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• Education Notebook: School news and events for Sept. 3-9, 2015

  02-09-2015 23:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  City National Bank donates school supplies, makes Touro University donation
  
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• Buskers voice concerns about proposed Fremont Street rules

  02-09-2015 23:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After months of tinkering and weeks of contentious debate, Las Vegas council members on Wednesday agreed they weren't quite ready to adopt an ordinance that would restrict when and where buskers could perform underneath the Fremont canopy.
  
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• Buskers voice concerns about proposed Fremont Street ordinance

  02-09-2015 23:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas council members on Wednesday, after hearing an hour of spirited public comment from more than a dozen street performers, put off action on a hotly debated ordinance that would limit performers' acts to three dozen 6-foot circles underneath the Fremont canopy.
  
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• Woman identified in Douglas County incident

  02-09-2015 23:19
  
  A woman found dead in her living room on Tuesday night was identified as Gardnerville resident 82-year-old Phyllis Lewis.Her husband, 86-year-old William Lewis, was in the home at 1471 Edlesborough Circle when deputies found her body, according to Douglas County Sheriff’s Sgt. Pat Brooks.He’d barricaded himself in the house and was taken away on a gurney after officers learned he was unarmed by sending a robot into the home.Brooks said an autopsy will be completed on Mrs. Lewis to de
  
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• Ashley Madison website owner looked for buyer before hacking

  02-09-2015 22:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The owner of adultery website Ashley Madison already had been struggling to sell itself or raise funds for at least three years before the publication of details about its members, according to internal documents and emails also released by hackers.
  
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• Las Vegas cosmetic surgeon found dead in car at Calico Basin

  02-09-2015 22:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas cosmetic surgeon was found dead Tuesday in his car at Calico Basin in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
  
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• Las Vegas men face more than 100 felony charges in crime spree, police attacks

  02-09-2015 22:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Prosecutors said Wednesday that they have added dozens of charges against men accused of using stolen vehicles to ram police cars.
  
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• Death of off-duty Texas officer investigated as homicide

  02-09-2015 22:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The death of an off-duty officer in Texas is being treated as a homicide, police said Tuesday.
  
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• Roos-N-More gets second chance to reopen

  02-09-2015 21:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Roos-N-More is getting another chance to show Clark County commissioners that it deserves to stay in operation.
  
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• Jury awards $4.2M to ex-UNLV football player in botched surgery suit

  02-09-2015 21:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A jury sided with a former UNLV football player Wednesday, saying a Las Vegas surgeon botched a spinal surgery that ended the man's athletic career.
  
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• Jury awards $4.2 million to ex-UNLV football player in botched surgery suit

  02-09-2015 21:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A jury sided with a former UNLV football player Wednesday, saying a Las Vegas surgeon botched a spinal surgery that ended the man's athletic career.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on suspicion of causing damage to jail property

  02-09-2015 21:35
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.Carson CityTUESDAYAt 12:57 p.m., a 63-year-old Dayton man was arrested on suspicion of DUI-first offense after deputies responded to reports of a welfare check at the College Parkway Nevada State Bank because a man had ran over two curbs and was parked, hunched over in the parking lot. Bail was set at $1,000. At 1:32 p.m., Lynette Lizotte, 46, a transient, was arrested on suspicio
  
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• Man found with gunshot wound in southwest Las Vegas Valley

  02-09-2015 21:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating a southwest valley shooting that left a man wounded.
  
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• Anti-abortion club suit against CCSD will be dismissed, law firm says

  02-09-2015 20:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A lawsuit filed in August against West Career and Technical Academy and the Clark County School District on behalf of a student prevented from forming an anti-abortion club will be settled, according to a Chicago-based law firm.
  
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• Ron Knecht and Geoffrey Lawrence: Kirner’s state spending and taxing claims are false

  02-09-2015 20:39
  
  A recent article by Assemblyman Randy Kirner claimed that the record spending and largest-ever tax increase adopted this year by Nevada legislators and Gov. Brian Sandoval showed “great restraint and balance” and “responsible management” and will “secure a better future for our community and our children.”That’s all false, and the numbers he used for support are totally misleading.His key claim is that recent state spending ranged from $607.20 per Nevada
  
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• Southwest diverts flight after passengers become unruly

  02-09-2015 20:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Southwest Airlines flight from San Diego to Chicago was diverted to Amarillo, Texas, after pilots reported that six passengers started swearing at flight attendants and making obscene gestures at passengers who tried to calm them down, authorities said.
  
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• Man wounded in overnight shooting in central Las Vegas Valley

  02-09-2015 19:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting in the central valley that sent a man to the hospital in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
  
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• Baltimore judge rules for separate trials for 6 officers in Gray case

  02-09-2015 19:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Baltimore City Circuit Court judge Barry Glenn Williams ruled Wednesday that there will be separate trials for each of the six Baltimore police officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray.
  
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• Baltimore judge rejects dropping charges against 6 officers in Gray case

  02-09-2015 19:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A judge on Wednesday rejected defense motions to drop charges against six police officers in the case of a black man who died in April from injuries in police custody.
  
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• Coroner IDs teen struck, killed by car in North Las Vegas

  02-09-2015 18:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The 17-year-old North Las Vegas boy who died after being struck by a car Tuesday afternoon has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office as Daniel Benavides.
  
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• Second video, audio recording indicate man was armed when killed by officers

  02-09-2015 18:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gilbert Flores, 41, was killed on Friday by two Bexar County deputies. A cell phone video of the incident, which took place near San Antonio, appeared to show the victim with his hands in the air before being shot.
  
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• Audio indicates Texas man was armed before being killed by officers

  02-09-2015 18:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An audio recording released on Wednesday of a conversation between a dispatcher and Texas county deputies, whose fatal shooting of a man raised questions of whether they acted properly, indicate the man was armed and suicidal and had just harmed his wife and baby.
  
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• California to end unlimited solitary confinement for gang-affiliated inmates

  02-09-2015 17:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Ashker v. Governor of California reached a settlement Tuesday, allowing thousands of gang-affiliated inmates to move out of isolation.
  
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• Search widens for 3 suspects in Illinois officer's killing

  02-09-2015 16:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Authorities in northern Illinois expanded their search for three suspects in the fatal shooting of a 30-year police officer as local schools were closed on Wednesday and vigils for the officer were planned.
  
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• Manhunt continues for 3 suspects in Illinois officer's killing

  02-09-2015 16:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Authorities in northern Illinois expanded their search for three suspects in the fatal shooting of a 30-year police officer as local schools were closed on Wednesday and vigils for the officer were planned.
  
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• Manhunt called off for 3 suspects in Illinois officer's killing

  02-09-2015 16:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Early Wednesday, police called off the search for three people sought in connection with the death of a Fox Lake, Illinois, police officer.
  
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• Prep roundup: Balanced Douglas sweeps past Fallon

  02-09-2015 09:48
  
  MINDEN — The Douglas Tigers used a balanced attack to sweep past Fallon 3-0 in a non-conference match on Tuesday night.Douglas (5-3) won by 25-11, 25-17, 25-21. The Tigers rallied back to win the final game after trailing by scores of 18-13 and 20-15.Talyn Jackson contributed 20 assists, eight kills and two aces for the Tigers. Taryn Allmett finished with nine kills and Isabelle Peterson eight and Aubrey Caires five. Freshman Maddi Rozier handed out 15 assists to go with nine digs, while J
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: May 20, 1910: Comet’s tail served, missing Earth entirely

  02-09-2015 09:48
  
  May 20, 1910Comet’s tail swerved, missing Earth entirelyIn all parts of the world astronomers are puzzling over the action of Halley’s comet. Wednesday at 4 o’clock p.m. was the time fixed for the earth to enter the tail of the visitor but there has so far been nothing doing. In all the observatories of the earth scientists are studying the strange phenomenon and are at a loss to account for the condition. The head of the comet carried out its part of the contract but the tail
  
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• Ken Beaton: A tale of two battleships

  02-09-2015 09:48
  
  If Dec. 7, 1941 was “A day that will live in infamy,” with the sinking of our battleship USS Arizona BB-39, then Sept. 2, 1945, was a monumental day on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri, “Big Mo,” BB — 63. Japan’s surrender spared the pain and suffering of 1 million American casualties and tens of millions of Japanese lives and hundreds of millions of future generations.Do the math! Those 1 million American servicemen were given a new lease on life. They
  
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• Carson City Quality of Life tax revenues to rise

  02-09-2015 09:48
  
  Quality of Life tax revenues will ascend from about $2.1 million last fiscal year to $2.6 million in Fiscal Year 2019-20, a Carson City government projection shows.Those figures were disclosed during a Parks and Recreation Commission meeting Tuesday by Roger Moellendorf, Parks and Recreation Department director, who ventured the opinion that means revenues in FY20 would be about what the take was in 2005 before a recession dwindled sales tax receipts markedly. He referred to it as a “back-
  
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• On 70th anniversary, North Las Vegan recalls dad's stories of WWII's end

  02-09-2015 08:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  "Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death. ... The entire world is quietly at peace." Those were the words of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, 70 years ago on Sept. 2, 1945. That day has special meaning for Barbara Ackerson, of North Las Vegas.
  
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• Molly, Mallory are “Otto-matic’ for Senators

  02-09-2015 08:39
  
  Mallory and Molly Otto are identical twins. They dress alike, talk alike and finish each other’s sentences. And, they play a pretty good game of soccer, too.Mallory scored twice off assists from, you guessed it, Molly, and the Carson Senators went on to knock off Reno, 3-1, in a Division I crossover girls season-opening soccer match Tuesday night at the Jim Frank Track & Field Complex.The duo has played together for years, and they seemed to have a sixth sense of where the other is on
  
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• Update: Woman dead, man barricaded taken to hospital

  02-09-2015 08:23
  
  GARDNERVILLE — At approximately 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Douglas County Deputies responded to the 1400 block of Edlesborough Circle for a suspicious circumstance report. When deputies arrived they found evidence of a crime. Deputies made entrance into the residence and found a female victim dead in the living room and a male barricaded inside the residenceDouglas County Sheriff’s CNT and SWAT team members made contact with the male inside the residence with the use of a robot. The male ap
  
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• Female found dead, male barricaded in Douglas County

  02-09-2015 08:23
  
  GARDNERVILLE — At approximately 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Douglas County Deputies responded to the 1400 block of Edlesborough Circle for a suspicious circumstance report. When deputies arrived they found evidence of a crime. Deputies made entrance into the residence and found a female victim dead in the living room and a male barricaded inside the residenceDouglas County Sheriff’s CNT and SWAT team members made contact with the male inside the residence with the use of a robot. The male app
  
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• Assisted suicide bill advances in California special session

  02-09-2015 08:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A controversial bill to allow physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in California passed a key legislative committee on Tuesday, after failing in the legislature earlier this summer amid opposition from the Catholic Church.
  
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• Nevada wins $11M grant to grow child mental health services

  02-09-2015 08:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada officials on Tuesday announced receiving an $11 million federal grant to expand mental health services for children.
  
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• Nevada wins $11 million grant to grow child mental health services

  02-09-2015 08:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada officials on Tuesday announced receiving an $11 million federal grant to expand mental health services for children.
  
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• Carson High football to get best athletes on field

  02-09-2015 07:59
  
  In an effort to get their best athletes on the field more often, the Carson Senators are going to make a couple of subtle changes on both sides of the ball when they visit McQueen at 7 p.m. Friday night in a football non conference game.The first change is standout senior wide receiver Connor Pradere could see much more action on defense at both free and strong safety.Carson’s secondary gave up more than 360 yards through the air and four long scores in the 44-27 season-opening loss to Ree
  
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• Proposal to rename CSN campuses clears another hurdle

  02-09-2015 07:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A proposal to rename the three campuses of the College of Southern Nevada was approved Tuesday by an advisory panel of local community leaders, clearing its last hurdle before heading to state education officials for final consideration.
  
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• McCarran seen as fifth fastest-growing U.S. airport in next decade

  02-09-2015 07:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  McCarran International Airport will be the fifth fastest-growing airport in the country over the next 10 years, a noted aviation expert said Tuesday.
  
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• Officer pulls over driver for maintaining direct eye contact

  02-09-2015 07:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  When a police officer in Dayton, Ohio, handed John Felton a warning for a traffic signal violation, Felton asked whether he was stopped for something besides having out-of-state plates, according to a video of the conversation posted on Facebook.
  
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• Henderson approves 4th medical marijuana dispensary

  02-09-2015 06:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Henderson City Council approved a medical marijuana dispensary Tuesday night that plans to open on Eastern Avenue, south of the 215 Beltway.
  
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• Man shot in supermarket parking lot

  02-09-2015 04:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was hospitalized after being shot in a central valley supermarket parking lot after what appears to be a robbery Tuesday evening, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Nevada gets $11M to aid children with emotional disturbances

  02-09-2015 03:50
  
  Nevada officials say an $11 million grant from the federal government could help them reduce suicide attempts and improve school performance among children with mental illnesses. Gov. Brian Sandoval and director Richard Whitley of the state Department of Health and Human Services announced the four-year grant on Tuesday. State officials say the money will help them develop mental health services and other safety net programs for children with serious emotional disturbances. It will also help Nev
  
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• Just business? Tell that to victims

  02-09-2015 03:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It was just a business decision. That's the cool, professional tone of the April announcement by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. that it had agreed to settle the vast majority of the product liability lawsuits against its diabetes drug Actos.
  
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• Firehouse Subs grand opening Thursday Carson City

  02-09-2015 03:27
  
  A grand opening is set Thursday for the new Firehouse Subs fast casual restaurant in Suite 1 at 3120 U.S. Highway 50 East.The chain outlet features meats and cheeses steamed on a sub roll with produce and condiments, as well as other fare. This outlet is owned by Damon and Karin Kreizenbeck and Patrick and Kay Lindsay. Like other restaurants in the chain, this one includes decor involving firefighter memorabilia due to the founders being firefighting brothers, but also has a local flavor.All out
  
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• Firehouse Subs grand opening Sunday in Carson City

  02-09-2015 03:27
  
  A grand opening is set Sunday for the new Firehouse Subs fast casual restaurant in Suite 1 at 3120 U.S. Highway 50 East.The chain outlet features meats and cheeses steamed on a sub roll with produce and condiments, as well as other fare. This outlet is owned by Damon and Karin Kreizenbeck and Patrick and Kay Lindsay. Like other restaurants in the chain, this one includes decor involving firefighter memorabilia due to the founders being firefighting brothers, but also has a local flavor.All outle
  
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• Nevada high court hears Sands executive's termination suit

  02-09-2015 03:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Lawyers continued to debate the question of jurisdiction Tuesday in a wrongful termination case filed five years ago against Sands China Ltd. by its former president and CEO.
  
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• Carson City’s Sage Donnelly dominates preliminaries at world event

  02-09-2015 03:11
  
  Carson City’s Sage Donnelly turned in a dominant performance to take the lead after the first preliminary runs Tuesday at the 2015 International Canoe Federation Freestyle Kayak World Championships. Donnelly, 15, is competing in the canoe slalom KI Junior Women’s division. She had 716.66 points after the first four preliminary runs, well ahead of second place Darby McAdams, also of Team USA, who’s in second with 343.33 points. Donnelly’s score of 448.3 alone on one run wa
  
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• Man fatally shot by officer was gang member, Metro says

  02-09-2015 02:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man shot and killed by a Las Vegas police officer over the weekend was a gang member and ex-convict from Southern California, the department said Tuesday.
  
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