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• Texas officials release more surveillance footage of Sandra Bland

  28-07-2015 23:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Texas county released video on Tuesday of Sandra Bland arriving at Waller County Jail, as officials sought to dispel rumors circulating on social media that she was already dead by the time records show she was booked.
  
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• Seven dead in two Midwest plane crashes

  28-07-2015 23:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two separate small-plane crashes in the Midwest have killed seven people.
  
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• 7 dead in two Midwest plane crashes

  28-07-2015 23:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two separate small-plane crashes in the Midwest have killed seven people.
  
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• 3rd Planned Parenthood video released by anti-abortion group

  28-07-2015 23:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The anti-abortion group targeting Planned Parenthood released another video Tuesday, this one featuring an interview with a woman who says she worked in a clinic procuring tissue from aborted fetuses.
  
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• Quilt pattern could help police identify remains of child

  28-07-2015 23:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Australian police say a distinctive handmade quilt could hold the key to the identity of a murdered young girl whose remains were found along with a suitcase on the side of a remote highway.
  
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• Trump's Park Avenue penthouse goes for $21M

  28-07-2015 23:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  NEW YORK — Donald Trump has sold a Manhattan penthouse for a cool $21 million.
  
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• Top Vegas sports bettor, family to pay $4.2M forfeiture

  28-07-2015 23:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Leading Las Vegas sports bettor Glen Cobb was sentenced to one year of probation Tuesday for his role in what federal prosecutors alleged was a multimillion-dollar illegal gambling operation.
  
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• Nevada, Germany to launch manufacturing exchange program

  28-07-2015 22:32
  
  Nevada representatives have signed an agreement with their counterparts in Germany to launch an exchange program for interns focused on advanced manufacturing. The agreement came during Gov. Brian Sandoval’s five-day swing through Germany that included stops in Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden. He said Tesla’s decision to build a battery factory in Northern Nevada makes it especially important to develop a skilled workforce like Germany’s. Sandoval visited car companies BMW, Daimler and Porsch
  
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• Newly released images show top Bush officials on 9/11 — PHOTOS

  28-07-2015 22:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The National Archives has released more than 350 photos of former President George W. Bush and other top Bush Administration officials from Sept. 11, 2001.
  
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• Poll: Americans want Iran deal rejected,think Obama Is OK

  28-07-2015 21:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A poll conducted by CNN/ORC reveals that Americans want Congress to reject the Iran deal while the President's approval rating remains slightly positive.
  
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• Georgia man attempted travel to Syria in plot to help ISIS

  28-07-2015 21:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Georgia man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on Tuesday for attempting to support the Islamic State militant group that authorities said he had planned to join before being arrested in Atlanta in 2014, the U.S. Justice Department said.
  
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• LVCVA votes to demolish Riviera

  28-07-2015 21:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority subcommittee is recommending the Riviera be torn down sooner rather than later.
  
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• Committee votes to demolish Riviera

  28-07-2015 21:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority subcommittee is recommending the Riviera be torn down sooner rather than later.
  
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• Small earthquakes strike east of Carson City

  28-07-2015 21:11
  Several small earthquakes struck the Pine Nuts northeast of McTarnahan Hill in eastern Carson City.Four earthquakes ranged in size from 2.2 magnitude to 1.4 and all occurred within an hour of one another. There was a fifth magnitude 2 earthquake further east at 7:38 a.m. this morning, according to the University of Nevada, Reno, Seismology Lab.Nevada is the third most seismically active state after Alaska and California. For more information visit http://www.seismo.unr.edu.…
  
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• Nevada conservatives join push to defund Planned Parenthood

  28-07-2015 21:06
  
  LAS VEGAS — Nevada conservatives are joining an effort to defund Planned Parenthood after the release of covert videos of agency officials. Republican Assemblyman Erv Nelson is scheduled to join conservative talk radio host Heidi Harris and Republican activist Amy Tarkanian in a noontime rally Tuesday near the Grant Sawyer Building in Las Vegas. Similar rallies are scheduled at noon local time in about 70 cities across the country. The efforts are being spearheaded by the nonprofit anti-abort
  
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• Parents of Colo. shooting suspect push for life in prison punishment

  28-07-2015 20:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The parents of Colorado movie rampage gunman James Holmes are expected to address the punishment phase of his trial on Tuesday and plead for the life of their son, who they say is mentally ill and not to blame for what he did.
  
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• Emails Show Confusion, Chaos in Baltimore Leadership During Riots

  28-07-2015 20:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Baltimore officials knew that protests could erupt the day of Freddie Gray's funeral, but were overwhelmed by riots that followed.
  
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• Health district says Cowabunga Bay can open

  28-07-2015 20:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Cowabunga Bay water park in Henderson is open for business Tuesday, despite public health officials' concerns over lifeguard certification.
  
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• Earthquake swarm strikes Carson City

  28-07-2015 20:14
  A swarm of earthquakes struck the Pine Nuts northeast of McTarnahan Hill in eastern Carson City.Four earthquakes ranged in size from 2.2 magnitude to 1.4 and all occurred within an hour of one another. There was a fifth magnitude 2 earthquake further east at 7:38 a.m., according to the University of Nevada, Reno, Seismology Lab.Nevada is the third most seismically active state after Alaska and California. For more information visit http://www.seismo.unr.edu…
  
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• Hunting tourist believed responsible for killing Cecil the lion

  28-07-2015 19:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Cecil the lion is dead, killed illegally in Zimbabwe, authorities allege, by a foreign hunter or hunters who paid about $55,000 for the privilege.
  
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• American dentist linked to killing of Cecil the lion

  28-07-2015 19:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An American man is being sought in connection with a case that has drawn international attention -- the killing of Cecil the lion -- Zimbabwean officials said Tuesday.
  
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• Police investigate stabbing at Las Vegas post office

  28-07-2015 19:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A central valley post office was the site of a stabbing early Tuesday, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Police investigate stabbing at central Las Vegas Valley post office

  28-07-2015 19:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A central valley post office's parking lot was the site of a stabbing early Tuesday, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• NY prison employee pleads guilty to aiding inmate escape plan

  28-07-2015 19:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A prison seamstress pleaded guilty on Tuesday to helping two murderers escape from a maximum security prison in upstate New York last month. Joyce Mitchell, 51, faces up to seven years for her role in the daring breakout by inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6.
  
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• Smithsonian, Kickstarter raise $550K to save Neil Armstrong's space suit

  28-07-2015 19:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The 46 years since Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon have not lessened the sense of wonder of that that moment. But the decades have deteriorated his iconic space suit, which has been locked away in climate-controlled storage.
  
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• Thoran Towler: What employers need to know about pregnancy discrimination

  28-07-2015 18:38
  
  On March 25, the United States Supreme Court delivered its opinion on a case relating to treatment of pregnant workers that is of interest to businesses. In Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 575 U.S. ___ (2015), the Court evaluated the requirements for bringing a disparate (discrimination) treatment claim under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.The Pregnancy Discrimination Act was subsequent language added to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In synopsis, the additional language clarifies that s
  
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• Gala raises money to fight childhood brain tumors

  28-07-2015 18:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A benefit for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation to help in its efforts to find the cause and cure for childhood brain tumors took place July 17 at Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Snow Crab in the Forum Shops at Caesars.
  
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• Hot and dry in Las Vegas Valley, but rain may be on the way

  28-07-2015 17:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  High temperatures may not exactly be on the rise for Las Vegas, but the humidity levels sure will.
  
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• Trump adviser under fire for 'you cannot rape your spouse'

  28-07-2015 16:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A top adviser to Donald Trump is under fire after comments he made in an explosive interview while defending the Republican presidential candidate from a decades-old rape accusation.
  
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• Missing Calif. girl found dead; 15-year-old boy arrested

  28-07-2015 16:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the suspected death of an 8-year-old girl after a body was found in a dumpster in the coastal California city of Santa Cruz, police said.
  
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• Time running short to find teens missing off Fla. coast

  28-07-2015 16:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Florida teens Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos have been missing since Friday -- four days and counting.
  
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• Water park lifeguards no longer certified

  28-07-2015 08:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  If you were planning a trip to Cowabunga Bay on Tuesday, you may want to call ahead. Many of the Henderson water park's lifeguards are no longer certified to work there, according to officials with the Nevada Health and Human Services Department and the Southern Nevada Health District.
  
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• Veterans motorcycle tour, with Leno send-off, visits Las Vegas

  28-07-2015 08:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With flags waving and motorcycle engines roaring, dozens of veterans, including 15 amputees and severely wounded combat vets, rode into Las Vegas on Monday for a charity ride to show appreciation for those who served in the U.S. military.
  
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• Veterans motorcycle tour, with Jay Leno send-off, visits Las Vegas

  28-07-2015 08:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With flags waving and motorcycle engines roaring, dozens of veterans rode into Las Vegas on Monday for a charity ride to show appreciation for those who served in the U.S. military.
  
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• Organization plowing ahead to provide organic certification

  28-07-2015 07:03
  
  A coalition of organic food producers is scrambling to fill the void left when the Nevada Department of Agriculture on June 3 elected to stop its organic certification program.The creation of Basin and Range Organics (BARO) was announced last week. A general meeting was held July 24 with teleconferencing statewide to keep those in the industry informed.“The industry benefited as a whole when the state had organic certification program,” said Rob Holley, the livestock adviser on the BARO advi
  
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• Carson Tahoe Hospital honors late doctor

  28-07-2015 07:03
  
  The Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center honored one of its late doctors Monday afternoon in a ceremony dedicating the physician’s lounge in his name.The hospital renamed its lounge to Dr. Jack Davis after he passed away in February of cardiovascular complications, and renamed the lounge to the Dr. Jack L. Davis Physician Lounge. Hospital staff, friends and family of Dr. Davis’s gathered in the newly named lounge for a ceremony to unveil the new name and to remember their late friend.“He m
  
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• Body found in luggage near Seattle (again)

  28-07-2015 06:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A badly decomposed body was discovered on Monday in a duffle bag near a dumpster in the city of SeaTac, Wash., the second time since May that human remains have been found stuffed into luggage in the Seattle area.
  
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• Man clears security, boards Dallas plane minus ticket

  28-07-2015 06:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. transportation security officials are investigating how a man was able to pass through a security checkpoint without a ticket at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and board a commercial airliner, airport officials said Monday.
  
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• Another ex-Utah attorney general pleads not guilty to corruption

  28-07-2015 06:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former Utah Attorney General John Swallow pleaded not guilty on Monday to 14 criminal counts arising from a corruption scandal that has embroiled him and his predecessor in a wide-ranging criminal investigation, his lawyer said.
  
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• Education Notebook: School news and events for July 23-29, 2015

  28-07-2015 05:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada Connections Academy plans information sessions in Henderson
  
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• IOC 'confident' on U.S. 2024 bid despite Boston pullout

  28-07-2015 05:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The International Olympic Committee said Tuesday it remains confident the United States will deliver a bid to host the 2024 Summer Games despite Boston's withdrawal a day earlier.
  
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• JoAnne Skelly: Lawn grass alternatives

  28-07-2015 04:40
  
  I’m often asked, “Are there lawn grasses that are more drought-tolerant than fescue or Kentucky bluegrass?” The answer is, yes, according to one reader. Tina wrote me this past week, “In 2013, I contacted you about drought-tolerant grasses for our yard, because we were tired of spending effort and money trying to keep our fescue and Kentucky bluegrass lawn green throughout the summer. We dug it all out and seeded with a mix of primarily blue grama and buffalo grass, and are we ever happ
  
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• 63-year-old inmate dies at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center

  28-07-2015 04:40
  
  Nevada prison officials say a 63-year-old inmate who had been jailed previously for sexually assaulting a person older than 65 has died. Nevada Department of Corrections said Monday that James Besette died late Sunday at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center’s medical facility in Carson City. Authorities say Besette was first imprisoned in 1988 when he was sentenced to life with parole for sexual assault and another 10 years for stealing a car. He was paroled in 2009 but returned to prison
  
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• 2 bears trapped at Lake Tahoe safely returned to wilderness

  28-07-2015 04:40
  
  Two black bears that were caught in separate traps at Lake Tahoe last week have been returned safely to the wilderness along the Sierra’s eastern front. Nevada Department of Wildlife officials trapped the two male bears on Friday, one on the north shore in Incline Village and the other on the south shore near Stateline. The 3-year-old, 175-pounder caught at Stateline was released Saturday near the Kingsbury Grade above the lake. The other one, an 8-year-old weighing about 300 pounds, was rele
  
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• Planned Parenthood investigating claims of website hack

  28-07-2015 04:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Planned Parenthood called on the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday for help managing cybersecurity, following a report that the reproductive healthcare group's website had been hacked by anti-abortion activists.
  
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• California man killed in boat propeller accident identified

  28-07-2015 04:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man killed on Lake Mohave over the weekend when a boat backed over him has been identified.
  
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• Avoid the ice cream by looking at bugs — seriously

  28-07-2015 04:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Looking to cut back on dessert and shed a few pounds? The University of Colorado School of Medicine suggests cockroaches — or pictures of the little buggers, at least.
  
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• Miracle Flights losses bad, could've been worse

  28-07-2015 03:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It's little solace for a local charity that lost $2.2 million in what civil court documents describe as a loan Ponzi scheme, but it appears things could have been much worse for Miracle Flights for Kids.
  
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• Miracle Flights losses bad, could have been worse

  28-07-2015 03:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It's little solace for a local charity that lost $2.2 million in what civil court documents describe as a loan Ponzi scheme, but it appears things could have been much worse for Miracle Flights for Kids.
  
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• Ex-real estate agent once again defending himself at trial

  28-07-2015 03:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For the third time in three years, a former real estate agent is defending himself at trial in a mortgage fraud scheme federal prosecutors allege defrauded lending institutions out of more than $24 million.
  
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