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• Suspicious package probed after shooting by bail bondsmen

  06-06-2015 23:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Bail bondsmen shot a man they had “a reason to apprehend” and the Las Vegas Fire Department is investigating a suspicious package found on the scene at an east valley neighborhood Saturday, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Explosives found in Vegas after shooting by bail bondsmen

  06-06-2015 23:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Bail bondsmen shot a man they were trying to capture and the Las Vegas Fire Department removed homemade explosives from an east valley home where the shooting happened Saturday, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Bomb squad investigates suspicious package in east valley strip mall

  06-06-2015 23:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro’s Bomb squad is investigating a suspicious package in an east valley strip mall.
  
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• Woman hit by piece of baseball bat at Fenway in serious condition

  06-06-2015 22:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman who was struck in the head by a shattered baseball bat at a Red Sox game in Boston’s Fenway Park on Friday evening was in serious condition on Saturday, a local hospital said.
  
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• 2 convicted murderers escape maximum security prison in New York

  06-06-2015 22:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two convicted murderers escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate New York by cutting through a steel wall and following a series of tunnels until they emerged from a manhole outside the prison walls, New York authorities said Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Nevada Legislature: Lobbyists, interest groups grade the session

  06-06-2015 22:00
  
  It was a brave new world when Republicans swept all constitutional offices and both houses of the Legislature in November for the first time in more than a century. Nobody knew what an era of conservative control would mean for the state. As the dust settles, lobbyists offer their grades on the outcome of the historic, 120-day legislative session. EDUCATION: Grade: A, according to Seth Rau of Nevada Succeeds, an education policy group backed by the state’s business community. The session was
  
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• Ciana to perform Irish music this week at Dangberg Historic Park

  06-06-2015 22:00
  
  Cíana is bringing traditional Irish music to the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11.With fiddles, mandolin, guitars, and singers, Cíana performs tunes and songs from the Irish and Celtic tradition. With a nod to those Irish musicians from whom they learned, Cíana keeps alive the Irish tradition of lively tunes and soulful songs.Cíana’s roster includes Tina Carlsen on fiddle and vocals, Holly Sternberg on fiddle, Kathy Bly playing the guitar and octave mandolin
  
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• Deadly CiCi’s Pizza ambush still fresh in the minds of Metro

  06-06-2015 20:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For Metro Officer Troy Nicol, the images from last June’s ambush that left officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo and Wal-Mart shopper Joseph Wilcox dead have played vividly in his mind every day for the past year.
  
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• Woman killed in rollover crash near Boulder City IDd

  06-06-2015 20:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The woman who was killed in a rollover crash Wednesday morning south of Boulder City was identified Saturday by the Clark County coroner’s office.
  
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• Bicyclist hit, killed by car Thursday night identified

  06-06-2015 19:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The bicyclist who died after being struck by a car late Thursday night was identified Saturday by the Clark County coroner’s office.
  
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• 2 men hospitalized after morning shooting near Linq

  06-06-2015 17:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two men are hospitalized after a shooting Saturday morning near the Linq, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• 1 hospitalized after morning shooting near Linq

  06-06-2015 17:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person is hospitalized after a shooting Saturday morning near the Linq, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Obama heads to Beau Biden’s funeral

  06-06-2015 17:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Barack Obama headed to Delaware on Saturday in a show of compassion for grief-stricken Joe Biden, and to eulogize the vice president’s son Beau, who died last week of brain cancer at only 46.
  
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• Obama gives emotional eulogy for Beau Biden

  06-06-2015 17:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The kiss, at the end, said it all. While delivering a moving lament for Beau Biden on Saturday, Obama offered a remarkable statement of love and gratitude for another man: the father of Delaware’s favorite son and his own vice president, Joe Biden, whose life is again stricken by personal tragedy.
  
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• Teri’s Notebook: Jeff Potter, Carson City trail builder, wins national award

  06-06-2015 08:52
  
  Jeff Potter, the trails coordinator for Muscle Powered, received a national award for the work he did in building and coordinating the Ash to Kings Canyon trail west of Carson City.“As the recreation trails manager for Nevada State Parks, I meet a large number of fabulous people who qualify for these awards,” said Jenny Scanland. “I nominated Jeff because of his undying dedication, top-notch trail skills, and humble nature which set him apart from others.”American Trails presented Potter
  
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• Boys & Girls Clubs in Carson City start ‘teen center’ capital campaign to raise $400,000 and trigger generous match

  06-06-2015 08:46
  
  A teen center addition to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada in Carson City is going to be built if a $400,000 capital campaign is successful, club officials said Friday.“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” said Laurie Gorris, the organization’s chief professional officer, as she and Jonathan Olivas, club board president, announced the fund raising campaign. The opportunity involves a 75/25 percentage match in which $400,000 raised by July 31 would trigger $1.2 million for
  
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• Gov. Brian Sandoval signs election bill, many others

  06-06-2015 08:40
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed legislation requiring anyone who signs a petition to recall a public official must have voted in the election that put the official in that post.Supporters of the legislation say that matches a recent Nevada Supreme Court ruling on the subject of recall petitions. That ruling states while all registered voters vote in a recall election, “only voters who voted at the relevant baseline election can qualify a recall petition” by signing it.Assembly Bill 23 also r
  
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• Carson bullpen struggles in loss

  06-06-2015 08:40
  
  The Carson Blue Jays got another quality start from Jared Barnard, but the bullpen struggled over the last four innings, and the Sierra Sun Devils took advantage.Four Carson relievers walked nine and hit a batter, and six of those base runners scored in the Sun Devils’ 12-8 win Friday night at Ron McNutt Field.Carson dropped to 8-5. The locals return to action Sunday morning at 10 against the visiting Reno Knights.“It was a good game for seven innings,” Carson coach Bryan Manoukian said.
  
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• Runaway slave’s service to be honored at Dayton Cemetery on Sunday

  06-06-2015 08:34
  
  A runaway slave who joined the Union Army in 1863 and was severely wounded in battle will be honored in gravesite ceremonies at the Dayton Cemetery at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 7.Participants in the ceremony organized by the Historical Society of Dayton Valley will include members of the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War — Gen. William Passmore Carlin Camp 25, the Northern Nevada Black Cultural Awareness Society, the University of Nevada Cadet Band, War Veterans Memorial Association of We
  
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• Public needed to adopt wild horses

  06-06-2015 08:34
  
  The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign and Let ‘Em Run Foundation are asking for the public’s assistance in adopting wild horses removed from the Virginia Range near Reno.In March 2013, Return to Freedom, the founding organization of the AWHPC, signed the first cooperative agreement with the Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) that provides for first option to purchase any Virginia Range horses captured by the NDA. Under this agreement, local groups have rescued more than 200 hors
  
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• Carson City’s Silver State presenting ‘Millie’

  06-06-2015 08:34
  
  Silver State Charter Schools is excited to announce its production run of “Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jr.,” which began Friday and runs through June 13 in the Performing Arts Center at Silver State Charter Schools. “Thoroughly Modern Millie Jr.” based on the zany new musical that has taken Broadway by storm, is the high-spirited musical romp that has all of New York dancing the Charleston. In New York City in 1922, young Millie Dillmount has just moved to the big city in search of a new
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: May 2, 1972 — The Ormsby House

  06-06-2015 08:28
  
  May 2, 1972ROCK WALL — Stone mason Herb Miller of Greg Masonry in Reno, constructs a decorative wall around the Ormsby House. The wall is being built from native stone taken from a century old building that rested on the site before construction began.…
  
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• Conditioning starts for Carson runners

  06-06-2015 08:28
  
  Veteran Carson High cross-country coach Pete Sinnott is getting a jump on the 2015 season.Sinnott is starting a conditioning program for competitive runners from sixth grade through high school beginning with a meting at his house, 5432 Lynnett Lane, Sunday at 10 a.m.“The first meeting is informational and parents need to attend,” Sinnott said. “This isn’t exclusively for high school runners. This is for any middle-school competitive runner who wants to get in shape for the cross-countr
  
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• Carson City top young lawyer community

  06-06-2015 08:28
  
  Carson City is about to be named a top tier small city, this time as a haven for young lawyers, according to Mayor Robert Crowell.The mayor, who’s a lawyer, said he was contacted recently by GoodCall, a data research company, which intended to release a report naming Nevada’s capital city one of the top 10 small communities in the nation for recent law graduates to both live and work. The exact ranking wasn’t divulged, but the mayor said he was asked for a comment and supplied it for the
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on attempted trafficking of a controlled substance

  06-06-2015 08:28
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.THURSDAYAt 9:58 a.m., a 29-year-old Carson City woman was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery-first offense near the 1100 block of Nevada Street. Bail was set at $3,000.At 11:10 a.m., a 29-year-old Carson City woman was arrested on suspicion of unlawful taking of a motor vehicle. Bail was set at $2,500.At 4:01 p.m., Omar Oronia-Camacho, 29 of Carson City, was arrested on su
  
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• Boys & Girls Club in Carson City starts ‘teen center’ capital campaign to raise $400,000 and trigger generous match

  06-06-2015 08:28
  
  A teen center addition to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada in Carson City is going to be built if a $400,000 capital campaign is successful, club officials said Friday.“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” said Laurie Gorris, the organization’s chief professional officer, as she and Jonathan Olivas, club board president, announced the fund raising campaign. The opportunity involves a 75/25 percentage match in which $400,000 raised by July 31 would trigger $1.2 million for
  
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• Conservative Pahrump assemblyman moves toward the middle

  06-06-2015 07:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  In agreeing to stand with the majority — and telegraphing it with a long, almost pleading missive to the press — Pahrump Assemblyman James Oscarson has distinguished himself among his conservative peers.
  
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• China ship death toll jumps to 331

  06-06-2015 07:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze River jumped to 331 on Saturday, leaving around 100 still missing, as the boat operator apologized and said it would cooperate with investigations.
  
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• Police acknowledge wiretaps in Nevada lawmaker bribery case

  06-06-2015 07:37
  
  LAS VEGAS — Court-authorized wiretaps were used to monitor phone calls during the 120-day Nevada Legislature in a criminal probe spurred by allegations that a political consultant tried to bribe at least one state lawmaker, Las Vegas police acknowledged Friday. “This is a complex, sensitive investigation,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement issued four days after the legislative session ended. It said people whose calls were intercepted would be notified duri
  
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• Reported tornado damages businesses in Hawthorne

  06-06-2015 04:35
  
  RENO — A tornado ripped through the Nevada town of Hawthorne on Friday afternoon, damaging homes and businesses, causing scattered power outages and temporarily shutting down a highway. No injuries were reported. Mineral County Undersheriff Bill Ferguson says the 3:30 p.m. tornado started east of Hawthorne, about 140 miles southeast of Reno, and swept west along U.S. Highway 95, damaging five businesses and four or five homes, three of them severely. He says the roofs were blown off two homes
  
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• Vehicle fire stalls traffic on U.S. Highway 95 North near Charleston

  06-06-2015 03:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A vehicle fire on U.S. Highway 95 is blocking the right lanes and backing up traffic, according to the Regional Transportation Commission. Clark County firefighters and Nevada Highway Patrol responded to the fire on northbound U.S. 95, near Charleston Boulevard, about 6:15 p.m., according to the agencies’ traffic websites.
  
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• Vehicle fire blocked traffic on U.S. Highway 95 North near Charleston

  06-06-2015 03:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A vehicle fire on U.S. Highway 95 blocked the right lanes and backed up traffic, according to the Regional Transportation Commission. Clark County firefighters and Nevada Highway Patrol responded to the fire on northbound U.S. 95, near Charleston Boulevard, about 6:15 p.m., according to the agencies’ traffic websites.
  
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• USAF Jazz Ensemble giving free concert in Carson City

  06-06-2015 03:11
  
  The Commanders Jazz Ensemble, part of the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West from Travis Air Force Base California, carries on the American musical tradition of the great traveling big bands, yet offers a lot more than the big band sounds. Under the direction of Master Sergeant Jeremiah True, this energetic group of highly-trained professional air personnel-musicians offers an entertaining show you won’t soon forget and they are performing at the Carson City Community Center for an afterno
  
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• Analysis: New tough-on-crime laws will cost Nevada

  06-06-2015 02:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Twenty-seven of 42 measures creating new crimes or enhancing existing penalties were approved by the Nevada Legislature, creating the potential for higher incarceration rates and a growing need for expensive new prison beds, an analysis from the Clark County public defender’s office suggests.
  
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• USAF Jazz Ensemble giving free concert

  06-06-2015 02:19
  
  The Commanders Jazz Ensemble, part of the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West from Travis Air Force Base California, carries on the American musical tradition of the great traveling big bands, yet offers a lot more than the big band sounds. Under the direction of Master Sergeant Jeremiah True, this energetic group of highly-trained professional air personnel-musicians offers an entertaining show you won’t soon forget and they are performing at the Carson City Community Center for an afterno
  
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• Ex-Henderson woman gets 51 months in real estate fraud case

  06-06-2015 02:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former Henderson woman has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison in a $1.5 million real estate scheme that used $232,000 of the ill-gotten gains to pay restitution in a state criminal theft case.
  
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• Ex-Henderson woman gets 51 months in case linked to real estate fraud

  06-06-2015 02:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former Henderson woman has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison in a $1.5 million real estate scheme that used $232,000 of the ill-gotten gains to pay restitution in a state criminal theft case.
  
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• Carson City Strings in the Summer student music program starts Monday

  06-06-2015 02:07
  
  The Carson City Symphony’s free Strings in the Summer, a six-week program for string players of all ages, starts Monday at Carson Mall under the direction of Symphony Education Director Sue Jesch. Three classes, which meet from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., are offered each week. Each class features at least one new tune. The Monday class, Introduction to Fiddle and Folk Music, is designed primarily for younger students, and for violinists, violists and cellists of any age who have limited experience. T
  
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• Nevada Supreme Court: Law permits tapping cell phones

  06-06-2015 01:59
  
  The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled Nevada’s 40-year-old wiretap law permits the interception of text messages and cell phone calls even though those things didn’t exist when it passed.The wiretap law was actually intended to protect people’s privacy rights by requiring a judge to issue a warrant before police or others could tap their phones.Justices Mark Gibbons, Nancy Saitta and Kristina Pickering made the ruling this week in upholding the conviction of Philip Douglas Sharpe of Lyon Coun
  
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• Sandoval signs solar, scholarship bills

  06-06-2015 01:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Bills putting the state Public Utilities Commission in charge of figuring out rates for roof-top solar users and raising credit requirements for Millennium Scholarship recipients were signed into law Friday by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
  
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• Lyon County Sheriff’s Office reminds motorists to follow traffic restrictions

  06-06-2015 01:35
  
  Dayton drivers are reminded to follow the traffic restrictions near the Smith’s Shopping Center on Highway 50, according to The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office.A new restriction prohibits drivers from turning left out of the shopping center, however the LCSO has been receiving complaints drivers are ignoring the restrictions. The office said these new controls are designed to add traffic safety to a congested area and when drivers turn left, it not only is a danger to other drivers, but it’s
  
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• GOP must reckon with Reid in Nevada, even on his way out

  06-06-2015 01:31
  
  WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is at it again. Known for meddling in politics at all levels in his home state of Nevada, the Democrat intervened earlier this week to help kill a GOP-backed bill in the Legislature that would have allowed Nevada to trade its presidential caucuses for primaries, seen as friendlier to establishment candidates like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio who might be tougher for Democrats to beat. The surprise outcome exasperated
  
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• BLM won’t enforce Nevada grazing restrictions in new dispute

  06-06-2015 01:25
  
  BATTLE MOUNTAIN — Federal land managers say they won’t immediately enforce drought-related grazing restrictions in northern Nevada so as to avoid confrontation with ranchers openly defying the order. Conservationists say it’s another example of the government caving in to “scofflaw ranchers” like Cliven Bundy, who continues to graze his cattle illegally in southern Nevada after the BLM backed down from an armed standoff last year. U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokesman Rudy Evenson
  
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• Public union contracts in Nevada placed online

  06-06-2015 01:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The state’s Employee-Management Relations Board said Friday it has posted on its website more than 200 collective bargaining agreements between local government agencies and employee unions in Nevada.
  
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• State Supreme Court: law permits tapping cell phones

  06-06-2015 01:05
  
  The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled Nevada’s 40-year-old wiretap law permits the interception of text messages and cell phone calls even though those things didn’t exist when it passed.The wiretap law was actually intended to protect people’s privacy rights by requiring a judge to issue a warrant before police or others could tap their phones.Justices Mark Gibbons, Nancy Saitta and Kristina Pickering made the ruling this week in upholding the conviction of Philip Douglas Sharpe of Lyon Coun
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Department runs for the Special Olympics

  06-06-2015 01:05
  
  The Carson City Sheriff’s Department took a break today from catching bad guys to running for kids. To show their support for the Special Olympics, happening this weekend in Reno, some of the Carson City Sheriff’s deputies and K9s ran with some of the Special Olympic kids from Fairview Drive to Williams Street as a mock torch run. Counties across Nevada participates, running a small section in their area as a representation of the torch run that starts the Special Olympics competition.“Th
  
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• Lyons County Sheriff’s Department remind to follow traffic restrictions

  06-06-2015 00:41
  
  The Lyons County Sheriff’s Department is reminding Dayton drivers to follow the traffic restrictions near the Dayton Smith’s Shopping Center on Highway 50.A new restriction prohibits drivers from turning left out of the shopping center, however the Sheriff’s Department has been receiving complaints that drivers are ignoring the restrictions. The Sheriff’s Department said that these new controls are designed to add traffic safety to a congested area and when drivers turn left, it not onl
  
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• Douglas County Sheriff warns residents of scam calls

  06-06-2015 00:41
  
  The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is advising residents to be cautious of phone scams that are becoming more common in Douglas County. Residents have been receiving calls from people impersonating various agencies asking for money or information. Common scam calls are an IRS agent, a representative from the gas or power company or a family member in jail, all asking for money before serious consequences occur. If anyone receives these calls, the Sheriff’s Department advises to hang up imme
  
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• Amtrak train collides with semi-truck in Illinois

  06-06-2015 00:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Amtrak train collided with a truck near Wilmington, Illinois. No injuries were reported.
  
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• Veterans home water cleansed of bacterium

  06-06-2015 00:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The water system at the Nevada State Veterans Home in Boulder City has been cleansed after tests revealed the presence of legionella, the bacterium that causes the pneumonia-like symptoms of Legionnaires’ disease, according to the Nevada Department of Veterans Services.
  
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