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• Body found on container ship believed to be African stowaway

  11-05-2015 23:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A body found on a container ship at a U.S. cocoa import facility in Pennsylvania on Monday could be a stowaway who had traveled from West Africa, a Port Authority official said.
  
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• Nevada retirement reform bill reaches Assembly

  11-05-2015 23:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Sponsor says Nevada’s Public Employee Retirement System costs would fall by $1 billion per decade through reform.
  
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• Wynn, Sands apply to leave NV Energy

  11-05-2015 23:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Applications by Wynn Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Sands Corp. to leave Nevada Power Company, doing business as part of NV Energy, and acquire their own electricity on the wholesale market have been filed with state regulators.
  
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• Police evacuate central valley homes to negotiate with suicidal man

  11-05-2015 23:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Officers initially were called at 12:25 p.m. for reports of a domestic disturbance at a home in the 1300 block of Robin Street.
  
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• Central valley barricade ends peacefully; 1 man in custody

  11-05-2015 23:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The person involved in a central valley barricade Monday afternoon has been taken into custody, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Activists could sue aquarium over killer whale’s living conditions

  11-05-2015 22:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Activists said on Monday they would sue a Florida aquarium for violating the Endangered Species Act if it does not improve living conditions for Lolita, a killer whale in captivity for more than four decades.
  
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• Different Bird flu strain found in Indiana

  11-05-2015 22:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A strain of highly pathogenic H5 avian flu that had recently been found only in the Western United States has been confirmed in a backyard poultry flock in Indiana.
  
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• Baby kangaroo, goats stolen from Wisconsin zoo

  11-05-2015 22:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A baby kangaroo was taken from its mother’s pouch and stolen along with four baby goats from a zoo in eastern Wisconsin, local police said on Monday.
  
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• Woman gets life in prison for running granddaughter to death

  11-05-2015 22:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Alabama woman convicted of murder for running her granddaughter to death was spared the death penalty when a judge instead sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
  
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• Heat on Heck following payday loan fight

  11-05-2015 22:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Sensing the chance to land a punch, Democrats last week launched a multi-pronged attack on Rep. Joe Heck and his involvement in a Capitol Hill fight over credit loans to members of the military.
  
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• 2 inmates die during Nebraska prison riot

  11-05-2015 22:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two inmates died and two were injured as a result of a weekend riot at a Nebraska prison, the head of the corrections officers’ union said on Monday.
  
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• Woman reported missing has been found safe

  11-05-2015 21:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 75-year-old woman reported missing on Saturday has returned home, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• #CarsonCityLive: Legislature Brewfest kicks off in Carson City

  11-05-2015 21:33
  
  Week of May 5-11 — We know you have incredible content to share on social media, so each week we are putting together a special post featuring all of the pictures and tweets under our tag #CarsonCityLive. Maybe you're driving home and are in awe of the sunset or Nevada's landscape, so stop and take a photo to share with us! Maybe you see something happening in Carson City or have information to report — tell us about it! Just use #CarsonCityLive and we will regram the photo on Instagram, re
  
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• USDA drought declaration expanded in Nevada, Utah

  11-05-2015 21:08
  
  RENO — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has expanded a natural disaster declaration to include several additional counties suffering from drought in Nevada and Utah. Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that Nevada’s White Pine County and Utah’s Sanpete County have been designated primary disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by the lingering drought. Farmer, ranchers and business owners now are eligible for the same low-interest loans already available to Nevada’s Elko and Eurek
  
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• George Zimmerman involved in road-rage shooting

  11-05-2015 21:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 2012 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, suffered a minor wound in a road-rage shooting incident on Monday, media reports said.
  
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• Man booked in landlords’ slayings was in process of moving, police say

  11-05-2015 20:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man arrested in the shooting deaths of his landlords was in the process of moving out of a small house on their northwest valley property, according to a Las Vegas police report.
  
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• Man arrested in landlords’ killings was in process of moving, police say

  11-05-2015 20:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man arrested in the shooting deaths of his landlords was in the process of moving out of a small house on their northwest valley property, according to a Las Vegas police report.
  
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• Man arrested in landlords’ killings was in process of moving

  11-05-2015 20:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man arrested in the shooting deaths of his landlords was in the process of moving out of a small house on their northwest valley property, according to a Las Vegas police report.
  
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• Black jack dealer arrested in landlords’ killings was in process of moving

  11-05-2015 20:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man arrested in the shooting deaths of his landlords was in the process of moving out of a small house on their northwest valley property, according to a Las Vegas police report.
  
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• Rick Gunn returns from TEDx talk in Iran

  11-05-2015 20:49
  
  On paper they were enemies. A 6-foot-6-inch tall American man and a 5-foot-4-inch tall Iranian man. A devoted Muslim brought together by connecting paths with a spiritual man with no real links to organized religion.But through an unlikely friendship, a human-to-human connection bypassing national politics, a set of core similarities that pierced a shell of superficial differences, Rick Gunn and Mohammad Tajeran are trying to promote peace between people who just happen to be from conflicting c
  
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• Carson Valley connects World War II memories

  11-05-2015 20:49
  
  A single rumpled burlap sack that fell from the sky above Holland 70 years ago has connected two Carson Valley residents for a lifetime. Former U.S. Army Air Force pilot Clarence Godecke, 95, dropped that sack into the backyard of Garry Den Heyer, 81, who was a small boy living in Sheveningen, a district within southern Holland’s The Hague. “I want to thank you personally for what you have done for us,” Den Heyer of Gardnerville, said as he touched Godecke’s arm. “I still personally f
  
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• Las Vegas police warn about enforcement calls on Uber

  11-05-2015 20:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  If Uber and other transportation network companies take hold in Southern Nevada, the Las Vegas Police Department could wind up responding to enforcement calls involving them, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said.
  
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• Nevada slips in ranking for pre-K access

  11-05-2015 20:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Bucking a national trend of states increasing their investment for pre-kindergarten programs, Nevada continued to lose ground in its percentage of children enrolled and per-child spending in early childhood education.
  
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• Coroner IDs man fatally shot near Boulevard Mall

  11-05-2015 20:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Philadelphia man was shot at Oasis Bay Apartments on Saturday afternoon. Police have made no arrest.
  
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• State contract for legal services rejected over conflict

  11-05-2015 20:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A contract expansion with the legal firm of Snell & Wilmer worth $450,000 with the state Department of Transportation was rejected by the state board on Monday after members expressed concern about a conflict.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Unions support PERS overhaul bill they call ‘reasonable’

  11-05-2015 20:06
  
  Unions that fought against an overhaul of the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System earlier in the legislative session are getting behind another bill they say is more reasonable. The Nevada State Education Association teacher’s union joined police, firefighters and business groups in supporting SB406 on Monday. The bill is sponsored by Republican Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson, who said it will save the retirement system $1 billion every 10 years. It seeks to slightly reduce ben
  
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• 2 Clark County pools closed after staph bacteria detected

  11-05-2015 20:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Indoor pools are closed at the Desert Breeze Aquatic Facility and the West Flamingo Senior Center. The Hollywood Aquatic Center and the Cora Coleman Senior Center are awaiting test results.
  
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• 4 dead, 50 injured after tornadoes hit Midwest — VIDEO

  11-05-2015 19:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least four people were killed and 50 others injured in Texas and Arkansas after a series of tornadoes hit the Great Plains states overnight, flattening buildings and snapping power lines, officials said on Monday.
  
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• Former Republican official gets prison in HOA fraud case

  11-05-2015 19:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Steve Wark, a former Nevada Republican Party chairman, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in August 2011.
  
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• Plane makes emergency landing at LAX without landing gear

  11-05-2015 18:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A United SkyWest Airlines passenger plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport with an apparent landing gear problem on Monday, local television station KTLA reported.
  
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• Motorcyclist killed in Sunday crash near Overton identified

  11-05-2015 17:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The 57-year-old motorcyclist who died Sunday in a crash near southbound State Route 169 in Overton has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
  
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• Las Vegas man hit by car in November dies from injuries

  11-05-2015 17:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The 85-year-old man who was critically injured after being struck by a car in Chinatown in November 2014 died two months ago, Las Vegas police announced Monday in a news release.
  
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• Nun says Boston bomber Tsarnaev ‘sincerely remorseful’

  11-05-2015 17:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A well-known death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean told a jury Monday that she met with Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and “absolutely” believes he is remorseful.
  
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• Boston marathon bombing trial defense rests in death-penalty phase

  11-05-2015 17:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The defense in the sentencing phase for Dzhohar Tsarnaev’s Boston bombing trial has rested. A prosecution rebuttal, where they can call witnesses, will come next. Closing statements from both sides will follow before a final prosecution rebuttal.
  
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• 1 hospitalized after rollover on 95 onramp at Lake Mead

  11-05-2015 16:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person was hospitalized after a single-vehicle rollover on Lake Mead Boulevard near U.S. Highway 95, Nevada Highway Patrol said.
  
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• 4 charged in killings of 2 Mississippi cops

  11-05-2015 16:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Four suspects accused of involvement in the weekend deaths of two Hattiesburg, Mississippi, police officers are scheduled to appear in court Monday, the same day the community will hold a vigil in honor of the slain lawmen.
  
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• Threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout back in Nevada river

  11-05-2015 15:49
  
  RENO — Lahontan cutthroat trout are successfully reproducing in the lower Truckee River east of Reno in what experts are calling a major milestone in efforts to restore the population once on the brink of extinction. Last year, cutthroats raised from a strain of a remnant population near the Nevada-Utah line spawned upstream from Pyramid Lake for the first time in nearly 80 years. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials say they’ve documented about 1,000 newly hatched baby cutthroats in th
  
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• Nevada Legislature: ACLU says too many bills create new crimes

  11-05-2015 15:42
  
  Nevada civil rights activists say they’re concerned about dozens of proposals before the state Legislature that would create or extend criminal penalties on everything from spraying graffiti to flying a drone while drunk. An American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada report scheduled for release Monday says 44 pending measures would stiffen crime laws and could significantly increase prison and jail populations. ACLU lobbyist Vanessa Spinazola said it could have a huge impact on society and the
  
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• Trucking: Nevada’s most connected industry

  11-05-2015 08:10
  
  Nevada’s blooming economy is putting new pressures on industrial transportation. Just ask Paul Enos, the confident and gregarious CEO of the Nevada Trucking Association, the non-profit organization charged with representing the interests of the transportation industry in the Nevada Legislature. He has a passion he turns into advocacy. “The big issue in the legislature this time, for trucking, is the same issue everyone else has: taxes. Any tax on gross receipts is going to be tough on our in
  
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• Things to consider when selling a business

  11-05-2015 08:10
  
  As the economy in northern Nevada continues to improve, opportunities for local entrepreneurs and small business owners are beginning to pop up all over the landscape. With exciting news such as Tesla coming to town and Amazon’s new warehouse, the area is buzzing with optimism about our economic future. This has spurred many to seek new opportunities as more business floods into our community. Tracking along with this trend is the increased number of businesses bought and sold not only in nor
  
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• Research helps grow dairy production

  11-05-2015 08:10
  
  The dairy industry in Nevada almost died out a couple decades ago when milk distributors would only buy from giant farms. More recently, the industry has enjoyed resurgence, partly buoyed by cooperative ventures and scientific research.Today, the state has 28 dairy farms — 22 in the Fallon area alone — producing 620 million pounds of milk per year. In 2013, the Dairy Farmers of America opened a milk plant in Fallon capable of processing 1.2 million pounds of milk per day into powdered milk,
  
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• Pull, don’t push customers

  11-05-2015 08:10
  
  The U.S. economy didn’t just go down during the past decade — it has changed — radically. “Our traditional approach to business development and client growth just isn’t cutting it anymore,” declared Meridith Elliott Powell, the speaker at the recent Insight on Business program in Reno, sponsored by City National Bank. Powell, an Asheville, N.C.-based business growth expert and author, offered attendees thought-provoking insights into the three steps they might use to better succeed i
  
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• NSDC boosting small business

  11-05-2015 08:10
  
  The Nevada State Development Corporation has been giving small business in the state a boost up since 1981.Working with banks and the U.S. Small Business Administration, the nonprofit company helps businesses with real estate loans to remodel, expand or buy buildings, or to purchase long-term equipment.LA Bakery in Carson City is a recent beneficiary of the loan program.Ali Arbabha opened his business in 2009 as a wholesale and catering business under the name Shirini shop. He opened a café at
  
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• In his own words: ITS’ Mike Crawford

  11-05-2015 08:10
  
  Northern Nevada Business Weekly: Tell us about ITS and the duties of your position.Mike Crawford: ITS is a third-party logistics company based here in northern Nevada that offers warehouse and distribution services, dedicated asset based trucking, and brokerage and transportation management services. I’m general manager of the brokerage company called ITS National, which is under the umbrella of ITS Logistics companies. At ITS National we move freight nationwide for a variety of different typ
  
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• Earn while you learn

  11-05-2015 08:10
  
  Graduation is just around the corner and thousands of seniors throughout our community are deciding what’s next for them — summer jobs, future career opportunities or college. Whether you are a business owner, parent, teacher or counselor, now is an important time to remember apprenticeship opportunities. Although there is a popular mantra that chants high school graduates should “go to college,” some students are ready to take advantage of a career-ready option.Apprenticeships, which a
  
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• CEOs invited to Vistage meeting

  11-05-2015 08:10
  
  Vistage chairman Chuck Alvey is forming his third private advisory board for chief executives in the Reno area. Those interested in learning more are invited to an information meeting on May 19 at the Peppermill Hotel Casino.“Private advisory boards provide insights that CEOs need to achieve extraordinary results,” Alvey said. “As the ‘new’ economy emerges and grows, business owners and executives are facing unique challenges and opportunities.”Business leaders interested in learning
  
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• A passion for fashion

  11-05-2015 08:10
  
  Clothing company Reno eNVy will be celebrating its 10-year anniversary this month with the release of a new clothing line and big sales at its downtown Reno location. In 2005, owner Scott Dunseath was giving his address to a friend over the phone, and when he said the phrase, “Reno, NV” he realized something quite interesting.Dunseath realized that the abbreviation “NV” sounds remarkably like the word “envy.” That summer, Dunseath set up a tent at the Reno River Festival and began se
  
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• Sucker punch claims Burmese man’s life, cutting American dream short

  11-05-2015 06:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 25-year-old man working his way through UNLV died one semester short of graduation. Police said an attacker blindsided him with a punch to the face that proved fatal.
  
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• Nevada will create new division, pay millions for storm-water runoff prevention

  11-05-2015 05:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 2011 Environmental Protection Agency audit found widespread failure to deal with storm-water runoff pollution from state highways and Transportation Department facilities.
  
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• Man critical after being hit by car in central valley

  11-05-2015 04:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle Sunday near the intersection of Sahara Avenue and Valley View Boulevard, Las Vegas police said.
  
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