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• Colder weather continues as winter approaches

  15-12-2015 23:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The cooling temperatures of the past few days will continue to drop in Southern Nevada for the rest of this week, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• UNR Class of ’66 remembers fallen classmate

  15-12-2015 23:31
  
  Carson Valley scion Bruce Park said he remembers fraternity brother Mike Ingersoll like it was yesterday, even though the University of Nevada student body president died in a skydiving accident 50 years ago.Members of Park’s class are remembering Ingersoll’s Dec. 18, 1965, death at Carson City Airport.Park and Ingersoll were Alpha Tau Omega brothers in the mid-1960s.According to Park, Ingersoll had been elected student body president the prior spring.Among his accomplishments was a
  
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• Republican presidential hopefuls debate Tuesday in Las Vegas — LIVE BLOG

  15-12-2015 23:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Thirteen Republican presidential candidates are in Las Vegas for two debates Tuesday at the Venetian.
  
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• Republican presidential hopefuls debate in Las Vegas — BLOG

  15-12-2015 23:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Thirteen Republican presidential candidates are in Las Vegas for two debates Tuesday at the Venetian.
  
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• Paul Laxalt Group lobbying firm shutting down

  15-12-2015 23:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A powerhouse Washington, D.C., lobbying firm founded by Paul Laxalt, a native Nevada son and former governor and U.S. senator, is shutting its doors, his daughter said Tuesday.
  
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• Firm says word Paul Laxalt Group closing is false

  15-12-2015 23:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Word from one daughter of Paul Laxalt that the powerhouse Washington, D.C., lobbying firm he founded was shutting down because of his health problems was denounced late Tuesday by a representative of the firm.
  
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• What Donald Trump Has Built

  15-12-2015 23:09
  His campaign has been based on hatred and fear, and it shows in the actions of his supporters.
  
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• Reward offered for cologne theft

  15-12-2015 23:07
  
  A reward is being offered in the hopes of sniffing out two people involved in the theft of a large quantity of male fragrance from the Ulta Beauty store in Carson Valley Plaza.The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance in located the pair, who entered the store at about 11:30 a.m. Nov. 29 and took a large amount of cologne.Anyone who has information about this incident is asked to contact the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office at 775-782-7463. A cas
  
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• Las Vegas doctor sentenced to 2 years for selling prescriptions

  15-12-2015 22:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas doctor has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for unlawfully selling pain medication prescriptions and violating cash reporting laws.
  
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• Protesters gather outside Venetian ahead of GOP presidential debate

  15-12-2015 21:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Hours before Tuesday's Republican presidential debates at The Venetian, about 100 protesters gathered outside the Strip resort to denounce what one called "hateful" GOP rhetoric.
  
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• GOP debates in Las Vegas focus on ISIS, terrorism — PHOTOS

  15-12-2015 21:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Less than two weeks after a terrorist attack in Southern California, Tuesday's presidential debates on the Las Vegas Strip featured 13 Republican candidates battling over who would best protect the nation and defeat the Islamic State.
  
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• Donald Trump to Meet G.O.P. Megadonor Sheldon Adelson Before Debate

  15-12-2015 21:55
  Donald J. Trump is scheduled to meet with Sheldon Adelson at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, the site of Tuesday night’s Republican debate, according to people briefed on the meeting.
  
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• Armed robbery suspect reported at Indianapolis university campus

  15-12-2015 21:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man with a gun who had been involved in an armed robbery has been reported on the Indiana University-Purdue University campus in Indianapolis, and students are being urged to take shelter, according to the university's Twitter feed.
  
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• Victim in fatal Tahoe crash missing in Sparks woman

  15-12-2015 21:31
  
  SAND HARBOR — A 72-year-old Sparks woman who had been missing for two weeks has been identified as the victim of a fatal crash at Lake Tahoe. Sparks police had scheduled a news conference Tuesday to seek the public’s help in locating Betti Jean Fernandez. She was reported missing Nov. 30 after she left her home in a 2006 Subaru Outback without her medication. Sparks Det. Charles Alt says Fernandez was found dead in the SUV after it rolled down an embankment on State Route 28 near San
  
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• Victim in fatal Tahoe crash is missing Sparks woman

  15-12-2015 21:31
  
  SAND HARBOR — A 72-year-old Sparks woman who had been missing for two weeks has been identified as the victim of a fatal crash at Lake Tahoe. Sparks police had scheduled a news conference Tuesday to seek the public’s help in locating Betti Jean Fernandez. She was reported missing Nov. 30 after she left her home in a 2006 Subaru Outback without her medication. Sparks Det. Charles Alt says Fernandez was found dead in the SUV after it rolled down an embankment on State Route 28 near San
  
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• Victim in fatal crash at Lake Tahoe is missing Sparks woman

  15-12-2015 21:31
  
  SAND HARBOR — A 72-year-old Sparks woman who had been missing for two weeks has been identified as the victim of a fatal crash at Lake Tahoe. Sparks police had scheduled a news conference Tuesday to seek the public’s help in locating Betti Jean Fernandez. She was reported missing Nov. 30 after she left her home in a 2006 Subaru Outback without her medication. Sparks Det. Charles Alt says Fernandez was found dead in the SUV after it rolled down an embankment on State Route 28 near San
  
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• Update: Victim in fatal Tahoe crash is missing Sparks woman

  15-12-2015 21:31
  
  The body of a Northern Nevada woman who had been missing for two weeks was found Monday inside a vehicle that skidded off the highway and flipped down an embankment near Incline Village, officials said.A photographer was shooting photos of Lake Tahoe at dusk Monday when he noticed the upside-down vehicle partly covered in snow in the trees below Highway 28 near Sand Harbor State Park, Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Duncan Dauber said Tuesday.NHP was dispatched to the scene at 4:56 p.m. Monday. O
  
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• New hearing to start for two mortgage fraud defendants

  15-12-2015 21:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Eve Mazzarella and Steven Grimm are getting a second chance this week to convince a federal judge that they were convicted on tainted government evidence in the largest mortgage fraud case in Nevada.
  
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• New hearing to start for 2 mortgage fraud defendants

  15-12-2015 21:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Eve Mazzarella and Steven Grimm are getting a second chance this week to convince a federal judge that they were convicted on tainted government evidence in the largest mortgage fraud case in Nevada.
  
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• Sandoval names new DMV chief

  15-12-2015 20:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday appointed Terri Albertson as director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, effective immediately. Albertson had been serving as the interim director since September following the retirement of Director Troy Dillard.
  
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• 19 bodies found in mass grave in Mexico

  15-12-2015 20:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Mexican authorities on Tuesday said they found 19 bodies buried in a mass grave in the southwestern state of Guerrero, where last year 43 students were kidnapped and apparently massacred.
  
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• Online retailers agree to stop sales of real-looking toy guns in NY

  15-12-2015 20:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Thirty online retailers have agreed to stop selling authentic-looking toy guns to New York residents, the state attorney general said on Tuesday.
  
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• No LA-type threats received by Clark County schools, officials say

  15-12-2015 20:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County School District officials said Tuesday that they have not received any threats similar to one received by the Los Angeles Unified School District, which prompted the cancellation of all classes there.
  
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• Clark County School District security protocols changed after Los Angeles threat

  15-12-2015 20:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After an electronic threat canceled classes at the Los Angeles Unified School District Tuesday morning, Clark County School District police say they've changed some security protocols.
  
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• Ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle appeals 15 1/2-year prison sentence

  15-12-2015 19:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former Subway sandwich chain pitchman Jared Fogle has appealed his 15-1/2-year federal prison sentence, which he received last month after pleading guilty to child pornography and sex charges, court documents said.
  
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• Metro asks for help to identify 3 men in nonfatal shooting

  15-12-2015 19:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are asking the public to help identify and locate three men they believe are involved in a nonfatal shooting in November.
  
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• Reno Spaghetti Bowl dubbed priority Northern Nevada highway project

  15-12-2015 19:15
  
  Joined by other members of the Nevada Transportation board and local officials, Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday termed redesign and reconstruction of the Reno Spaghetti Bowl as a top priority for the coming years.“I don’t want to wait 18 months to find out what we already know: that the spaghetti bowl is oversubscribed,” said Sandoval.NDOT Director Rudy Malfabon told the board they are studying the project and preparing a presentation on it at the January meeting and planning a
  
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• Judge rejects bid to move trial of Baltimore officer in Freddie Gray case

  15-12-2015 18:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Baltimore judge overseeing the trial of a police officer charged in a black detainee's death rejected a defense bid to move the case on Tuesday, as the city braced for possible trouble once the jury reaches a verdict.
  
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• Coroner IDs pedestrian, 77, killed on Fremont Street

  15-12-2015 18:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The 77-year-old man struck and killed by an SUV in the intersection of Fremont Street and Eastern Avenue earlier this month has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office.
  
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• Pedestrian struck, killed in Henderson identified

  15-12-2015 18:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The 91-year-old man who was struck and killed while crossing a Henderson street Monday afternoon has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office.
  
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• Judge finds Chicago officers liable for dragging man from cell in handcuffs

  15-12-2015 18:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Chicago police employee who dragged a handcuffed man out of his cell and down a hallway used excessive force and is liable for damages, a federal judge said.
  
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• San Bernardino shooter sent Facebook messages about supporting jihad

  15-12-2015 18:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One of the shooters in the San Bernardino massacre, Tashfeen Malik, sent at least two private messages on Facebook to a small group of Pakistani friends in 2012 and 2014, pledging her support for Islamic jihad, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.
  
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• Las Vegas police looking for Colorado woman reported missing on Strip

  15-12-2015 17:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are asking for the public's help in finding a 55-year-old woman who went missing Monday morning at Bally's.
  
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• Man shot, killed by police after raising gun toward officer

  15-12-2015 17:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was shot and killed by Las Vegas police after he pointed a handgun at an officer in the east valley Monday night, officials said.
  
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• Las Vegas police says man shot, killed after he raised gun toward officer

  15-12-2015 17:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was shot and killed by Las Vegas police after he pointed a handgun at an officer in the northeast valley Monday night, officials say.
  
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• LA school district cancels classes after threat; NY keeps schools open

  15-12-2015 16:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The United States' two biggest school districts get the same threat.
  
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• LA school district cancels classes after 'electronic threat'

  15-12-2015 16:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Classes were canceled Tuesday for the Los Angeles Unified School District after what the district's superintendent called a "rare" threat that comes amid new concerns about security nationwide.
  
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• Federal officials say threat to LA schools likely a hoax

  15-12-2015 16:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Los Angeles shut more than 1,000 public schools on Tuesday over a threatened attack, sending hundreds of thousands of students home as city leaders were criticized for over reacting to what federal officials later said was likely a hoax.
  
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• In Crucial Republican Bout, 2 Names Will Take the Middle of the Ring

  15-12-2015 13:20
  With only about seven weeks to go before the caucuses start, the debate to be held in Las Vegas raises the stakes and leaves the field with decreasing chances to attack the front-runners, both longstanding and new.
  
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• 'Fat Dave' is big fish in federal gambling case

  15-12-2015 08:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Mobbed-up illegal bookmaker "Fat Dave" Stroj appears to have talked his way into more trouble than he can fade.
  
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• Metro investigating second fatal officer-involved shooting of day

  15-12-2015 07:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A person died Monday night at the hands of officers just before 9 p.m., department spokesman Officer Larry Hadfield said. He had few details about what led to the northeast valley shooting but said the investigation was ongoing
  
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• Donald Trump Touches on Issues, and Poll Numbers, in Las Vegas

  15-12-2015 07:57
  Donald J. Trump kept his focus on multiple polls showing him leading the Republican presidential race while talking at length about immigration and the country’s economy during a speech before thousands of people.
  
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• Wrestling tourney coming to new MAC in Carson City

  15-12-2015 06:35
  
  News Monday of a wrestling tournament in May at Carson City’s new athletic center stole center stage from a complaint about a second car show coming to town in June.The city Visitors Bureau board learned from staff that a tournament for wrestlers ages five to 18, under auspices of the Nevada Wrestling Association, would be held the second weekend of May in the $8.3 million multi-purpose athletic center (MAC) slated to open late this month. Director Joel Dunn and Kyle Horvath, bureau marke
  
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• Huckabee makes quick Northern Nevada campaign swing

  15-12-2015 06:35
  
  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, one of a handful of Republicans running for his party’s presidential nomination, made a quick two-day campaign swing to Carson City, Fallon and Reno prior to another Republican debate tonight in Las Vegas.Huckabee, who finished fourth in the 2008 caucus in the Silver State, took on a wide range of subjects at each venue on Sunday and Monday, discussing both state and local topics.James Smack, Nevada’s assistant controller, said the Huckabee campai
  
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• JoAnne Skelly: Gardening dreams?

  15-12-2015 06:27
  
  A warm December day has me dreaming about gardening. The book “My Garden Helper — What to do Each Month and How to Do It,” circa 1933, caught my eye. The first line reads, “Gardening is easy. The beauty of it is that you can do the job on as small or as large a scale as you like, from a flower pot to a park.” I like the illusion that gardening at the park level is easy. For winter activities, it recommends enjoying the beauty of the winter landscape, watering if it
  
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• Man dead after being struck by vehicle in Henderson

  15-12-2015 06:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 91-year-old man died Monday after a car hit him in Henderson about 1 p.m.
  
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• Republican Candidates Gear Up for Debate Amid a Markedly Changed Race

  15-12-2015 06:00
  Mr. Cruz is likely to come under sharp attack, and issues like national security and immigration will take on greater urgency.
  
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• At Republican Debate, Candidates Are Likely to Set Sights on Ted Cruz

  15-12-2015 06:00
  Mr. Cruz is likely to come under sharp attack, and issues like national security and immigration will take on greater urgency.
  
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• Bergdahl could face life sentence in court-martial over desertion

  15-12-2015 03:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and became a Taliban prisoner for five years, will face court-martial with a potential life sentence, the Army said on Monday.
  
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• Reporters in Las Vegas Try to Crack Case of Who Owns Their Newspaper

  15-12-2015 03:28
  Journalists at The Las Vegas Review-Journal are complaining about the lack of transparency of the newspaper’s new mystery owner.
  
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