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• Here's the latest on the European refugee crisis — VIDEO

  04-09-2015 23:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Europe is in the midst of an unprecedented human migration. Fleeing war, fearing for their life and dreaming of a better life far from the poverty and upheaval of their unstable nations, hundreds of thousands are flocking to Europe's shores.
  
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• Governor seeks quick ruling on education savings accounts

  04-09-2015 23:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday asked Attorney General Adam Laxalt to use all resources available to seek an expedited hearing on the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada challenging legislation that establishes the Education Savings Account program in the state.
  
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• Labor Commissioner will appeal minimum wage ruling

  04-09-2015 23:11
  
  Nevada’s labor commissioner says she will appeal the ruling striking down regulations that let Nevada employers to count tips as part of employee salaries.Judge James Wilson ruled August 12 employers can’t count tips to determine whether workers should get the $8.25 an hour minimum wage or the lower $7.25 an hour allowed for businesses that provide health insurance to employees.Chambers said this week she wants the ruling stayed while her office files an appeal with the Nevada Suprem
  
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• Sandman search underway at Sunset Park

  04-09-2015 22:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County is searching for a new sandman.
  
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• Washoe County Sheriff’s Office offers reward for officer assault information

  04-09-2015 22:18
  
  The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office is offering a reward for anyone with information on an assault on law enforcement officers.On Sept. 1, at 8:30 p.m., the Sheriff’s Office Raven Helicopter was on a routine patrol over downtown Reno when it was struck by a laser several times. The laser caused damage to the pilot and observer’s eyes and the helicopter was forced to land at Stead Airport. Both officers were taken to the hospital for treatment.Officials believe that the laser str
  
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• Ruling: More Nevada workers eligible for higher minimum wage

  04-09-2015 22:18
  
  A Carson City judge’s recent decision about Nevada’s two-tier minimum wage law could mean more workers are eligible for the higher $8.25 per hour rate, rather than the $7.25 allowed if the employer provides health insurance. Judge James Wilson last month struck down two portions of Nevada code based on the minimum wage constitutional amendment voters passed in 2006. Nevada Labor Commissioner Shannon Chambers said this week that her office plans to ask for a stay so the ruling is not
  
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• NASA launch sites threatened by rising seas

  04-09-2015 21:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  NASA's rockets are astounding machines, capable of blasting into space at thousands of miles per hour and withstanding temperatures twice the melting point of steel.
  
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• Thousands gather to honor Texas deputy shot to death

  04-09-2015 21:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday to give a final salute to a deputy sheriff shot to death last week while fueling his patrol car near Houston.
  
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• UNLV, Ruvo center get $11M to research Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s

  04-09-2015 20:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  UNLV and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health have been awarded an $11.1 million federal grant to advance the understanding of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
  
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• What you need to know about the clerk who denied gay couples marriage licenses

  04-09-2015 20:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  She stands at the crossroads of a controversy between same-sex marriage and faith.
  
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• Marine killed in 'high-risk' training identified

  04-09-2015 19:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A U.S. Marine who died at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina this week was participating in "high-risk" training when a helicopter made a hard landing, killing him and injuring 11 others, the U.S. Marine Corps said on Friday.
  
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• Man accused of San Francisco waterfront shooting to stand trial

  04-09-2015 19:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The undocumented worker accused of shooting and killing Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier will stand trial on murder and weapons charges.
  
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• Live blog: Hearing on 2014 fatal ambush of 2 Las Vegas police officers

  04-09-2015 17:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  New details are expected Friday in a June 2014 ambush and ensuing shootout that left five dead, including two Las Vegas police officers.
  
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• Ambush that killed two Metro cops in 2014 lasted 4 seconds, testimony shows

  04-09-2015 17:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Jerad and Amanda Miller were defiant until the very end. Cornered after slaying three people and expecting their own deaths, the couple kept up the police-hating rhetoric investigators would later find immortalized in a self-glorifying shrine.
  
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• Metro officer shot near Rainbow and Alta; 2 people in custody

  04-09-2015 16:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro has taken two people into custody in the investigation of a shooting of an officer Friday morning.
  
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• Revamped Dayton program preps for home opener

  04-09-2015 09:51
  
  Dayton’s new football coach, Tom Eck, wasn’t too flustered after his team’s 38-0 season-opening loss at Lovelock.It’s about improvements and making timely adjustments, a process toward building what Eck calls a dream program. “I keep saying I’m boring everyone with my process talk, but it is a process,” he said this week in regards to improving the football program. “We just have to keep improving. When we start competing at the state level, then w
  
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• Glitch brings hitch in Carson City meetings on TV

  04-09-2015 09:51
  
  Carson City Access TV viewers who tuned in to see recent public government meetings were unable to do so.The Board of Supervisors meeting Thursday and the Redevelopment Authority Citizens Committee meeting the evening before, both in the Carson City Community Center’s Sierra Room, couldn’t reach viewers due to a glitch that was still of undetermined origin late Thursday. City Manager Nick Marano mentioned the possibility, though he wasn’t certain, Brewery Arts Center (BAC) equi
  
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• Friends of the Carson City Library putting on ‘Defending the Cavemen’ Sept. 12

  04-09-2015 09:51
  
  The longest running solo play in Broadway history is coming to Carson City at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, in the Bob Boldrick Theatre at the Carson City Community Center.“Defending the Cavemen,” Rob Becker’s Broadway comedy about the sexes, is being presented by the Friends of the Carson City Library. The play focuses on the ways men and women relate to each other. The author wrote it over a three-year period in which he made an informal study of anthropology, prehistory, psycho
  
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• Carson City’s Nugget to host concert series

  04-09-2015 09:51
  
  The Carson Nugget will host a series of free outdoor concerts in its “Alatte Live” concert series at the historic Laxalt Plaza adjacent to the Nugget’s Alatte Coffee and Wine Bar, beginning Saturday, Sept. 5. Mo’z Motley Blues Band, who entertained during Taste of Downtown, opens the series Saturday.The series will be held from 4 to 10 p.m. every Saturday. Concerts begin at 4 p.m. and the schedule is as follows: Sept. 5 — Mo’z Motley Blues Band, rock/funk/regg
  
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• Carson City fiber optics future prospects spark talk

  04-09-2015 09:51
  
  An upgrade in Carson City government’s fiber communications linkage involving no more than about $320,000 prompted a wider discussion Thursday.Voting without dissent, the Board of Supervisors determined Curtis and Sons, Inc., was the lowest of two bidders at $290,203.50, but with a 10 percent contingency amount possible, to handle the city’s fiber optics linkage involving city dispatch, the Public Works Department and the Carson City Community Center. The not-to-exceed amount with th
  
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• Carson City fetes fire personnel for Howell help

  04-09-2015 09:51
  
  Carson City Fire Department personnel were honored Thursday for having the back of the Sheriff’s Office when and after Deputy Sheriff Carl Howell died in an Aug. 15 shootout.The recognition came as the Board of Supervisors began its day’s work. The ceremony included a plaque honoring at least 17 fire and emergency response personnel, which was accepted by Capt. Dan Albee, head of the Honor Guard, on behalf of all of them. Chief Bob Shreihans, Mayor Robert Crowell and Sheriff Ken Furl
  
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• Prep roundup: Carson High tennis squads top Wooster

  04-09-2015 09:43
  
  Carson High’s girls tennis team improved to 2-1 with a 10-8 win over Wooster Thursday afternoon at CHS.Seven of Carson’s 10 wins came from singles players Anya Woodbury (3-0), Shaylin Segura (2-1) and Emma Breeding (2-1). Woodbury lost just six games the entire day, all in a second-set tiebreaker win.Nancy Henrickson and Emily McCaskill went 2-1 (6-2, 6-0) while Elise Brady and Heather Lamotte went 1-2, including a 6-2 win in the last round.Carson boys triumphTaylor Saarem and Ryan T
  
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• Nevada football beats UC Davis

  04-09-2015 09:43
  
  RENO — The Nevada Wolf Pack passed its first test of the season Thursday night at Mackay Stadium.New starting quarterback Tyler Stewart completed 13 of 20 passes for 163 yards and one touchdown as the Wolf Pack methodically turned back the UC Davis Aggies 31-17 in front of a season-opening crowd of 21,483.The victory over the Football Championship Sub-division Aggies, though, wasn’t the walk in the park the Pack might have expected. The Big Sky Conference’s Aggies, who finished
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: Aug. 21, 1974: Bulletproof cops aim of new vest

  04-09-2015 09:43
  
  Bulletproof cops aim of new vestSAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Last May 31, Frank E. Goulart, a Los Angeles motorcycle police officer, pulled over a traffic violator and walked up to inspect his license. The driver shot him with a .32 caliber pistol at a range of two feet. Goulart, 25, father of two boys, fell to the ground. But Goulart was able to get up, gun in hand, pin down the assailant with return fire, and eventually arrest him. Under his uniform shirt, Goulart was wearing bulletproof vest.
  
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• Flying high in Carson City

  04-09-2015 09:43
  
  Blustery winds Wednesday evening made for perfect stunt-kite flying weather at Mills Park for Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteer David Folkner of Gardnerville and ‘little brother’ Garrett Burton-Abbott, 8, of Carson City.…
  
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• 3 California deputies arrested in beating death of inmate

  04-09-2015 07:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police in Santa Clara, California, arrested three corrections deputies on Thursday and accused them of beating to death a mentally ill inmate last week in a cell at the county jail, officials said.
  
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• State awards $5 million to groups for teacher development

  04-09-2015 06:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  As the state attempts to patch an educator pipeline problem, more than a dozen school districts and education groups in Nevada will receive nearly $5 million to fund training and retention efforts for teachers and principals.
  
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• New UNLV President Len Jessup answers Vegas’ burning questions

  04-09-2015 06:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  You never know when you’re going to get a Slip ’N Slide question, even when you’re the president of a university.
  
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• XS' visual wonderland, by the numbers

  04-09-2015 04:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  The nightclub has how many LED screens?!
  
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• School just started, yet West Tech student already deserves an 'A'

  04-09-2015 03:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  If they issued grades for tenacity, West Career and Technical Academy student Angelique Clark would get an "A" in her attempt to establish a pro-life club at the school.
  
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• GOP activist Sharron Angle seeks voter ID ballot measure

  04-09-2015 03:43
  
  Conservative activist Sharron Angle wants Nevada voters to decide whether to abolish the state health insurance exchange and require photo identification at the polls. The Republican former assemblywoman and former U.S. Senate candidate filed two petitions this week with the Nevada Secretary of State. Proponents would need to gather more than 55,000 signatures from all over the state to get either measure on the 2016 ballot. Each would need to pass two consecutive elections to become a constitut
  
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• North Las Vegas recycling plant fire took four hours to bring under control

  04-09-2015 03:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Firefighters battled a North Las Vegas recycling plant blaze for more than four hours before it was out early Thursday morning, according to fire officials.
  
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• 1 killed, 2 hurt in shooting at community college in Sacramento

  04-09-2015 03:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person was killed and two others wounded in a shooting at a Sacramento community college, police said on Thursday.
  
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• Call for Uber drivers creates traffic jam — PHOTOS

  04-09-2015 02:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Prospective Uber drivers got their first road tutorials Thursday — how to maneuver through heavy traffic in a tight parking lot. And that was just to get to the briefings and question-and-answer sessions.
  
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• Call for prospective Uber drivers creates traffic jam — PHOTOS

  04-09-2015 02:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Prospective Uber drivers got their first road tutorials Thursday — how to maneuver through heavy traffic in a tight parking lot.
  
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• Sheriff’s Office continues to work Carson City Judge Tatro death threats case

  04-09-2015 01:27
  
  Death threats made against a Carson City District Court judge included a Christmas card with the words “You Will Die” inside, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office reported Thursday.The Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the Nevada Department of Public Safety Investigation Division, has been investigating multiple incidents of attempted violence against Carson City Judge John Tatro. Tatro received a written threat last December, when a Christmas card was addressed to the Ta
  
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• Jury convicts former Las Vegas firefighter Tiaffay of having wife murdered

  04-09-2015 01:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former Las Vegas firefighter was convicted Thursday of paying a homeless man to kill his wife.
  
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• Carson City Judge Tatro death threats case: “You Will Die”

  04-09-2015 00:33
  
  The Carson City Sheriff’s Office released new information in the investigation into death threats made against a Carson City District Court judge.The Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the Nevada Department of Public Safety Investigation Division, has been investigating multiple incidents of attempted violence against Carson City Judge John Tatro. Tatro also received a written threat last December, when a Christmas card was addressed to the Tatro home with the words “You Wil
  
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• VA inspector general finds 307,000 veterans died waiting for health care

  04-09-2015 00:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of veterans listed in the Department of Veterans Affairs enrollment system died before their applications for care were processed, according to a report issued Wednesday.
  
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