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• KKK member created remote-control x-ray device as weapon mass destruction

  18-08-2015 23:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Ku Klux Klan member conspired to use a remote-controlled X-ray device hidden in a truck, which he called "Hiroshima on a light switch," as a weapon of mass destruction to harm Muslims and President Barack Obama, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday.
  
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• 300-plus greet Clinton in North Las Vegas

  18-08-2015 22:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  More than 300 cheering and applauding people welcomed Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to a town hall at the Pearson Community Center in North Las Vegas where she was scheduled to speak Tuesday.
  
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• NY police investigating 'beat up squad' of correctional officers after prisoner death

  18-08-2015 22:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  New York state police are investigating the death of a prisoner who had a confrontation with a group of correctional officers known as the "Beat Up Squad," the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
  
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• NY police investigate 'beat up squad' correctional officers after prisoner death

  18-08-2015 22:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  New York state police are investigating the death of a prisoner who had a confrontation with a group of correctional officers known as the "Beat Up Squad," the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
  
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• 5 commissioners favor More Cops tax increase

  18-08-2015 21:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It looks as if Clark County's latest More Cops tax proposal has the votes to pass.
  
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• Newborn's body found in Arizona dumpster

  18-08-2015 21:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It was a grim discovery in a Glendale, Arizona, dumpster on Saturday morning. Someone had wrapped a newborn baby in a towel, put it in a bag and stuffed the bundle into the dumpster overnight.
  
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• Missing Lake Tahoe paddle boarder found alive

  18-08-2015 21:43
  
  South Lake Tahoe, Calif. — At approximately 10 a.m. this morning the paddle boarder who had been missing from Lake Tahoe has been located. Investigators have made personal telephone contact with Zbigniew (“Zibi”) Moryn, who is safe, and currently visiting the State of Missouri.Investigators received several helpful tips from the public who had seen media coverage of this case. These tips, combined with social media clues and leads located from Moryn’s recovered GoPro came
  
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• 15-year-old California girl dies of suspected overdose at rave — VIDEO

  18-08-2015 21:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 15-year-old girl has died of a suspected drug overdose after attending a rave party in Central California, police said on Tuesday, marking the third fatality in the state this month tied to an electronic dance music festival.
  
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• Arizona man accused of beheading wife, dogs pleads not guilty

  18-08-2015 21:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Arizona man accused of decapitating his wife and two puppies before cutting off part of his arm and gouging out one of his eyes pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder on Tuesday, court officials said.
  
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• 5 things you probably didn't know about the Charles Manson murders

  18-08-2015 20:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The case stunned the nation. The chilling details and callousness of the crime still shock and fascinate people more than four decades later. Here are five things about the cases that you might not know:
  
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• Zimbabwe charges owner of game park where Cecil the Lion was killed

  18-08-2015 20:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The game park owner accused of letting an American tourist illegally hunt and kill a lion on his property in Zimbabwe has been charged in connection with the killing and released on bail in Hwange, his lawyer said.
  
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• U.S. marshals arrest Michigan fugitive in Las Vegas

  18-08-2015 19:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A murder suspect out of Kalamazoo, Mich., was arrested by U.S. marshals outside a Las Vegas drugstore Monday night.
  
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• George Zimmerman, 'Muslim-free' gun store raffling Confederate flag painting

  18-08-2015 19:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, is raffling off a painting he made of a Confederate flag to raise money for a Florida gunshop owner who declared his store a Muslim-free zone.
  
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• Thai police search for suspect believed connected to Bangkok shrine bombing

  18-08-2015 19:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  As investigators picked through the wreckage of the powerful bomb blast that brought death and destruction to a popular shrine in the Thai capital, suspicions focused on one man.
  
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• Marco Rubio to appear in Carson City on Sept. 1

  18-08-2015 18:47
  
  Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio will visit Carson City at 10 a.m. Sept. 1. The Florida senator is kicking off his visit with a rally at the Peppermill casino in Reno the evening of Aug. 31. The next day, he’ll visit the Carson City Community Center before heading to Pioneer Crossing in Yerington at 2 p.m. and the Fallon Convention Center at 5:30 p.m. Rubio most recently stopped in Southern Nevada in July. Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison is chairing his campaign in Nevada. The events ar
  
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• 1 hurt after propane tank explodes near the Strip

  18-08-2015 18:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Polaris Avenue, north of Dean Martin Road and Harmon Avenue is blocked off after at least one person was reported injured during a propane tank explosion Tuesday morning, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• 1 hurt after propane tank explodes near Las Vegas Strip — VIDEO

  18-08-2015 18:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County firefighters are working to contain a fire in an industrial area west of the Strip after a propane tank exploded.
  
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• 1 hurt after propane tank explodes near Las Vegas Strip

  18-08-2015 18:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County firefighters are working to contain a fire in an industrial area west of the Strip after a propane tank exploded.
  
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• Judge stays order for Kentucky clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses

  18-08-2015 18:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A federal judge in Kentucky on Monday said he would give a county clerk time to appeal before her office needs to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, an act she has said would violate her religious beliefs.
  
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• Excessive heat warning still in place for Las Vegas Valley

  18-08-2015 17:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It's going to be another hot August day in the Las Vegas valley with Tuesday's high temperature expected to reach 110 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Man accused of killing his mom in the south valley arrested

  18-08-2015 16:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 36-year-old man who Las Vegas police have been looking for since Thursday has been arrested in connection with his mother’s death.
  
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• Las Vegas man wanted in mother's death arrested

  18-08-2015 16:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 36-year-old man who Las Vegas police have been looking for since Thursday was arrested Monday in connection with his mother's death in the south valley.
  
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• 2 become first female soldiers to complete Army Ranger course

  18-08-2015 16:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two women have made military history after becoming the first female soldiers to pass the U.S. Army's grueling Ranger Course, the Army said on Monday.
  
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• World War II veterans honored for their service and sacrifice

  18-08-2015 08:15
  
  FERNLEY —World War II veteran Chuck Harton remembers the final months and days of intense fighting in the Pacific against Japan.As a young man serving in the United States Marine Corps, Harton celebrated war’s end 70 years ago with his fellow comrades from the 4th Marine Corps Division at their base camp in Maui; yet, prior to the end of the war, the division had captured Saipan, Tinian and then Iwo Jima, all strategic islands.“Once we secured Iwo Jima, we went back to Maui,&rd
  
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• John Bullis: Don’t lose out on free money

  18-08-2015 08:15
  
  If there is a retirement plan where you work and the employer offers some “matching” contribution, try to be sure to save enough of your wages to get the maximum employer contribution.It is estimated about 25 percent of employees don’t take advantage of the employer matching contributions. That is like walking over free money on the sidewalk. I think it might be more than that of folks that don’t take advantage of this special way to save.The normal retirement plan is imp
  
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• JoAnne Skelly: More pesky bugs — elm leaf beetles

  18-08-2015 08:15
  
  Last week I wrote about root weevils eating leaves. This week’s pests are the elm leaf beetles. While elms are hardy drought- tolerant trees for arid Nevada, they are plagued by elm leaf beetles every year. By this time of year, the trees look half-dead with white to brown ragged leaves. The problem is the leaves have been skeletonized by the larvae of the beetles. These caterpillar-like creatures scrape off all the green tissue between the veins and leave behind tan-colored remains giving
  
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• A great ump, an even better man

  18-08-2015 07:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Imagine the grinding from the grandstands longtime local baseball umpire Fred Atiyeh took in three decades behind the plate. Forget the fact he was a top-notch game caller and an even better man. Precision and ethics mean nothing to baseball fans, who know it's their God-given right, indeed their duty, to razz the umpire at every opportunity.
  
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• Rescuers say no survivors at wreckage of crashed plane in Indonesia

  18-08-2015 07:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  All 54 people on board a Trigana Air aircraft were killed in a crash two days ago in Indonesia's Papua province, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the Southeast Asian archipelago, officials said on Tuesday.
  
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• Nevada’s teen job crisis is summer's biggest disaster

  18-08-2015 07:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It was one of the worst releases of the summer.
  
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• Despite Supreme Court ruling, same-sex marriage conflicts continue

  18-08-2015 07:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For some Kentucky couples — and couples across America — the battle for same-sex marriage is far from over. For the first time, a Kentucky county clerk is appealing an order to issue same-sex marriage licenses despite the Supreme Court ruling requiring her to do so.
  
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• State Department refers 305 Clinton emails for review

  18-08-2015 07:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. State Department has so far identified 305 emails from Hillary Clinton's private server used while she was secretary of state to be reviewed for potentially classified information, the agency said in a court filing on Monday.
  
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• Musical journey leads home for Temple Sinai cantorial soloist

  18-08-2015 06:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Not everything stays in Vegas. Especially Heather Klein, Temple Sinai's new cantorial soloist, who has put her time in with Lilith the Night Demon.
  
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• 'Butt-dial' saves teen's life in Tennessee

  18-08-2015 06:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Tennessee man may not be alive had he not "butt-dialed" Siri on his iPhone. Sam Ray, 18, said the accidental phone call saved his life after he was pinned under a truck while home alone. A month ago, Ray was in the Vanderbilt Trauma Unit after being crushed underneath his truck.
  
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• Nevada's top judge questions guardianship pay rates

  18-08-2015 06:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada's top judge wants to know why guardians in Las Vegas are paid significantly more than their counterparts in other parts of Nevada and elsewhere.
  
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• Today's Las Vegas Boulevard not a Siegel kind of Strip

  18-08-2015 05:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Millicent Siegel Rosen is in her eighties now. Her childhood godmother was the sex symbol Jean Harlow ("she showed up, gave us baths, that kind of stuff, it used to happen quite often"). More famously, her father Benjamin Siegel conceived the Las Vegas Strip.
  
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• U.S. Honor Flag to be presented at funeral for Carson City Sheriff’s Deputy Carl Howell

  18-08-2015 05:19
  
  The Carson City deputy killed in the line of duty will be honored with the U.S. Honor Flag at his funeral service Thursday.Deputy Carl Howell was killed Saturday morning while responding to a call of a physical domestic disturbance between a couple at the 4100 block of Montez Drive at about . A male suspect, Jonathon Pope, came out of the residence while Howell was talking with the female victim and opened fire. Howell was able to return fire, killing Pope. Officers on-scene tried to save Howell
  
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• Fighter jets collide on ground at Nellis Air Force Base

  18-08-2015 05:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two F-16 Fighting Falcons collided shortly after landing at Nellis Air Force Base on Saturday morning.
  
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• North Las Vegas supervisor offered to protect worker from mayor for sex, complaint says

  18-08-2015 04:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A North Las Vegas city worker is accusing a top city administrator of offering to protect her from Mayor John Lee's retribution in exchange for sex, according to a complaint filed with a government entity that handles disagreements between employers and employees.
  
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• University officials look at monorail link to proposed stadium

  18-08-2015 03:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It's strictly at the brainstorming stage, but University of Nevada, Las Vegas consultants have floated the idea of extending the Las Vegas Monorail to a 42-acre site at Koval Lane and Tropicana Avenue to serve a potential UNLV football stadium and then extend the monorail to the Thomas & Mack Center and the rest of the UNLV campus.
  
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• Man who let 4-year-old son die in hot SUV files civil rights suit

  18-08-2015 02:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After four years in prison, Stanley Rimer continues to deny his role in the death of his disabled 4-year-old son, who was left in a hot SUV for hours.
  
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• Uber, Lyft applications show fees for typical rides

  18-08-2015 01:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Customers who hail a ride on Uber or Lyft from Mandalay Bay to the Fremont Street Experience can expect to pay about $24 based on rates the companies submitted in their applications to the Nevada Transportation Authority.
  
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• Carson City students return to school

  18-08-2015 01:51
  
  For the kindergartners of Fremont Elementary and their parents, their first day of school for the Carson City School District brought a mix of emotions from excitement to fear.“I’m excited about lots of friends,” said Tristin Welton-Thornton, 5, as he started in Ms. Ovard’s kindergarten class. Only a handful of children had tears in their eyes as they clutched to their parents, but in Ovard’s class, the kids started off the day comparing backpack designs with each
  
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• Lesser-known private school scholarship program starts slow

  18-08-2015 01:35
  
  RENO — A new Nevada program that allows parents to claim state per-pupil education funding and use it to attend private school is garnering national headlines and hundreds of applications, but its lesser-known and higher-paying cousin is off to a slow start. Organizations administering the Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship, which allows businesses a tax credit if they donate toward scholarships, have collected enough donations for 47 scholarships so far. That’s well below the 600
  
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• Cold Springs fire grows to 4,000 acres

  18-08-2015 01:35
  
  A lightning-caused fire that ignited a fire in the Desatoya Mountain Range east of Fallon has grown to more than 4,000 acres as of Monday afternoon.The Cold Springs Fire, which is 10 percent contained, is burning in thick vegetation and steep, inaccessible terrain about 65 miles east of Fallon. BLM officials located near the fire said gusty winds on Saturday afternoon fanned the blaze from 100 to 2,500 acres. The fire is located 15 miles east of U.S. Highway 50 just north of State Route 722. The
  
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• Reno VA office among 10 hit with surprise inspections

  18-08-2015 01:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Department of Veterans Affairs claims office in Reno was one of 10 regional centers picked for surprise inspections last month as the agency investigated document-shredding practices in its outposts, officials said Monday.
  
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• Community raising donations for fallen Carson City Sheriff’s Deputy Carl Howell

  18-08-2015 01:19
  
  Multiple organizations have started collecting donations to support the loved ones of a fallen Carson City Deputy Carl Howell.Howell was killed Saturday morning in the line of duty while responding to a physical domestic disturbance call at the 4100 block of Montez Drive. A male suspect, Jonathon Pope, came out of the residence while Howell was talking with the female victim and opened fire. Howell was able to return fire, killing Pope. A memorial stands for Howell in front of the Sheriff’
  
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• Boy, 15, facing murder charge will be tried as adult, judge rules

  18-08-2015 00:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 15-year-old boy charged in the April killing of a 24-year-old "innocent bystander" will be tried as an adult, a Clark County Family Court judge ruled Monday.
  
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• 15-year-old boy facing murder charge will be tried as adult, Clark County judge rules

  18-08-2015 00:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 15-year-old boy charged in the April killing of a 24-year-old "innocent bystander" will be tried as an adult, a Clark County Family Court judge ruled Monday.
  
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• 15-year-old boy facing murder charge to be tried as adult, judge rules

  18-08-2015 00:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A murder case against 15-year-old suspect in the killing of a 24-year-old "innocent bystander" will be tried as an adult, a Clark County family court judge ruled Monday.
  
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• Dental practice belonging to hunter who killed Cecil the lion reopens

  18-08-2015 00:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The dental practice of a Minnesota hunter whose killing of Zimbabwe's best-known lion, Cecil, sparked widespread criticism from animal lovers around the world reopened on Monday without him, the practice said in a statement.
  
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