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• Energy-delivery fines range from $52K to $2K

  21-12-2015 23:55
  
  RENO — U.S. regulatory fines issued to Nevada utilities for failing to ensure a reliable delivery of energy since 2009 range from a $52,000 settlement with Nevada Power Co. for mostly reporting deficiencies to a $2,000 penalty in Lincoln County for having insufficient procedures to notify the FBI about threats of sabotage, a review of the records shows. None of those violations cited in public records posed any serious or substantial risk to the region’s bulk power system, the North
  
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• Energy-delivery fines in Nevada range from $52K to $2K

  21-12-2015 23:55
  
  RENO — U.S. regulatory fines issued to Nevada utilities for failing to ensure a reliable delivery of energy since 2009 range from a $52,000 settlement with Nevada Power Co. for mostly reporting deficiencies to a $2,000 penalty in Lincoln County for having insufficient procedures to notify the FBI about threats of sabotage, a review of the records shows. None of those violations cited in public records posed any serious or substantial risk to the region’s bulk power system, the North
  
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• Driver in Vegas crash seeking estranged partner, police say

  21-12-2015 23:55
  
  LAS VEGAS — A homeless woman who slammed a car carrying her 3-year-old daughter into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip was believed to be on a trip to find the girl’s estranged father, authorities said Monday. Based on video, police believe Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, intentionally mowed down people on a busy stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard, killing one and injuring dozens of others Sunday night. She is on suicide watch at a jail, which raises questions about her mental stat
  
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• Driver in Las Vegas crash seeking estranged partner, police say

  21-12-2015 23:55
  
  LAS VEGAS — A homeless woman who slammed a car carrying her 3-year-old daughter into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip was believed to be on a trip to find the girl’s estranged father, authorities said Monday. Based on video, police believe Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, intentionally mowed down people on a busy stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard, killing one and injuring dozens of others Sunday night. She is on suicide watch at a jail, which raises questions about her mental stat
  
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• Driver, 24, in Las Vegas crash seeking estranged partner, police say

  21-12-2015 23:55
  
  LAS VEGAS — A homeless woman who slammed a car carrying her 3-year-old daughter into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip was believed to be on a trip to find the girl’s estranged father, authorities said Monday. Based on video, police believe Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, intentionally mowed down people on a busy stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard, killing one and injuring dozens of others Sunday night. She is on suicide watch at a jail, which raises questions about her mental stat
  
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• Nationally gas is under $2 a gallon

  21-12-2015 23:47
  
  For the first time in almost six years, the national pump price for a gallon of gasoline dropped below $2, according to GasBuddy.com, but Nevada’s price held steady.In Carson City, meanwhile, the lowest outlet topped the $2 per gallon and was a blip above the lowest a week earlier. The lowest capital city price was $2.03 at a north side ARCO station. Nationally, however, the website that monitors gasoline prices said the downside breach of $2 came for the first time since March 25, 2009,
  
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• Sierra Nevada to see heavy snow from series of storms

  21-12-2015 23:15
  
  AP-CA--California Storm, 4th Ld-Writethru,170Sierra Nevada to see heavy snow from series of stormsAP Photo FX102, FX101Eds: Links photos. With AP Photos.Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO — Winter storm warnings were posted Monday in the Sierra Nevada after the National Weather Service predicted heavy mountain snow during the holiday week. A storm moving into the northern Sierra was expected to drop more than an inch of snow an hour at times. Forecasters said the system could dump as much as 3
  
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• Nevada can’t do Uber background check study lawmakers wanted

  21-12-2015 23:07
  
  State officials say they can’t conduct the complete study on background checks that some lawmakers wanted as a condition for allowing ride-hailing in Nevada. The Nevada Transportation Authority told lawmakers Monday that they don’t have authority to force drivers for Uber and Lyft to participate in fingerprint background checks. Lawmakers wanted to compare whether fingerprinting and FBI background checks are more effective than the checks Uber and Lyft do now. Background checks were
  
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• Education savings account expansion to be explored

  21-12-2015 23:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The state's top education and political leaders soon will start exploring ways to expand Nevada's new education savings accounts, which many already consider to be the most aggressive school choice program in the country.
  
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• Krysta Palmer earns spot on national squad

  21-12-2015 22:51
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — Senior diver Krysta Palmer of Carson City competed at the 2015 USA Diving Winter National Championships at the IUPUI Natatorium this weekend, placing eighth on platform to earn a spot on the U.S. Diving National Team.In a field featuring the country’s top divers and Olympic hopefuls, Palmer — the reigning Mountain West Diver of the Year — placed eight out 68 competitors with 887.35 total points on platform. Palmer sat in 10th place entering the finals round
  
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• Las Vegas doctor sentenced to prison for unlawfully distributing painkillers

  21-12-2015 22:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas physician was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison Monday for unlawfully distributing prescription painkillers at his clinic.
  
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• Doctor sentenced to prison for unlawfully distributing painkillers

  21-12-2015 22:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas physician was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison Monday for unlawfully distributing prescription painkillers at his clinic.
  
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• Republican activist told he's the target of a Clark County grand jury investigation

  21-12-2015 22:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Republican activist Tony Dane, the central figure in an alleged extortion plot against a Nevada assemblyman, has been notified he's the target of a Clark County grand jury.
  
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• Man shot and killed in downtown early Saturday ID'd

  21-12-2015 21:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man shot and killed in downtown Las Vegas early Saturday has been identified by the Clark County coroner.
  
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• At least 85 missing after landslide buries buildings in southern China — PHOTOS

  21-12-2015 21:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At least 85 people were missing in China on Monday a day after a giant flow of mud and construction waste spewed out of an overfull dump in a boomtown and buried 33 buildings in its latest industrial disaster.
  
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• Police identify moped rider who was killed Saturday night

  21-12-2015 21:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man hit by a vehicle and killed while riding a moped in North Las Vegas on Saturday night has been identified by the Clark County coroner.
  
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• Police identify driver in 'intentional' Sunday Strip crash that killed 1, injured 35

  21-12-2015 20:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The driver of the vehicle that plowed into and injured dozens of pedestrians and killed one person Sunday evening has been identified by Las Vegas police.
  
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• Arrest report, sheriff provide details of Strip crash that left 1 dead, dozens injured

  21-12-2015 20:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The woman arrested in connection with a crash that left one woman dead and sent dozens of pedestrians on the Strip to area hospitals Sunday night told police she was stressed and tired, an arrest record shows.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on suspicion of two counts battery on a protected person

  21-12-2015 20:19
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.Carson CityFRIDAYAt 8:41 a.m., a 56-year-old Carson City woman was arrested on suspicion of obstructing after deputies responded to a felony warrant search near the 3200 block of Dale Drive. The suspect was allegedly hiding the felon in her residence. Bail was set at $300.At 4:17 p.m., Alyssa Pule, 25, of Carson City was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic battery-third offe
  
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• US troops killed by suicide bomb in Afghanistan

  21-12-2015 18:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. troops were among six NATO service members killed in a Monday motorcycle bomb attack in Bagram, Afghanistan, military officials told CNN.
  
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• Las Vegas Boulevard reopens after Sunday's fatal crash

  21-12-2015 17:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas Boulevard is open after nearly 11 hours of being shut down following Sunday night's crash and the one person who lost their life has been identified by the coroner.
  
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• Astronauts fix jammed rail car during spacewalk

  21-12-2015 17:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two U.S. astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Monday in a hastily planned spacewalk to move a stuck rail car before a Russian cargo ship reaches the outpost on Wednesday, NASA said.
  
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• Metro investigating fatal crash near Jones and Post

  21-12-2015 17:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Metro's fatal detail is investigating a hit-and-run auto-pedestrian crash on Jones Boulevard near Patrick Lane, Metro Lt. David Gordon said Monday.
  
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• Driver on Las Vegas Strip Who Hit Crowd, Killing One, Is Detained

  21-12-2015 16:49
  A woman who is in her 20s and had a 3-year-old in the 1996 Oldsmobile she was driving struck dozens of people, the police said.
  
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• Driver on Las Vegas Strip Kills Pedestrian and Injures Dozens

  21-12-2015 12:55
  The police said that the crash appeared to be intentional and that the driver had fled the scene but was later detained.
  
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• Trump mentioned most at last week's debate in Las Vegas

  21-12-2015 10:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Broadcast nationwide on CNN, the GOP presidential debate held Tuesday in Las Vegas gave a coveted prime-time opportunity to nine candidates. CNN's transcript of the event shows that some candidates got only a fraction of the attention given to others.
  
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• Those political robocalls may annoy — but they're legal

  21-12-2015 10:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With the 2016 presidential race coming, political robocalls will surely multiply. Though they may irritate, the calls are legal.
  
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• Robocalls proliferate in Las Vegas, nationwide but remain difficult to stop

  21-12-2015 10:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas' November robocall count was 7.4 million, YouMail said, down 16 percent from October. New York led the nation with 49.6 million robocalls in November.
  
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• Program designed to help cities use statistics to make better decisions

  21-12-2015 10:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Numbers don't lie, and they also guide. Bloomberg Philanthropies will help Las Vegas better use data as part of the What Works Cities initiative.
  
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• Driver Kills One and Injures Dozens on Las Vegas Strip Sidewalk

  21-12-2015 09:12
  The police said that the crash appeared to be intentional and that the driver fled the scene but was later detained.
  
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• Tutoring service aims for title

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  A few years ago, Priya Mani was looking for a job, but what she found was a chance to manage her own business.Mani had emigrated from her native India with her family after her husband, , found a job in the United States. They eventually took up residence in the Carson City area, where they lived for the past decade.For a time, Mani served as homemaker and tended to the couple’s young children while her husband tended to his career. Eventually, she decided it was time to find her own plac
  
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• Sierra Nevada Ballet brings big-city arts to Reno

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  Sierra Nevada Ballet has successfully operated as a 501(c)3 charitable organization since 2001. Under the leadership of Rosine Bena, artistic director, and Steven M. Porter, board president the organization has a 2015-16 operating budget of $325,363, an artistic staff of 26 dancers and trainees, a professional teaching staff, a production staff of five, and an administrative staff of three. Up to 30 volunteers serving more than 200 hours per year enable Sierra Nevada Ballet to educate and enter
  
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• Ronald McDonald charities care for families during children’s medical crises

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  During Krystle Hollowell’s 20th week of pregnancy, an ultrasound revealed more than the fact that they would be welcoming a new baby girl; it revealed what her baby had Gastroschisis, a condition that causes the baby’s bowels to generate on the outside of its abdomen. “What was supposed to be a joyous day turned into a horrible one within minutes,” Hollowell said. Four weeks before Hollowell’s due date, the baby’s bowels swelled and her doctors decided to ind
  
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• Reno Philharmonic training next generation of musicians

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  What do you get when you combine 58 string instrument student musicians with 11 woodwind, 12 brass, and 4 percussion musicians ages 12-18? You get the talented members of the Reno Phil Youth Symphony Orchestra (YSO), who will share a once-in-a-lifetime experience on May 27, 2016, when they perform onstage at Carnegie Hall in New York City — a stage where countless numbers of music legends have stepped before them. The concert tour to New York City will give the YSO members the chance to e
  
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• Promoting health and preventing disease

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  We all have a community responsibility to ensure we’re keeping ourselves, our children, our seniors and those with compromised immune systems protected from disease. Vaccines accomplish this all at once. Unfortunately, on any given day, about one-third of Nevada’s children and the majority of adults are missing crucial vaccines. Immunize Nevada’s mission is to change that and to ensure that people across Nevada can access vaccines, health care and other resources they need to
  
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• Poised to provide key services in the coming year with business partners

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  As we enter 2016, United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra’s board of directors can look back at the previous two years and see a recent history that changed the course of the nonprofit. In this recent history, the board of directors publicly committed to a single issue of grade level reading success and then dedicated $1.125 million to this effort in 2015. Together with four funded partnerships, 2016 will be a year we will continue to target our actions on this specific issue. We wil
  
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• Nonprofits get help from Giving Trail

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  Giving Trail is a local nonprofit that recently launched a crowdfunding website created specifically for nonprofits to raise money for charitable projects. Crowdfunding is simply the act of raising money on the internet from a large number of people who are reached through the vast social networks of family, friends and colleagues to support projects they believe in. Crowdfunding engages all age groups and can attract everyone from first-time philanthropists to major donor prospects. The websit
  
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• Music is therapeutic

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  Music has an extraordinary ability to enhance our lives in all aspects. At Note-Able Music Therapy Services, we use music as a therapeutic tool to help improve people’s lives. When used intentionally, music can promote relaxation, reduce anxiety, and relieve stress. NMTS, which includes the Note-Ables performing group, is the only nonprofit music therapy agency in Nevada and is committed to changing the face of disability through the power of music. NMTS serves more than 100 children and
  
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• Making a difference one meal at a time

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  “The richest country in the world.” At the same time the United States claims this questionable title, 15.8 million children live with food insecurity in this great nation. These children often go to bed hungry, attend school with empty tummies, and worry when they will eat next. This is the ugly reality, and the impacts of food insecurity have lasting effects on our society as a whole. Especially hard hit are children under the age of two. During this critical developmental stage,
  
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• KTMB keeps our area clean

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to creating a cleaner, more beautiful region through education and active community involvement.For more than 25 years, KTMB has been working with local businesses, city and county municipalities, community groups, and more than 3,000 volunteers every year to keep our open space hills, the Truckee River, business corridors, and our neighborhoods beautiful for all to enjoy through our beautification, advocacy and education programs
  
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• HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES-WARC

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  It’s a unique model: a nonprofit that is both a service organization and an enterprise generator. But that’s business as usual for High Sierra Industries – Washoe Ability Resource Center, whose mission is to research, develop and implement learning systems and job development programs for people with disabilities and those who support them.HSI and WARC were founded in 1977 and 1953 respectively as separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, both serving people with disabilitie
  
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• HIGH SIERRA

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  It’s a unique model: a nonprofit that is both a service organization and an enterprise generator. But that’s business as usual for High Sierra Industries – Washoe Ability Resource Center, whose mission is to research, develop and implement learning systems and job development programs for people with disabilities and those who support them.HSI and WARC were founded in 1977 and 1953 respectively as separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, both serving people with disabilitie
  
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• Foundation connects people who care with causes that matter

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  $130,000,000 is a lot of money, especially when it’s given to charities by people like you and me, who earned it. Precious money earned and carefully saved. We don’t give away that kind of money easily, but I’m very proud to share that $130,000,000 has been donated to the Community Foundation of Western Nevada to support worthy causes throughout Northern Nevada and beyond.Even more, money has been promised to benefit our community as charitable gifts through wills and trusts.
  
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• Festival combines beauty of Lake Tahoe with Shakespeare

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  Entertainment, food, family and friends converge under the stars on the scenic shore of Lake Tahoe each summer at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (LTSF). The festival produces exceptional theater entertainment at Sand Harbor State Park for patrons of all ages. Founded modestly in 1972, the Festival it has grown today to become a signature cultural event in the United States attracting more than 30,000 attendees annually from across the country to the Tahoe region.Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival
  
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• EDAWN throws welcome party

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  Internet giant eBay is multiplying its presence in the Reno market.At the EDAWN New & Expanded Welcome Reception held Dec. 15, eBay representative William Lasher, senior director indirect taxes, announced the company would build a data center at the Reno-Tahoe Industrial Center. The company already has the largest presence in the SWITCH data center under construction at TRIC.“eBay has 159 million active buyers, 25 million sellers and at any one moment, 800 million items for sale,&rdqu
  
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• Dreams Foundation meets unmet expectation

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  Our Mission, as an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) Public Charity, is to meet the unmet dreams and aspirations of individuals, families, neighborhood churches, people-serving agencies and organizations, recognized charities, boys and girls clubs, and youth sports programs in communities; recognizing that upon meeting these needs there will be benefits in the lives of those served by these programs.Dreams Foundation, Inc. (DFI) is approved to provide discretionary “Humanitarian Awards” to i
  
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• Council supports women in construction

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  The Women’s Council of the Nevada Builders Alliance is an organization dedicated to supporting the professional development of women in the construction industry. The Council is made up of women from many construction-related businesses from builders and subcontractors to real estate and finance. The Council is a way for us to show support for our communities as well as the building industry. It also provides its members with educational and networking opportunities, industry recognition
  
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• Community giving: There’s no place like home

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  Northern Nevadans have lived through economic downturns, changes in local industries, heavy snow winters, and drought. Now we face unprecedented opportunities and challenges, and perhaps the most significant growth in our history. Growth challenges are welcome because they are the challenges that pay dividends on our investments.Each of us is an investor in our local economy. We invest by owning or renting a residence, retail purchases, running a business or working in a job or even through att
  
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• Coalition targets substance abuse

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  Substance abuse is a tragic reality in many communities. Addiction, prescription drug abuse, and overdose numbers have skyrocketed in recent years making knowledge and strategies to prevent, educate, and treat substance abuse in communities more vital than ever.Join Together Northern Nevada (JTNN) is a nonprofit, substance abuse coalition created in 1998 to focus on collaborative efforts to address substance abuse prevention, intervention and treatment in Washoe County. JTNN acts as a clearingh
  
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• CIRCLES lifts famiies out of poverty

  21-12-2015 08:07
  
  The Capital City C.I.R.C.L.E.S. Initiative (CCCI) is a Carson City-based cooperative community effort to elevate people out of poverty by intentionally creating relationships across class lines, and empowering people in poverty to chart their own course toward economic self-sufficiency. Our mission, since 2006, has been to inspire and equip families and communities with the tools they need to thrive, not just survive. We believe strongly that the responsibility for both poverty and prosperity r
  
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