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• Shannon West Homeless Youth Center looking to expand

  23-08-2015 20:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Shannon West is one of two Southern Nevada programs focused on the area's young homeless demographic. Because the facility can only take in 65 youths at a time, there is usually a waitlist. But plans are underway to change that.
  
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• Suspect in Las Vegas police officer-involved shooting has died

  23-08-2015 20:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man shot by Las Vegas police during a SWAT situation in a central valley neighborhood Sunday morning has died.
  
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• Las Vegas police investigate officer-involved shooting in west valley

  23-08-2015 20:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in the west valley Sunday morning.
  
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• Coroner IDs toddler found dead in the southeast valley

  23-08-2015 19:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a toddler who was found dead in the southeast valley Saturday morning.
  
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• NHP investigating fatal crash on U.S. 95 near Valley View

  23-08-2015 16:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada Highway Patrol are investigating a fatal crash on southbound U.S. Highway 95 near Valley View Boulevard early Sunday morning.
  
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• Veteran WNC softball squad gets started

  23-08-2015 09:35
  
  The most veteran-laden squad in Western Nevada College softball program history enters the fall with the confidence and experience to produce success.With 15 players returning from last year’s team who won a team-record 23 games, the Wildcats begin the fall scrimmage season with a lineup capable of competing against the best the Scenic West Athletic Conference has to offer.To improve between now and the start of the regular season in January, the Wildcats are scrimmaging up to seven teams
  
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• Roman pleased for most part with scrimmage

  23-08-2015 09:35
  
  One of the things Carson football coach Blair Roman wanted to see Saturday was crisp offensive execution.When the 90-minute scrimmage, which included 11-on-11, punting, PATs and goal line situations ended, Roman was for the most part pleased with what he saw.“I’d have to have film to look at, but I’d say a B-minus,” he said. “There were a couple of little things (we didn’t do) that make a difference against a good defense. We’ll get it cleaned up.“
  
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• Carson Hall of Famers are honored

  23-08-2015 09:35
  
  The three newest members of the Carson High Football Hall of Fame — Bruce Vidmar, Ryan Green and Ryan Bauman — were introduced to the community at the annual kick-off dinner Saturday night at Mills Park.Green and Bauman played for then head coach and current CHS athletic director Bob Bateman, and both players were each 14-4 in their final two seasons.“I’d like to think we had something to do with it; starting it all,” said Green, who is on the Carson school board an
  
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• Carson girls need to score more this season

  23-08-2015 09:35
  
  A year ago, Carson High’s girls soccer team had trouble finding the back of the net.The Senators were shut out five times, and in two other matches, scored just once.Carson hopes to change its fortunes when it hosts Reno in its Division I opener Sept. 1 at 7 p.m.“It’s a different group this year,” Carson coach Greg Lehman. “This year we’re a little more experienced with some of the girls coming back.”Carson returns 10 players — defender Makaela Big
  
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• Obama coming to Las Vegas for Clean Energy Summit

  23-08-2015 09:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Barack Obama and Nevada's U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, two of the most powerful Democrats in the nation, are playing key roles in the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas on Monday.
  
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• WNC leads training effort for manufacturing careers

  23-08-2015 09:27
  
  Training tomorrow’s technically proficient manufacturing workers will move from ramped up status to takeoff in Carson City at the end of August.That’s a key takeaway from interviews with representatives at Western Nevada College (WNC), the college’s foundation and others associated with or heading a similar direction to forge a Northern Nevada workforce ready for the likes of Tesla, SWITCH and Carson City manufacturers, some of whom participate in the industrial tech training p
  
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• Strengthening El Niño impacts on Lake Tahoe region: too fickle to predict

  23-08-2015 09:27
  
  TRUCKEE, Calif. — As the Pacific Ocean continues its warming trend amid shifting trade winds, scientists agree that future El Niño-spurred weather in California could provide a variety of effects for the Lake Tahoe region.However, while some news outlets can get away with publishing headlines describing El Niño’s potentially miraculous impacts on the drought-riddled state, Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services in Saratoga, said there is more to it
  
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• Carson City road report for Aug. 24-30

  23-08-2015 09:27
  
  The following information applies to the period of Aug. 24-30. Crews will continue re-striping pavement markings on roadways throughout the city today through Thursday, Aug. 27, each night from 7:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. the following morning. There will be a moving traffic control at locations where the striping occurs, with minor delays expected.Due to sidewalk improvements, there will be lane closures at the following locations:Long Street between Carson and Stewart streets; two-way traffic will be
  
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• Western Nevada College News & Notes: Jump start coordinator Alex Segura-Garcia inspires students to succeed

  23-08-2015 09:19
  
  At an early age, Alex Segura-Garcia received a guiding hand toward achieving a higher education. That experience left an impression on him and has shaped his professional career.Now, as Western Nevada College’s new Jump Start College Coordinator, Segura-Garcia has the opportunity to make a difference for many Northern Nevada students and their families. Helping them prepare to join WNC’s Jump Start College program can ultimately allow students to graduate from high school with both a
  
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• Senator Square: Students don’t take summer off, compete at nationals

  23-08-2015 09:19
  
  Hello everyone, and welcome back to a new year of Carson High School Senator news. While we took a break from this column this summer, we still had plenty of CHS students busy with school activities over the break. Thank you to the community for supporting students who participated in national competitions across the United States. The Senators were very well represented this summer. National History Day NationalsTwelve students from Carson High School qualified for and competed in the National
  
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• Pony Express rides again

  23-08-2015 09:19
  
  Pony Express riders Brian Bell, Ron Bell, Fred Winkler and Anne Martins pose for a photo with Baker’s Dozen Donuts co-owner Diane James Saturday in Dayton during the Pony Express & Friends Coffee Cup Ride. Baker’s Dozen’s James hands Ron Bell bags of donuts to be delivered along with coffee (in a support vehicle) to the Iron Mountain Nursery and Farm in Stagecoach Saturday.…
  
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• Northern Nevada ESL program recognizes tutors, students

  23-08-2015 09:19
  
  The ESL In-Home Program of Northern Nevada on Saturday honored 171 volunteer tutors and their many students learning English as a second language.The 11th annual awards appreciation ceremony, held at the Governor’s Mansion Nevada Room annex starting at noon, included a buffet pot-luck luncheon, entertainment, a keynote speech by an ESL student who’s an engineer at Carson City’s Click Bond, Inc., and the awarding of certificates to tutors, followed by certificates for students p
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: April 22, 1910: Part 1 — Mark Twain called by death; Famous writer dies of broken heart at Connecticut home

  23-08-2015 09:19
  
  mark twain called by death; famous writer dies of broken heart at Connecticut homeREDDING, CONN. — April 21 — Samuel Langhorn Clemens, Mark Twain, died painlessly at 6:30 o’clock tonight of angina pectoris. He lapsed into coma at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and never recovered consciousness. It was the end of a man outworn by grief and acute agony of body. Yesterday was a bad day for the little knot of anxious watchers at the bedside. For long hours the grey, aquiline feat
  
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• Regent's dissertation copied material from uncited California report

  23-08-2015 09:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A member of Nevada's elected Board of Regents — who's defended higher education officials against allegations of plagiarism — used several paragraphs of a California report without citation in his University of Nevada, Reno dissertation.
  
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• Yucca Mountain repository hearings announced

  23-08-2015 09:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday announced two public meetings in Nevada to discuss the latest environmental report on the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
  
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• Population spikes drive staffing shortfalls at Child Haven

  23-08-2015 09:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County's shelter for abused and neglected children is battling a chronic staffing shortage, racking up $2.5 million in paid overtime so far this year to cover vacant shifts, according to county officials and documents obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  
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• NATO contractors killed by Kabul car bomb identified as U.S. citizens

  23-08-2015 08:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Three U.S. civilian contractors were among those killed by a car bomb that targeted their NATO convoy, the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said, making the attack that killed 12 people one of the most lethal to target U.S. citizens in recent years.
  
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• Credit Maloofs with assist on scoring Bossy's puck

  23-08-2015 08:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The prospective National Hockey League franchise being sought for Las Vegas won't score a goal until its inaugural season opens in 2017. But it has already scored some major PR points with NHL fans.
  
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• Air Force sweeps up dirty bomb material buried in Nevada

  23-08-2015 06:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With thieves stealing radioactive sources in Mexico while other potent materials sat idle on a mountain in Alaska, U.S. nuclear security experts used military cargo jets this summer to whisk away some of North America's most dangerous "dirty bomb" threats.
  
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• Air Force sweeps up, buries dirty bomb material in Nevada

  23-08-2015 06:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With thieves stealing radioactive sources in Mexico while other potent materials sat idle on a mountain in Alaska, U.S. nuclear security experts used military cargo jets this summer to whisk away some of North America's most dangerous "dirty bomb" threats.
  
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• Year After Death, Business as Usual at Arizona Gun Range

  23-08-2015 06:00
  In the year since a 9-year-old accidentally killed Charles Vacca with an Uzi submachine gun, the owner of Last Stop, a top tourist-oriented machine gun range, said employees still decide a child’s readiness to fire a gun.
  
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• Classic cars shine at Las Vegas speedway — PHOTOS

  23-08-2015 04:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Car enthusiasts gathered on Saturday for the Show & Shine car show at The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Residents from around the valley revealed classic and modern cars. The event also featured awards, food trucks, raffles and giveaways.
  
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• 'Cowboy' Collins shoots from hip

  23-08-2015 03:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It was 5 o'clock somewhere, and former Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins was holed up in his home office drinking a can of Coors Light and fielding calls from well-wishers and bull brokers.
  
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• Kings Canyon wildfire blamed for smoke over Las Vegas

  23-08-2015 02:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Wildfires are burning all around Southern Nevada, including northern Arizona. But the blaze that has brought dense smoke to the Las Vegas Valley over the past three days is the Rough Fire, which was ignited July 31 by a lightning strike in Kings Canyon in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Fresno, Calif.
  
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• France train gunman identified as Islamist militant; Obama praises Americans

  23-08-2015 01:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Fingerprint evidence shows that the gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is a Morrocan known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, according to a source familiar with the case.
  
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• Colleges rally to address CCSD teacher shortage

  23-08-2015 00:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With Clark County schools daunted by a severe teacher shortage this year, colleges in Southern Nevada are tackling several new initiatives to funnel more educators into local classrooms.
  
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• CCSD starting school short on teachers

  23-08-2015 00:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For the first time in his eight years as principal of Mendoza Elementary School, Brenton Lago started summer break with an empty classroom in every grade level at his east valley campus.
  
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• Twins! Giant panda gives birth to pair of cubs in U.S.

  23-08-2015 00:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Giant panda Mei Xiang, a star tourist draw in the U.S. capital, gave birth to a pair of cubs hours apart on Saturday, the National Zoo said.
  
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• Giant panda gives birth to cub in National Zoo

  23-08-2015 00:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The National Zoo's giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to a cub on Saturday, the zoo said.
  
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