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• Magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits Japan

  12-05-2015 23:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit off the main Japanese island of Honshu, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.
  
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• Las Vegas’ big purple banner irritates Clark County leaders

  12-05-2015 23:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At 100 feet wide and nearly 30 feet tall, the city’s latest attempt to promote downtown tourism spans Las Vegas Boulevard at Sahara Avenue. Clark County hates it. The city wants to make it permanent.
  
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• Las Vegas’ big ‘party’ banner irritates county leaders

  12-05-2015 23:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At 100 feet wide and nearly 30 feet tall, the city’s latest attempt to promote downtown tourism spans Las Vegas Boulevard at Sahara Avenue. Clark County hates it. The city wants to make it permanent.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Panel approves Sandoval-backed anti-bullying bill

  12-05-2015 22:52
  A Nevada Assembly panel has approved a comprehensive anti-bullying measure backed by Gov. Brian Sandoval. Lawmakers on the Assembly Ways and Means Committee voted 13-2 to approve SB504 on Tuesday, with two Republicans voting against it. It now heads to the Assembly floor for approval. The bill revises the definition of bullying and creates a separate three-person anti-bullying office inside the Nevada Department of Education. It would also strengthen reporting requirements for bullying incident
  

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• Bill would prevent HOAs from barring Nevada flag

  12-05-2015 22:52
  Lawmakers are considering a bill that would prevent homeowners associations from barring the Nevada state flag. Republican Assemblyman Lynn Stewart is sponsoring AB301, which was discussed Tuesday in a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. A supporter from southern Nevada who spoke in favor of the bill said he was celebrating Nevada’s 150th birthday by flying a state flag at his home when his HOA issued a cease and desist notice. He said the notice came even though the HOA allowed him to fly a
  

• Wynn and Sands resorts file to cut ties with NV Energy

  12-05-2015 22:46
  
  Wynn Resorts and Las Vegas Sands have become the first resort companies to make a formal step toward cutting the cord with NV Energy and are attempting to purchase their own power. The Las Vegas Sun reports that the two companies filed applications of exit with the Public Utilities Commission and more companies are expected to follow suit. Handfuls of resort and gaming companies have tried to cut ties with NV Energy after a 2001 law allowed companies that consume more than 1 megawatt per year t
  
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• Nevada joins in $158M settlements in ‘mobile cramming’ case

  12-05-2015 22:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada has joined 49 other states in reaching $158 million in settlements with Sprint Corp. and Verizon Wireless to resolve allegations that the companies engaged in an illegal practice known as “mobile cramming.”
  
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• White officer won’t face charges in biracial man’s shooting death

  12-05-2015 22:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Officer Matt Kenny of the Madison Police Department will not face charges in the March shooting death of biracial teen Tony Robinson, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Tuesday.
  
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• Police: Former Family Services supervisor kept grandchildren in filthy home

  12-05-2015 22:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 56-year-old former supervisor with the Department of Family Services is facing two counts of child abuse, neglect or endangerment after authorities found her two young grandchildren living in filth at her northwest valley home.
  
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• Family Services supervisor faces child abuse charges

  12-05-2015 22:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 56-year-old supervisor with the Department of Family Services is facing two counts of child abuse, neglect or endangerment after authorities found her two young grandchildren living in filth at her northwest valley home, according to a police report obtained by the Review-Journal.
  
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• Chinese conglomerate gives 6,000 employees free trip to France

  12-05-2015 21:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  More than 6,000 employees of Tiens Group — a Chinese conglomerate — were given the VIP treatment on an all expenses paid trip to France to celebrate the company’s 20th birthday.
  
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• Impact on schoolwork major concern after concussions

  12-05-2015 21:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Kids who suffer a concussion worry about their academic skills in the weeks afterward, and older kids and those with more severe symptoms seem to worry the most.
  
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• Bangladeshi blogger is third to be hacked to death

  12-05-2015 21:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A blogger was hacked to death by machete-wielding attackers in Bangladesh on Tuesday, the third killing of an online critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation in less than three months.
  
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• Responding officers in Metro ambush to receive Top Cop Awards

  12-05-2015 20:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The 10 officers responded June 8 to the east valley shooting that started in a pizza parlor where officers Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31, were shot and killed.
  
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• Officers who responded to Metro ambush to receive Top Cop Awards in D.C.

  12-05-2015 20:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The 10 officers responded June 8 to the east valley shooting that started in a pizza parlor where officers Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31, were shot and killed.
  
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• These are the qualities of a great teacher

  12-05-2015 20:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  According to author and historian Ken Bain, great teachers aren’t defined by what they do, but by their ability to “understand their discipline” their students.
  
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• Unarmed Wash. man killed by police was pointing phone like a gun

  12-05-2015 19:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An unarmed Washington state man who was fatally shot by officers at a lumber yard outside of Seattle last month had pointed a cellphone at them like a gun before he was killed, police said.
  
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• Body count up to 7 in Conn. serial killer case

  12-05-2015 19:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The remains of at least four additional people have been found during a serial killer investigation behind a Connecticut strip mall where the bodies of three women were previously found, authorities said Monday.
  
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• Man who killed girlfriend, her family to be executed in Texas

  12-05-2015 19:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Texas is set on Tuesday to execute Derrick Charles, 32, who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her mother and her grandfather in their Houston home in 2002.
  
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• Man who killed girlfriend, her family executed in Texas

  12-05-2015 19:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Texas on Tuesday executed Derrick Charles, 32, who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her mother and her grandfather in their Houston home in 2002.
  
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• Appeals court considers ‘cannibal cop’ conviction

  12-05-2015 18:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A federal appeals court in New York will consider whether gruesome imagery by a New York City police officer was part of an actual criminal plot or simply the dark but harmless fantasies of an extreme fetishist.
  
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• Woman who died after she was shot through security door ID’d

  12-05-2015 18:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police have made no arrest in the slaying that happened Sunday in the 4800 block of Cleopatra Avenue, near the intersection of Nellis Boulevard and Cheyenne Avenue.
  
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• Power outage reported in southwest valley

  12-05-2015 18:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  About 10,000 NV Energy customers in the southwest valley were without power Tuesday morning, according to the utility company’s website.
  
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• 900 without power in southwest valley

  12-05-2015 18:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  About 900 NV Energy customers in the southwest valley are without power, according to the utility company’s website.
  
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• 7,000 without power in southwest valley

  12-05-2015 18:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  About 7,000 NV Energy customers in the southwest valley were without power Tuesday morning, according to the utility company’s website.
  
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• 3,000 without power in southwest valley

  12-05-2015 18:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  About 3,000 NV Energy customers in the southwest valley were without power Tuesday morning, according to the utility company’s website.
  
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• 10,000 without power in southwest valley

  12-05-2015 18:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  About 10,000 NV Energy customers in the southwest valley were without power Tuesday morning, according to the utility company’s website.
  
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• 73-year-old woman killed in Monday crash ID’d

  12-05-2015 18:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 73-year-old woman who died after a crash at Rainbow Boulevard and Hacienda Avenue Monday afternoon was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday.
  
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• Late Sen. Howard Cannon had critical paratrooper role on D-Day

  12-05-2015 17:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Among the accomplishments of Nevada’s late-Sen. Howard Cannon, from his 33-year political career to his Air Force Reserve service as a major general, his biggest achievement arguably was his role in delivering paratroopers in the lead plane during the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.
  
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• US military helicopter assisting in Nepal missing

  12-05-2015 16:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A U.S. military helicopter has gone missing near Charikot, Nepal, while the aircraft was conducting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in support of the recent Nepal earthquakes, U.S. Navy Capt. Chris Sims told CNN Tuesday.
  
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• US miliary helicopter missing in Nepal may have had fuel problems

  12-05-2015 16:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crew was overheard talking on the radio about fuel problems before the aircraft went missing on Tuesday during earthquake relief efforts in Nepal with six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers aboard, the Pentagon said.
  
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• Dozens killed, many injured in Nepal’s second powerful earthquake

  12-05-2015 16:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Just over two weeks after thousands died in a mammoth earthquake, Nepal got hit hard again Tuesday — with another powerful tremor that has left dozens more dead and more than 1,000 injured.
  
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• Dozens killed in Nepal’s second powerful earthquake

  12-05-2015 16:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nepal has been hit by a second powerful earthquake in three weeks, piling on the pain for its people and shattered economy.
  
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• Moped rider dies after Monday accident

  12-05-2015 16:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The moped rider critically injured in a northwest valley crash Monday night died at the hospital shortly after arrival, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Coroner identifies moped rider killed in Monday crash

  12-05-2015 16:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the scooter driver killed in a crash Monday night in the northwest valley.
  
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• Accolades OK, but Nevada prison guards need help

  12-05-2015 15:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  National Correctional Officers Week came and went with little fanfare inside the Nevada Department of Corrections.
  
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• “Wizard of Oz” theme to take over Magical Forest for event

  12-05-2015 13:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Volunteer Robert Evans hustles down the train tracks on a mission: transform one of Las Vegas’ most popular winter attractions into a springtime Oz in time to celebrate Opportunity Village’s 60th anniversary.
  
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• Police arrest 1 in southwest valley crash

  12-05-2015 08:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A driver was arrested on suspicion of being high on drugs and causing a crash in the southwest valley Monday night, Las Vegas police said. A northbound driver “blew through” a red light and hit an eastbound vehicle just before 9 p.m. at Fort Apache and West Flamingo roads.
  
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• Nevada Appeal sesquicentennial: The man and his mission

  12-05-2015 08:14
  
  Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles about the history of the Nevada Appeal. The Appeal first published on May 16, 1865. This article originally appeared during the Nevada Appeal’s 125th birthday celebration. To read the full article go to nevadaappeal.com.In the first issue of the Appeal, May 16, 1865, the publishers, who were still awaiting Harry Mighels’ arrival in Carson City, spoke out in the editorial columns: “We pledge loyalty to the administration. We vow to
  
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• Crash injures moped rider near Grand Teton, Cimarron

  12-05-2015 08:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A moped rider was in critical condition after colliding with a vehicle in the northwest valley late Monday night.
  
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• Crash injures moped rider; Grand Teton, Cimarron intersection closed

  12-05-2015 08:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A moped rider was in critical condition after colliding with a vehicle in the northwest valley late Monday night. All four directions have been closed to traffic at Grand Teton Drive and North Cimarron Road intersection while officers investigate.
  
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• Nevada Appeal to celebrate 150th birthday Saturday

  12-05-2015 07:56
  
  It has been a party 150 years in the making and the Nevada Appeal is celebrating in style.The Nevada Appeal is turning 150 years old on Saturday. And to celebrate the occasion, the Appeal is planning a party that’s going to be remembered for the next 150 years.The event will be held in the Nevada Appeal parking lot, 580 Mallory Way, and is open to the public. The party will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the Appeal will begin accepting guests at 10:30 a.m. “Carson City, the state of Nev
  
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• Two armed robbers sentenced to 18 months

  12-05-2015 07:50
  
  Two of three men accused of armed robbery in February were sentenced Monday morning.Jamal Kemp, 28, and Justin Moore, 33, were both charged as being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm and received 18 to 45 months in the Nevada Department of Corrections with no probation. The two men, along with Tashawn Sharp, 34, were arrested in February after deputies responded to reports of a robbery in progress on the 1000 block of Woodside Drive. The men are from Sacramento and came to Carson to collect
  
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• Carson High’s Butler shoots first round 83 at Nevada state golf championships

  12-05-2015 07:50
  
  RENO — Montreux Country Club is a tough track even when the weather is nice. On a windy day, it turns into a beast as the best high school golfers in Nevada found out Monday afternoon on the first day of the NIAA State Championships.Not one golfer in the 52-player field broke par, and only 10 managed to break 80. Carson High’s Dalton Butler shot an 11-over-par 83 and finds himself tied for 15th place. Butler tees off at 9:20 a.m. today in the second and final round of the 36-hole tournament
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on suspicion of being a fugitive from justice

  12-05-2015 07:50
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.Carson CityFRIDAYAt 2 p.m., a 49-year-old Carson City man was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery-first offense and violation of conditions. Bail was set at $6,000.SATURDAYAt 4:57 a.m., a 25-year-old transient man was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct after deputies responded to reports of a possibly intoxicated subject attempting to get into an apartment. Bail wa
  
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• 3 people shot near UC Santa Barbara campus, officials say

  12-05-2015 06:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Three people were shot near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara on Monday evening, according to campus and fire officials, but no further details were immediately available.
  
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• 3 hurt in shooting near UC Santa Barbara campus

  12-05-2015 06:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least three people were hurt in a shooting on Monday evening near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, officials said.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Panel passes controversial bill allowing hearsay in court

  12-05-2015 03:36
  
  A Nevada panel has approved a bill allowing some hearsay evidence in the early stages of sensitive court cases. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve AB193 on a 4-2 vote on Monday with Democrats opposing. The bill would allow a victim’s statement to police, rather than their firsthand testimony, to be presented in a preliminary hearing or in secret grand jury proceedings for child sex abuse or domestic violence cases. Those hearings determine whether there’s enough evidence for a
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Lawmakers discuss proposed repeater graffiti penalty

  12-05-2015 03:36
  
  A Nevada Senate panel on Monday began reviewing a hotly debated bill calling for the creation of a felony-level offense for multiple graffiti convictions. Republican Assemblyman Lynn Stewart and numerous police lobbyists presented AB244 to the Senate Judiciary Committee. It previously passed the Assembly on a near party-line vote. The bill would require anyone with two or more convictions for graffiti offenses, including at least one that’s a felony, to be automatically charged with a Class C
  
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• Court throws out 1995 conviction of 14-year-old

  12-05-2015 03:18
  
  The 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco has upheld the district court order granting a new trial in a 20-year-old Carson City murder case.Peter Quinn Elvik was just 14 when he shot and killed William Gibson, 63, at the Carson City Gun Range in August 1995. He was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. The Nevada Supreme Court upheld the conviction but U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro ruled the trial court erred by refusing to instruct jurors t
  
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