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• No cause found in death of NLV toddler found stuffed in box

  18-06-2015 23:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The coroner could not determine the cause and manner of death for a 3-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed in a box in the back of a car in North Las Vegas in April, staff said Thursday.
  
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• No cause found in death of girl, 3

  18-06-2015 23:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The coroner could not determine the cause and manner of death for a 3-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed in a box in the back of a car in North Las Vegas in April, staff said Thursday.
  
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• Additional charge for Coddington in Silver Springs murder

  18-06-2015 23:11
  
  Lyon County Sheriff’s Department arrested Ryan Coddington on suspicion of solicitation to commit murder.Coddington and his alleged accomplice Melanie Patellaro were arrested in relation to the murder of Alea Clarke. Patellaro was arrested on June 10, and deputies arrested Coddington Tuesday. The two were booked into different jails in order to ensure separation between the codefendants while Coddington is awaiting the murder trail. He is at the Churchill County Jail and has had no bail set fo
  
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• Boyd Gaming pledges $2.5 million for new building at UNLV

  18-06-2015 22:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Boyd Gaming Corp. has pledged a $2.5 million donation to support construction of a new building for William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
  
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• Ex-guard at NYC jail sentenced to 5 years in prison in inmate’s death

  18-06-2015 22:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former supervising guard at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex in New York City was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Thursday for refusing to help a mentally ill inmate who died in 2012 after swallowing powdered detergent.
  
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• Ex-Assemblyman Garner dies; champion of education

  18-06-2015 22:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former Nevada Assemblyman Val Garner, a champion of education and adult literacy, has died after a lengthy illness and complications from Parkinson’s disease, his family said.
  
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• Ryan Coddington arrested in relation to Silver Springs murder

  18-06-2015 22:38
  
  Lyon County Sheriff’s Department arrested Ryan Coddington on suspicion of solicitation to commit murder.Coddington and his alleged accomplice Melanie Patellaro were arrested in relation to the murder of Alea Clarke. Patellaro was arrested on June 10, and deputies arrested Coddington Tuesday. The two were booked into different jails in order to ensure separation between the codefendants while Coddington is awaiting the murder trail. He is at the Churchill County Jail and has had no bail set fo
  
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• Okla. flash flood sweeps toddler from father’s arms

  18-06-2015 22:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Authorities in Oklahoma are looking for a toddler swept out of his father’s arms during a flash flood, according to Capt. Eric Hamblin with the Ardmore Police Department.
  
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• Ryan Coddington arrested in relation to murder charges

  18-06-2015 22:25
  
  Lyon County Sheriff’s Department arrested Ryan Coddington on suspicion of solicitation to commit murder.Coddington and his alleged accomplice Melanie Patellaro were arrested in relation to the murder of Alea Clarke. Patellaro was arrested on June 10, and deputies arrested Coddington Tuesday. The two were booked into different jails in order to ensure separation between the codefendants while Coddington is awaiting the murder trail. He is at the Churchill County Jail and has had no bail set fo
  
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• Iraq defense ministry denies Islamic State’s involvement in downed plane

  18-06-2015 22:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Iraq’s defense ministry and the U.S. military dismissed a claim by Islamic State on Thursday that it had shot down an Iraqi fighter plane.
  
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• Pizzerias to raise funds in honor of slain Metro cops

  18-06-2015 22:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The seven CiCi’s Pizza restaurants in the Las Vegas Valley plan to donate a percentage of their Father’s Day earnings to a police fund in honor of two officers killed at one of the pizzerias and the Good Samaritan killed while trying to stop their killers last summer, the company announced Thursday.
  
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• Prosecutors add new charges against CCSD bus driver

  18-06-2015 22:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Prosecutors said Thursday that they’re pursuing more than 20 additional charges against a veteran Clark County School District special education bus driver accused of sexually assaulting “very small children.”
  
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• Accused Zimmerman shooter faces attempted murder charge

  18-06-2015 21:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man accused of shooting at George Zimmerman now faces an upgraded attempted murder charge in Florida.
  
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• Investigators dig into mysterious lives of daughter, dead mother

  18-06-2015 21:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gypsy Blancharde is accused of convincing her boyfriend, who she met through the Internet, to fatally stab her mother while she was sleeping inside their Springfield, Missouri, home.
  
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• Hillary Clinton calls for unity in aftermath of church shooting

  18-06-2015 21:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking at a Latino conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, called for unity in the aftermath of the deadly shootings in South Carolina.
  
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• Clinton calls for unity in aftermath of church shooting

  18-06-2015 21:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking at a Latino conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, called for unity in the aftermath of the deadly shootings in South Carolina.
  
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• Texas to execute man convicted in fatal robbery

  18-06-2015 20:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Texas is set on Thursday to execute Gregory Russeau, 45, who was convicted of killing a 75-year-old auto mechanic in a 2001 robbery and driving off from the crime scene in the victim’s car.
  
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• Court upholds Texas rejection of Confederate license plate

  18-06-2015 20:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Texas did not violate free speech rights when it rejected a proposed specialty vehicle license plate displaying the Confederate flag, to some an emblem of Southern pride and to others a symbol of racism.
  
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• Scientists say most kangaroos are lefties

  18-06-2015 19:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Research on wild kangaroos in Australia is challenging the notion that having a strong hand preference is a trait that developed primarily in people and other primates.
  
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• Airline group stops plans for on carry-on luggage guidelines

  18-06-2015 19:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A global airline trade group on Wednesday halted plans to set size guidelines for carry-on luggage following a backlash from consumers and even some carriers in North America.
  
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• Airline group stops plans for carry-on luggage guidelines

  18-06-2015 19:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A global airline trade group on Wednesday halted plans to set size guidelines for carry-on luggage following a backlash from consumers and even some carriers in North America.
  
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• Vegas to hit 108 Thursday; more cooling stations open

  18-06-2015 19:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Air conditioners are not catching a break Thursday as temperatures are expected to reach 108 degrees for a second day in a row, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Woman thought dead in car crash is alive, Metro says

  18-06-2015 19:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman Las Vegas police initially said was dead after a single-vehicle crash Thursday is still alive but in critical condition, Metro said.
  
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• 1 dead in northwest valley crash

  18-06-2015 19:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police responded to the crash at 9:20 a.m. at the intersection of Cliff Shadows Parkway and Diegoville Place, a small street between Lone Mountain and Alexander roads.
  
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• Feds arrest, charge 243 people in $712 million Medicare fraud

  18-06-2015 19:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday that 243 people have been arrested across the country, charged with submitting fake billing for Medicare, a government healthcare program, that totaled $712 million.
  
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• Judge sets August trial in Tammy Meyers slaying

  18-06-2015 18:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A judge set a new trial date for two men charged in the slaying of 44-year-old mother of four Tammy Meyers, has hired new attorneys.
  
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• Las Vegas police looking for suspect in bank robbery

  18-06-2015 18:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro police on Thursday were looking for a man they said robbed a bank last week on Rainbow Boulevard south of the 215 Beltway.
  
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• FBI agents bust telemarketing scheme aimed at small businesses

  18-06-2015 17:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  FBI agents arrested three Las Vegas men Thursday morning in a telemarketing scheme they say defrauded small businesses of more than $3.5 million.
  
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• Police search for gunman in deadly South Carolina church shooting

  18-06-2015 15:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police in Charleston, South Carolina, were searching on Thursday for a white gunman who killed nine people in a historic African-American church including the pastor, a black state senator, in an attack the U.S. Department of Justice called a hate crime.
  
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• Gunman in deadly South Carolina church shooting identified

  18-06-2015 15:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Dylann Roof, 21, of Lexington, South Carolina, is the suspect in Wednesday’s deadly shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, police said Thursday.
  
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• Gunman in deadly South Carolina church shooting captured

  18-06-2015 15:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The suspected gunman in the shooting at a South Carolina church has been caught in Shelby, North Carolina, a local television station and other news outlets reported on Thursday.
  
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• Gunman in deadly S.C. church shooting waives extradition

  18-06-2015 15:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man suspected of killing nine people Wednesday night at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested Thursday morning in Shelby, North Carolina.
  
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• FBI identifies gunman in deadly South Carolina church shooting

  18-06-2015 15:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The FBI has identified the gunman in the deadly shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina, church as 21-year-old Dylann Roof, the Charleston Post and Courier newspaper said on its website.
  
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• Truck crash closes I-15 ramp to US 95 in Spaghetti Bowl

  18-06-2015 15:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The ramps on northbound Interstate 15 leading to northbound U.S. Highway 95 and the Martin Luther King Boulevard exit were shut down early Wednesday morning due to a tractor-trailer crash.
  
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• Ramps reopen after truck Spaghetti Bowl semi crash

  18-06-2015 15:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The ramps from Interstate 15 to northbound U.S Highway 95 and the Martin Luther King Boulevard exit have reopened after a fuel leak caused by a Wednesday tractor-trailer crash shut them for several hours, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
  
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• One lane reopens after truck crash closes I-15 ramp to U.S. 95

  18-06-2015 15:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One lane on Interstate 15 leading to northbound U.S Highway 95 and the Martin Luther King Boulevard exit has reopened after a fuel leak caused by a Wednesday tractor-trailer crash shut the ramps for hours, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
  
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• Ulman Cancer Fund For Young Adults make Carson City stop

  18-06-2015 08:42
  
  Runners from the Ulman Cancer Fund For Young Adults make a stop at the Carson-Tahoe Cancer Center Wednesday to serve lunch and distribute cancer care bags. Four bicycle teams and two running teams are making their way across the country from San Francisco to Baltimore and New York City raising awareness and support for young adults with cancer. Riders and runners from 22 states are participating. For more information visit 4kforcancer.org or see their Facebook page at 4kforcancer.…
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: May 27, 1965: Ground breaking ceremony for new church tomorrow

  18-06-2015 08:42
  
  This continues the Appeal’s review of news stories and headlines during its Sesquicentennial year.…
  
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• Collaboration is key for Carson City Capitol Mall North project

  18-06-2015 08:42
  
  Capitol Mall North is still in formative stages with the aim a technology innovation district can provide a collaborative environment for companies locating in Carson City.So said Chris Baker of Manhard Consulting’s office here, who spoke Wednesday to business people at a Nevada Business Connections breakfast meeting audience. He also fielded questions about design and goals, including the parking garage anticipated west of the Carson Nugget casino, but his focus stayed on the fluid state of
  
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• Carson City’s WNC sports teams honored for academics

  18-06-2015 08:42
  
  Although variable spring weather conditions contributed to prolonged periods on the road, Western Nevada College’s baseball players remained committed to their No. 1 priority as a Wildcat: academics.WNC earned National Junior College Athletic Association Academic All-American honors with a team grade point average of 3.19.“This is an outstanding accomplishment and reflects the dedication of the coaching staff, the students and Lauren Stevens, their academic adviser, in promoting a team focus
  
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• Carson City’s Whitt beginning professional career

  18-06-2015 08:42
  
  Carson City’s Adam Whitt has probably traveled more in the last couple of weeks than he did his entire senior year at Nevada.After a disappointing 0-2 effort at the Moutain West tournament, Whitt headed for the Cape Cod League to start the season with the Cotuit Kettleers, the same team he pitched for in 2014. A day after chalking up a four-out save, Whitt was drafted in the 16th round by thew Houston Astros. The team sent him to Orlando for a physical, and then he signed his contract for an u
  
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• Carson City jazz trio to kick off summer concert series at Brewery Arts Center

  18-06-2015 08:42
  
  The Brewery Arts Center will kick off summer with a series of Thursday night concerts, the first of which will feature a local jazz trio. Whatitdo will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Brewery Arts Center’s Maize Harris Jesse Theater as part of its weeklong promotion to celebrate the release of its first album. “This album is a collection of our music from the past six years and that is what this release week is about. The music is funky, soulful, jazzy and also very hard to define. We want
  
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• Carson City artist hosting fundraiser Saturday for animal shelter

  18-06-2015 08:42
  
  Rosie Laird, a Carson City landscape artist, is teaming up with It’s a Girl Thang from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday to raise money for the Nevada Humane Society in Carson City. Laird will provide a live oil painting demonstration at the event, hosted by It’s a Girl Thang, 1921 N. Carson St. The completed painting will be raffled at 4 p.m.; the winner does not need to be present. Raffle tickets, available for $2 each or $5 for three, are available at It’s a Girl Thang or Carson City Animal Service
  
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• Carson City Airport hosts open house Saturday

  18-06-2015 08:42
  
  the Carson City Airport is holding its free open house Saturday for community members.The open house is designed to raise community awareness of the importance of aviation and aerospace for Carson City and the Nevada economy.The event runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Carson City Airport. A pancake breakfast provided by the Experimental Aircraft Association, kicks off the open house, followed by flybys beginning at 9:30 a.m.“The Carson City Airport is pleased and excited to be holding an open
  
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• Will Colorado marijuana ruling affect Nevada?

  18-06-2015 07:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled it was OK for a company to fire a customer service representative, even though what the worker was doing on his own time was perfectly legal under Colorado law.
  
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• Credit agency concerned with Las Vegas school breakup bill

  18-06-2015 06:05
  
  A major credit ratings agency says it’s uncertain how the planned breakup of the Clark County School District could affect the credit worthiness of the nation’s fifth-largest school district. Moody’s Investors Service did not downgrade the district’s A1 low-risk investor grade rating but said in a report issued Monday that the uncertainty represents a credit negative. “It was exactly what we warned about at the hearings,” said Clark County School District lobbyist Joyce Haldeman, wh
  
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• Shooting with possible fatalities reported at South Carolina church

  18-06-2015 04:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A shooting erupted on Wednesday at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, with reports of possible fatalities, North Carolina television station WGHP, a Fox affiliate, reported on its website.
  
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• Shooter still at large after opening fire on South Carolina church

  18-06-2015 04:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A shooter opened fire on Wednesday at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and was still at large, a police official said, following media reports of possible fatalities in the attack.
  
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• Several dead after shooting at South Carolina church, sources say

  18-06-2015 04:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Several people were killed in a shooting at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, a source close to the investigation told CNN.
  
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• Nine killed in shooting at South Carolina church

  18-06-2015 04:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nine people were killed when a white gunman entered a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, and opened fire, the city’s police chief said on Thursday.
  
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