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• Nevada lawmakers adopt Common Core high school math standards

  10-08-2015 23:30
  
  Nevada lawmakers have given final approval to adopting Common Core math standards for high school students. The 12-member Legislative Commission voted 11-1 on Monday to approve the regulations, which have already been through several levels of vetting. Republican Assemblyman Ira Hansen said he voted against the measure because his constituents don’t like Common Core. The move was the last piece needed to fully implement Common Core-aligned standards in high school, and had been excluded from
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Two from Fallon arrested on suspicion of burglary

  10-08-2015 23:30
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.Carson CityFRIDAYAt 7:39 a.m., a 36-year-old transient man was arrested on suspicion of petit larceny and trespassing after deputies responded to reports of an unwanted person at the Long Street FISH store. Bail was set at $400.At 10:26 p.m., Lynette Lizotte, 46, a transient, was arrested on suspicion of felony possession of stolen motor vehicle and an expired driver’s license
  
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• 7 signs your job may be ruining with your marriage

  10-08-2015 23:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Everyone needs to work to live; but what happens when your job interferes with your marriage? Here are seven signs to look out for.
  
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• Metro IDs officers involved in Friday shooting

  10-08-2015 22:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro on Monday identified the two officers who shot a man they said sprung at them holding a "sharp object" Friday morning.
  
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• Arizona fire has grown to 6,780 acres, destroyed 11 structures

  10-08-2015 22:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Eleven structures have been destroyed in a wildfire that has scorched an estimated 6,780 acres and prompted the evacuation of about 1,000 homes in northwest Arizona. It is not known how many of the destroyed structures in Mohave Valley were homes and how many were other types of buildings, Bureau of Land Management fire information officer Dolores Garcia said.
  
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• Arizona fire grows to 6,780 acres, destroys 11 structures

  10-08-2015 22:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Eleven structures have been destroyed in a wildfire that has scorched an estimated 6,780 acres and prompted the evacuation of about 1,000 homes in northwest Arizona.
  
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• Nevada regulations for Uber, Lyft clear another hurdle

  10-08-2015 22:53
  
  Nevada lawmakers have given preliminary approval to regulations for ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft. The 12-member Legislative Commission voted Monday to greenlight the rules, which include additional detail and specific fees beyond what’s in the bills that legislators passed this spring to authorize the companies. Regulators with the Nevada Transportation Authority could give final approval to the regulations at a hearing on Sept. 11. It’s still not clear when ride-hailing com
  
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• IRS: Watch out for tax scams

  10-08-2015 22:45
  
  Following the emergence of new variations of widespread tax scams, the Internal Revenue Service issued another warning to taxpayers to remain on alert and protect themselves against an array of deceitful tactics scammers use.These schemes, which can occur over the phone, in emails or through letters with authentic looking letterhead, try to trick taxpayers into providing personal financial information or scare people into making a false tax payment that ends up with the criminal.The Treasury Ins
  
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• Forum to cover recreational trails around Carson City

  10-08-2015 22:45
  
  Sierra Nevada Forums will host a free forum on hiking and biking trails in Carson City at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Brewery Arts Center Black Box Theatre.Doors open at 5:30 p.m.Panelists will be Jenny Scanland, who is Parks and Recreation program manager for Nevada State Parks; Mark Kimbrough, who has worked for the Washoe County Park System and Nevada State Parks; Garrett Villanueva, who has worked for the Forest Service; Stan Bales, recreation planner for the Bureau of Land Management; and Cheryl
  
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• No Trick: ‘Penn & Teller’ a Broadway Hit

  10-08-2015 22:43
  The magic show is earning more than most of the musicals and plays on Broadway.
  
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• Commission's action means Uber, Lyft could be operating within 30 days

  10-08-2015 22:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Uber and Lyft could begin operating within 30 days following action Monday by the Legislative Commission.
  
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• No Trick: ‘Penn & Teller’ a Broadway Hit

  10-08-2015 22:43
  The magic show is earning more than most of the musicals and plays on Broadway.
  
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• Volunteers needed for water monitoring project

  10-08-2015 22:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Volunteers are needed to monitor springs in the aptly named Spring Mountains, north of the Las Vegas Valley. Information collected will go to a worldwide database managed by the Springs Stewardship Institute in Flagstaff, Ariz.
  
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• Toxic spill from Colorado gold mine too far to reach Lake Mead — PHOTOS

  10-08-2015 22:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Some 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater, triple previous estimates, have poured from a defunct Colorado gold mine into local streams since a team of Environmental Protection Agency workers accidentally triggered the spill last week, EPA officials said on Sunday.
  
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• 14 killed as typhoon batters China coast -- VIDEO

  10-08-2015 21:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least 14 people have died and four people remain missing after Typhoon Soudelor slammed into southeastern China, state media reported Sunday.
  
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• Public service ad hopes to persuade foreigners to help end hunger in America

  10-08-2015 21:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Every American has seen the ads urging them to help hungry children in various countries across the world, but many never see the hunger that is right in front of them all the time.
  
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• New ad hopes to persuade foreigners to help end hunger in America

  10-08-2015 21:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Every American has seen the ads urging them to help hungry children in various countries across the world, but many never see the hunger that is right in front of them all the time.
  
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• Plane makes emergency landing after hail cracks windshield

  10-08-2015 21:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The passengers and the photos of cracked windshields and a damaged nose cone tell the same story: Friday evening's Delta Flight 1889 was intense.
  
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• Families of missing Florida teens call off private search

  10-08-2015 21:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The families of two 14-year-old boys from South Florida have ended a private search for the teens who disappeared last month on a boating trip in the Atlantic Ocean, local media reported.
  
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• 2 people dead after being stabbed inside an IKEA store

  10-08-2015 20:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man and a woman were killed in a knife attack at an IKEA store in the Swedish provincial city of Vasteras on Monday and a suspect was arrested at the scene, police said.
  
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• Trump’s criticism of TV host popular with GOP stirs backlash

  10-08-2015 20:03
  
  Donald Trump already slammed the president, the Democratic Party and his Republican rivals in the race for the White House, as well as immigrants from Mexico, the Chinese and Sen. John McCain for being a prisoner of war. To that fast-growing list, he has now added Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly. The Republican Party has long wrestled with the public perception that it is waging a “war on women” and has struggled to convince more women that it’s on their side. By Sunday, as Trump made th
  
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• Trump says send US troops to 'put a ring around' Islamic State

  10-08-2015 19:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday he supported the use of U.S. ground troops to fight Islamic State in the Middle East.
  
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• ’Fantastic Four’ bombs with $26.2M; ‘Mission’ again tops

  10-08-2015 19:48
  
  NEW YORK — Hollywood’s summer has had runaway sensations (“Jurassic World”) and heartwarming hits (“Inside Out”). It now has its fiasco. “Fantastic Four,” 20th Century Fox’s attempt to reboot the superhero team-up franchise, debuted with just $26.2 million at North American theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The result was bad enough that last week’s leader, Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,” held the top spot with $29.4
  
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• Astronauts aboard International Space Station grow red romaine lettuce

  10-08-2015 19:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A special treat is on the menu for NASA astronauts on the International Space Station on Monday -- lettuce. But this isn't just any lettuce. It's part of a crop of "Outredgeous" red romaine lettuce grown on the space station.
  
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• Willow Fire prompts air advisory for Las Vegas

  10-08-2015 18:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Smoke from an Arizona wildfire has prompted an air advisory for the Las Vegas Valley, according to the Clark County Department of Air Quality.
  
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• Anniversary of Michael Brown's death brings violence, protests to Ferguson

  10-08-2015 18:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A day of peaceful vigils to mark the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's shooting death turned ugly late Sunday when protesters threw rocks and bottles at officers, and police critically injured a man who they say fired at them.
  
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• University of Nevada, Reno researchers work with NASA on drone traffic control

  10-08-2015 18:31
  
  LAS VEGAS — Nevada researchers are trying to bring order to the skies by joining forces with NASA to test an air traffic control system for drones. A University of Nevada, Reno team will be one of 12 groups to test drone software at NASA’s Crows Landing Airport in California later this month, reported the Las Vegas Sun reports. UNR is the first to create software allowing the drones to communicate with the system NASA is developing. The project is out of the space agency’s Ames Research C
  
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• Forest Service abandons Tahoe logging plan in legal fight

  10-08-2015 18:31
  
  RENO — The U.S. Forest Service has abandoned logging plans it suspended in the mountains above Lake Tahoe nearly two years ago after a prominent scientist filed a lawsuit accusing the agency of acting illegally under the guise of reducing wildfire threats that did not exist. Dennis Murphy, a professor of conservation biology at the University of Nevada who has authored key research for the service at Tahoe for years. He welcomed the cancellation of the fuels reduction project across about 100
  
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• Normal August temps this week for Las Vegas; storms possible midweek

  10-08-2015 18:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It's a normal August summer in the Las Vegas Valley, with temperatures in the lower spectrum of the infamous triple-digit weather.
  
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• Expect triple digit temps with a chance of storms midweek in Las Vegas

  10-08-2015 18:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It's a normal August summer in the Las Vegas Valley, with temperatures in the lower spectrum of the infamous triple-digit weather.
  
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• Coroner identifies man in murder-suicide

  10-08-2015 17:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man whose body was found with a 37-year-old man in an east valley mobile home Thursday after a murder-suicide has been identified.
  
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• Georgia renames Confederate Memorial Day to 'state holiday'

  10-08-2015 17:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For years, Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee's birthday have been on Georgia's official state holiday calendar. Not any more. The two holidays have been struck from the official calendar and replaced with the innocuous term "state holiday."
  
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• Vegas police looking for truck that fled fatal crash; Paradise-Sunset closed

  10-08-2015 17:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police are looking for a red tractor-trailer with a white trailer they say fled the scene of a fatal five-vehicle crash near McCarran International Airport on Monday.
  
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• 5-vehicle crash near McCarran sends several to hospital

  10-08-2015 17:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Multiple people were taken to the hospital, at least one in critical condition, after a five-vehicle crash near McCarran International Airport, police say.
  
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• 1 dead, several injured in 5-vehicle crash; Paradise-Sunset closed

  10-08-2015 17:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person is dead and several others hospitalized after a five-vehicle crash near McCarran International Airport, police say.
  
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• Man killed in Mesquite crash is identified

  10-08-2015 17:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man killed in a head-on crash in Mesquite Sunday afternoon has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office.
  
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• Man killed in Mesquite crash identified

  10-08-2015 17:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man killed in a head-on crash in Mesquite Sunday afternoon has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office.
  
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• Fire in vacant house causes $100,000 in damages

  10-08-2015 16:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A fire in a vacant two-story home early Monday morning near McCarran International Airport caused $100,000 in damages, fire officials said.
  
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• 3 displaced in duplex fire near McCarran

  10-08-2015 15:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two men and one woman are displaced after a duplex fire near McCarran International Airport, officials say.
  
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• Las Vegas-area home sales surged in July

  10-08-2015 15:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Sales of existing single-family homes surged in July, as prices recorded a healthy annual increase.
  
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• Henry claims second Barracuda title

  10-08-2015 09:11
  
  RENO — J.J. Henry had to work a little extra Sunday afternoon to become the second two-time champ in Barracuda Championship history, but he didn’t mind a bit.Henry, who won the tournament in 2012, drained a 15-foot eagle putt from the fringe on the second hole of the sudden-death playoff to overcome a record-setting day by Kyle Reifers, who was denied his first PGA victory despite scoring 22 points. Both golfers ended 72 holes with 47 points.Reifers had forced the second playoff hole with a
  
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• Waste heat a hot commodity for ElectraTherm

  10-08-2015 08:13
  
  The people at ElectraTherm in Reno are on a mission to show the world how waste heat can generate clean power. The 10-year-old renewable energy company has pioneered advances in technology that generate fuel-free and emission-free power from low temperature waste heat, which is a byproduct of industries transforming raw materials into products such as steel and pulp/paper mills, refineries, chemical plants, oil and gas pipelines, and general manufacturing processes. As an example, a furnace or
  
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• Truckee shares criticism of Squaw village development

  10-08-2015 08:13
  
  TRUCKEE, Calif. — Located only miles outside Olympic Valley, the town of Truckee — home to roughly 16,000 residents — is among those sharing concerns of the multi-acre development proposal for the Village at Squaw Valley.The town authored one of 352 estimated comment letters on the draft environmental impact report for the proposed Village at Squaw Valley Specific Plan, said Alex Fisch, Placer County senior planner.“While the scale of the specific plan is large, it is located several mil
  
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• Sierra Lutheran expanding

  10-08-2015 08:13
  
  Sierra Lutheran High School is taking the next step in growing into a full-scale high school.Miles Construction, which built the school’s current campus on Romans Road, is constructing a multi-purpose athletics field at the school.Pastor Juls Clausen, the school’s principal, said as the school has grown, the need for an expanded physical education program has grown as well.“In the last three years, we’ve grown substantially,” he said. “And we anticipate continued growth.”Clausen s
  
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• Referrals should be second nature in business

  10-08-2015 08:13
  
  As a businessman or woman, one of the most powerful tools you can utilize is not the latest and greatest in technological advancements, an impressive client portfolio, nor a booming social media presence despite what all the books and gurus tout. It is as simple as the question at the tip of your tongue. No matter what business you are in, have you ever considered what other business opportunities you can create for yourself by asking more questions? If you have your client’s attention, you�
  
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• Popular Tahoe cafe/coffee shop has new owners

  10-08-2015 08:13
  
  Paul Bruso greeted customers coming into Ernie’s Coffee Shop and Cafe along with the rest of his wait staff one recent morning, a task he’s helped perform for the last 35 years.At times, one or two come in. They’re followed by 10 minutes of non-stop traffic.“It can be crazy, then slow, then crazy again,” Bruso, Ernie’s co-owner, said. “It’s been like this for 35 years.”Recently, Bruso and his wife Judy passed their responsibilities on to the restaurant’s new owners, South La
  
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• Onstream’s vision for the Internet of Things

  10-08-2015 08:13
  
  A Reno start up is set to make the world a more intelligent place.Onstream, which creates intelligent frameworks for devices produced by others, began pitching its product at the beginning of the year from its base at The CUBE at Midtown.While smart devices can tell you what’s going on, intelligent devices use interconnected systems to make changes.“What it means to start building intelligence into mundane things, is you start out with something that’s sort of connectivity- and monitoring
  
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• NV Energy urges businesses to attend Sure Bet Summit

  10-08-2015 08:13
  
  NV Energy has some money to give away.Next week the utility is hosting an event to bring awareness to its Sure Bet Incentive Program, its 13-year-old program that provides rebates for approved energy efficiency projects for commercial customers. The program is for all kinds of businesses which are either retrofitting existing buildings or putting up new construction and looking to use energy-efficient technology. “We’ve had customers as big as Las Vegas casinos to smaller mom and pop busines
  
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• Nevada looks to build ties in Poland

  10-08-2015 08:13
  
  Governor Brian Sandoval cemented his recent visit to Poland by joining with government officials from Poland to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on behalf of the State of Nevada . The plan is to enhance access to the Silver State and U.S. markets for Polish companies and for Nevada-based businesses to gain access to the Polish and European markets. “In signing this MOU, Nevada is formally recognizing the important partnership that we have developed with the Republic of Poland, and as such, P
  
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• Managing transition in a family owned business

  10-08-2015 08:13
  
  An episode of The Profit ran on TV recently. The subject was a family owned custom furniture store that was in trouble because of the leadership. The episode brought a number of issues to mind concerning the transition of ownership in a business between generations. Having been through one that should have worked and being friends with several men through trade associations whose transitions failed, I’ve come to understand the necessity of a simple succession plan.There are two initial problem
  
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