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• Austen Russell’s name could grace Henderson park

  08-06-2015 22:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Weeks after 9-year-old Austen Russell died in an accident in the family driveway, Henderson residents are hoping to rename a city park near his home in his honor.
  
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• Former S.C. cop indicted in killing of black man

  08-06-2015 21:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A white former police officer accused of fatally shooting a black man in the back as he ran from a traffic stop in South Carolina was indicted by a grand jury on a murder charge on Monday, a prosecutor said.
  
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• Did escaped NY convicted killers have help from the inside?

  08-06-2015 21:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An employee at the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York is being questioned as a possible accomplice in the escape of two convicted killers over the weekend, a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation confirmed to CNN.
  
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• Proposed Nevada national monument also home to a wildlife hazard

  08-06-2015 21:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Public land in Nevada is dotted with as many as a million plastic pipes marking mining claims. The uncapped markers entice birds that become trapped and die of thirst or starvation.
  
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• Outlawed mining markers expected to keep killing Nevada wildlife

  08-06-2015 21:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  During a hike through a remote patch of Lincoln County last month, Jim and Liz Boone stopped to knock down about 20 hollow plastic pipes they found arrayed across the landscape. There’s no telling how many birds the Boones might have saved in the process, but they can easily pinpoint the number they could not.
  
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• North Las Vegas cop who fatally shot homeless man has resigned

  08-06-2015 20:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The then-officer shot the man four times after he saw him come out of an abandoned house on East Tonopah Avenue near Las Vegas Boulevard.
  
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• NLV cop who fatally shot homeless man has resigned

  08-06-2015 20:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The then-officer shot the man four times after he saw him come out of an abandoned house on East Tonopah Avenue near Las Vegas Boulevard.
  
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• #CarsonCityLive: Golfing and rainbows in Carson City

  08-06-2015 20:43
  
  Week of June 2-8 — 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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• Man killed in east valley shooting Sunday identified

  08-06-2015 20:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  He died from a gunshot wound to the chest about 12:45 p.m. near the intersection of May Avenue and Olive Street, police said.
  
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• Boy reported missing in Needles found dead on railroad tracks in northwest Arizona

  08-06-2015 20:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona said BNSF railroad personnel reported a child had been hit at 10:16 a.m. Saturday on tracks in the community of Yucca, Ariz., roughly 30 miles east of Needles.
  
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• Slightly cooler temps, rain could come this week

  08-06-2015 19:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Step outside Monday if you want to bake in triple-digit heat and sun: Cloudy skies and showers are bound for Las Vegas.
  
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• Order would deny Switch’s application to leave NV Energy

  08-06-2015 19:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A draft order prepared by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission would deny the application by the data storage company Switch to leave Nevada Power and purchase its own electricity on the wholesale market.
  
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• Truck carrying dozens of kids drops off cliff in Peru, 17 people dead

  08-06-2015 19:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A dump truck crammed with dozens of school children dropped from a cliff in the Peruvian Andes as it returned from festivities in a highland province, killing 17 people - mostly children - and injuring 54, a local governor said.
  
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• Woman hit by ‘shamed’ girl who jumped from overpass speaks out

  08-06-2015 18:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A married mother of two young children said she mainly remembers Izabel Laxamana’s hair after the teen jumped from an overpass onto her car in Tacoma, Wash.
  
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• Clark County firefighters battling central valley apartment blaze

  08-06-2015 18:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The call came in about 8:40 a.m. from the 3600 block of Swenson Street, near the intersection of Twain Avenue.
  
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• 20 displaced, cat hurt in central valley apartment blaze

  08-06-2015 18:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The “high” level fire call came in about 8:40 a.m. from building three, apartment 24 at 3600 Swenson Street, near the intersection of Twain Avenue
  
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• Officer deaths lead to pension change for public employees killed on duty

  08-06-2015 18:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The families of public employees who die on the job will get better benefits, regardless of the duration of their employment, thanks to a legislative amendment driven by the families of Las Vegas police officers who were gunned down during a shooting rampage last year.
  
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• Driver who crashed SUV into Camaro was killing himself, coroner says

  08-06-2015 17:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The driver’s actions also took the life of another man.
  
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• Coroner rules man’s death in April wrong-way crash suicide

  08-06-2015 17:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One of the two people killed in an April wrong-way crash near Snow Mountain died by suicide, the Clark County coroner’s office said Monday morning.
  
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• Dayton honors black Union soldier nearly 100 years later

  08-06-2015 17:40
  
  A runaway slave who joined the Union Army during the Civil War and lost a leg after being wounded in battle finally received recognition Sunday, nearly 100 years after he died in Nevada. Nevada historians say they decided to hold a military funeral for Pvt. Scott Carnal of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry because it’s unlikely he received any recognition after his death in 1917 in Dayton. Carnal was long forgotten until modern researchers discovered that he belonged to the United States Colore
  
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• Oscar Pistorius to be released on parole in August

  08-06-2015 16:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  South African athlete Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole on Aug. 21 after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence for culpable homicide of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, authorities said.
  
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• Process of developing regulations for Uber, others on the table this week

  08-06-2015 16:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Ask prospective Uber customers when they’d like to see the ride-hailing smartphone application system in operation in Southern Nevada and they’ll say, “as soon as I can slide into that open car seat.” Ask representatives of Uber the same question and they’ll optimistically say July 1.
  
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• Memory care facility undergoes remodel

  08-06-2015 09:07
  
  Arbors Memory Care Community is an assisted living and memory care community that cares for people with Alzheimer’s and other dementing diseases in northern Nevada. The community recently underwent a more than $500,000 remodel. The remodel consisted of new flooring, new wall treatments, replacing the lighting to make it brighter, new furniture, motion detectors, interior and exterior cameras as well as new doors and artwork for the building. The Arbors contracted with the Sparks construction
  
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• Initivatives bolster tourism

  08-06-2015 09:07
  
  The tourism industry, Nevada’s biggest economic sector (overall travel spending in the state was $59.4 billion in 2013) is taking steps to show more growth this year, which is good news for the Silver State. According to the Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT), 52.8 million people visited in the first two quarters of 2014, up 1.5 percent over the previous year. Claudia Vecchio, director of the Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, has some specific plans for improving those figure
  
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• Initiatives bolster tourism

  08-06-2015 09:07
  
  The tourism industry, Nevada’s biggest economic sector (overall travel spending in the state was $59.4 billion in 2013) is taking steps to show more growth this year, which is good news for the Silver State. According to the Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT), 52.8 million people visited in the first two quarters of 2014, up 1.5 percent over the previous year. Claudia Vecchio, director of the Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, has some specific plans for improving those figure
  
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• Travel Nevada initiatives to bolster tourism

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  The tourism industry, Nevada’s biggest economic sector (overall travel spending in the state was $59.4 billion in 2013) is taking steps to show more growth this year, which is good news for the Silver State. According to the Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT), 52.8 million people visited in the first two quarters of 2014, up 1.5 percent over the previous year. Claudia Vecchio, director of the Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, has some specific plans for improving those figure
  
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• Sweet smell of success

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  The sweet fragrance of lavender is blending with sage in the northwestern Nevada air as growers discover its benefits as a cash crop.“I look at lavender as having a lot of potential in this area,” said Ann Louhela, who is organizing Western Nevada College’s fifth annual “Lavender, Producing Value-added Commercial Products” workshop and tour for June 19 in Yerington. The area’s harsh growing conditions are just what lavender likes: hot, dry climate and alkaline soil. The result is co
  
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• Senior living community going up in South Reno

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  Huntington Capital has provided $3.5 million in financing to Summit Estates, a senior living community planned for South Reno.San Diego-based Huntington Capital, which provides debt and equity financing to private, small- to mid-size companies, made the announcement May 21. According to a statement from the company, Summit Estates, which will be located at 222 East Patriot Blvd., is a new 116-bed senior living community, consisting of 92 assisted living and 24 memory care units. The project is c
  
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• Saint Mary’s expanding clinic services

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  Saint Mary’s Medical Group is expanding its services north and northwest of Reno’s downtown this year and additional services will be available in the south area.A new urgent care center will open in North Valleys in August.The clinic off Lemmon Drive and Sky Vista Parkway — Saint Mary’s ninth clinic in Reno/Sparks — will have primary care offices for pediatrics and adult medicine and some diagnostic services such as X-rays. Saint Mary’s will also move its Northwest Reno clinic into
  
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• Reno just got bluer

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  the Big Apple and the Biggest Little City are now connected said Marily Mora, president and CEO of the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority.On May 28, JetBlue Airlines landed its inaugural flight to Reno, coming from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, and arriving to a celebration that JetBlue executives have now named in their Top 5 of inaugural receptions. With 400 airports all vying for the same flights, according to Brian Kulpin, vice president/marketing and public affairs for the
  
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• New Fernley casino opened on June 5

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  Jackpot Crossing Casino in Fernley has opened its doors for business.According to the Lahontan Valley News, the new casino is located at 206 Logan Lane, which is at exit 46 on Interstate 80 near two major truck stops: Pilot Travel Center and Love’s Travel Stop. The grand opening was June 5.“We are excited to further our commitment to the Fernley Community with the opening of Jackpot Crossing Casino,” said General Manager Scott Tate. “We were able to get this project open during these ch
  
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• Memory care community undergoes remodel

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  Arbors Memory Care Community is an assisted living and memory care community that cares for people with Alzheimer’s and other dementing diseases in northern Nevada. The community recently underwent a more than $500,000 remodel. The remodel consisted of new flooring, new wall treatments, replacing the lighting to make it brighter, new furniture, motion detectors, interior and exterior cameras as well as new doors and artwork for the building. The Arbors contracted with the Sparks construction
  
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• Investment strategy: Just be yourself

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  The Internet is filled with somewhat cheesy ads that promise to teach folks how to invest like Warren Buffett.The appeal isn’t hard to see: Who wouldn’t like to parlay six shares of Cities Services preferred stock and a newspaper route in Omaha into a $70 billion fortune? But even though Warren Buffett is widely considered the best investor in American history, there’s a better path for you to follow with your investment plan.Be yourself. You have accumulated some capital already by follo
  
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• In his own words: Five Star’s Jim Cox

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  Northern Nevada Business Weekly: Tell us about your company and the duties of your position: Jim Cox: As executive director I’m responsible and accountable for the operations and lives of all those who live and work at Five Star Premier Residences of Reno, a senior living community that provides independent and assisted living services. NNBW: How did you get into this profession? Cox: Just after 9/11, I had a career change and went from a background that had been primarily working in the oper
  
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• HVAC company ramps up business

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  Alexander Heating & Air, a Sparks-based company, has moved into a new facility that’s nearly double the size of its former business location. Based in Sparks and serving a wide array of industrial, commercial and residential customers, the owners of Alexander Heating sensed that with economic activity picking up in the region, this was a crucial time to ramp up their business.“We knew we wanted a new piece of property to move the business into, and we decided that it was either now or never
  
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• Ending Ex-Im Bank not good for Nevada small businesses

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  We all know it is never a good idea to bet the bank in a casino. Just like you wouldn’t put your life savings down on a hunch, our government shouldn’t gamble 1.2 million American jobs on an untested economic theory. But unfortunately that is exactly what some in Congress are considering. A small but powerful group in Washington is fighting to kill the Export-Import Bank, a little-known agency that for 80 years has helped American companies export goods around the globe. Since 2007, it has
  
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• Contractors cited

  08-06-2015 08:12
  
  The Nevada State Contractors Board has cited several northern Nevada contractors for violations.G Built Construction, LLC, of Sparks: was cited for substandard workmanship, failure to take appropriate corrective action, acting beyond the scope of the license, failure to include the Residential Recovery Fund information on a contract or proposal, failure to pay any money due for any materials or services rendered, failure to establish financial responsibility. Its license was revoked and fined $2
  
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• Child Haven population limit raised; legislation eliminating cap fails

  08-06-2015 06:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A measure that would have eliminated the population cap at emergency shelters for abused and neglected children — such as Clark County’s Child Haven — failed to make it through the legislative session.
  
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• Teen girl publicly shamed by dad jumps from freeway overpass

  08-06-2015 06:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 13-year-old Washington girl killed herself after her father recorded a video of himself punishing her by cutting off her hair.
  
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• Letting your dog sit on your lap while driving is never a good idea

  08-06-2015 01:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  This isn’t a stupid question and the answer is somewhat surprising: There’s no specific law that says you can’t have a dog in your lap when you drive.
  
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• State gives $12.5 million to resolve mentally ill inmate backlog

  08-06-2015 00:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada continues to lag in moving mentally ill offenders ordered by the court into its only maximum-security psychiatric facility, resulting in backlogs at jails in Washoe and Clark counties.
  
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