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• Las Vegas Strip Cloaked in Smoke From Hotel Fire

  25-07-2015 23:24
  One person was taken to a hospital after a fire broke out on the pool deck of the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
  
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• Henderson did work at home of Mayor Hafen's daughter

  25-07-2015 23:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Henderson city worker did more than $800 worth of waterline repairs at the home of Mayor Andy Hafen's daughter, who was billed for the labor after the Review-Journal asked about it.
  
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• Was remote check-in to blame for long DMV waits?

  25-07-2015 22:23
  
  The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles rolled out its online check-in system last September to much fanfare, with slick ads and the tagline, “Some call it revolutionary. We just call it Dash Pass.” Less than a year after implementing a four-year, $520,000 contract and promising to “liberate customers from waiting in line,” the DMV removed the ads and shut down Dash Pass’ marquee feature at five busy Reno and Las Vegas offices — the ability to check in from home by smartphone and co
  
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• DMV has issues with remote check-in, but was it to blame for long waits?

  25-07-2015 22:09
  
  The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles rolled out its online check-in system last September to much fanfare, with slick ads and the tagline, “Some call it revolutionary. We just call it Dash Pass.” Less than a year after implementing a four-year, $520,000 contract and promising to “liberate customers from waiting in line,” the DMV removed the ads and shut down Dash Pass’ marquee feature at five busy Reno and Las Vegas offices — the ability to check in from home by smartphone and co
  
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• Strip reopens after fire at The Cosmopolitan — PHOTOS

  25-07-2015 21:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas Boulevard has reopened after a fire at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas forced its closure in both directions between Tropicana Avenue and Flamingo Road for nearly an hour Saturday afternoon, officials say.
  
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• Firefighters battle blaze at Cosmopolitan pool area on the Strip

  25-07-2015 21:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County fire crews are fighting a blaze at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, according to fire officials.
  
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• Fire reported near Cosmopolitan on the Strip

  25-07-2015 21:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County fire crews are fighting a blaze nar The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, according to the department's fire alarm site.
  
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• Fire reported at Cosmo pool area on the Strip

  25-07-2015 21:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County fire crews are fighting a blaze at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, according to fire officials.
  
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• 1 injured in fire at Cosmopolitan pool area on the Strip

  25-07-2015 21:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person was taken to the hospital after a fire at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Saturday burned cabanas and trees on its pool deck, officials say.
  
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• 1 hospitalized after fire at Cosmopolitan on Las Vegas Strip— PHOTOS

  25-07-2015 21:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A rare hotel-casino fire shut down the Strip about an hour early Saturday afternoon, forcing the partial evacuation of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and hospitalizing at least one person.
  
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• Nevada stakeholders create new organic certification program

  25-07-2015 21:35
  
  RENO — A group of Nevada businesses are joining forces to form their own organic certification program in the wake of the state ending its certification. The new, privately-run program, Basin and Range Organics, will be financially operated by the Healthy Communities Coalition nonprofit, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. The Nevada Department of Agriculture announced last month that it will end its organic certification program, effective June 2016. It had been operating at an annual $70,000
  
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• DMV ends remote check-in, but is it to blame for long waits?

  25-07-2015 21:29
  
  The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles rolled out its online check-in system last September to much fanfare, with slick ads and the tagline, “Some call it revolutionary. We just call it Dash Pass.” Less than a year after implementing a four-year, $520,000 contract and promising to “liberate customers from waiting in line,” the DMV removed the ads and shut down Dash Pass’ marquee feature at five busy Reno and Las Vegas offices — the ability to check in from home by smartphone and co
  
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• Woman dies in rollover crash near Strip

  25-07-2015 21:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman is dead after a rollover crash Saturday morning near the Las Vegas Strip, according to police.
  
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• Sunny, warm weekend in store for Las Vegas Valley

  25-07-2015 20:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A sunny, warm weekend is in the cards for the Las Vegas Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Obama speaks up for gay rights during Kenyan visit

  25-07-2015 20:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Barack Obama told Kenya on Saturday the United States was ready to work more closely in the battle against Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab, but chided his host on gay rights.
  
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• Coroner rules baby's death in December a homicide

  25-07-2015 19:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The death of a 4-month-old girl who spent two weeks at a Las Vegas hospital and died in December was ruled a homicide, according to the Clark County coroner's office.
  
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• Some of Las Vegas' least favorite roads are getting fixed

  25-07-2015 18:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  While Nevada is one of the best in the nation when it comes to road quality, some Las Vegas residents were still upset with the condition of a few of the valley’s roads — but they are getting fixed.
  
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• Clinton will appear before committee investigating Benghazi attacks

  25-07-2015 17:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will appear in October before the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, Clinton's presidential campaign said on Saturday.
  
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• Minden Soaring Club awards flight scholarships

  25-07-2015 08:48
  
  The Minden Soaring Club has awarded scholarships to four local youths to pay for flight and ground instruction toward getting their private glider licenses.The scholarships, worth $1,000 apiece, were awarded at the club’s annual general meeting.The winners are Jordan Wass, Spencer Karam, Peter Hensley and Cole Pinther.Those recipients will also be eligible to seek an additional $500 award to pay for costs of taking written and flight tests to get their licenses.The club is a non profit corpor
  
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• Evaporating and warmer Lake Tahoe has more clarity

  25-07-2015 08:48
  
  While Lake Tahoe’s iconic blueness and clarity often garner all the attention during annual State of the Lake reports, it was the lake’s increasing rate of evaporation in 2014 that most surprised the report’s author this year.While the lake’s water level continues to drop due to a number of factors, it’s actually helping improve clarity, which is the best it’s been in more than a decade, improving from 70.2 feet in 2013 to 77.8 feet in 2014, according to the report released Thursday
  
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• Teri Vance: Classic country always able to cleanse my soul

  25-07-2015 08:42
  
  When we were growing up, my parents had a pretty top-notch record player. You could load several records at a time, and one by one they’d drop and scratch out the twang of Hank Williams, Hank Williams, Jr., Kenny Rogers, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton…Once the entire stack had played, you’d flip the whole thing over, and the reverse side of each record would play. Kind of like an early version of Pandora. OK, nothing really like Pandora. On many evenings, we’d finger walk through the collec
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: June 2, 1954: Pope proclaims Pius X saint

  25-07-2015 08:42
  
  Pope proclaims Pius X SaintThis continues the Appeal’s review of news stories and headlines during its Sesquicentennial year.…
  
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• Locking in history in Carson City

  25-07-2015 08:42
  
  Ashley Hogan of Dayton, Nevada’s 2015 History Teacher of the Year, toured the old Nevada State Prison on Wednesday with her husband, Kelly, also a history teacher, courtesy of the Nevada State Prison Preservation Society.“What better place to learn about early American and Nevada history than from a place that predated statehood by two years as did NSP,” said Tom Porada, a Society board member.Ashley, who was surprised how much she learned about history in her own back yard, said the tour
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Department welcomes new deputy

  25-07-2015 08:42
  
  The Carson City Sheriff’s Department welcomed a new deputy Friday at a ceremony at the Sheriff’s Office.Michael Jerauld, a Sparks native, has been with the Carson City Sheriff’s Department for about six months as a reserve in training and the front desk manager at the sheriff’s office. Jerauld said he had always wanted to be a police officer but the time there were no openings at the department, but Sheriff Ken Furlong decided to still keep Jerauld on as a support specialist. This has b
  
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• Carson City hosting Jazz & Beyond festival Aug. 7-23

  25-07-2015 08:42
  
  It’s beyond jazz, beyond just music, and well beyond any single Carson City venue. It’s also beyond easy on the pocketbook, ranging from free to reasonable. That provides a thumbnail sketch of Carson City’s Jazz & Beyond festival upcoming from Aug. 7-23. It’s another extravaganza put on by the Mile High Jazz Band Association and backed by various sponsors. Most of the more than 60 events already scheduled are free, according to Elinor Bugli of the organizing group, with just a few of the
  
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• Man leads police on chase through Fountains of Bellagio — VIDEO

  25-07-2015 07:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It's not very often you see the police chase down someone in a borrowed boat — at least not in the Mojave Desert. Unless, maybe, it's on the Strip.
  
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• Spacecraft shows Pluto covered in haze, ice -- VIDEO

  25-07-2015 06:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A stunning silhouette of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft after it shot past the icy orb last week show an extensive layer of atmospheric haze, while close-up pictures of the ground reveal flows of nitrogen ice, scientists said on Friday.
  
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• Body cam footage shows Texas police using taser on man — VIDEO

  25-07-2015 06:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police in Denton, Texas are trying to set the record straight by releasing body cam video of an officer using a taser to take down a man.
  
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• Doctors save man's severed hand by grafting it to his leg

  25-07-2015 05:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man in China may regain use of his hand after it was cut off in an industrial accident. Even more amazing is how the doctors saved the man's hand: They grafted it onto his leg.
  
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• Teen accused of fatally stabbing parents and three siblings

  25-07-2015 05:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Oklahoma teenager has been booked on charges that he fatally stabbed five family members and wounded a sixth, a 13-year-old sister who told police she was attacked by two of her brothers, a probable cause statement released on Friday said.
  
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• After cooler spell, Las Vegas' warmer weather 'flirting with normal'

  25-07-2015 05:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After clouds and even a little rain kept July cooler, the end of the month is looking like it will be more typically Las Vegas: hot and sunny.
  
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• Attacker threatened to cook dead man, feed him to his sister

  25-07-2015 04:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Prosecutors are preserving the testimony of Barbara Owens, a 57-year-old woman who watched her brother's brutal slaying in their east Las Vegas Valley home, because she may not live through the year.
  
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• DMV says wait times drop after Dash Pass move

  25-07-2015 02:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  CARSON CITY — Wait times have improved at busy urban Department of Motor Vehicle offices since the agency scrubbed remote access to its Dash Pass queue system, officials said Friday.
  
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• Man gets prison time for attack on Greyhound bus in Arizona

  25-07-2015 02:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A California man was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday for attacking a Greyhound bus driver, forcing the vehicle off the road in Arizona and injuring more than two dozen passengers, court officials said.
  
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• Man gets prison time for attack on Greyhound bus driver in Arizona

  25-07-2015 02:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A California man was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday for attacking a Greyhound bus driver, forcing the vehicle off the road in Arizona and injuring more than two dozen passengers, court officials said.
  
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• LA man pleads guilty to killings 2 men, a woman and her kids

  25-07-2015 02:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man has pleaded guilty to stabbing and bludgeoning to death two men, a woman and her two children before torching her Los Angeles-area home in 2008, prosecutors said on Friday.
  
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• Ogden breaks through with $4 million in sales in four weeks

  25-07-2015 02:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  They only made it look easy. When DK Las Vegas closed on its sale of 14 units in The Ogden between mid-June and mid-July, it might have seemed like, "Build it and they will come."
  
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• Carson football agrees to move home opener to University of Nevada

  25-07-2015 01:47
  
  Carson and Reed high schools have agreed to move their season-opening nonleague football game to the University of Nevada’s Mackay Stadium.Originally the game was scheduled for Aug. 28 at Carson at 7 p.m. The teams will now play the 29th at 7 p.m. Lassen and Galena will play at 4 p.m.Talks had been going on for some time, and Carson coach Blair Roman said there was a lot of red tape he had to go through in regards to insurance and other details. The teams will share the gate receipts, but Car
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Log: Inmate arrested on suspicion of drug possession

  25-07-2015 01:47
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.THURSDAY• At 8:05 a.m., Michael Thomas, 31, was arrested on suspicion of a felony charge of drug possession while he was an inmate at Stewart Conservation Camp. The drug involved was methamphetamine. He was transferred to the Carson City Jail and held without bail.• At 2 p.m., Carlos Diaz, 29, of Carson City was arrested on suspicion of using a false ID to avoid prosecution,
  
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• Ohio man's choice of a hit-man leads to his downfall

  25-07-2015 01:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Cleveland-area man who wanted a Las Vegas bartender punished for allegedly sexually assaulting a family member took the old-school route in 2013, asking a known mob associate to recommend a good hit man, according to federal court documents made public this week in Ohio.
  
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• Carson football agrees to move home opener moved to University of Nevada

  25-07-2015 01:28
  
  Carson and Reed high schools have agreed to move their season-opening nonleague football game to the University of Nevada’s Mackay Stadium.Originally the game was scheduled for Aug. 28 at Carson at 7 p.m. The teams will now play the 29th at 7 p.m. Lassen and Galena will play at 4 p.m.Talks had been going on for some time, and Carson coach Blair Roman said there was a lot of red tape he had to go through in regards to insurance and other details. The teams will share the gate receipts, but Car
  
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• Hole in One

  25-07-2015 01:18
  
  Dunkin’ Donuts has arrived in Sparks. And by all appearances, the opening day of business was a hole in one with enthusiastic throngs. Indeed, dozens of customers lined up early last July 21 outside of the new store in the Legends Shopping Center at 435 Sparks Blvd. Coffee and donut lovers streamed in throughout the morning for a free cup of joe.The location marks the second Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant to open in northern Nevada, after the Carson City location set up shop in late 2014. To cel
  
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• Photographer captures nearly 100 same-sex weddings

  25-07-2015 00:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Married in every sense of the word, but strangers in the government's eyes. That was the harsh reality for Steven Rosen and his late husband Cal Grogan.
  
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• State threatens assemblywoman with business shutdown

  25-07-2015 00:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The state Department of Health and Human Services has told Assemblywoman Michele Fiore that she must let inspectors into her home health care business or face the potential loss of her license.
  
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• State threatens Assemblywoman Fiore with business shutdown

  25-07-2015 00:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The state Department of Health and Human Services has told Assemblywoman Michele Fiore that she must let inspectors into her home health care business or face the potential loss of her license.
  
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• Colo. theater massacre trial continued to Monday

  25-07-2015 00:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The judge in the Colorado movie massacre trial sent the jury home until Monday after a member of the panel complained early on Friday that she was ill and could not concentrate.
  
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• New details emerge in 1982 cold case near Lake Tahoe

  25-07-2015 00:10
  
  INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Washoe County Sheriff’s Office detectives are exploring a new theory in attempts to identify the victim in a 33-year-old unsolved murder.According to WCSO, on July 17, 1982, a woman was found dead near a popular hiking trail in the Sheep’s Flat area off Highway 28, between Incline Village and the Mount Rose summit.She was clothed in a powder blue T-shirt, blue jeans and yellow tennis shoes and wore a bathing suit under her clothing. There was no identification.Init
  
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• Gov. Brian Sandoval holds investment seminar, tourism event in London

  25-07-2015 00:10
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval held a “Doing Business in Nevada” seminar for investors and a reception highlighting the state’s tourism opportunities during a trade-mission stop in London on Wednesday and Thursday. The United Kingdom is the second of five countries on the itinerary for the Republican governor’s trip, which will run through Aug. 6 and includes several dozen representatives from Nevada’s tourism, business and higher education sectors. The United Kingdom is Nevada’s eighth-larges
  
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• Las Vegas luxury realtor puts Canyon Gate dream home on the market — PHOTOS

  25-07-2015 00:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Standing beneath an ornate chandelier in the circular, stone-walled foyer of his Canyon Gate dream home, broker Ken Lowman uses a description not common in the Las Vegas real estate scene. In a town filled with Tuscan and French-country references, he mentions a different region of the Old World.
  
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• Legendary impressionist Rich Little voices love for his Las Vegas home — PHOTOS

  25-07-2015 00:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Rich Little, the man of a thousand voices, has lived in many Las Vegas and Southern California neighborhoods including Malibu, The Lakes, Turnberry Place and Queensridge. But the master impressionist declared the Red Rock Country Club to be his favorite, so last September he bought a five-bedroom bungalow on the golf course right across the street from his former residence.
  
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