Nevada news

• 21-year-old inmate sentenced to life in prison for raping prison teacher

  15-09-2015 23:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Jacob Harvey, already serving a 30-year-sentence for rape, received a life sentence from a Pinal County Superior Court Judge Kevin White for the January 2014 attack at the Eyman prison complex in Florence, about 60 miles southeast of Phoenix.
  
  Read more

• Metro investigates shooting near Whitney Elementary School

  15-09-2015 23:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating another shooting near a valley school.
  
  Read more

• Ride-hailing companies run into another bump

  15-09-2015 23:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County commissioners expressed vocal disappointment Tuesday in the failure of Uber and Lyft to answer questions.
  
  Read more

• North Las Vegas police face new civil rights lawsuit over shooting of a dog

  15-09-2015 23:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  North Las Vegas police are facing another civil rights lawsuit over the fatal shooting of a dog.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Light rain falls on Las Vegas Valley; no flood watch in play

  15-09-2015 23:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It may just be sprinkles, but those light showers and clouds that delivered them have made for a cooler Tuesday in the Las Vegas Valley.
  
  Read more

• Rand Paul to Run Ad During Debate Calling Himself ‘a Real Conservative’

  15-09-2015 22:45
  Senator Rand Paul, in an ad to run on CNN during the presidential debate on Wednesday, says America needs a real conservative — leaving viewers to guess who the fake conservative on stage is.
  
  Read more

• Elderly couple death was suicide pact

  15-09-2015 22:39
  
  An elderly couple in a Chichester Estates home appeared to have had a suicide pact, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.William Lewis, 86, died Sept. 4 from complications of organ failure caused by excessive ingestion of medications, Douglas County Sheriff’s Spokesman Pat Brooks said Tuesday.Deputies arrived at 1471 Edlesborough Circle on the evening of Sept. 1 to find Phyllis Lewis, 82, dead on the floor and William barricaded in the back.Not certain what they were deal
  
  Read more

• Couple appeared to have suicide pact

  15-09-2015 22:39
  
  An elderly couple in a Chichester Estates home appeared to have had a suicide pact, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.William Lewis, 86, died Sept. 4 from complications of organ failure caused by excessive ingestion of medications, Douglas County Sheriff’s Spokesman Pat Brooks said Tuesday.Deputies arrived at 1471 Edlesborough Circle on the evening of Sept. 1 to find Phyllis Lewis, 82, dead on the floor and William barricaded in the back.Not certain what they were deal
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on suspicion of three counts of burglary, fraudulent use of a credit card

  15-09-2015 22:39
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.MONDAYAt 4:26 a.m., a Fernley man was arrested on suspicion of basic speed 11-15 over and no valid driver’s license after deputies initiated a traffic stop near the Carson Street McDonald’s. Bail was set at $150.At 8:30 a.m., Frederick Montejo, 36, of Sun Valley, was arrested on suspicion of felony burglary. Bail was set at $5,000.At 7:30 p.m., a 66-year-old Carson Cit
  
  Read more

• Tractor-trailer crash closes ramp from SB 95 to SB I-15

  15-09-2015 22:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The ramp from southbound U.S. Highway 95 to southbound Interstate 15 is closed, according to the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.
  
  Read more

• Sandoval ties prisons chief resignation to late report

  15-09-2015 21:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An outside study on use of force at Nevada prisons will be submitted to the Department of Corrections on Monday, a week after Gov. Brian Sandoval asked for the resignation of the agency director for, in part, failing to deliver the report on time.
  
  Read more

• Ken Beaton: Now is the time

  15-09-2015 21:51
  
  How do you say thank you to a World War II veteran? You could walk up to the vet wearing a hat or a symbol that identifies him or her as a World War II vet, smile, shake their hand and say, “Thank you for your service.”If I told you about a 5-foot, 6-inch, 127-pound 17-year-old 1940 high school graduate who joined the US Navy on Dec. 2, 1940, would you be impressed? If you knew he graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center on Jan. 18, 1941, and was assigned to the USS Nevad
  
  Read more

• County approves expanded lease for UNLV School of Medicine

  15-09-2015 21:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County commissioners unanimously approved a lease deal on Tuesday that will expand the leased space set aside for the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
  
  Read more

• 1 critical after shots fired near Brinley Middle School

  15-09-2015 21:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man is in critical condition after shots were fired between two vehicles near a central valley middle school Tuesday morning.
  
  Read more

• County commissioners delay peddlers ordinance action

  15-09-2015 20:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County commissioners on Tuesday delayed a vote on a proposed ordinance limiting the hours that peddlers can knock on doors of homes.
  
  Read more

• County commissioners delay action on peddlers ordinance

  15-09-2015 20:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County commissioners on Tuesday delayed a vote on a proposed ordinance limiting the hours that peddlers can knock on doors of homes.
  
  Read more

• Migrant cartoons create new controversy at Charlie Hebdo

  15-09-2015 20:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is courting controversy again by running cartoons deriding the response of predominantly Christian European countries to a flood of migrants from mainly Muslim war zones such as Syria and Iraq.
  
  Read more

• Uprooted tree reveals 1,000-year-old remains of man

  15-09-2015 19:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nearly 1,000 years ago, a young Gaelic man came to a violent end among the dispersed farmsteads of northwestern Ireland.
  
  Read more

• Northern Calif. fire destroys about 600 homes; 9,000 more threatened — VIDEO

  15-09-2015 19:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Bob Cummensky peered over a devastated section of Middletown, California, where home after home was gobbled up by the Valley Fire.
  
  Read more

• Suspected Mississippi school shooter left 'sorry' note

  15-09-2015 18:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  He was a respected history professor who taught his favorite subject like it was front page news. She was a loving mother who had a long-standing relationship with the man who ended her life.
  
  Read more

• Professor killed in Mississippi school shooting described as 'star on faculty'

  15-09-2015 18:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  He was a respected history professor who taught his favorite subject like it was front page news. She was a loving mother who had a long-standing relationship with the man who ended her life.
  
  Read more

• Mich. resident diagnosed with plague becomes 14th case in US

  15-09-2015 17:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that a person in that state had the bubonic plague, one of what is now 14 such cases reported nationwide in 2015.
  
  Read more

• U.S. surgeon general visits Tate Elementary in Las Vegas to promote walking

  15-09-2015 17:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy visited the Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday on the first stop of his national campaign to promote walking and walkable communities.
  
  Read more

• US surgeon general visits Las Vegas school to promote walking

  15-09-2015 17:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy visited Las Vegas on Tuesday on the first stop of his national campaign to promote walking and walkable communities.
  
  Read more

• Metro seeks woman after man killed in fight

  15-09-2015 16:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are looking for a woman linked to a central valley fight that left a man dead Monday night.
  
  Read more

• Metro investigates homicide in central Las Vegas

  15-09-2015 16:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating a Monday night homicide in the central valley.
  
  Read more

• 2 students killed, 3 others injured in Houston school bus crash

  15-09-2015 16:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A school bus carrying four students hit another vehicle and plunged off an overpass from a Houston highway, killing two girls and injuring the others on board, officials said.
  
  Read more

• 9 killed, 4 missing in flash flood on Utah-Arizona border

  15-09-2015 15:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least nine people were killed near Utah's border with Arizona on Monday when flash floods triggered by heavy rain in nearby canyons swept them away in their cars, local officials said.
  
  Read more

• Metro seeks federal help to cut back on inmate overcrowding

  15-09-2015 15:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police announced Monday the department has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to help curb overcrowding at the Clark County Detention Center.
  
  Read more

• NDOT board member says Nevada being cheated of federal funding

  15-09-2015 08:55
  
  Tom Skancke, a Southern Nevada member of the Nevada Department of Transportation board, says the state is being cheated by the way federal Highway Fund money is allocated.“If you look at population growth in the last 15 years, we are being penalized,” he told other members of the board chaired by Gov. Brian Sandoval.Skancke said while many East Coast and Midwest states are seeing population declines, the West is growing. But, Skancke said, the feds are using the 2000 census data to a
  
  Read more

• Manufacturing month geared toward tomorrow

  15-09-2015 08:55
  
  Manufacturing Day and Month next month in and around Carson City will focus like a laser beam on industrial career options that take grit but aren’t gritty.The goal when it kicks off on Manufacturing Day, Oct. 2, is to reach parents, students and anyone interested in helping forge workers of the future in a bid to help them understand industrial opportunities of today and tomorrow are keyed to technology, left grimy production work in now absent dust, and these new jobs pay well, as they w
  
  Read more

• Last member of Carson City meth trafficking ring sentenced

  15-09-2015 08:55
  
  Last member of major meth trafficking ring was sentenced in Carson City District Court Monday.Tawnee Johnson, along with six other people, were arrested when Tri-Net Narcotics Task Force raided a house in the 3500 block of Desatoya Drive in early March. Authorities seized nearly 11 ounces of methamphetamine with a street value of more than $30,000. Johnson was sentenced to 1-3 years on probation and was accepted to the diversion program for conspiracy to violate the uniform substance act, a cate
  
  Read more

• JoAnne Skelly: More Grown Your Own, Nevada!

  15-09-2015 08:55
  
  Each year in spring and fall, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension offers a series of classes called “Grow Your Own, Nevada.” Different topics are offered on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6 to 8 p.m. through Sept. 24. While you could drive to the Reno Cooperative Extension office to attend the class live with prior registration, you can save yourself a trip and gas and attend by interactive video at the Carson City Cooperative Extension office. Although dropping in is wel
  
  Read more

• Ferocious wildfire devastates California mountain town

  15-09-2015 08:55
  
  MIDDLETOWN, Calif. — Earlier this summer, this small mountain town north of San Francisco opened its modest high school to residents fleeing an unusually ferocious wildfire nearby.Now it is Middletown itself that has been evacuated — and gutted — by another blaze that shocked firefighters with its strength and speed.The town’s small cluster of shops and cafes was spared, but behind them erratic winds sent flames zigzagging down leafy streets, torching some houses and spar
  
  Read more

• Snowpack in Sierra Nevada mountains shrinks to 500-year low

  15-09-2015 07:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The snowpack in California's Sierra Nevada mountains probably shrank to the lowest in 500 years this year and climate change may cause further declines, worsening water shortages in the drought-stricken state, a U.S. study said on Monday.
  
  Read more

• Tourism kiosks in Carson City’s future

  15-09-2015 07:11
  
  Interactive kiosks with a mapping feature for tourists are on the horizon in Carson City, the Visitors Bureau boards and executive director signaled Monday.The board voted without dissent for a proposal brought by Joel Dunn, the director, to use perhaps $150,000 for such kiosks and one member said he had long advocated that move. Stan Jones also talked about it in the context of goals for the executive director to achieve during that additional portion of the agenda. Dunn had it on his list of p
  
  Read more

• Filing: Golf course owner hasn't turned on water as ordered

  15-09-2015 06:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Lawyers representing Silverstone Golf Club homeowners have asked the golf course's new owner to explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt of court for failing to turn on the course's water.
  
  Read more

• State board hears Clark County, union labor dispute

  15-09-2015 06:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County and its largest union have to wait until at least November to end their labor dispute.
  
  Read more

• Study Finds Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada to Be Lowest in 500 Years

  15-09-2015 06:00
  The report suggests droughts in the state may become more common as precipitation on the Sierra Nevada Mountains reduces because of global warming.
  
  Read more

• A single complaint prompts sandstorm response from Clark County

  15-09-2015 05:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  All it took was one negative comment on Yelp to send Clark County's top administrators into public relations crisis-mode earlier this month, working hard and fast to squelch criticism over a seemingly mundane subject: the coarseness of sand.
  
  Read more

• Nevada's school accountability data a year behind

  15-09-2015 04:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Parents will have to wait at least another year before the Nevada Department of Education releases updated school ratings after the state transitioned to new student testing system last year.
  
  Read more

• Nevada Department of Corrections Director Greg Cox quits

  15-09-2015 02:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Embattled Nevada Department of Corrections Director Greg Cox resigned abruptly Monday under unknown circumstances.
  
  Read more

• Ride-hailing companies Uber, Lyft get Nevada permits

  15-09-2015 02:07
  
  Uber and Lyft were granted state permits Monday in a major milestone for ride-hailing in Nevada, although neither company has said exactly when its service will be available. The Nevada Transportation Authority voted to approve applications from both companies after grilling their representatives about drug testing policies, insurance coverage and background checks. Taxi companies have repeatedly raised those concerns in their opposition to the companies, which allow people to hail a ride in som
  
  Read more

• Carson City to look for intoxicated motorists

  15-09-2015 01:51
  
  As the warmer weather starts to fade, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office is focusing on watching for more motorists on the road who may choose to drink and ride.In a press release, the Sheriff’s Office said that they will see a lot of people in Northern Nevada riding their motorcycles now before the weather gets cooler, and wanted to remind riders to not drink and ride.“With Street Vibrations on the horizon, now is a good time to think about the consequences of riding while intox
  
  Read more

• Carson City bypass to be dedicated to slain deputy Carl Howell

  15-09-2015 01:43
  
  The Nevada Department of Transportation board voted on Monday to dedicate the Carson City bypass in memory of Carson City Sheriff’s deputy Carl Howell, 35, who was killed in a gun battle with Jonathon Pope Aug. 15.Howell was responding to a domestic violence call when he confronted Pope and the two exchanged gunfire. Both men were killed. Gov. Brian Sandoval put the plan at the top of the board’s agenda saying he got the idea after reading a Nevada Appeal editorial backing Carson Cit
  
  Read more

• Rand Paul coming to Carson City Thursday

  15-09-2015 01:35
  
  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, will visit Carson City Thursday morning, the day following the second Republican presidential debates.“Here is your chance to meet the other doctor in the race,” said organizers in announcing the visit — a reference to Ben Carson who is polling second only to Donald Trump in the 16-candidate field.The event will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday at the Gold Dust West casino on U.S. 50 East.Paul will visit four different cities in the tour following the
  
  Read more

• Nearly 100 gather to remember NDOT worker Ron Raiche Jr.

  15-09-2015 01:35
  
  Nearly 100 NDOT family members, friends and NDOT employees gathered at the department’s headquarters Monday to honor Ron Raiche Jr., who was struck and killed by a truck while making repairs to Interstate 80 west of Battle Mountain. He was hit by the semi’s side mirror.Gov. Brian Sandoval said Raiche is the 24th Nevada highway worker to die in the line of duty since the agency was created in 1948. He unveiled a gold-colored star on the agency’s memorial wall and read a proclama
  
  Read more

• Marijuana dispensary to reopen after running out of supply

  15-09-2015 01:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County's only medical marijuana dispensary was forced to close its doors for nearly a week after it ran out of supplies due to widespread failures in the safety tests performed on growers' crops.
  
  Read more

• Former Las Vegas doctor pleads guilty in prescription drug scheme

  15-09-2015 00:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former Las Vegas physician Sebastian M. Paulin Jr. pleaded guilty in federal court Monday in a scheme to unlawfully distribute prescription painkillers and hide money from the IRS.
  
  Read more

• Memorial destroyed days after father booked in sons' stabbings

  15-09-2015 00:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A memorial for three young boys who were found stabbed to death in the back of an SUV last week was vandalized on Sunday, days after the boys' father was booked on suspicion of murder.
  
  Read more

Follow @NewsNevada_ on Twitter!