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• Military Appreciation Night at LVMS Bullring on Saturday

  14-05-2015 23:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will celebrate Armed Forces Day by paying tribute to local armed services members and veterans on Saturday.
  
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• Homeless count shows slight growth in Clark County

  14-05-2015 23:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The number of homeless people living on the streets in Clark County and in emergency shelters jumped to 7,509 this year, up from 7,443 in 2014.
  
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• Man with gun barricaded on Hawaii Circle

  14-05-2015 23:25
  
  Law enforcement officers currently have a man with a gun barricaded at a residence on Hawaii Circle in Carson City. According to the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, the man threatened to kill his girlfriend. The sheriff’s office reported the woman was able to get away. More details will be forthcoming as they become available.…
  
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• Science Guy Bill Nye opens Kickstarter campaign for spacecraft

  14-05-2015 23:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Kickstarter campaign that launched Tuesday, which is fronted by Bill Nye (of “the Science Guy” fame), is asking for contributions to send a small spacecraft into the universe next year.
  
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• Burundi president returns after failed coup attempt

  14-05-2015 22:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza, who was in Tanzania when a general attempted to overthrow him, has returned to the African nation, the presidency said in a telephone text message on Thursday.
  
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• 3 dead in Washington, D.C., house fire

  14-05-2015 22:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Three people died in a fire in northwest Washington on Thursday and homicide investigators were on site, a local television affiliate reported.
  
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• Thousands of Asian boatpeople denied land entry, stuck at sea

  14-05-2015 22:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Thousands of migrants adrift in Southeast Asian seas have nowhere to go after Thailand declined permission for a boat to land on Thursday and Malaysia said it would push boatpeople back out to sea.
  
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• Former undersheriff, retired captain indicted in LA jail scandal

  14-05-2015 22:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A federal grand jury indicted a former Los Angeles County undersheriff and a retired captain on obstruction and conspiracy charges in a long-running investigation of inmate abuse and corruption, prosecutors said on Thursday.
  
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• Man detained outside White House for trying to fly drone

  14-05-2015 22:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Secret Service detained a man Thursday afternoon who eyewitnesses tell CNN was trying to fly some sort of remote-controlled aerial device over the White House fence.
  
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• Bill to weaken Nevada’s anti-SLAPP statute called dead

  14-05-2015 21:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A bill sought by Wynn Resorts that critics said would have substantially weakened Nevada’s anti-SLAPP statute is dead after a lawmaker said Thursday it won’t come up for a vote in his committee.
  
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• 8 buddy comedies you can watch on Netflix — VIDEO

  14-05-2015 21:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The buddy comedy “Hot Pursuit” hit theaters last week, and the film starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara got us thinking about great buddy comedies.
  
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• Las Vegas police seek help finding South Point robber

  14-05-2015 21:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man they said was involved in an April robbery at the South Point.
  
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• Should phones be banned in school classrooms?

  14-05-2015 20:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The average American child gets his or her first cellphone at the age of 6, and it only goes up from there. A survey reported on by Education Week found that 51 percent of all high school students carry a smartphone with them to class everyday.
  
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• Warrant issued for ex-Vegas Constable John Bonaventura

  14-05-2015 20:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former Las Vegas Constable John Bonaventura is accused of domestic battery and coercion against his wife from an incident on April 17, according to the criminal complaint.
  
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• No decision reached in first full day deliberations in Tsarnaev case

  14-05-2015 20:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The first full day of jury deliberations in the Boston Marathon bombing trial ended on Thursday without a decision on whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev would be sentenced to death or to life in prison for the deadly 2013 attack.
  
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• Boston Marathon bomber jury deliberates for first full day in Tsarnaev case

  14-05-2015 20:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The first full day of jury deliberations began Thursday on whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death or to life in prison for the deadly 2013 attack.
  
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• Put out your campfire — summer restrictions start Friday

  14-05-2015 20:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Building campfires, welding, and using charcoal stoves, explosives and fireworks will be prohibited in areas including Lake Mead, Mount Charleston, Valley of Fire State and Beaver Dam state parks.
  
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• Drone used to search for missing Marines helicopter in Nepal

  14-05-2015 20:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Military helicopters flew over eastern Nepal and a team sent up a drone on Thursday to search for a missing U.S. Marines Huey chopper, as the death toll rose from the Himalayan country’s second big earthquake in less than three weeks.
  
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• Freight train derails in Pittsburgh, no injuries reported

  14-05-2015 20:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A freight train derailed in Pittsburgh on Thursday and emergency crews were called, but there were no injuries and no hazardous materials involved, a railway spokesman said.
  
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• Sprayed eyeglass cleaner prompts paramedic response

  14-05-2015 19:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Eyeglass cleaner got a bad rap Thursday on a Clark County school bus.
  
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• Iranian Navy fires warning shots at Singaporean cargo ship

  14-05-2015 19:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Five Iranian boats fired shots across the bow of a Singapore flagged cargo vessel in the Persian Gulf on Thursday in an attempt to potentially stop the ship, a U.S. official told CNN. For the first time, the incident brought another Persian Gulf nation into the recent rising maritime tensions in the region.
  
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• Cyclist flips off driver who almost hit him, gets chased down — VIDEO

  14-05-2015 19:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Cyclist Alan Crocker regrets flipping off the driver of the blue pickup truck that buzzed past him on a recent Saturday morning in Rome, Georgia. He’s not proud of it, and he’ll never do it again — especially now that he knows how unpredictable the response might be.
  
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• Ivy Ziedrich, College Student, Warms to Role as Jeb Bush Critic on ISIS

  14-05-2015 19:41
  Ivy Ziedrich told Jeb Bush, “Your brother created Isis,” and now she finds herself both a target and a hero on social media.
  
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• Life in Supermax — where Tsarnaev could spend life in prison

  14-05-2015 19:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It’s home to Ramzi Yousef, who plotted the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center; 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski; and Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber.”
  
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• Rain, hail hits parts of Las Vegas Valley

  14-05-2015 18:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Isolated thunderstorms Thursday morning brought hail to parts of the valley, the National Weather Service said.
  
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• Some downtown roads to close for Helldorado Days

  14-05-2015 17:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Las Vegas Elks Helldorado Days, one of the longest-running special events in the city, will have its parade along the city’s traditional route of Fourth Street between Gass and Stewart avenues.
  
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• Metro asks for help finding man they thought was barricaded in house

  14-05-2015 16:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help to locate a man they thought had been barricaded in a residence near Nellis Air Force Base Thursday morning.
  
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• Man barricaded in northeast Las Vegas residence

  14-05-2015 16:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are at the scene of a man who is barricaded in a residence near Nellis Air Force Base Thursday morning.
  
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• Calif. fugitive barricaded in northeast Las Vegas residence

  14-05-2015 16:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are at the scene of a man who is barricaded in a residence near Nellis Air Force Base Thursday morning.
  
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• Train’s engineer doesn’t remember deadly Amtrak crash, lawyer says

  14-05-2015 16:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Federal investigators probing the deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia were waiting to interview the train’s engineer, whose attorney said on Thursday he did not remember the crash that killed seven people and injured more than 200 others.
  
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• Body of 8th victim found in Amtrak train derailment

  14-05-2015 16:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The body of an eighth victim was found in the wreckage of the train derailment in Philadelphia, the city’s fire commissioner said on Thursday, as investigators waited to interview the engineer about the crash.
  
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• Body found in Amtrak wreckage, bringing death toll to 8

  14-05-2015 16:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Investigators on Thursday morning found another body at the site of the Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia, according to the uncle of a man who has been missing since the accident.
  
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• Two workers injured in crash at Charleston-Eastern; intersection closed

  14-05-2015 15:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Eastern Avenue is closed Thursday morning after a driver crashed into a construction site, striking two workers, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Crash closes Charleston-Eastern intersection

  14-05-2015 15:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Eastern Avenue is closed Thursday morning, according to the Regional Transportation Commission.
  
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• 2 workers injured in crash at Charleston-Eastern; intersection partially reopens

  14-05-2015 15:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Eastbound Charleston Boulevard near the intersection of Eastern Avenue has reopened after a crash closed the street Thursday morning.
  
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• Jeb Bush Taunts Hillary Clinton Over Not Taking Questions

  14-05-2015 14:29
  “You can’t script your way to the presidency,” Jeb Bush said of Hillary Rodham Clinton at a stop in Reno, Nev.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Lawmakers look to drive down Nevada DMV wait times

  14-05-2015 08:31
  
  Lawmakers agreed on Wednesday to add nearly 60 positions at the Department of Motor Vehicles to reduce long lines and wait times.The list includes 54 technicians to man service windows primarily in urban DMV offices where customers have complained they must wait three hours or more to be served. It also includes five supervisors to oversee those technicians.“There are lines out the door and long waits for service,” said Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas. “We need to get
  
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• Nevada drought claims Washoe Lake

  14-05-2015 08:31
  
  Washoe Lake is dry.With almost all of the 11 streams feeding the lake between Reno and Carson City reduced to a trickle over the past five years, evaporation has officially claimed the last of Washoe’s waters.Jennifer Ramella of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources said Little Washoe at the main lake’s north end still has a bit of water in it but that too is fading.Washoe Lake Park Supervisor Jennifer Dawson said in an earlier interview the lake is vulnerable to dry spells be
  
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• Cruisin’ in Carson City

  14-05-2015 08:31
  
  9-year-old Elsa Harrison dresses like one of the ‘Three Amigos’ Wednesday evening during the Westside Cruiser Ride.…
  
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• Crews searching for missing airliner discover uncharted shipwreck

  14-05-2015 08:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Search teams scouring the floor of the Indian Ocean for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have come across some wreckage — just considerably older than the airliner which disappeared in March 2014.
  
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• Silver City hosts street dance, displays and film on Saturday

  14-05-2015 08:24
  
  A free street dance, featuring live music by Will and Sheree Rose, the High Street Band and Red Rose, is kicking off a series of free events at 2 p.m. Saturday on Main Street in Silver City. Past and present residents of Silver City will gather at 3 p.m. for a town photo to recreate a photo taken by Jake Wise in 1976. A 1965 to present Comstock rock and roll music memorabilia collection, owned by Mary MacDonald, will be displayed beginning at 10 a.m. at the Silver City School House and Community
  
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• Nevada wind celebration with two-day festival

  14-05-2015 08:24
  
  A two-day festival celebrating Nevada’s famous wind will offer an artisan marketplace, kite-making and flying demonstrations and music from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Dangberg Home Ranch in Minden.Something in the Wind is a joint project of the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park and the Carson Valley Arts Council. The weekend’s events are sponsored by Bently Ranch, Soaring NV, The Record-Courier, Holiday Inn Express, and the Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation.The eve
  
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• Nevada Fair at Carson City’s Fuji Park accepting entries

  14-05-2015 08:24
  
  Fair goers across the state who are interested in entering the livestock and other competitions at the Nevada Fair may now do so online at nevadafair.com.The premium book is open for entries in the livestock shows as well as other competitions, including home arts, cooking, homespun items and sewing.“It’s great,” said Susan Taylor, fair coordinator. “It’s amazing how creative people can be.”Still in the early stages of planning this year’s Nevada State Fair will be held July 30-Aug
  
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• Harry, the ‘601’ and Carson City’s firebug

  14-05-2015 08:24
  
  Editor’s note: This is the fourth 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.Mystery that has long tantalized historians inside and outside the Appeal offices, is the possible existence of a connection between Harry Mighels and the vigilante group knows as the “601” which reared its ugly h
  
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• Corey and Maddie: CHS royalty

  14-05-2015 08:24
  
  For the past four years, Corey Reid and Maddie Preston have been the king and queen of track and field at Carson High School.They have been the Senators’ most valuable and versatile performers, racking up valuable points at invitationals and dual meets alike in several events. And, between the two of them they hold four school records. Reid is the leader in the 400 (47.15 in winning state last year) and his 21.79 tied him with George Pincock for the top spot in the 200. His 6-6 high jump puts
  
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• Carson City’s Molly Seals to perform at Nevada Appeal’s 150 celebration

  14-05-2015 08:24
  
  Two up and coming local singer-songwriters will take the stage Saturday to help the Nevada Appeal celebrate its sesquicentennial.Carson City’s Molly Seals and Jake Houston and the Royal Flush will take the stage during the Appeal’s birthday party from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of the Appeal, 580 Mallory Way. Seals is set to take the stage shortly before 2 p.m. with Houston and company taking the stage about 3 p.m. Houston, 21, is an old out-law country singer molded and i
  
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• Carson City RTC OKs BAC street plan; calls for I-580 pact

  14-05-2015 08:24
  
  Closing the street dividing the Brewery Arts Center campus to hold events, and perhaps do a street mural, was approved by Carson City’s Regional Transportation Commission Wednesday.In addition, the commission recommended the Board of Supervisors approve an Interlocal Agreement with the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) regarding city and state handling of matters like maintenance and landscaping while the $42.5 million I-580 extension, running from Fairview Lane to U.S. Highway 395,
  
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• Carson City painter showing off work at Comma Coffee

  14-05-2015 08:24
  
  A Carson City woman who last year, at age 70, decided to pick up a paintbrush for the first time, is hosting her first exhibit of landscape oil paintings through May at Comma Coffee. Rosie L. Laird, 71, says everything she knows about painting is self-taught. “This is the first time I’ve ever shown my paintings. They’re all landscapes — mountains, snow, water, Tahoe, they’re all about the outdoors,” she said. Laird’s exhibit includes 22 original pieces, all of which are for sale.Fo
  
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• Brews, brats and ballet in Carson City

  14-05-2015 08:24
  
  Sierra Nevada Ballet is hosting an evening of dance, beer and brats at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City. Brew, Brats and Ballet, a celebration of new choreography modeled after Sacramento Ballet’s tradition of beer and ballet, features new short choreographic works by local and out-of-state artists. Brew, Brats and Ballet offers audiences a chance to sample some local brews and sausages while enjoying new choreographic offerings by former Joffrey Ballet principal, M
  
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• At least 45 dead, dozens missing after Philippines factory fire

  14-05-2015 08:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least 45 people have been killed and 26 others are missing after a fire engulfed a footwear factory in the northern Philippines, authorities said Thursday.
  
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