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• Arizona accident victim dies in Vegas hospital

  15-07-2015 23:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Lake Havasu City, Ariz., man critically injured in a July 8 motorcycle accident in Arizona has died at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas.
  
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• ACC’s Tim Brown, Jerome Bettis set to join NFL Hall of Fame

  15-07-2015 23:35
  
  The American Century Championship’s 2015 field features six NFL Hall of Famers — and two more on the verge of enshrinement in Canton. Tim Brown and Jerome Bettis will join pro football’s elite next month after long waits — but not before trying to make a name for themselves on the links.“You definitely feel that you’re in great company,” Bettis said of playing as part of a tournament field that includes Hall of Famers in multiple sports. “You have respect for all of the guys tha
  
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• Woman critically hurt in boating crash on Lake Mead

  15-07-2015 23:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman was critically hurt Wednesday when two boats collided on Lake Mead, according to the National Parks Service.
  
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• Minden-Tahoe Airport receives $1.3 million grant

  15-07-2015 22:55
  
  Minden-Tahoe Airport received a $1,359,375 to fund the rehabilitation of taxiway and apron pavement as part of the Federal Aviation Administration’s $6.2 million in grants for improvements to rural Nevada airports. The grants will fund construction projects, modernize equipment, improve runways and enhance safety at airports in rural counties throughout the Silver State.“Transportation is vital to Nevada’s continued growth and these funds will help facilitate that expansion,” Senator Ha
  
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• Man hit by car near Strip

  15-07-2015 22:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was hospitalized Wednesday after being struck by a vehicle near the Strip, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Obama says Iran deal best way to avoid more war

  15-07-2015 22:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Barack Obama, seeking to sell the Iran nuclear deal to skeptical U.S. lawmakers and the American public, insisted on Wednesday that the landmark agreement was the best way to avoid a nuclear arms race and more war in the Middle East.
  
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• 5 indicted in May gang-related killing

  15-07-2015 22:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Five people have been indicted on murder charges in connection with a gang-related shooting that left a 24-year-old man dead, prosecutors said Wednesday.
  
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• Obama on Cosby: 'Any civilized country should have no tolerance for rape'

  15-07-2015 22:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Barack Obama, asked on Wednesday about possibly revoking entertainer Bill Cosby‘s Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian honor, said there is no mechanism for doing so, but added no civilized country should tolerate rape.
  
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• Former beauty queen's bail set at $10,000

  15-07-2015 21:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A judge set bail at $10,000 Wednesday for Katherine Nicole Rees, a former beauty queen stripped of her Miss Nevada USA title, who is facing a series of drug charges.
  
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• Video shows man putting gun to Metro cop's head, firing

  15-07-2015 21:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  James Todora pointed his pistol point-blank at a Las Vegas police officer‘s head last Friday and pulled the trigger.
  
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• Curator receives death threats over Ferguson-themed art exhibit in Chicago

  15-07-2015 20:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Chicago art exhibit has stirred controversy with a life-size silicone replica of Michael Brown after he was fatally shot on a street in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.
  
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• Street artist who created Obama 'Hope' poster surrenders to Detroit authorities

  15-07-2015 20:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Street artist Shepard Fairey, who created the "Hope" poster of Barack Obama in 2008, turned himself into Detroit police on Tuesday on charges he defaced several properties in the city, authorities said.
  
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• Nevada unemployment rate drops below 7 percent

  15-07-2015 20:39
  
  LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s unemployment rate has dropped below 7 percent. The state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported Wednesday that Nevada’s jobless rate dropped to 6.9 percent in June. That number is down from the 7 percent recorded in May, which was the second highest unemployment rate in the country only behind West Virginia’s 7.2 percent that month. Gov. Brian Sandoval said the June number is the first time Nevada hit below 7 percent since July 2008, before t
  
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• Carson City’s Heller, Amodei along with Hardy back fellow Republican Heck for Senate

  15-07-2015 20:39
  
  Sen. Dean Heller and congressmen Mark Amodei and Cresent Hardy are formally endorsing their Republican colleague Joe Heck for Senate. The trio issued statements Wednesday supporting the three-term congressman a week after he announced a bid for the seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Harry Reid. Heller said he’s been proud to work with Heck on initiatives benefiting Nevada. Hardy and Amodei pointed to Heck’s work in the Army Reserves and as a doctor as proof of his dedication to Nevadans.
  
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• European lawmakers back blanket collection of airline passenger data

  15-07-2015 20:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Airlines will have to transfer passenger data such as seat numbers and payment information to law enforcement authorities for flights into and out of the European Union, under rules passed on Wednesday by EU lawmakers.
  
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• Nevada jobless rate under 7 percent for first time since '08

  15-07-2015 19:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada‘s jobless rate fell below 7 percent for the first time in seven years in June, the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported Wednesday.
  
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• Housing authority board members question calculus

  15-07-2015 18:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  They help some of Southern Nevada’s most needy, but now it appears employees at the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority might soon need some help of their own.
  
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• Video shows 3 LA-area officers shooting unarmed man

  15-07-2015 17:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ordered the release of a video (WARNING: graphic content) showing three Los Angeles-area police officers fatally shooting an unarmed man in 2013, saying the public had the right to review the footage.
  
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• Get Healthy: Take steps to Get Healthy

  15-07-2015 17:03
  
  This column appears in the Nevada Appeal Wednesday health pages. It addresses topics related to the health of our community.As exercise goes, walking is one of the easiest and most accessible ways to get and stay fit. People learn to walk as young children, but as we age, many people walk less and less. Instead, we sit at desks, or in front of a screen, or in our automobiles. Our culture has shifted away from walking, with poor results for our mental and physical well-being. It may be time to ta
  
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• Fresh Ideas: Water in the desert

  15-07-2015 17:03
  
  Two floods have traversed our front yard in the 15 years we’ve lived in American Flat, on the Virginia Range’s south slope. Here, deeply eroded canyons finger out into foothills, and water eventually reaches the Carson River.Our house occupies an earthen rise on the floor of our canyon, a steep, deep cut that flattens out into our island. The 1870s Baltimore Mine tunneled into the west bank’s hillside, dumped its fill into the ravine, making a flat area around the tunnel’s mouth. A sprin
  
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• Planned Parenthood says video distorts tissue donations

  15-07-2015 16:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Planned Parenthood said on Tuesday a secretly recorded video that surfaced on the Internet falsely portrayed the reproductive health group‘s participation in the sale of tissue and body parts from aborted fetuses.
  
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• Two arrested in Carson City SWAT raid of drug house early Wednesday

  15-07-2015 16:39
  
  The Carson City SWAT Team was involved in a multi-jurisdictional narcotics operation early Wednesday morning to try and apprehend a group of high level drug traffickers.SWAT, along with Tri-Net and Douglas County investigators and Special Enforcement Teams, conducted a warrant search at 4 a.m. at 3213 Northgate Lane in Carson City. Officers were looking for individuals involved in heavy marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin and prescription pills trafficking, said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong.
  
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• Scott Walker Using Harley-Davidson to Burnish ‘Fighter’ Image

  15-07-2015 15:59
  Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is appealing to crowds of motorcyclists during the beginning of his campaign for president.
  
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• In her own words: Credit consultant/author Julie Macc

  15-07-2015 09:07
  
  Northern Nevada Business Weekly: Tell us about your company and the duties of your position: Julie Macc: I’m a certified consumer/business credit consulting and identity theft specialist. I help consumers achieve the best credit score possible and assist business owners with obtaining business credit and funding (in many cases with no personal guarantee). I also assist identity theft victims in removing identity theft items from consumer reports.NNBW: How did you get into this profession? Mac
  
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• A clean agreement

  15-07-2015 09:07
  
  A Sparks startup with new biofuel conversion technology has an ally in its race to beat a European giant to market.Alkcon Corporation, founded by Lauren Scott in 2013, recently announced an agreement with Flogas Group of Leicestershire, England. Flogas signed a letter of intent to exclusively market and sell Alkcon’s gas-plasma methane-to-propane conversion system in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands and Belgium. The agreement is worth $60 million dollars over f
  
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• New Nevada legislation impacts Carson City schools

  15-07-2015 09:03
  
  A bill holding school staff and administration more accountable when it comes to anti-bullying efforts is among the legislation passed during this year’s session.A policy addressing food brought by students and parents for special events is also causing concern for Carson City school officials.At the school board meeting Tuesday night, Carson City Schools Superintendent Richard Stokes spoke to community members about some of the bills he has been reviewing and how they affect the Carson City
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: June 29, 1914: Crown Prince of Austria and wife slain by crazed student

  15-07-2015 09:03
  
  June 29, 1914Crown Prince of Austria and wife slain by crazed studentSarajevo, June 29 — Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his morganatic wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated yesterday while driving through the streets of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. A youthful Servian student fired the shots which added another to the long list of tragedies that has darkened the reign of Emperor Francis Joseph. The archduke and his wife were victims of the sec
  
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• Boys and Girls Clubs fundraiser teen center donor deadline looms

  15-07-2015 09:03
  
  A bid to raise $400,000 for a teen center in Carson City, which would trigger a 3-for-1 match of $1.2 million more, faces a looming deadline despite doing well to date.The Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada on Russell Way plans to build a teen center addition to the club’s building with the $1.6 million that would result from success in a campaign launched last month. But to get the 75 percent match pledged by a foundation requires 25 percent, or $400,000, be raised before Aug. 1.Johnny O
  
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• Don't give up when climbing ladder, Navy Admiral urges

  15-07-2015 08:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Rear Adm. Margaret "€œPeg" Klein says she’s known as the person that says “Hello” to everyone in the halls of the Pentagon, where matters of national security and global strategy tend to make people forget there are other humans around them.
  
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• NHP: DUI played role in Sunday crash that killed 2 people

  15-07-2015 07:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A driver injured in a crash that killed two people at the Lamb Boulevard and Interstate 15 intersection Sunday was booked on DUI charges, according to a Nevada Highway Patrol arrest records.
  
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• Don't expect an NBA team in Las Vegas anytime soon

  15-07-2015 07:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Think of the NBA and its perception of Las Vegas as the weekend tourist who only takes in the best sights, who catches a show and enjoys a wonderful meal and gambles just enough to experience the rush but not to the point of losing next month‘€™s mortgage.
  
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• Juvenile offenders earn national nod for helping blaze trails

  15-07-2015 05:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The once-cuffed hands of juvenile offenders helped earn national recognition for a Mount Charleston trail system.
  
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• Nevada's chief attorney on Yucca retiring

  15-07-2015 03:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Marta Adams, a senior attorney for the state of Nevada and its chief in-house lawyer on Yucca Mountain, has announced her retirement at the end of the month.
  
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• Justin Timberlake draws crowd at Lake Tahoe; Billy Joe Tolliver favorite at American Century Championship

  15-07-2015 03:35
  
  Four-time champion Billy Joe Tolliver, former quarterback for five NFL teams, is now the top choice of Harrah’s and Harveys Race & Sports Book to win the 26th-annual American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament that starts Friday at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course. He’s listed at 7-2 to win the event over defending champion Mark Rypien and perennial contenders John Smoltz and John Elway at the event airing on NBC, NBC Sports Network and Golf Channel.Rypien, the original favorite, is li
  
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• Metro seeking man who robbed same bank twice

  15-07-2015 02:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro is seeking the public‘s help in identifying a man they said robbed the same bank in May and again earlier this month.
  
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• Carson City man involved in officer injury case to plead guilty

  15-07-2015 02:47
  
  The man involved in an officer injury case stated in court Tuesday he’s planning on pleading guilty to assault on a peace officer.Daniel Torres was arrested in late May after officers were called to the 400 block of S. Saliman Road for a child endangerment call. Torres was threatening to throw an infant into a swimming pool and threw a bicycle at officers when they arrived on scene. Torres tried to block himself in a nearby apartment and deputies heard women screaming from inside the residenc
  
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• Former director of Latin American group sentenced in CCSD theft

  15-07-2015 02:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas judge sentenced a former director of Nevada‘s League of United Latin American Citizens to five years of probation for his part in a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from the Clark County School District.
  
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• Grueling run cleared to return to Death Valley

  15-07-2015 01:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Racers are lacing up their running shoes, trying on their Dri-Fit shorts and getting ready to compete in what organizers call "the toughest foot face in the world," a 135-mile, mid-summer run across Death Valley National Park.
  
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• Suspect arrested in real life 'Gone Girl' kidnapping case

  15-07-2015 01:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police said it was a "wild goose chase" that had wasted police resources, until the captor of a kidnapped California woman emailed a local newspaper detailing the events and verifying her story.
  
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• Jeb Bush to speak in Carson City Friday

  15-07-2015 01:35
  
  Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida and an announced candidate for the Republican nomination for president, will speak to a town hall gathering in Carson City Friday.Bush, son of former president George H.W. Bush and younger brother of George W. Bush, will be at the Silver State Charter School, 900 Mallory Way, at 9:15 a.m.Bush is already no stranger to Nevada. He was in Reno for a town hall in May before declaring his candidacy. He also was at the Clark County Lincoln Day Dinner in Las Vegas i
  
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• Lake Tahoe neighborhood ‘angry and horrified’ with bear’s fatal shooting (update)

  15-07-2015 01:19
  
  State wildlife authorities are investigating if man acted in self-defense when he shot and killed a young black bear near Pioneer Trail at Lake Tahoe’s South Shore late Thursday.California Department of Fish and Wildlife Capt. Patrick Foy said the man’s name has not been released because the bear’s death is under investigation, and the man hasn’t been cited.The man reportedly admitted Saturday to shooting the 2-year-old untagged black bear and said it was an act of self-defense.On Tuesda
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested for disorderly conduct

  15-07-2015 01:11
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.MONDAYAt 10:02 a.m., a 34-year-old Carson City man was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct after deputies responded to reports of an unwanted man hitting cars in the Carson Street Shell Station. Bail was set at $150.At 3:51 p.m., Paul Martinez, 22, of Reno, was arrested on suspicion of felony possession of a dangerous drug without a prescription and DUI-first offense afte
  
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• India state's plan to euthanize stray dogs hits a block

  15-07-2015 01:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A state in India has announced drastic action to deal with its problem of dangerous stray dogs with rabies: culling. But the Animal Welfare Board of India, a statutory board that advises the government, urged the state of Kerala to hold off on euthanizing any dogs.
  
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• Ex-Uber driver accused of raping passenger linked to 4 other attacks

  15-07-2015 00:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former driver for ride-sharing company Uber who has been accused of kidnapping and raping a female passenger in December has been charged with a series of other sexual assaults around Boston, authorities said on Tuesday.
  
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• Judge refuses to reduce bail in 6-year-old case

  15-07-2015 00:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Despite expressing concern that Warren McClinton‘s sexual assault case has lingered for six years, with him behind bars for most of that time, a judge on Tuesday refused to reduce bail.
  
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