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• Jazz and Beyond Carson City Music Festival celebrating Count Basie on Friday

  20-08-2015 23:15
  
  The Jazz & Beyond Carson City Music Festival continues on Friday with three free events — the main one being an 111th birthday bash celebrating Count Basie from 8 to 10 p.m. on the Third Street Stage between Carson and Curry streets. The festival began in 2004 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of William “Count” Basie. On Friday, Mile High Jazz Band, an 18-member big band, with three vocalists, Cindee LeVal, June Joplin, and Pat Esters, will celebrate his 11
  
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• Rural Northern Nevada city grows by 10,000 acres

  20-08-2015 22:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The city of Yerington in Lyon County grew a little bit bigger Friday after the federal government completed the transfer of public lands to local control.
  
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• Thousands attend funeral for slain Carson City deputy

  20-08-2015 21:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  RENO — Several thousand mourners, many in uniform from law enforcement agencies from around the country, gathered here on Thursday to pay respects to Carson City Sheriff's Deputy Carl Howell, killed in the line of duty on Saturday while responding to a domestic violence incident.
  
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• Thousands attend funeral for slain Carson City cop

  20-08-2015 21:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Several thousand mourners, many in uniform from law enforcement agencies from around the country, gathered here on Thursday to pay respects to Carson City Sheriff's Deputy Carl Howell, killed while responding to a domestic violence incident Saturday.
  
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• Photo gallery: Procession for fallen Carson City Deputy Carl Howell

  20-08-2015 21:51
  
  The funeral procession for fallen Carson City Deputy Carl Howell went through Carson City, Washoe Valley and made in to Reno about 11 a.m. where funeral services are taking place. The funeral is being held at the Reno Events Center. Below are the remarks Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell prepared for today’s service:It is said that the measure of great people is their service to others. Those who wear the uniform of police officers, and indeed all of our first responders, wake up each and eve
  
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• Ex-guard who supplied pot to inmates gets probation

  20-08-2015 21:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former Nevada correctional officer who pleaded guilty to supplying inmates with marijuana has received a suspended prison sentence and placed on probation, the attorney general's office said Thursday.
  
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• Josh Duggar admits to having AshleyMadison.com account

  20-08-2015 21:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Further revelations about Josh Duggar have surfaced following the news that he molested five underage girls (including two of his sisters) as a teenager, leading to the cancellation of his family's TLC reality series "19 Kids and Counting" in May.
  
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• Calif. officials say convicts overlooked in Uber background checks

  20-08-2015 20:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  California prosecutors have broadened their civil lawsuit against popular online ride-sharing service Uber, alleging that its background checks missed people previously convicted of murder and sex crimes, court records show.
  
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• Nevada gets $2 million to boost sage grouse habitat

  20-08-2015 19:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada is receiving a $2 million grant from the Department of Defense to protect and restore sage grouse habitat within the Navy's training grounds around Naval Air Station Fallon, officials announced Thursday.
  
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• 2 hurt when sedan, ambulance collide in downtown Las Vegas

  20-08-2015 19:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two people were hurt Thursday morning when a Las Vegas Fire Department ambulance and a sedan collided.
  
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• Racial unrest continues in St. Louis after police fatally shoot black suspect

  20-08-2015 19:27 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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• Motorcyclist, 22, dies after Jones Boulevard crash

  20-08-2015 18:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A motorcyclist critically injured Wednesday evening in a crash on North Jones Boulevard has died, the Clark County coroner's office said.
  
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• Coroner IDs man found dead near Stratosphere

  20-08-2015 18:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man whose body was found near the Stratosphere late Wednesday morning has been identified, the Clark County coroner's office said Thursday.
  
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• Fatal stabbing victim identified as 50-year-old man

  20-08-2015 18:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man found stabbed to death on a central valley street early Wednesday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office.
  
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• First Las Vegas Valley marijuana dispensary to open Monday

  20-08-2015 18:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After months of delays, Clark County's first legal medical marijuana dispensary plans to open Monday.
  
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• First Las Vegas-area marijuana dispensary to open Monday

  20-08-2015 18:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After months of delays, Clark County's first legal medical marijuana dispensary plans to open Monday.
  
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• New York prison escapee indicted

  20-08-2015 18:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  New York inmate David Sweat, who pulled off an elaborate escape from an upstate prison in early June, has been indicted on two counts of escape in the third degree and a count of promoting prison contraband, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said Thursday.
  
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• Passenger jet takes out runway lights on rough landing

  20-08-2015 17:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For a minute, Christine Malloy was very worried. As a frequent flier, she was used to rough landings once in a while. But Malloy could tell this landing was different.
  
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• Jimmy Carter to start treatment for brain cancer

  20-08-2015 16:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former President Jimmy Carter said on Thursday he will start radiation treatment for cancer on his brain later in the day.
  
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• 'Narcopigeon' caught smuggling drugs into Costa Rican prison — VIDEO

  20-08-2015 09:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A pigeon that was used to smuggle drugs into a prison was captured in one of the patios of the La Reforma Penitentiary on the outskirts of San Jose, Costa Rica.
  
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• Xing Bridges performs in Carson City

  20-08-2015 08:38
  
  Xing Bridges performs for the first time together Wednesday evening on the Minnesota St. stage at the Brewery Arts Center. For more information about Jazz & Beyond Carson City, see page A5.…
  
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• Subdivision near Carson City airport proposed

  20-08-2015 08:38
  
  Prospects for a subdivision of at least 100 homes near Carson City’s Airport were discussed at a Wednesday meeting, but various hurdles stand between it and reality.John Uhart of John Uhart Commercial Real Estate Services held preliminary discussions in an Airport Authority evening session at which two authority members expressed reservations, while the chairman and authority advisers said the first matter necessary was to check with the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). After that, Uhart
  
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• Quickness, replacing Galvan keys for CHS boys soccer team

  20-08-2015 08:38
  
  The big question surrounding coach Michael Alvarez and his Carson High boys soccer team is replacing scoring machine Ryan Galvan.Galvan scored 18 goals a year ago in leading the Senators to a third-place finish in the Sierra League and a playoff win over Spanish Springs before being eliminated by Galena in the semifinals. It was without a doubt, a good start for the new coach.“It was nice,” said Alvarez, whose team hosts Reno on Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. in a crossover match. “When I t
  
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• Putting stock in trading water at forum

  20-08-2015 08:38
  
  By Anne KnowlesFor the AppealSPARKS — Water users in Eureka County’s Diamond Valley are going to soon be testing a market for trading water in the same way shares of companies are traded on a stock exchange.The goal is to try out a more flexible way for managing and using water that avoids some of the pitfalls of Nevada’s century old prior-appropriation water rights system, especially in areas such as Diamond Valley, where water is both seriously over pumped and over appropriat
  
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• New Dayton grid coach inherits young team

  20-08-2015 08:38
  
  To say new Dayton High football coach Tom Eck has inherited a bare cupboard is an understatement.Only seven players — lineman Brandon Allard, running back-defensive back Mikey Aguilar, wide receiver-defensive back Ethan York, offensive tackle-linebacker Alex Mcjunkin, lineman Colton Cabral, lineman Jeremiah Sermeno and lineman Brad Brenneis — return from last year’s 5-5 senior-laden team that barely missed out on a playoff spot.It’s a rebuilding year for sure, as Eck reli
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: Nov. 8, 1962: World mourns death of Mrs. Roosevelt

  20-08-2015 08:38
  
  World mourns death of Mrs. RooseveltThe mighty and the humble were heard in a world-wide chorus of sorrow and tribute following the death of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. The former first lady, who was an intimate of the great and near-great, had endeared herself as well to the common man here and abroad, through her oft-demonstrated concern for the downtrodden and underprivileged.President Kennedy issued a statement saying, “One of the great ladies in the history of this country has passed from
  
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• NBC crowd gets anti-commerce tax pitch

  20-08-2015 08:38
  
  Leaders of the RIP Commerce Tax group trying to ditch that part of Nevada’s new tax package made their case Wednesday and solicited financial support for a referendum repeal bid.Nevada Controller Ron Knecht, president of the organization expected to file papers with the Nevada Secretary of State today, said 55,233 petition signatures would be needed to put the repeal referendum on the ballot but predicted upward of 80,000 would sign if they can be reached. Knecht, Assemblyman Jim Wheeler o
  
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• Lawmakers raise concerns in IFC about school voucher program

  20-08-2015 08:38
  
  Members of the Interim Finance Committee peppered the treasurer’s chief of staff with questions about how the Education Savings Account program — essentially school vouchers — will work.The issue was raised as Chief of Staff Grant Hewitt asked for the seed money needed to get the program up and running.“This program is far too important to have a failure right out of the gate,” said Assemblyman James Oscarson, R-Pahrump.He and several other lawmakers said they want
  
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• Dust in My Coffee performing Saturday at Brewery Arts Center in Carson City

  20-08-2015 08:38
  
  A cowboy band from Auburn, Calif., is bringing the spirit of the American West in a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday in Brewery Arts Center’s MHJ Black Box Theater, 449 W. King St. Dust in My Coffee blends Western and Celtic music. The band, whose members are Brett Bush; Eric Holmberg; Randy Keith; Chuck Jamison; and Laura Tjoelker, says its songs are mostly about “cowboying, drinking, horses and women.”The concert is a celebration of one year of bluegrass music at the Brewery Arts C
  
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• $7.34 billion in revenue is projected for General Fund

  20-08-2015 08:38
  
  Members of the Legislative Interim Finance Committee were told on Wednesday with all the tax hikes and tax credit calculations, the state ended up with $7.34 billion in General Fund revenue to spend over the current two year budget cycle.That total is actually a bit more than the $7.29 billion appropriated by the 2016-2017 budget passed by the Legislature.Legislative Counsel Bureau Economist Russ Guindon said the Economic Forum, which had to base its May 1 projections on existing law — bef
  
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• Sen. Marco Rubio accidentally hits kid with football — VIDEO

  20-08-2015 07:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was getting to know voters in Ankeny, Iowa, on Monday when he accidentally hit a kid in the head with a football.
  
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• Motorcyclist hospitalized after hitting minivan

  20-08-2015 06:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A motorcyclist was critically injured in a crash in the central valley Wednesday night.
  
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• Nevada retains high rank in foreclosures

  20-08-2015 06:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Silver State ranked No. 4 for foreclosure activity in the month, with one in every 587 homes in some stage of the default process, California research firm RealtyTrac reported Wednesday.
  
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• Downtown computer software academy to graduate first class

  20-08-2015 06:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas' reputation as a market in demand for computer software programmers and tech workers is getting around, so Eric Dodds figured Las Vegas was fertile ground to launch a new academy to teach software coding.
  
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• Tuskegee Airmen share thoughts of war, civil rights

  20-08-2015 06:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Civil rights history merged with World War II history Wednesday when a dozen original Tuskegee Airmen reunited for their 44th annual national convention in Las Vegas.
  
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• Nevada nets nearly $1 million in drug company settlement

  20-08-2015 05:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada will receive nearly $1 million from a large pharmaceutical company to settle claims of deceptive marketing, the attorney general's office announced Wednesday. Nevada is one of 49 states and the District of Columbia that will share in the $71 million settlement with Amgen Inc.
  
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• Move-in day brings UNLV dorms to life — PHOTOS

  20-08-2015 05:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For nearly 1,800 new and returning UNLV students, Wednesday was moving day.
  
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• Victims don’t want water official who poisoned them to lose job

  20-08-2015 04:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two men who were sickened as children by a football teammate's father understand the outrage about his job overseeing North Las Vegas' water supply, but don't think the matter should haunt him.
  
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• Three firefighters killed, four injured battling Washington state wildfire

  20-08-2015 04:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Three firefighters in Washington state were killed and four injured while battling a wildfire threatening the north-central town of Twisp, Governor Jay Inslee said on Wednesday, as more than a dozen major blazes burned across Western U.S. states.
  
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• Rimer deserves prison; his children, pity

  20-08-2015 03:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nine years after his disabled 4-year-old son died in the family SUV because no one noticed he was missing and no one looked for him for 17 hours, Stanley Rimer is still blaming his wife, Colleen. To this day, Rimer refuses to take any responsibility for the death of his son.
  
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• Cold Springs fire 60 percent contained

  20-08-2015 03:27
  
  The Cold Springs Fire is 60 percent contained as of Wednesday afternoon, reports the Bureau of Land Management.The fire, which has not exceeded 4,012 acres for several days, is burning mostly in inaccessible steep and heavily wooded terrain in the Desatoya Mountain Range. It is located about 65 miles east of Fallon.“Crews made progress yesterday completing direct line on all divisions and have started to mop up and secure the edge of the fire,” said Lisa Ross, public affair specialis
  
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• Nevada unemployment dips below 7 percent in July

  20-08-2015 03:03
  
  Statewide unemployment dipped below 7 percent in July for the first time since 2008.That draws down the number of unemployed in the state to just more than 97,000.Both the seasonally adjusted and raw rates were down from the month before — to 6.8 percent and 6.9 percent respectively. Over the year since July 2014, Economist Bill Anderson said the state has added more than 45,000 jobs, a growth rate of 3.7 percent that’s the second largest gain since mid 2006.“All economic indic
  
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• Procession up Carson Street; funeral Thursday for deputy

  20-08-2015 02:31
  
  The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is receiving support from all across Nevada in the wake of a deputy shooting.The funeral for Deputy Carl Howell will include a multi-agency processional from the Carson City Sheriff’s Office to the Reno Events Center before the service Thursday. Howell was killed Saturday while responding to a domestic disturbance call. The funeral service for Howell is 11 a.m. Thursday at the Reno Events Center, 400 North Center St. The public is invited. The proces
  
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• Woman arrested in fatal 5-car crash near McCarran

  20-08-2015 01:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 39-year-old woman who was involved with a fatal 5-car crash on Aug. 10 near McCarran International Airport has been arrested, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Man suffers life-threatening wounds in central valley stabbing

  20-08-2015 01:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was stabbed at a central valley apartment complex and hospitalized with life-threatening wounds Wednesday afternoon, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Student health insurance plans skyrocket at UNLV

  20-08-2015 01:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  UNLV students who get health insurance through the school face sticker shock. Premiums for the Student Health Insurance Plan for undergraduates at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has more than doubled to $1,945 per semester. For undergraduate nursing students, the price is $1,736.28.
  
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• Student health insurance plan skyrockets at UNLV

  20-08-2015 01:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  UNLV students who get health insurance through the school face sticker shock. Premiums for the Student Health Insurance Plan for undergraduates at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has more than doubled to $1,945 per semester. For undergraduate nursing students, the price is $1,736.28.
  
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• Costs of student health plans skyrocket at UNLV

  20-08-2015 01:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  UNLV students who get health insurance through the school are facing sticker shock. Premiums for the Student Health Insurance Plan for undergraduates have risen from about $1,000 to $1,945 for fall semester.
  
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• Suspicious package that closed a Henderson Babies 'R' Us was trash

  20-08-2015 00:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A suspicious package that Henderson police were investigating and that caused a Babies "R" Us store to evacuate turned out to be trash.
  
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• Babies 'R' Us in Henderson evacuated while police investigate suspicious package

  20-08-2015 00:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Henderson Babies "R" Us store has been evacuated while police investigate a package they have deemed suspicious.
  
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