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• North Las Vegas starts Kiel Ranch park project — PHOTOS

  13-05-2015 23:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With more than $2 million to spend on the project, North Las Vegas officials celebrated the first phase of construction at Kiel Ranch Historic Park on Wednesday.
  
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• Ironman triathlon illegally charged athletes for chance to compete

  13-05-2015 23:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Ironman Triathlon race illegally charged athletes who were willing to pay for a chance to compete in its world competition, according to U.S. prosecutors, who said on Wednesday that the Florida-based company had agreed to forfeit $2.76 million.
  
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• 2 women sue massage therapist, claim sexual assault

  13-05-2015 23:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The women filed a lawsuit Friday in Clark County District Court against Massage Heights Corporate, a limited liability company, and the massage therapist, Brian Goins.
  
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• 2 women allege sexual assault in suit against massage therapist, business

  13-05-2015 23:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The women filed a lawsuit Friday in Clark County District Court against Massage Heights Corporate, a limited liability company, and the massage therapist, Brian Goins.
  
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• Metro looking for man linked to Bromley Avenue stabbing

  13-05-2015 23:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man stabbed multiple times during a fight later died, Las Vegas police said, and the attacker hasn’t been found.
  
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• Nevada campus carry proposal brought back to life

  13-05-2015 23:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A “campus carry” bill believed to be dead in the Senate will be amended into another Second Amendment measure on Friday, Assembly Judiciary Chairman Ira Hansen said Wednesday.
  
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• Chuck Rosenberg named new acting DEA administrator

  13-05-2015 23:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday named Chuck Rosenberg as the new acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
  
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• Woman faces charges for faking cancer to get abortion

  13-05-2015 23:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Arizona woman was charged with fraud and identity theft after faking cancer to get the state to pay for her late-term abortion five years ago, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
  
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• 19-year-old Indian girl fined $25k for rejecting marriage arrangement

  13-05-2015 23:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The family of a 19-year-old Indian girl has been ostracized and fined 1.6 million rupees ($25,000) by a village council after she rejected a marriage arranged when she was a baby, the girl and her parents said on Wednesday.
  
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• Some school staff allowed to carry guns in Oklahoma

  13-05-2015 23:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Oklahoma school districts can designate trained staff members to carry guns on school property under a bill signed into law this week by Governor Mary Fallin, a Republican.
  
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• UPDATE: North Las Vegas mayor releases statement on suspected iPad child porn investigation

  13-05-2015 22:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The release came in response to media pressure following Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that former Police Chief Joseph Chronister is concerned that Mayor John Lee received special treatment in the brief investigation.
  
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• North Las Vegas police release report on mayor’s suspected iPad child porn

  13-05-2015 22:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The release came in response to media pressure following Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that former Police Chief Joseph Chronister is concerned that Mayor John Lee received special treatment in the brief investigation.
  
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• Traveler from Liberia being monitored for possible Ebola

  13-05-2015 22:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A patient admitted to a Connecticut hospital on Tuesday has been placed in isolation and is being monitored for possible Ebola infection after recently traveling from Liberia.
  
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• North Korea publicly executes defense chief with anti-aircraft gun

  13-05-2015 22:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  North Korea publicly executed the country’s defense minister anti-aircraft gun at a military school after the regime accused him of treason.
  
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• NYPD shoots hammer-wielding man after he attacks cop — VIDEO

  13-05-2015 22:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A hammer-wielding man accused of hitting three people on the head in New York City earlier this week was shot on Wednesday after he swung the tool at a police officer.
  
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• UNR awarding 2,454 degrees in two days of ceremonies

  13-05-2015 21:33
  
  The University of Nevada, Reno is holding its spring commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday, when 2,454 degrees and certificates will be conferred — 1,908 bachelor degrees, 476 advanced-degree certificates (master’s and doctoral degrees and education specialist certificates) and 70 University of Nevada School of Medicine degrees. The University awarded 2,251 degrees last spring and has seen a 37 percent increase in degrees awarded since 2007 due to increased enrollment and improved grad
  
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• Sandoval signs bill so noncitizens can teach in Nevada

  13-05-2015 21:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill Wednesday allowing more noncitizens to obtain teaching certificates in Nevada, a move that could help ease a critical teacher shortage in Clark County.
  
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• Toyota, Nissan recall about 6.5 million cars with faulty airbags

  13-05-2015 21:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Toyota and Nissan have recalled an additional 6.56 million cars equipped with possibly faulty airbags manufactured by Japan-based Takata.
  
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• Hard Rock contractor files $9.6 million lien

  13-05-2015 21:27
  
  Minden, Nev. — The contractor who worked on the Hard Rock Casino is suing the Stateline property’s owners for nonpayment of $9.6 million.SMC Construction Co. sued Neva One, owned by Jon and David Park, to enforce a lien on the property, which the contractor said cost double the original bid due to changes made when the casino affiliated with Hard Rock.The lawsuit was filed May 4 in Douglas County District Court.Jon and David Park said that as a rule, Neva One doesn’t comment on pending lit
  
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• Las Vegas police seek information about May 5 shooting

  13-05-2015 21:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are asking for help identifying and locating a person they say was involved in a shooting that left a man in critical condition last week.
  
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• Prosecutor tells jurors Boston bomber earned death sentence

  13-05-2015 19:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The prosecutor in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told jurors Wednesday to remember those killed and wounded two years ago when deciding whether to sentence the Boston Marathon bomber to life in prison or death.
  
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• Utah toddler dies after beating over dirty diaper

  13-05-2015 19:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The father of a 2-year-old child who was severely beaten over a potty-training incident, says this could have all been avoided.
  
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• 2 suffer minor injuries in Henderson apartment fire

  13-05-2015 19:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two adults were treated for smoke inhalation after an apartment fire in Henderson late Tuesday night.
  
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• Feds seek new gambling indictment against Malaysian businessman

  13-05-2015 18:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Undaunted by a judicial order tossing out key evidence, federal prosecutors are pursuing a new indictment in their illegal gambling case against wealthy Malaysian businessman Paul Phua.
  
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• Feds obtain new gambling indictment against Malaysian businessman

  13-05-2015 18:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Undaunted by a judicial order tossing out key evidence, federal prosecutors on Wednesday obtained a new indictment in their illegal gambling case against wealthy Malaysian businessman Paul Phua.
  
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• Likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush visits Reno, Las Vegas

  13-05-2015 18:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Likely Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is expected to ask Reno residents what is on their minds during a brief visit Wednesday, then speak at a Republican Party dinner in Las Vegas in the evening.
  
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• Jeb Bush tells Reno crowd he has no faith in Yucca nuclear project

  13-05-2015 18:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Likely Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Wednesday he does not believe that the stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository will end up being the burial site for the country’s nuclear waste.
  
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• Search continues for missing US helicopter in Nepal

  13-05-2015 17:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Hundreds of Nepali troops searched for a missing U.S. Marine helicopter with eight people on board on Wednesday, a day after the second powerful earthquake in less than three weeks killed scores and sent panicked residents rushing out of buildings.
  
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• No sign of missing US helicopter in Nepal

  13-05-2015 17:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A daylong search failed to find a missing U.S. Marine helicopter on Wednesday, a day after the second Nepal earthquake in less than three weeks killed scores and triggered landslides across the Himalayan nation.
  
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• Investigators recover black box in Amtrak derailment

  13-05-2015 15:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Federal investigators have recovered the black box from the wreckage of an Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia, killing at least seven people and injured more than 200, officials said on Wednesday.
  
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• Investigation begins into deadly Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia

  13-05-2015 15:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Fighting to save lives. Mourning the dead. And figuring out why this came to be — how an Amtrak train could suddenly derail, sending its cars and passengers flying.
  
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• Death toll rises to 7 in Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia

  13-05-2015 15:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Fighting to save lives. Mourning the dead. And figuring out why this came to be — how an Amtrak train could suddenly derail, sending its cars and passengers flying.
  
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• AP staffer among those killed in Philadelphia Amtrak derailment

  13-05-2015 15:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One of the victims of the Amtrak crash outside of Philadelphia was identified Wednesday as an Associated Press staffer.
  
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• Amtrak train was going twice the speed limit before deadly derailment

  13-05-2015 15:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that preliminary data show the derailed Amtrak train’s speed exceeded 100 mph before the derailment. That would be more than twice the 50 mph speed limit for the curve it was in.
  
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• Amtrak engineer applied emergency brakes before deadly derailment

  13-05-2015 15:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The engineer of the Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia killing seven applied emergency brakes just moments before the fatal accident, a U.S. transportation safety investigator said on Wednesday.
  
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• 6 dead, 150 hospitalized in Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia

  13-05-2015 15:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  As day broke in Philadelphia on Wednesday, rescue workers were still searching inside the mangled wreckage of an Amtrak train that derailed the night before, killing at least six people and sending another 150 to various hospitals.
  
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• Michael Heizer’s Big Work and Long View

  13-05-2015 11:08
  The sculptor and earth artist says of “City,” the monumental project he has built in the Nevada desert since the 1970s, “It’s basically done.”
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Ex-presidents say community colleges have a losing formula

  13-05-2015 09:19
  
  Two former campus presidents say the new higher education funding formula will cause irreparable damage to Nevada’s community colleges in multiple ways.Carol Lucey, who led Western Nevada College for 14 years, and John Gwaltney, Truckee Meadows Community College president for nine years, said the new formulas are designed solely to benefit Nevada’s two universities and do so by stripping away the ability of community colleges to do their job.“The bottom line is the chancellor and his staf
  
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• 5 found shot to death in Tucson

  13-05-2015 09:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Five men and women were found shot dead in an Arizona home on Tuesday, the Arizona Daily Star newspaper reported.
  
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• Picasso purchase bumps Elaine Wynn to No. 2

  13-05-2015 08:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Elaine Pascal Wynn no longer holds the distinction of owning the world’s most expensive work of art sold at auction.
  
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• Four days on stand grind on Sheldon Adelson

  13-05-2015 08:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Steve Jacobs’ personal fight of the century is still in the preliminary stages at the Regional Justice Center, but casino titan Sheldon Adelson is already taking punches.
  
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• Four days on stand grind on Adelson

  13-05-2015 08:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Steve Jacobs’ personal fight of the century is still in the preliminary stages at the Regional Justice Center, but casino titan Sheldon Adelson is already taking punches.
  
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• Ron Wood Center to honor First Lady Kathleen Sandoval

  13-05-2015 08:24
  
  The Ron Wood Family Resource Center has named First Lady Kathleen Sandoval its Community Leader of the Year.She is the sixth person to receive that award.The event will be held at the Governor’s Mansion Saturday, May 16 beginning at 2 p.m. and features an evening of “wine, food, music and friends as we honor our First Lady’s contributions to our community.”The event is a benefit to help support the resource center with tickets set at $50 per person for those wishing to attend.Mrs. Sando
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Senate votes to create presidential preference primary

  13-05-2015 08:24
  
  On a party-line vote, the Nevada Senate Tuesday passed legislation creating a presidential preference primary and moving the state’s primary date from June to the last Tuesday in February.SB421 was opposed by Democrats who argued it was a solution to a Republican problem.“If they want to have a presidential primary for Sheldon Adelson let Sheldon Adelson pay for it,” said Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas.He said if they put the primary in June instead of February, he would gladly support
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Ex-presidents say losing formula for WNC, Great Basin

  13-05-2015 08:24
  
  Two former campus presidents say the new higher education funding formula will cause irreparable damage to Nevada’s community colleges in multiple ways.Carol Lucey, who led Western Nevada College for 14 years, and John Gwaltney, Truckee Meadows Community College president for nine years, said the new formulas are designed solely to benefit Nevada’s two universities and do so by stripping away the ability of community colleges to do their job.“The bottom line is the chancellor and his staf
  
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• Nevada Division of Forestry works to eliminate wildfire risk

  13-05-2015 08:24
  
  As a way to reduce wildfire risks and improve water quality, the Nevada Division of Forestry is thinning the trees in forest areas in Clear Creek.By thinning the trees and reducing the density, it will help reduce the spread of wildfire and make it more manageable for firefighters to contain, and it will help with tree health against things like disease.“The more trees that are in an area, the worse it is because they are competitive,” said Ryan Shane, Community Protection program coordinato
  
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• National Women’s Health Week is this week

  13-05-2015 08:24
  
  This column appears in the Nevada Appeal Wednesday health pages. It addresses topics related to the health of our community.We are at the midpoint of National Women’s Health Week, which kicked off on Sunday with the observance of Mother’s Day. Carson City Health and Human Services is joining with healthcare providers across the country in the week-long event to bring awareness to women about important heath issues they face. Carson City Health and Human Services and Douglas County Community
  
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• Inside Harry Mighels: One lasting legacy

  13-05-2015 08:24
  
  Editor’s note: This is the third 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.Harry Mighels was a complex man with a variety of talents. The editors of Thompson & West’s “History of Nevada” were among the several historians who theorized that Mighels possessed an ability and a talent more w
  
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• Carson City budget hearing, passage set Monday

  13-05-2015 08:24
  
  Carson City’s budget next fiscal year, which is $135.6 million or $67.7 million depending on how people tote it up, is set for passage Monday.The action will be preceded by a public hearing in a routine yet special Board of Supervisors meeting required by state law. Passage is expected to be routine as departmental and City Hall staff crafted the bulk of the Fiscal Year 2015-16 spending guide earlier, and board members recommended a few changes at their regular meeting Thursday. Monday’s sp
  
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• Sprints have become Winder’s track haven

  13-05-2015 08:18
  
  Sahara Winder freely admits there was a time when she didn’t like track, in particular the 400-meter race.If you know her background, it’s a strange statement. According to Carson High coach Robert Maw, Winder was one of the top 400 runners in the nation as a middle-school athlete.“She was running 60-second 400s,” Maw said earlier this week. “She ran 61 as a freshman, but her sophomore and junior years she was running 62s and 63s. I think she lost her focus; her drive.”Winder kept r
  
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