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• Valley to stay warm, with chance of rain at week's end

  10-10-2015 22:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Saturday was another warm one for Las Vegas, but there's lightning at the end of this very sunny tunnel. Afternoon temperatures Saturday climbed to 93 degrees, exactly 10 degrees higher than the normal for this time of year, National Weather Service meteorologist John Salmen said.
  
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• Once restrictions fade, pot tourism may become reality

  10-10-2015 21:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  If you are a tourist, and you brought your driver's license and medical marijuana card (or your California doctor's recommendation), then you are moments from a Vegas dispensary that will legally sell you your medicine.
  
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• Getting patrons at Nevada brothels takes some enticing — and marketing

  10-10-2015 21:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Sure, the 310-acre resort 60 miles west of Las Vegas comes with the standard 20-something women offering the age-old allure of forbidden lust. And they do most of the work once customers get onsite.
  
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• Woman killed, 7 injured in Pahrump crash on SR 160

  10-10-2015 21:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman died and seven people were injured in a two-vehicle crash on state Route 160 in Pahrump, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• 86 killed, nearly 200 wounded in bombing of peace march

  10-10-2015 18:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least 86 people were killed when two suspected suicide bombers hit a rally of pro-Kurdish and leftist activists outside Ankara's main train station on Saturday, weeks ahead of an election, in the deadliest attack of its kind on Turkish soil.
  
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• California governor signs bill to help immigrant crime victims

  10-10-2015 17:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill designed to help undocumented immigrants who are victims of violent crime, by introducing time limits on law enforcement's response to their U.S. visa applications in an attempt to standardize police forces' uneven treatment of applicants.
  
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• Washoe Tribe completes first new house at Stewart in years

  10-10-2015 09:59
  
  The Washoe Tribal Housing Authority has finished building the first new house at Stewart in years.Interim Executive Director Nancy Nizankiewicz said soon it will be occupied by a low income tribal family, which will free up space for another family in the tribe’s low income housing.But she said it’s not going to be the last.The 1,620 square foot, three-bedroom home on Delahedah was built with funds set aside from a federal Housing and Urban Development Grant through the Indian Commun
  
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• Teri Vance: Literacy space and reindeer lights needed

  10-10-2015 09:59
  
  The Carson City Literacy Volunteers and Literacy Volunteers for Children is in need of a new home.The literacy volunteers, who have been on Jeanell Drive since 2011, need to be out by Nov. 1.“We don’t have any place to go,” said Director Jan Whitemore.During my years at the Nevada Appeal, I wrote several stories about Whitemore, who suffers from dyslexia herself, and the students she helps. The program tutors students who struggle with reading and adults who never learned to re
  
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• Nevada Supreme Court study could greatly reduce jail release based on bail

  10-10-2015 09:59
  
  A Supreme Court study committee is working on a plan that could make sweeping changes to how defendants are released from jail before trial.Chief Justice Jim Hardesty said there’s a growing legal and societal recognition the existing system based almost exclusively on a defendant’s ability to post bail isn’t effective and has been questioned as potentially unconstitutional.“What many states have found is they can release a number of individuals on their own recognizance o
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: March 30, 1981: President Reagan shot

  10-10-2015 09:59
  
  APPEAL AT 150: March 30, 1981: Reagan shotEditor’s note: Errors in the following story, which appeared in the Nevada Appeal on the day President Ronald Reagan was shot, have been left intact to preserve the stress of the events that occurred on March 30, 1981. WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Reagan was shot in the chest by a gunman Monday outside a Washington Hotel Monday. He was reported conscious and in stable condition at George Washington University Hospital. The gunman, firing at c
  
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• Food play in Carson City

  10-10-2015 09:59
  
  Linda ‘Coach’ Tardif and Adam ‘Johnny’ Bourque of Foodplay.com perform a nutritional-based skit for children at Bordewich-Bray Elementary Friday afternoon in Carson City.…
  
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• Douglas beats CHS, 1-0

  10-10-2015 09:59
  
  Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.Despite being outshot 15-2, the Douglas Tigers knocked off Carson, 1-0, Friday night at the Jim Frank Track & Field Complex in a Sierra League boys soccer match.The loss dropped Carson, which was celebrating Senior Night, to 9-2 in league play.The lone goal came in the 56th minute when a direct free kick bounced off the body of Peter Garrett and past keeper Efren Ramirez to break a scoreless tie. Ramirez had just entered the game two minutes
  
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• Prep football roundup: Galena rolls by Douglas

  10-10-2015 09:51
  
  RENO — Galena scored on a blocked punt and on a 64-yard run to put 21 first-quarter points on the scoreboard en route to a 56-17 Sierra League victory against Douglas Friday night.Galena (1-0 league, 4-2 overall) took a 7-0 lead on its first possession of the game, as the Grizzlies punched in a short run. The Grizzlies blocked a punt on the ensuing series to extend the lead to 14-0.Douglas (1-1 league) pulled to within 14-7 in the first quarter when quarterback Bryce James scored on a 2-y
  
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• Carson City Symphony opening 32nd season Oct. 18

  10-10-2015 09:51
  
  Heading into Nevada Day festivities, the Carson City Symphony will open its 32nd season with a program in the Bob Boldrick Theater at 4 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Carson City Community Center.Under director David Bugli, the symphony and guest trumpet soloist Paul Lenz will play the symphonic suite from “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” and Symphony No. 3 by Robert Schumann, Finlandia by Jean Sibelius, and Trumpet Concerto in E-flat by Johann Hummel.Paul Lenz is principal trumpet in
  
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• Weekend weather in Las Vegas to stay warm

  10-10-2015 07:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  If you enjoyed Friday's weather in the Las Vegas Valley, you're in luck, because things are not supposed to change much the rest of the weekend.
  
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• Rubio supports storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain

  10-10-2015 07:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday that Yucca Mountain should be the place to store the nation's high-level nuclear waste in the absence of a better alternative.
  
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• Woman accused in DUI death was released by police after earlier crash

  10-10-2015 06:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas woman accused of driving while intoxicated in a fatal crash Wednesday was behind the wheel in another collision two days before, a mile up Maryland Parkway from where 78-year-old Richard Glen Bryan was run down and dragged to his death.
  
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• Diabetes drug liability case resolved in Las Vegas

  10-10-2015 05:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A civil trial in Las Vegas involving the diabetes drug Actos has been resolved, a lawyer's spokeswoman said Friday.
  
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• Woman says a visit to 'doctor' was a nightmare on Monroe Avenue

  10-10-2015 04:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman who sought medical treatment by Rick Van Thiel says she went to police after a nightmarish experience at his unlicensed clinic.
  
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• Uninsured, immigrants often target of medical scams

  10-10-2015 03:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  People practicing medicine without a license most often target the uninsured or those in the country illegally.
  
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• For poet, Great Basin an acquired taste

  10-10-2015 03:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Great Basin was an acquired taste for Gary Snyder. Raised on a family dairy farm in the lush Pacific Northwest, Snyder's early sensibility was informed by spruce forests and wilderness and the snow-capped majesty of the great Cascades.
  
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• Grand jury indicts teen in police shooting

  10-10-2015 03:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 17-year-old accused of shooting at two Las Vegas police officers last month has been indicted on attempted murder charges, prosecutors said Friday.
  
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• Angered over diabetic daughter's death, mother files wrongful-death lawsuit

  10-10-2015 03:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  In a phone message on Sept. 28, 2013, North Las Vegas resident Angela Donatell informed her mother that she had been arrested on a traffic warrant.
  
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• Battle Born Media adds California newspaper

  10-10-2015 02:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Battle Born Media has announced the purchase of the Pacifica Tribune newspaper from Digital First Media.
  
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• Baylor University rescinds honorary degree awarded to Cosby

  10-10-2015 02:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Baylor University, the world's largest Baptist university, has decided to rescind the honorary degree it awarded to comedian Bill Cosby in 2003, saying on Friday "acts of interpersonal and sexual violence" run counter to the school's values.
  
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• Two missing boys found safe in Kentucky gorge

  10-10-2015 01:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two young cousins who went missing during a family camping trip in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky were found hungry but unharmed on Friday afternoon after about 20 hours, authorities said.
  
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• Suspected drug house in Carson City raided; six arrests

  10-10-2015 01:51
  
  Local law enforcement took down a suspected drug house early Thursday night that was allegedly running heroin sales across the street from Empire Elementary School.Members of the Carson City Sheriff’s Office and Tri-Net conducted a search warrant for a residence at the 3300 block of Gordonia Drive at 11:30 p.m. Thursday. The officers had gotten a tip earlier in the day after conducting a traffic stop near Dotty’s Casino on Highway 50.Officers initiated a traffic stop with a vehicle t
  
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• Empire Ranch bankruptcy case in Carson City still ongoing

  10-10-2015 01:43
  
  An Empire Ranch loan in the ongoing golf course bankruptcy case may be on track with all parties, but differences over a city wastewater effluent disposal pact remain part of the case. A $1.3 million loan to Empire Ranch by a second-in-line creditor, which would pay off top creditor GSR Investments, LLC, looks probable if an Oct. 15 hearing goes as expected in the aftermath of a golf course sale not going through to pay off all creditors. The loan would be to pay off Garth Richards, of GSR Inves
  
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• Train hero in 'good spirits' after California stabbing

  10-10-2015 01:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Spencer Stone, the U.S. Air Force airman who helped thwart a train attack in France only to be stabbed in a fight outside a bar in his hometown of Sacramento, was in "good spirits" and able to get out of bed, hospital officials said on Friday.
  
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• VIDEO: Bear trapped at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center is released

  10-10-2015 01:27
  
  NDOW officials trapped an 8-year-old, 350 pound male black bear at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center Thursday and released him using aversive conditioning techniques and Karelian Bear Dogs on Friday. It was this bear’s first time being trapped.…
  
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• Bear trapped at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center

  10-10-2015 01:27
  
  NDOW officials trapped an 8-year-old, 350 pound male black bear at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center Thursday and released him using aversive conditioning techniques and Karelian Bear Dogs on Friday. It was this bear’s first time being trapped.…
  
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• Inmate back in custody after escape, Golden Nugget standoff

  10-10-2015 01:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An escaped inmate threatening to jump from the Golden Nugget's parking garage kept Metro negotiators busy for over four hours Friday afternoon.
  
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• Downtown roads closed after inmate escapes into parking garage, threatens to jump

  10-10-2015 01:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Downtown Las Vegas streets near the Golden Nugget are blocked off after an escaped inmate ran up the stairs of a parking garage and is threatening to jump, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
  
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• Virginia robbery suspect who caused manhunt gets 32 years in prison

  10-10-2015 01:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A bank robbery suspect who sparked a massive manhunt when he fled a Virginia hospital with a guard's gun was sentenced to 32 years in prison on Friday, prosecutors said.
  
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• Man who crashed drone near White House faces federal charges

  10-10-2015 00:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Washington man faces federal charges after crashing a drone near the White House in the nation's capital early Friday, federal authorities said.
  
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• Douglas County looking for fraudulent credit card suspect

  10-10-2015 00:07
  
  The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in identifying a person of interest in an unlawful use of a credit card case.Deputies said the victim’s card was used at the Walmart on Topsy Lane on Sept. 5 and 6.A reward is being offered to anyone with information leading to the arrest or conviction of the suspect. If you have any information contact DCSO Dispatch at (775) 782-5126 or Douglas County Secret Witness at: 775-78-CRIME (775-782-7463) or DCSO Deputy
  
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• Obama travels to Oregon to console mass shooting victims — VIDEO

  10-10-2015 00:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Barack Obama, in a ritual that has become both familiar and frustrating to him, traveled to Oregon on Friday to console families of the victims of a community college shooting that once again sparked a push for U.S. gun reform.
  
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