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• $2 million Pentagon grant to benefit Nevada sage grouse rehab

  19-08-2015 23:59
  
  RENO — State and federal land managers working to keep the greater sage grouse off the list of endangered species have secured a $2 million grant from the Pentagon to help finance habitat restoration beneath thousands of square miles of U.S. Navy training airspace in Nevada. The money recently was approved by the Defense Department’s Military Services’ Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program, officials for the Nevada Department of Wildlife and U.S. Department
  
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• Racial tensions reignited in St. Louis after police kill black suspect — PHOTOS

  19-08-2015 23:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  St. Louis police fatally shot a black teenager on Wednesday who they say pointed a gun at them, and later faced angry crowds, reigniting racial tensions first sparked by the killing of an unarmed black teen in another Missouri town a year ago.
  
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• New protests erupt near Ferguson after police fatally shoot black man

  19-08-2015 23:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police shot and killed a black man in St. Louis on Wednesday in a killing that drew angry crowds 10 days after protesters marked the anniversary of the police shooting of an unarmed teen in nearby Ferguson. New protests erupt near Ferguson after St. Louis police fatally shoot black man
  
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• Toddlers with vast vocabulary have better math skills, fewer behavior issues

  19-08-2015 23:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two-year-olds who can say more phrases tend to have better math and language skills and fewer behavioral problems when it's time for them to start kindergarten, according to a new study.
  
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• Study says toddlers with vast vocabulary have better math skills, fewer behavior issues

  19-08-2015 23:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two-year-olds who can say more phrases tend to have better math and language skills and fewer behavioral problems when it's time for them to start kindergarten, according to a new study.
  
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• Dead man found on sidewalk near Stratosphere

  19-08-2015 22:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A dead man was found on the Strip near the Stratosphere on Wednesday, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Gold Butte called more vulnerable to vandals

  19-08-2015 22:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of armed confrontation with supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy, the Bureau of Land Management has largely withdrawn from Gold Butte and left the environmentally sensitive Southern Nevada region more vulnerable to intruders and vandals, a preservation group charged Wednesday.
  
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• $116,000 loan approved to build Nevada's education savings enrollment system

  19-08-2015 21:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A legislative interim finance committee on Wednesday approved a $116,000 loan for the state treasurer's office to build and maintain an online enrollment system for Nevada's new education savings accounts.
  
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• US Navy will allow women to join their highly elite SEAL teams

  19-08-2015 21:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Navy is preparing to allow women into the ranks of its SEAL teams, the Navy's chief operations officer told Defense News on Tuesday.
  
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• 93-year-old Tuskegee Airmen WWII veteran robbed, carjacked

  19-08-2015 21:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 93-year-old Tuskegee Airman struggling to find his daughter's house in St. Louis was robbed and then carjacked minutes later.
  
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• Jared's child porn guilty plea: How did we get here?

  19-08-2015 20:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
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• California wildfires prompt air quality advisory in Southern Nevada

  19-08-2015 20:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Wildfires in the Sierra Nevada in California have sent smoke to Clark County, prompting an air quality advisory on top of already scorching heat.
  
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• New high court building OK'd for Las Vegas

  19-08-2015 20:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas city leaders on Wednesday approved blueprints for a long-planned Supreme Court building at Clark Avenue and Fourth Street, one that would be built on top of about five dozen city-owned parking spaces.
  
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• New high court building eliminates some downtown Las Vegas parking

  19-08-2015 20:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas city leaders on Wednesday approved blueprints for a long-planned Supreme Court building at Clark Avenue and Fourth Street, one that would be built on top of about five dozen city-owned parking spaces.
  
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• Man stabbed to death in east Las Vegas

  19-08-2015 20:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was found stabbed to death in a backyard near Sam's Town casino Wednesday morning, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Maintenance worker finds bloody body during east Las Vegas Valley house call

  19-08-2015 20:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A maintenance worker making a house call Wednesday in the east valley found a man's bloody body when he showed up, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Body of missing boater recovered from Lake Mead

  19-08-2015 19:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The body of a man who went missing at Lake Mead last week was found in the water Tuesday, park officials said.
  
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• Nevada's jobless rate drops to 6.8 percent in July

  19-08-2015 19:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada's unemployment rate ticked down in July. Joblessness was 6.8 percent in the month, down from 6.9 percent a month earlier, the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported Wednesday.
  
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• 3 people unaccounted for after gas leak explosion at Washington Motel 6

  19-08-2015 19:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A gas leak at a Motel 6 in Bremerton, Washington, caused an explosion so severe it brought down a section of the building and flung firefighters 20 feet away.
  
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• Bernie Sanders tells 4,000 at University of Nevada crowd his ‘revolution’ has momentum

  19-08-2015 19:30
  
  RENO — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders told an enthusiastic crowd at the University of Nevada Tuesday night his call for political revolution is gaining momentum, but he’ll need their help to overcome his opponents’ huge fundraising advantages. More than 4,000 people waved placards and chanted “Bernie, Bernie” outside the student union on the Reno campus, including more than 100 perched throughout an adjacent five-story parking garage. “This cam
  
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• Arizona inmate’s death ruled homicide

  19-08-2015 19:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The death of an inmate at a prison near Kingman, Arizona, has been ruled a homicide.
  
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• WikiLeaks informant Chelsea Manning found guilty of violating prison rules

  19-08-2015 19:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Soldier Chelsea Manning, who is serving 35 years in a military prison for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, was found guilty on Tuesday of violating jail rules and given three weeks of recreation curbs, the American Civil Liberties Union said.
  
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• Man dies trying to save suicidal man at Hawaii university dorm

  19-08-2015 19:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 24-year-old man died trying to save another man who attempted to kill himself by jumping from a 14th-floor dormitory window at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu police and university officials said on Tuesday.
  
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• Yosemite National Park sees second visitor diagnosed with plague

  19-08-2015 18:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A second person to visit California's Yosemite National Park has been diagnosed with the plague, the latest of several such infections in the Western United States this year, health officials said on Tuesday.
  
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• Clinton urges Black Lives Matter activists to change policies, not hearts

  19-08-2015 17:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a sometimes tense private meeting last week with five "Black Lives Matter" activists, urging them to find a way to change policies because "I don't believe you change hearts."
  
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• Early morning crash involves Metro patrol car

  19-08-2015 17:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A portion of the Las Vegas Strip has reopened after a crash involving a Las Vegas police squad car early Wednesday morning, police said.
  
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• Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle pleading guilty to child porn charges

  19-08-2015 16:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former Subway sandwich chain pitchman Jared Fogle will plead guilty on Wednesday to charges of child pornography and paying for sex with minors, according to a plea agreement and indictment released by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Indianapolis.
  
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• Las Vegas police investigate fatal stabbing in central valley

  19-08-2015 16:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro is investigating a fatal stabbing in the central valley Wednesday morning.
  
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• Las Vegas police investigate body found in central valley

  19-08-2015 16:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro is investigating a suspicious death in the central valley Wednesday morning.
  
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• Treasurer: Voucher program disruptive and transformational

  19-08-2015 09:59
  
  Nevada Treasurer Dan Schwartz said Tuesday the new law allowing parents to get public money to pay private school tuition “is going to be the most disruptive and transformational program in state history.”Schwartz told the Rotary Club luncheon at the Carson Nugget there are a number of issues with the law as passed by the 2015 Legislature that’s going to have to be addressed including whether it violates the constitutional amendment that prohibits giving public money to religio
  
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• Cold Springs fire continues to burn

  19-08-2015 09:59
  
  A lightning-caused fire that began in the Desatoya Mountain Range east of Fallon has remained at 4,012 acres as of Tuesday afternoon.The Cold Springs Fire, which is now 15 percent contained, is burning in thick vegetation and steep, inaccessible terrain about 65 miles east of Fallon. The fire is located 15 miles east of U.S. Highway 50 just north of State Route 722. The two-lane Carroll Summit Highway is a secondary route to the Reese River Valley and Austin. At times the fire crossed the highwa
  
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• Carson City music shop’s move proves sound

  19-08-2015 09:59
  
  Vince Gates moved his small music shop out of the Carson Mall to a new location this month with some concerns, but they plague him no longer.He said it turned out to be a winning decision as he closed in on eight years as proprietor of Play Your Own Music, now located at 112 E. John St., where it has been hopping since it opened there Aug. 1.Gates said as the academic school year begins, among the firm’s clientele are students taking music classes in school and parents with their boys or g
  
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• All of Carson City knew Deputy Carl Howell

  19-08-2015 09:59
  
  Many of us wouldn’t know Carl Howell from Adam. Many of us had never seen Carl Howell. Or if we had seen him, we would have never known it. Maybe we stood right next to him in the grocery line, at the pharmacy, at the bank and didn’t have a clue we were standing right next to a man who would sacrifice his life for this community.Sure, many in the community knew the Carson City Sheriff’s deputy who was killed in the line of duty early Saturday morning. For he was part of this co
  
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• Hunsaker fills demanding role as trainer for Carson

  19-08-2015 09:51
  
  One of the new faces around the Carson High’s athletic program in the last few years is one of the most important ones.Adam Hunsaker, through an agreement with the Carson City Unified School District and Carson Tahoe Health, is starting his third year of dealing with the athletic training needs of all athletes at CHS.It’s a demanding job. The 32-year-old Hunsaker arrives on campus every day at 1 p.m. and stays until the last athlete has left the premises, whether it’s a practic
  
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• Delgado and VanRensselaer to lead Senator cross country

  19-08-2015 09:51
  
  Veteran Carson High cross country coach Pete Sinnott isn’t one to make bold predictions. Sinnott likes this year’s team, but he’s keeping a low profile.“We have some good kids, but we’re going to have to get a lot better,” Sinnott said. “You don’t get to be a competitor by wanting to be a competitor. You do it by doing the right things; eating right to stay strong.“We had a nice summer. We had a good turnout. We have a very good schedule this
  
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• Community spotlight: Braun wins prologue; Rennie wins criterium

  19-08-2015 09:51
  
  Robert Braun clocked a 20:51:001 to win the Alta Alpina’s Fredricksburg Prologue on Aug. 13.Kevin Willitts was second in A group at 21:58:002 followed by Danner Hillman at 21:59:003. Andrew Huntington won B group with a 22:55.001 followed by Bob Gagen at 23:17:002 and Eric Jacobs at 25:09:003. Joseph Whiteley won C group in 25:49:002 followed by Patrick Mobley at 26:02:001. Clay Peterson won D group in 25:38:001 followed by Scott Shicks at 28:20:002. Lianne Huntington won the juniors at 33
  
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• Carson Bypass: Conveyor belt starts hauling dirt up Spooner highway soon

  19-08-2015 09:51
  
  In a few days, a huge conveyor belt system will begin moving thousands of tons of dirt from the south end of the Carson City Bypass alongside U.S. 50 toward Spooner Summit.Will Hellickson of Road and Highway Builders said the system will dramatically reduce the impact of the final phase of the bypass project on drivers on U.S. 395 and Highway 50. Without it, he said, the only way to remove the dirt from the right of way would be by the truckload.“If we had to do this with hauling trucks, i
  
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• Update: Man shot in Gardnerville Ranchos, has life threatening injuries

  19-08-2015 09:43
  
  A shooting in the Gardnerville Ranchos occurred about an hour after a fight, in which the possible shooter was the victim of a battery.John Stalcup, 56, has been identified as the person of interest in connection with the shooting.According to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Stalcup was involved in a fight involving four people that occurred at about 8:20 p.m. Tuesday.“When deputies arrived on scene, the suspect in the battery had fled the scene,” he said.Sgt. Pat Brooks s
  
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• Update: Man shot in Gardnerville Ranchos

  19-08-2015 09:43
  
  Gardnerville, Nev. — A shooting in the Gardnerville Ranchos occurred about an hour after a fight, in which the possible shooter was the victim of a battery.John Stalcup, 56, has been identified as the person of interest in connection with the shooting.According to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Stalcup was involved in a fight involving four people that occurred at about 8:20 p.m.The initial aggressor left the scene before deputies arrived.Sgt. Pat Brooks said that at 9:36 p.m.
  
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• Report: Man shot in Minden, has life threatening injuries

  19-08-2015 09:43
  
  The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to 700 block of Ann Way in Minden for a reported shots fired call. At approximately 9:30 p.m., Douglas County deputies responded to the 700 block of Ann Way for a report shots fired call. Upon arrival deputies located a male had been shot with life threatening injuries. At this time it appears to be related to a domestic incident. A person of interest is currently being questioned, and this case is currently being investigated. No other informa
  
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• To Las Vegas Club's Exber, the game was everything

  19-08-2015 08:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  In its heyday many years ago, the Las Vegas Club was home to Mel Exber, one of the casino community's great characters. Mel was not only a skilled bookmaker, but he was also a sports fanatic.
  
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• Wildfire grows to 4,000 acres in Northern Nevada

  19-08-2015 08:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  CARSON CITY — Firefighters on Tuesday continued to battle a 4,000-acre blaze burning in rugged terrain about 50 miles east of Fallon in Northern Nevada.
  
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• Woman fatally injured in Laughlin boat crash ID'd

  19-08-2015 08:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  KINGMAN, Ariz — The Clark County coroner's office has identified the Arizona woman who was fatally injured when the boat she was operating struck a water taxi tied to the dock of a Laughlin Casino.
  
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• Metro seeks man in east valley store robbery

  19-08-2015 07:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man in an east valley convenience store robbery earlier this month.
  
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• Officer pulls over speeder, ends up delivering baby

  19-08-2015 07:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Seattle police officer was surprised at what he found when he pulled over a speeding car this weekend.
  
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• Climbers remember loved ones lost in war — PHOTOS

  19-08-2015 05:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It was a moment symbolic of what they've both been through: hanging on to life itself while remembering the loved ones they lost in the nation's war on terrorism.
  
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• Early graduates, struggling seniors earn CCSD diplomas — PHOTOS

  19-08-2015 04:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Hundreds of CCSD students walked across the stage at a summer commencement ceremony at the Orleans Arena on Tuesday, most of whom had missed the opportunity during the traditional commencement season because of missing credits or failed proficiency exams.
  
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• Early graduates, struggling seniors earn CCSD diplomas

  19-08-2015 04:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Hundreds of CCSD students walked across the stage at a summer commencement ceremony at the Orleans Arena on Tuesday, most of whom had missed the opportunity during the traditional commencement season because of missing credits or failed proficiency exams.
  
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• CCSD responds to school bus transfer problems

  19-08-2015 04:48
  
  The following press release was issued by the Churchill County School District’s Superintendent, Dr. Sandra Sheldon.On the first day of school, August 17th, a new schedule was put in place for the afternoon bus routes. This schedule provided that students be picked up from their elementary schools and taken to a transfer point to be loaded on the route bus for their trip home. This concept of a central transfer point failed miserably due to a multitude of factors both in and outside of the
  
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• Clark County emergency stories to be told on TV

  19-08-2015 04:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County can't seem to get enough of the small screen.
  
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