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• Las Vegas police seek Home Depot robbers

  06-05-2015 23:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police asked for the public’s help Wednesday in identifying a man and woman involved in the April robbery of an east valley Home Depot.
  
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• Suspect in UVA student killing faces death penalty charge

  06-05-2015 23:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former hospital worker already charged with abducting and killing an 18-year-old University of Virginia student was hit with additional charges on Tuesday that make him eligible for the death penalty.
  
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• Butler qualifies forstate golf tourney

  06-05-2015 23:21
  
  Carson’s Butler qualifies for state golf tournamentDAYTON — Dalton Butler shot a second-round 74 to finish fifth overall with a 36-hole total of 153 at the Northern Division I regional golf tournament at Dayton Valley Golf Club.Butler will be the only CHS player at next week’s state event Monday and Tuesday at Montreux Golf & Country Club.“He gave away a couple of shots on the back side,” coach Rod Butler said. “In a stretch of three holes, he was 4-over-par. Once he turned the corn
  
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• Colorado movie theater shooter’s apartment was booby-trapped

  06-05-2015 22:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Colorado movie theater gunman James Holmes’ apartment was rigged with improvised explosive devices, jars of napalm and fire-accelerating chemical powder sprinkled on the floor, an FBI expert told jurors at his trial on Tuesday.
  
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• Calif. approves mandatory rules to conserve water

  06-05-2015 22:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  California water regulators on Tuesday adopted the state’s first rules for mandatory cutbacks in urban water use as the region’s catastrophic drought enters its fourth year.
  
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• Woman holds off purse-snatcher; Metro looking for suspect

  06-05-2015 22:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the person connected with an attempted robbery in a southeast valley parking lot, the department said Wednesday.
  
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• Metro seeks suspect in robbery

  06-05-2015 22:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Officers were called to a business complex parking lot in the 5500 block of Boulder Highway, near East Tropicana Avenue, at about 4 p.m. on April 24 after a man approached a woman from behind and tried to steal her purse, Metro said Wednesday.
  
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• Henderson police seek help in finding missing man

  06-05-2015 22:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Henderson police are asking for the public’s help in finding a 73-year-old man who went missing Saturday from his home, the department announced Wednesday.
  
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• Questions for Hillary Clinton: Immigration

  06-05-2015 21:56
  Hillary Rodham Clinton has scarcely been answering questions from reporters on the campaign trail.
  
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• Assembly approves collective bargaining reform bill

  06-05-2015 21:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  CARSON CITY - The first collective bargaining reform bill of the 2015 legislative session was headed to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s desk on Wednesday after getting a unanimous vote in the Assembly.
  
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• Flamingo Road finally back to normal near the Strip

  06-05-2015 21:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Flamingo Road road near the Strip is fully reopened after a water main break shut down several lanes for two days.
  
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• City of North Las Vegas wants to dump ‘integrity’ from core values

  06-05-2015 21:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The City of North Las Vegas wants to eliminate integrity from its core values. Also on their way out: Respect, creativity, quality service and leadership.
  
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• City of North Las Vegas to dump ‘integrity’ from core values

  06-05-2015 21:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Also fallen from favor: Respect, creativity, quality service and leadership.
  
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• Carson City multi-purpose athletic center progress fast and furious

  06-05-2015 21:27
  
  Progress is being made on Carson City’s $8.3 million athletic center. The multi-purpose athletic center (MAC) project on Russell Way is a 33,400 square foot facility featuring sports courts for team competition, such as basketball and volleyball, along with an elevated jogging/walking track over and around the perimeter of those courts. There will be two collegiate-sized basketball courts overlaying four smaller courts, plus seating, lockers, offices and the like. Some $6 million of the fundin
  
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• Heller calls for audit of VA claims-handling

  06-05-2015 21:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  WASHINGTON – Sen. Dean Heller and other senators who monitor the Department of Veterans Affairs called Wednesday for a series of reviews as the VA claims improvement in handling benefit applications but also is being buffeted by new allegations of mismanagement.
  
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• Mich. boy found tortured in basement stayed silent because of stepmom

  06-05-2015 21:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Michigan boy who was found emaciated in his own basement after an 11-day manhunt last year told a court on Wednesday that his stepmother led him to a downstairs hiding spot and urged him to remain quiet while authorities searched for him.
  
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• Bill repealing Nevada winery restrictions gains more support

  06-05-2015 20:48
  
  Established wineries and ones that want to expand to Nevada have reached an agreement on repealing the state’s partial winery ban. Witnesses who testified on opposite sides of AB4 earlier in the session lined up in support of the bill Wednesday in a Senate Commerce and Labor Committee hearing. The bill would repeal a state law prohibiting wineries in Clark and Washoe counties from importing wine from other states or serving alcoholic beverages on their premises. A winery in Pahrump initially
  
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• Subcommittee recommends ending Nevada’s Foreclosure Mediation Program

  06-05-2015 20:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  CARSON CITY — A joint money subcommittee Wednesday recommended shutting down Nevada’s Foreclosure Mediation Program, citing a recovering housing market and fewer participants than at the height of the recession when the program was established.
  
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• Here’s how Boston Marathon bomber lawyers are trying to save Tsarnaev’s life

  06-05-2015 20:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will call more witnesses on Wednesday as they seek to spare his life by painting him as a normal teen who went astray when he followed his older, domineering brother in carrying out the attack.
  
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• Progress is fast and furious on Carson City multi-purpose athletic center

  06-05-2015 20:29
  
  Progress is being made on Carson City’s $8.3 million athletic center. The multi-purpose athletic center (MAC) project on Russell Way is a 33,400 square foot facility featuring sports courts for team competition, such as basketball and volleyball, along with an elevated jogging/walking track over and around the perimeter of those courts. There will be two collegiate-sized basketball courts overlaying four smaller courts, plus seating, lockers, offices and the like. Some $6 million of the fundin
  
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• FBI offers up to $5,000 for clues in Reno KFC firebombing

  06-05-2015 19:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Investigators found evidence that Molotav cocktails had been thrown into the restaurant. Initials of an animal rights group, “ALF,” were spray painted on a drive-thru sign.
  
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• July trial is set for Colo. woman who stole fetus

  06-05-2015 19:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Colorado woman who police say admitted cutting a fetus from a pregnant stranger she lured with an online ad for baby clothes was bound over for trial by a judge after a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, prosecutors said.
  
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• Mentally ill no longer flooding Vegas emergency rooms

  06-05-2015 19:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  CARSON CITY - Southern Nevada’s mental health treatment crisis has largely disappeared because of the state’s decision to participate in the Affordable Care Act expansion in Medicaid and because of a significant increase in the reimbursement rate for inpatient mental health treatment.
  
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• Idaho officer dies after shooting at traffic stop

  06-05-2015 18:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Idaho police officer died Tuesday after an early morning shooting during a traffic stop.
  
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• Woman police say was killed by longtime boyfriend IDd

  06-05-2015 17:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman found slain Tuesday in her longtime boyfriend’s east valley house has been identified, and details in the killing have come out.
  
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• 1 dead, 79-year-old man arrested after east valley homicide

  06-05-2015 17:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person is dead and a 79-year-old man arrested after a homicide Tuesday in the east valley, Las Vegas police records show.
  
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• Man killed in Tuesday crash identified

  06-05-2015 17:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The 71-year-old man who died Tuesday after crashing into the trailer of a semitruck in the southwest valley has been identified.
  
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• North Dakota town evacuated after oil train fire

  06-05-2015 17:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A train carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire in Wells County, North Dakota on Wednesday, officials said, just days after the U.S. government announced sweeping reforms to improve safety of the volatile shipments.
  
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• Man wounded in North Las Vegas shooting

  06-05-2015 16:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was hospitalized following a shooting early Wednesday morning in North Las Vegas, according to police.
  
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• Germanwings co-pilot practiced crash maneuver during earlier flight

  06-05-2015 16:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a jet in the French Alps rehearsed the fatal maneuver on the morning of the disaster, and had twice been refused medical papers needed to fly, investigators said on Wednesday.
  
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• Trial in infant’s death set for 2016

  06-05-2015 09:02
  
  A Jan. 4, 2016, trial date was set in the case of a Gardnerville Ranchos man accused in the death of his infant daughter.Trent Lawrence Getty, 23, entered an innocent plea on Tuesday to a charge of murder in the first degree in Douglas County District Court.Getty waived his right to a trial within 60 days. He’s being held in Douglas County Jail without bail.The trial is expected to take 4-5 weeks, Judge Tod Young said. He ordered the bulk of motions in the case be completed by Oct. 5 in prepar
  
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• Leader Roberson proposes a $1 cigarette tax hike

  06-05-2015 09:02
  
  Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson on Tuesday proposed an amendment that would cover most of the shortfall in Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget with a $1 per pack increase in the state’s cigarette tax.The proposed amendment was presented during the work session on SB483, the bill that would extend and make permanent the “sunseted” tax increases used to balance the current budget.That bill already includes a 40-cent per pack cigarette tax hike proposed by Sandoval, generating $81.2 milli
  
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• Cost to fight wildfires expected to exceed $1 billion

  06-05-2015 09:02
  
  The U.S. Forest Service reported on Tuesday it’s expecting the cost to fight wildfires in 2015 will again exceed $1 billion.In addition, the head of the U.S. Forest Service is calling for “above normal wildland fire potential” in the Western U.S. this summer.With wildfire activity expected to be at heightened levels, the forest service stated on Tuesday there’s a 90 percent chance that fighting fires during the 2015 wildfire season will be between $794 million to $1.7 billion with a medi
  
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• Carson City top area for dogs and cats

  06-05-2015 09:02
  
  Laying claim to best in nation status for Carson City and Washoe County if you’re a dog or cat, Nevada Humane Society’s leader credits residents along with his organization.Kevin Ryan, CEO of the Reno-based society who operates shelters in Reno and here on a $5 million annual budget, made his claim while speaking Tuesday to a luncheon meeting of the city’s Rotary Club. “I’ve never been in a place where people care more about their animals,” said Ryan, praising residents of Northern N
  
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• Carson City Parks, Rec propose $4.7 million budget

  06-05-2015 09:02
  
  A $4.7 million Carson City Parks and Recreation Department budget recommendation and steps toward a key land swap won support Tuesday from a citizens’ commission.The Parks and Recreation Commission voted unanimously in favor of the department’s Fiscal Year 2015-16 budget, which is up about $400,000 from this year’s. Reasons include additions like funding for the Nevada State Fair. The Nevada 150 Fair last summer was the city’s first such effort. This second one July 30-Aug. 2 will be ov
  
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• Tahoe Douglas firefighters raise thousands for injured captain

  06-05-2015 08:56
  
  Tahoe Douglas Professional Fire Fighters held a pancake breakfast, whose proceeds benefitted Captain Pete Dern, a Fresno firefighter who was critically injured while venting a roof on a two-story house fire on April 19. The event raised $3,500 in three hours.…
  
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• Community sports: Carson High School athletic meeting set for May 11

  06-05-2015 08:56
  
  An all sports parent meeting is scheduled for May 11 at 6 p.m. at Carson High’s Morse Burley Gym.The meeting will cover how to complete the online registration for fall, winter and spring sports next year. The meeting is for all parents and athletes interested in participating in any sports CHS offers.Physicals, concussion testing, social media, bullying and hazing, drug testing and other important information will be covered. Coaches will be available to talk to parents after the meeting. Fo
  
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• CHS baseball loses a heartbreaker

  06-05-2015 08:56
  
  CHS leaves 10 runners in last six innings, cannot hold 7-1 lead in defeatRENO — Carson High has lost some tough postseason games in the past three years, but none tougher than Tuesday’s 9-8 eight-inning setback at the hands of the Galena Grizzlies.The loss sends Carson on the road today in an elimination game at Damonte Ranch. The regular-season co-champs dropped a 5-1 decision to No. 8 McQueen, First pitch is 4 p.m. with lefty Bryce Moyle expected to get the call on the mound.What made thi
  
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• Mound House woman raises money for Lone Mountain headstones

  06-05-2015 08:44
  
  One local woman is making sure all those who rest in Lone Mountain Cemetery won’t be forgotten.Three years ago, Melinda Cash volunteered to take photographs of some graves for a website, when she realized a large number of people who were buried in the Carson City cemetery didn’t have headstones to mark their final resting place. “I was naive, but it never occurred to me that there were people with no headstones,” the Mound House woman said. “I find that so sad.”For the past three ye
  
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• Boxing could take lesson from UFC

  06-05-2015 08:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For a reminder that it never pays to paint a professional boxing event as a morality play, remember the silly white hat some people placed on Manny Pacquiao’s head.
  
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• Thieves make off with $200k in “Crazy Girls” property

  06-05-2015 03:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Just days after “Crazy Girls” wrapped its 28-year run at the now-closed Riviera, more than $200,000 worth of the show’s lingerie, stage clothes, computers and lights have been reported stolen.
  
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• Dress for Success helps struggling women embark on careers

  06-05-2015 03:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  More than 2,500 local women have managed to get back on their feet or embarked on a new career with help from Dress for Success Southern Nevada and its various programs.
  
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• Dress for Success assists struggling women embark on careers

  06-05-2015 03:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  More than 2,500 local women have managed to get back on their feet or embarked on a new career with help from Dress for Success Southern Nevada and its various programs.
  
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• Traffic flowing again after Spaghetti Bowl crash

  06-05-2015 02:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Tuesday afternoon crash that jammed traffic at the Spaghetti Bowl has been cleared.
  
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• Crash at Spaghetti Bowl slowing traffic on I-15 SB

  06-05-2015 02:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A crash near the Spaghetti Bowl is blocking two lanes on Interstate 15 heading south, and traffic is creeping.
  
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• State says medical pot businesses may soon start operations

  06-05-2015 02:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With the state still hashing out rules for testing medical marijuana, dispensaries and laboratories that were expected to open months ago — and their patients — have been in limbo.
  
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• Delays by state frustrate medical marijuana operations

  06-05-2015 02:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With the state still hashing out rules for testing medical marijuana, dispensaries and laboratories that were expected to open months ago remain in limbo. And so do patients.
  
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• Senate committee considers “sunset” bill, cigarette taxes

  06-05-2015 02:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Senate committee Tuesday considered even higher cigarette taxes than initially proposed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to help close a $144 million gap in anticipated revenues and the governor’s $7.4 billion spending plan.
  
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• Phallic couch among items stolen from ‘Crazy Girls’

  06-05-2015 02:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Bet we won’t see this conversation piece on an episode of “Pawns Stars.” It won’t be easy to pawn a seven-foot-long couch in the shape of male genitalia.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Log: Man arrested for disorderly conduct

  06-05-2015 01:55
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.MONDAYAt 11:04 p.m., a 37-year-old Carson City man was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct after deputies responded to reports of a man disrupting people at the Carson Street Round House Inn. Bail was set at $150.The Nevada Appeal only names people arrested on suspicion of felonies and violent crimes. Carson City Secret Witness will pay up to $2,500 for information leadin
  
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