvd. South.
  
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• Dumpster fire damages south valley Chili’s, closes eatery Friday

  02-05-2015 01:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It wasn’t sizzling fajitas that had firefighters responding to a blaze at a south valley Chili’s on Friday, the Clark County Fire Department said. The department responded to a dumpster fire that spread to the building at 7530 Las Vegas Blvd. South.
  
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• Cosmic rays, not aliens, may thwart mission to Mars

  02-05-2015 01:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It may not be space debris, errant asteroids or even malevolent aliens that thwart astronauts on any mission to Mars. It may be the ubiquitous galactic cosmic rays.
  
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• Pacquiao a hero in Filipino communities ready to celebrate

  02-05-2015 00:48
  
  LAS VEGAS — Filipino communities are all ready to celebrate Manny Pacquiao as he stars in the world’s most anticipated boxing match. Here in Las Vegas, home to one of the largest populations of Filipinos in the U.S., it’s icing on the mocha cake to have the heavily promoted fight in their own backyard. “It’s like watching the Super Bowl,” said Wilfredo “Jing” Espiritu, a regional officer in Las Vegas for the National Federation of Filipino American Associations. “They’re goi
  
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• Ely officials opposed to attempts to dissolve city

  02-05-2015 00:48
  
  Representatives from one of Nevada’s tiniest cities say they’re strongly opposed to attempts to dissolve the city. Republican Sen. Pete Goicoechea is sponsoring SB238, which was discussed Friday in the Assembly Government Affairs Committee. The measure would create a 2017 ballot question to break up the City of Ely and instead form a town that would be governed by White Pine County. Goicoechea and county officials said the measure would save money by reducing duplicated government services,
  
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• Nevada forecasts massive job growth through 2017

  02-05-2015 00:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada still has 87,000 fewer jobs than it had in 2007, but the state is expected to return to its pre-recession high of nearly 1.4 million by mid-2016.
  
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• Body found in suitcase along I-80 in Utah may be missing Las Vegas woman

  02-05-2015 00:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Utah authorities are working with the Metropolitan Police Department to see if a female body found in a suitcase more than 400 miles north of Las Vegas is that of the woman last seen with her mother’s husband before he killed himself in November.
  
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• Body found in suitcase along I-80 in Utah

  02-05-2015 00:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  News of a body found in a suitcase and dumped off of Interstate 80 near the Great Saltair has made its way into Utah County, where the family of Elizabeth Salgado, a Mexican student has been missing since April 16.
  
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• Las Vegas man falls to his death at Grand Canyon

  02-05-2015 00:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas man visiting the Grand Canyon with his family fell to his death Thursday afternoon, according to the National Park Service.
  
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• Labor Day Telethon dies; championed by Jerry Lewis

  02-05-2015 00:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After nearly a half century of star-studded cameos and Jerry Lewis-led crooning, the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s annual Labor Day telethon is no more.
  
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