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• Astronomers studying supernova 570 billion times brighter than sun

  15-01-2016 23:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An international team of astronomers may have discovered the biggest and brightest supernova ever.
  
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• 2 arrested in store robbery, ax attack

  15-01-2016 22:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two men face multiple felony charges in connection with a convenience store burglary and an ax attack in the central valley Tuesday.
  
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• Popcorn Stand: USA Freedom Kids give Up With People a run for their money

  15-01-2016 21:55
  
  The Popcorn Stand is written periodically by Appeal assistant editor Charles Whisnand (actually whenever he wants to write it) and covers his musings in the world of sports (actually whatever he wants to write about). The column is named in honor of Whisnand’s favorite sports columnist, Pulitzer Prize-winning Red Smith, who onced dubbed one of his columns the Popcorn Stand.We came across this video http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/14/video-the-usa-freedom-kids-sing-songs-of-president-tr
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on suspicion of felony using false identification to avoid persecution

  15-01-2016 21:39
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.Carson CityTHURSDAYAt 12:30 p.m., Juan Garcia, 27, of Carson City was arrested on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance and felony possession of a controlled substance for sale after deputies conducted follow up on an unrelated case. No bail was set.At 3:12 p.m., Lyle Mills, 21, of Carson City was arrested on suspicion of felony using false identification to av
  
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• Man who crashed into wall died of natural causes, coroner concludes

  15-01-2016 20:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County coroner ruled the manner of death as natural for a man who crashed into a wall near the Las Vegas Strip in December.
  
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• MGM to start charging for parking at Strip casinos

  15-01-2016 19:24 via lasvegassun.com
  In a city built on luring tourists with cheap thrills and free cocktails, a big part of the Las Vegas Strip will soon slash away its most basic freebie: parking. MGM Resorts International announced Friday that it will become the first ...
  
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• Building Vegas light-rail system called disruptive but essential

  15-01-2016 18:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  There's no doubt that building a light-rail system from McCarran International Airport to downtown Las Vegas along the Las Vegas Strip would be a major disruption.
  
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• Friday was warmest day of 2016, and it's going to get warmer

  15-01-2016 18:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Friday marked year's the warmest day so far, with a high of 60 degrees. But the valley is forecast to get even warmer in the next few days, the National Weather Service said.
  
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• Road closures for Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade

  15-01-2016 17:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Downtown Las Vegas' traditional parade route will be in use Monday morning for the 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.
  
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• Ousted Communist Official’s Brother Is Living in United States, China Says

  15-01-2016 16:26
  Beijing is said to be in discussions with Washington about the brother of Ling Jihua, a former party official who is awaiting trial on graft charges.
  
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• RTC OKs contract for bike-sharing program in downtown Las Vegas

  15-01-2016 16:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Bike sharing is officially coming to downtown Las Vegas.
  
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• US 95 reopens after woman threatening to jump rescued

  15-01-2016 16:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The woman threatening to jump from the Lone Mountain Road overpass over U.S. Highway 95 Friday morning in northwest Las Vegas has been brought to safety, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• Search underway after 2 Marine helicopters collide near Hawaiian coast

  15-01-2016 16:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Coast Guard is leading a search for two Marine helicopters carrying 12 people following reports they collided near the island of Oahu in Hawaii, a spokeswoman for the Coast Guard said on Friday.
  
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• Tennessee couple, with one of three winning Powerball jackpot tickets, to keep jobs

  15-01-2016 15:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Tennessee couple holding one of three winning tickets for this week's record $1.6 billion U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot said on Friday they will keep their jobs because "you just can't sit down and do nothing."
  
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• Tenn. couple claim to have winning Powerball ticket

  15-01-2016 15:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Tennessee couple came forward on Friday with what they said was one of the three winning tickets for this week's record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot, appearing with their lawyer on NBC's "Today" program.
  
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• USNS Carson City to be christened this weekend

  15-01-2016 08:03
  
  For the second time in nearly 73 years, a U.S. Navy ship bearing the name of Nevada’s capital city will be christened by the wife of the mayor of Carson City.At a ceremony to be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Austal USA Shipyard in Mobile, Ala., Susan Asbury Crowell, wife of Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell, will christen the $180 million USNS Carson City (JHSV-7), a sleek, high-speed, 338-foot twin-hull catamaran.Also taking part in the christening will be Bob Wiley, the ship’s captai
  
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• On the lookout in Carson City

  15-01-2016 08:03
  
  A healthy looking coyote crosses Kings Canyon Rd. Thursday morning in Carson City. A doe peeks over a rock wall in a resident’s yard on Canyon Drive in Carson City Thursday.…
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: New construction for Minden airport

  15-01-2016 08:03
  
  The U.S. Engineer’s Office at Sacramento recently entered into a contract with Harms Bros. and N.M. Ball & Son, contractors of Sacramento for the construction of paving facilities at the Minden airport. The work called for under the contract includes construction of extensions of the runways and taxiways, at the approximate cost of $100,000. The construction of the Minden airport was started in June 1942. All of the facilities were built under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Engineer&rsq
  
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• Man convicted of sex with minors has chance at probation

  15-01-2016 08:03
  
  MINDEN — One man was given a chance at probation for having sex with minors after an evaluation showed he isn’t a high risk to offend again. Jordan Fraiser Schroeder, 23, was sentenced on Tuesday for his involvement in a July 2014 statutory sexual seduction. Schroeder had sex with two minors after meeting them online and inviting them to a “kickback.”Two other men also came over and had sex with the girls.He was escorting one of the girls to the sheriff’s office to
  
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• Faraday Future special session of Nevada Legislature cost a quarter million dollars

  15-01-2016 08:03
  
  When all the bills are finally in, the 29th special session of the Legislature to workout the Faraday Future deal will have cost just shy of $250,000.Legislative Counsel Bureau Director Rick Combs said as of this week, total costs are $227,097.47.But, Combs said, that doesn’t include printing costs. In comparison, Combs said printing for the Tesla session, totaled at about $13,000. He said printing for the Faraday session will be higher because their were more bills needed for the Faraday
  
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• Explore Tahoe: Escape the masses by ski, snowshoe at Emerald Bay

  15-01-2016 08:03
  
  MEEKS BAY, Calif. — Drive around the Lake Tahoe Basin during a busy peak season weekend and you’ll probably find trailhead parking lots packed to the gills like a car dealership.Coupled with even the smallest of hillsides being jammed with newly purchased sleds and 30 or more people, finding that pristine wild side of Tahoe can be a challenge.At least it may initially appear that way. But it doesn’t have be. Even at Tahoe’s iconic postcard destination, Emerald Bay, there
  
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• Woman claims ex-bookkeeper wrongfully transferred money to justice's wife, company

  15-01-2016 07:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A California woman claims her former bookkeeper wrongfully transferred more than $180,000 from her bank accounts to Leslie Parraguirre, who is married to Nevada Supreme Court Justice Ron Parraguirre, and Leslie Parraguirre's interior design company.
  
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• One dead, one in critical condition after central valley shooting

  15-01-2016 07:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A fight between two groups of people escalated to a shooting Thursday night in the central valley, leaving one man dead and another in critical condition, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
  
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• Ambulances better not be late under new deal

  15-01-2016 06:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It doesn't appear lights and sirens will be needed for this one.
  
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• Nevada AG, lieutenant governer call truce in ESA approach

  15-01-2016 06:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison called a truce Thursday in their public squabble over a lawsuit Hutchison filed seeking an expedited ruling on the state's new education savings account program.
  
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• Nevada AG, lieutenant gover call truce in ESA approach

  15-01-2016 06:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison called a truce Thursday in their public squabble over a lawsuit Hutchison filed seeking an expedited ruling on the state's new education savings account program.
  
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• Congress might extend A-10 Thunderbolts' lifespans

  15-01-2016 06:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The days toward retirement of A-10 Thunderbolts in the Air Force's boneyard were numbered two years ago.
  
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• Another man arrested in homicide case

  15-01-2016 06:03
  
  A 19-year-old Carson City man has been arrested in connection to a shooting that left a Carson City man dead.Jacob Huttman, 19, of Carson City was arrested Thursday for his alleged part in the shooting death of Grant Watkins, 18. Watkins was killed Monday morning after a drug deal gone wrong across from Blackwell’s Pond Park. Huttman, and three other suspects, along with a friend of Watkins met at Blackwell’s Pond Park, near Windridge and Scotch Pine drives, around 12:30 a.m. so Wat
  
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• Former massage therapist begins jail term for sexually motivated coercion

  15-01-2016 05:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former massage therapist began serving a six-month jail sentence Thursday for sexually motivated coercion involving two victims.
  
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• School district leaders approve $135M contract that includes teacher pay raises

  15-01-2016 05:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For the past six months, angry teachers have harangued the Clark County School Board for adopting pay freezes in an attempt to fill a nearly $70 million budget deficit.
  
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• School board approves $140 million for across-the-board teacher raises

  15-01-2016 05:19 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County School District will spend nearly $140 million to offer across-the-board raises for teachers that the Clark County School Board approved late Thursday.
  
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• Visit Red Rock Canyon for free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  15-01-2016 04:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Bureau of Land Management said Thursday that it will waive entrance fees to the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
  
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• Marriott foundation pledges $2.5 million for UNLV hotel college building

  15-01-2016 04:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Marriott International's J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation has pledged to give UNLV's hotel college $2.5 million to help build a new on-campus home.
  
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• A cold pint and a warm introduction to Downtown Crown

  15-01-2016 04:21 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  Keep calm and have a beer—the bar is open.
  
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• Man arrested in California in connection to shooting death of valley teen

  15-01-2016 03:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was arrested in California on Tuesday in connection to the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Tiyvone Taylor Mills in October in the central valley, the Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday.
  
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• Go Solar says it's cutting jobs, reducing hours for others

  15-01-2016 03:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A small, locally owned Las Vegas rooftop-solar company announced Thursday it is cutting jobs and reducing hours due to the adoption of a new net metering rate by state regulators that took effect Jan. 1.
  
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• Carson City Rotary Club donates to WNC Jump Start program

  15-01-2016 02:59
  
  A donation by the Rotary Club of Carson City will help ease the financial burden for some high school students enrolled in Western Nevada College’s Jump Start College program next fall.The community service organization provided $4,500 to assist the Jump Start College program, which debuted in the fall of 2014. WNC is partnering with Western Nevada high schools in five school districts, giving junior and senior students the opportunity to earn up to a two-year Associate Degree before grad
  
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• Softwall barriers suggested for RTC bus stops

  15-01-2016 02:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A potential solution to protecting bus shelters from out-of-control vehicles could be as close as the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
  
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• Planned Parenthood files lawsuit against group behind secret videos

  15-01-2016 02:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday arguing that a group acted illegally when it secretly recorded videos alleging the women's health organization profited from selling fetal tissue from abortions.
  
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• Sparks company tapped for International Space Station project

  15-01-2016 01:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Sparks-based aerospace company has been selected by NASA to begin development of a commercial crew transportation system to supply the International Space Station.
  
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• Attracting workforce for rapid growth

  15-01-2016 01:51
  
  The Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada’s CEO, Mike Kazmierski, stressed the importance of attracting a large workforce to northern Nevada to prepare for rapid growth in the region at the EDAWN luncheon and economic update held Jan. 14 at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa. “As we continue to grow and the unemployment rate continues to drop we will eventually run out of qualified workforce,” Kazmierski said in a phone interview with the NNBW prior to the event. EDAWN
  
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• Nevada prisons add tools to avoid shootings, but keep guns

  15-01-2016 01:23
  
  Nevada prisons have added more guards and trained officers how to use rubber bullets in an effort to end deadly shootings behind bars, officials said Thursday, but they also defended the use of shotguns if all else fails. The comments came as the Board of State Prison Commissioners followed up on an audit of prison use-of-force policies. The state faces lawsuits over prison shootings, including one at High Desert State Prison in 2014 that left an inmate dead. “We really believe that the us
  
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• Following deadly crash, union says its bus drivers are routinely exhausted

  15-01-2016 00:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  At the first Regional Transportation Commission meeting since a tourist was fatally struck by a public bus Saturday, the Amalgamated Transit Union told members of the Clark County Commission that drivers with Keolis Transit America are routinely exhausted.
  
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• US, Mexico in talks to extradite drug kingpin 'El Chapo'

  15-01-2016 00:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Justice Department has begun talks with Mexican authorities about extraditing drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States, a spokesman said on Thursday.
  
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