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• No moonlight means good views of Perseid meteor shower

  11-08-2015 23:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The annual Perseid meteor shower, which is known for being among the brightest of meteor showers, is happening near the tail end of summer.
  
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• Nevada board approves student testing contract

  11-08-2015 23:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada will award a nearly $51.5 million contract for student testing services after dumping its previous contractor earlier this year following a series of computer glitches that plagued the system.
  
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• SC coroner rules death of unarmed black man 'suicide by cop'

  11-08-2015 23:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The death of a black man who was fatally shot by police in South Carolina after a high-speed car chase on Saturday was a case of "suicide by cop," a county coroner said on Tuesday.
  
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• Miss. newlyweds arrested for plan to join Islamic State

  11-08-2015 22:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Mississippi couple, accused of seeking to join the militant Islamic State group on a planned honeymoon trip, remained in custody on Tuesday after being denied bond in federal court.
  
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• Dutch say fragments from Ukraine crash site could be from Russian missile

  11-08-2015 22:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Some of the debris recovered from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine may be fragments of a Russian-made missile system, Dutch prosecutors leading an international investigation said on Tuesday.
  
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• PUC staff urges no expedited order to continue net metering program

  11-08-2015 21:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Legal staff with the Nevada Public Utilities Commission is recommending that commissioners do not issue an expedited order Wednesday to continue an existing net metering program as requested by rooftop solar officials.
  
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• Doll company offers birth mark, cochlear implant as personalization option

  11-08-2015 21:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  London-based Makie dolls are all ears when it comes to making a doll that looks just like you.
  
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• Doll company includes birth marks, cochlear implants as personalization options

  11-08-2015 21:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  London-based Makie dolls are all ears when it comes to making a doll that looks just like you.
  
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• Pilot ejected as U.S. Air Force F-16 plane crashes in Germany

  11-08-2015 20:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A pilot ejected from a U.S. F-16 before it crashed Tuesday morning in a forested area in Germany's Bavaria region, the U.S. Air Force said.
  
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• Taxi exec calls proposed Uber, Lyft rules a 'public safety disaster'

  11-08-2015 20:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An executive with one of Southern Nevada's dominant taxicab companies says the Nevada Transportation Authority's proposed regulations for transportation network companies "is going to represent a public safety disaster for Las Vegas."
  
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• EPA's ozone rule: A cure worse than the disease

  11-08-2015 19:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  As the Environmental Protection Agency rushes to complete its new rule on ozone emissions, there's been a lot of discussion about the burdens on businesses and local governments. Yet there's been little mention of how this regulation could harm individual Americans.
  
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• Fright Dome hiring 400 positions for Halloween season

  11-08-2015 19:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Fright Dome is gearing up to take over Adventuredome at the Circus Circus for their 13th anniversary. To kick off the Halloween season, Fright Dome is holding hiring events to fill over 400 positions.
  
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• Police seek help finding 84-year-old man

  11-08-2015 19:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are seeking the public's help in locating an 84-year-old man who has shown signs of early stages of Alzheimer's disease and does not speak English.
  
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• Police: Body in southern valley may be missing 84-year-old man

  11-08-2015 19:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police said Tuesday afternoon that a body found in the southern valley might be an 84-year-old man who was reported missing.
  
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• 23 arrested as protests continue in Ferguson

  11-08-2015 19:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A day of civil disobedience that saw several arrests in Ferguson ended Monday with some protesters throwing rocks and bottles at police.
  
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• 150 arrested as protests continue in Ferguson

  11-08-2015 19:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police said on Tuesday that 22 people had been arrested overnight in Ferguson and another 63 were arrested for trying to block a highway. On Monday, 57 people were arrested for passing barricades that blocked a federal court in St. Louis.
  
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• Injured motorcyclist from July crash has died

  11-08-2015 19:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A motorcyclist who was critically injured in a late July crash in the central valley has died, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Murder suspect tried to set fire after stabbing elderly woman, police say

  11-08-2015 18:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman facing a murder charge in the July stabbing death of an 84-year-old woman is now accused of trying to set fire to the victim's house, according to a Metro arrest report.
  
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• Rain possible in Las Vegas Valley over next 2 days

  11-08-2015 17:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Mother Nature might bring some rain into the Las Vegas Valley Tuesday, and according to the National Weather Service, it's a pretty big "might."
  
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• NTSB: truck driver in Tracy Morgan accident was awake more than 28 hours

  11-08-2015 17:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. transportation regulators on Tuesday cited multiple factors behind last year's crash in New Jersey involving comedian Tracy Morgan and a Wal-Mart truck that killed one person and injured others, pointing to driver fatigue and unused seat belts.
  
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• Police arrest 19-year-old man in deadly stabbing

  11-08-2015 16:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 19-year-old man was arrested Monday in the fatal stabbing of his father, records show.
  
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• 19-year-old man arrested in fatal stabbing on Monday

  11-08-2015 16:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 19-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with a fatal stabbing at a home near McCarran International Airport.
  
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• Las Vegas police investigate double homicide in east valley

  11-08-2015 16:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating a homicide early Tuesday morning in the east valley where two people died.
  
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• 2 men shot to death in east valley, police say

  11-08-2015 16:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two men were found shot dead in an east Las Vegas apartment complex just before sunrise Tuesday, according to police.
  
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• No pause in pressure on housing authority chief Hill

  11-08-2015 08:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  This figures to be a busy week for John Hill. Not only is the Executive Director of the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority in contract renewal negotiations with the Service Employees International Union, but these days he's also being asked tough questions about his management style and professional practices.
  
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• Estimates show Tesla eligible for $10 million in tax credits

  11-08-2015 06:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Preliminary estimates indicate Tesla is eligible for nearly $10 million in transferrable tax credits based on its investments so far in a huge battery factory east of Reno, Nevada lawmakers were told Monday.
  
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• Henderson police offer no reason ticket dismissed for ‘family/friends’

  11-08-2015 06:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  In its official response to a city audit, the Henderson Police Department did not explain why officers dismissed a traffic ticket received by a friend or relative of a police employee.
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: July 14, 1959: Steel negotiation collapses; strike gets underway

  11-08-2015 06:39
  
  Steel negotiation collapses; strike gets underwaySteel wage negotiations collapsed today with less than 10 hours remaining before the midnight strike deadline. R. Conrad Cooper, chief industry negotiator, turned down a last-minute union bid to avert a strike. He said no further meetings had been scheduled for today. More than 500,000 steelworkers stood ready to shut down steel production in 24 states at midnight. The strike would be the sixth in the postwar period, and could be one of the longe
  
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• JoAnne Skelly: Root weevils eating leaves

  11-08-2015 06:39
  
  “Something is eating the leaves on my lilacs,” cried the caller. She wondered why the leaves looked like someone had nipped the edges with pinking shears or craft scissors. I knew immediately when she described the angular cuts on the leaves that her plants were being eaten by root weevils. These pesky bugs not only notch leaves, they occasionally come in the house. If you have seen a little black beetle with a long snout crawling around, you have seen a root weevil. Eggs are laid near the c
  
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• Lawsuit filed against St. Jude's Ranch, state in alleged sexual assault

  11-08-2015 06:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former St. Jude's Ranch for Children worker who accuses a former foster care worker of sexually assaulting her in 2013 is suing the ranch and the state because of its oversight role of Clark County's child welfare system.
  
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• Arena League Shuts Down Two Teams

  11-08-2015 06:00
  The Arena Football League announced that the Las Vegas Outlaws and the New Orleans VooDoo had folded, leaving 10 teams.
  
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• Want a job? Major in education, new state report says

  11-08-2015 05:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Looking for a secure job in Nevada once you graduate? Then your best bet is to declare an education major, according to a report published Friday through the state's new super-data system that links information from public schools, state colleges and universities and employers.
  
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• Elvis adds to atmosphere of Strip ceremonies -- PHOTOS

  11-08-2015 05:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Three couples renewed wedding vows -- Vegas style -- in a ceremony outside the Shake Shack at the New York-New York on the Strip on Monday. Elvis impersonator Harry Shahoian provided the "All Shook Up."
  
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• Las Vegas police called to fatal west valley shooting

  11-08-2015 04:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro is investigating a fatal, Monday night shooting in the west valley.
  
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• 2 people killed in west valley shooting

  11-08-2015 04:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two people were killed in a Monday night shooting in the west valley, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Southern Nevada inmate dies in cell at High Desert

  11-08-2015 04:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 44-year-old prisoner serving time in Southern Nevada died on Sunday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
  
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• Firefighters battle imaginary inferno at closed Strip resort -- PHOTOS

  11-08-2015 04:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Dozens of firefighters from Clark County Fire Department, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue, Henderson and North Las Vegas Fire Departments, rushed up five flights of stairs to extinguish what was supposed to be a raging blaze at the Riviera Monday morning as part of a multi-department training exercise.
  
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• Judge grants newspaper's motion to unseal HOA probe documents

  11-08-2015 03:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  In a decision hailed as a victory for transparency in the courts, a federal judge Monday unsealed documents that could shed more light on the government's long-running investigation into fraud and corruption at homeowners associations.
  
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• Gardnerville Judge Norm Robison dies at 78

  11-08-2015 03:00
  
  Judge Norm Robison of Gardnerville died Sunday at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center.He was 78.Robison was appointed to a newly created department in Douglas County in 1982 by then Gov. Robert List. He won election to the post twice before retiring in February 1994.But Robison returned to the bench in 2006 as a senior judge. He served in that position until this past June.Supreme Court Chief Justice Jim Hardesty described him as “a dedicated, caring and affable public servant.” “He reso
  
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• Monday low gas price in Carson City at $2.76 per gallon

  11-08-2015 02:39
  
  Gasoline’s cost dropped to $3.20 per gallon across Nevada last week, an easing of four cents, while Carson City’s lowest pump price was significantly lower on Monday.Three outlets in Nevada’s capital posted prices of $2.76 per gallon as tracked by GasBuddy.com, the same gas price-monitoring website that released a Sunday survey showing the 1,130 stations tracked all over the Silver State had eased prices to $3.20 on average. The national average price, meanwhile, was said by the same surv
  
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• Students chosen for new need-based scholarship

  11-08-2015 02:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada education officials have picked 689 students to receive the newly established Silver State Opportunity Grant, the state's first need-based college scholarship.
  
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• State selects members for CCSD breakup committee

  11-08-2015 02:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A legislative panel on Monday named state Sen. Joe Hardy and local business leaders to two committees that will help develop a plan to split the Clark County School District within the next three years.
  
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• Las Vegas urologist faces second malpractice lawsuit in a year

  11-08-2015 02:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For the second time this year, a widow has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Las Vegas urologist Michael Kaplan, who remains free while appealing a four-year prison term he received in an unrelated criminal case.
  
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• 689 Nevada students will receive new need-based scholarship

  11-08-2015 02:19
  
  Higher education officials say they’ll be awarding a new need-based scholarship to 689 Nevada students in time for the fall semester. The Nevada System of Higher Education said it will inform the winners in the coming days that they’re getting the Silver State Opportunity Grant. The Nevada Legislature passed a bill this spring that creates the grant and applies $2.5 million to the fund in each of the next two years. Awards vary in size based on a student’s financial need. Nevada has award
  
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• Activists file petition seeking to repeal entire tax package

  11-08-2015 01:59
  
  (AP) — Conservative activists have filed a petition seeking to repeal the entire $1.1 billion tax package that Nevada lawmakers passed this spring.Anti-tax activist Chuck Muth said Monday that he filed paperwork with the Secretary of State’s Office on Monday seeking the ballot measure.Muth said he expects the measure to run up against legal challenges because it seeks to undo a three-part law. Ballot measures are limited to a single subject.His effort is separate from a pending proposal inv
  
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• 13 states want to block new federal water rule

  11-08-2015 01:59
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. — Thirteen states led by North Dakota are asking a federal judge in Bismarck to block a new rule that gives federal authorities jurisdiction over some state waters. North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said he will seek a preliminary injunction Monday, the deadline for such legal action to prevent the rule from taking effect on Aug. 28. Stenehjem said he was hopeful a judge will grant a hearing on the injunction within the next few days. North Dakota is leading a lawsu
  
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• Northern Nevada lawmakers land key spots on interim committees

  11-08-2015 01:45
  
  Western Nevada lawmakers landed key spots on several interim committees Monday including the Committee to Consult with the Director, Tahoe/Marlette study committee and the committees on juvenile justice and Seniors, Veterans and Adults with Special Needs.Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, whose district covers all of Carson City, will be especially busy in the interim. Not only does he sit on the Interim Finance Committee and Legislative Commission, he will chair the Committee to Consult. He also sit
  
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• Nevada gas price falls four cents a gallon

  11-08-2015 01:45
  Gasoline’s cost dropped to $3.20 per gallon across Nevada last week, an easing of four cents, while Carson City’s lowest pump price was significantly lower on Monday.Three outlets in Nevada’s capital posted prices of $2.76 per gallon as tracked by GasBuddy.com, the same gas price-monitoring website that released a Sunday survey showing the 1,130 stations tracked all over the Silver State had eased prices to $3.20 on average. The national average price, meanwhile, was said by the same surv
  
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• Carson Tahoe HopeFest 2015 features Celtic rock band

  11-08-2015 01:45
  
  HopeFest 2015, the fifth annual fund raising event to benefit cancer patients and their families, will feature Celtic rock music and additional fare associated with the event each year.It culminates 21 days of hope, according to the Carson Tahoe Foundation and Carson Tahoe Health, and begins at 5 p.m. on Aug. 21 at the Carson Tahoe Cancer Center on the Carson Tahoe medical campus at the north end of Nevada’s state capital community. Young Dubliners, a Celtic rock band, will play and the raffl
  
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• Highway 395 road work causes night lane closures

  11-08-2015 01:28
  
  The Nevada Department of Transportation has begun work applying a top sealant to U.S. 395 through the Carson Valley.A spokesman said there will be overnight lane closures but that the roadway will remain open throughout the project. Work will take place between 6 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. each night to apply what engineers describe as a flush seal — a top layer of oil to rejuvenate the asphalt and prevent deterioration that would require much more extensive and expensive repairs.The new seal will be
  
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