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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a crime, felony accessory in Watkins murder

  22-01-2016 23:39
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.THURSDAY At 9:33 a.m., a 25-year-old Dayton woman was arrested on suspicion of battery after deputies responded to the 900 block of 5th Street to keep the peace. At the same incident, a 29-year-old Carson City man was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery-first offense. Bail for the woman was set at $1,000 and bail for the man was set at $3,000. At 1:17 p.m., Keith Gearhart,
  
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• 5 dead, 2 hurt in shooting at Canadian school

  22-01-2016 23:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Five people were killed and two critically injured in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan on Friday and a suspect is in custody, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
  
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• Six indicted in timeshare scam

  22-01-2016 22:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas area man charged in major telemarketing and tax fraud schemes was indicted again this week in an alleged scam involving timeshare properties and at least 15 victims, according to the Nevada attorney general's office.
  
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• Nevada AG indicts 6 in timeshare scam

  22-01-2016 22:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Six people were indicted this week in connection with a long-running scam involving timeshare properties and at least 15 victims, according to the Nevada attorney general's office.
  
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• Gorman students tap entrepreneurial spirit to develop disaster relief idea

  22-01-2016 21:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  More than 1,400 student entrepreneurs set out to develop ideas that would have a global impact in a summer program held last year.
  
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• Al Kramer, Chris Forbush to challenge for P.K. O’Neill’s Assembly District 40 seat

  22-01-2016 21:39
  
  CHRIS FORBUSHChris Forbush is pleased to announce his bid for the Assembly District 40 seat in the Nevada State Legislature.In December of 2015, Forbush met with numerous Carson City business leaders and local residents to discuss their feelings about the 2015 state legislature’s largest tax hike in Nevada history, and their feelings about current District 40 Assemblyman PK O’Neil’s vote in favor of the tax hike.“Across the board, people from every kind of socio-economic
  
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• Dozens of McCarran flight cancellations blamed on East Coast storm

  22-01-2016 21:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Winter storm Jonas, wreaking havoc on the East Coast, has led to airline flight cancellations around the nation, including McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
  
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• The Popcorn Stand: He’s Rob (us of real baseball) Manfred

  22-01-2016 21:07
  
  The Popcorn Stand is written periodically by Appeal assistant editor Charles Whisnand (actually whenever he wants to write it) and covers Whisnand’s musings in the world of sports (actually whatever he wants to write about). It’s named in honor of Whisnand’s favorite sports columnist, Pulitzer Prize-winning Red Smith, who once dubbed one of his columns the Popcorn Stand.Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred seems to be determined to live up to his name and “Rob&
  
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• Prosecutors drop murder charges in baby death

  22-01-2016 21:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Prosecutors have dropped murder charges against a man who was originally linked to the death of his girlfriend's 4-month-old daughter.
  
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• 2 more waves of Nevada Guard soldiers to deploy overseas

  22-01-2016 20:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Just two weeks after 250 soldiers from a Nevada Army National Guard supply brigade mobilized to support combat operations in the Middle East, two more waves of citizen-soldiers from a Nevada signal battalion are training for deployments to Kuwait and the Horn of Africa, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
  
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• Love Locket sculpture vandalized at Container Park — VIDEO

  22-01-2016 20:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A big piece of a symbol of the Downtown Project's dedication to the revitalization of downtown Las Vegas was stolen early Thursday morning.
  
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• Love Locket sculpture vandalized at Container Park

  22-01-2016 20:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A big piece of a symbol of the Downtown Project's dedication to the revitalization of downtown Las Vegas was stolen early Thursday morning.
  
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• Longtime Carson City Judge Mike Fondi dies at 78

  22-01-2016 20:27
  
  Longtime Carson City District Judge Mike Fondi died Friday after a long battle with cancer.He was 78.Fondi was originally appointed to the bench by then-gov. Mike O’Callaghan in July 1977. He was elected to the post four times, serving a total of 23 years before retiring in August 2000.Before becoming a judge, Fondi was elected Carson District Attorney in 1970 and served for six years until appointed to the bench. Before that, he was chief deputy DA for four years and before that a deputy
  
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• Man takes plea deal in Las Vegas cold-case murder

  22-01-2016 20:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man prosecutors say was linked to a nearly 35-year-old murder case has pleaded guilty.
  
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• Man takes plea deal in cold-case murder

  22-01-2016 20:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man prosecutors say was linked to a nearly 35-year-old murder case has pleaded guilty.
  
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• Douglas County manager out

  22-01-2016 18:51
  
  Stateline, Nev. — A separation agreement between Douglas County and its manager was approved on Thursday night by commissioners without debate, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t one in the wind.Douglas County Manager Jim Nichols did not attend Thursday’s meeting at Stateline. Neither Nichols nor the county issued notice that would have been required under his three-year contract. According to Deputy District Attorney Doug Ritchie, if commissioners were to terminate Nicho
  
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• Judge tosses woman's defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby

  22-01-2016 17:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A U.S. federal judge on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania woman against Bill Cosby, which contended the comedian smeared her character when he accused her of lying in claiming he had sexually assaulted her in the 1980s.
  
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• Blizzard with 'life and death implications' hits Washington, Mid-Atlantic

  22-01-2016 16:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Up to 85 million people are in the path of a storm that's expected to rock much of the East Coast of the United States.
  
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• Human remains found at site of F-16 crash in Arizona

  22-01-2016 08:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Human remains have been found at the crash site of an F-16 fighter jet in Arizona, military officials said. The jet crashed Thursday morning near Bagdad.
  
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• Man dead after shooting in northeast valley apartment complex

  22-01-2016 08:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man died Thursday night after he was shot in the parking lot of a northeast valley apartment complex.
  
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• Man dead after shooting in northeast Las Vegas apartment complex

  22-01-2016 08:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man died Thursday night after he was shot in the parking lot of a northeast valley apartment complex.
  
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• Tickets on sale Monday for TEDx Carson City

  22-01-2016 07:47
  
  Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series introducing the speakers for TEDx Carson City set for April 8 at the Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St.Tickets for TEDx Carson City 2016 with the theme, Creating the Community you Want to Live In, will go on sale Monday.Organizer Gina Hill said the goal for Carson City’s TEDx is to unite listeners in a common vision of creating a community that all would want to live in. She hopes it’s transformational. “I want pe
  
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• Science takes center stage at Carson City’s Fremont (with video)

  22-01-2016 07:47
  The students at Fremont Elementary School are learning about science through art.Throughout January and February, the school is hosting The Science Theater, an education program that teaches children science lessons through preforming arts. For one 45-minute period each week for three sessions, kindergarten through fourth grade students learn about lessons such as energy, force and motion and magnets. Each lesson relates to a standard of teaching for that grade level, so the kids can apply what
  
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• Science takes center stage at Carson City’s Fremont

  22-01-2016 07:47
  
  The students at Fremont Elementary School are learning about science through art.Throughout January and February, the school is hosting The Science Theater, an education program that teaches children science lessons through preforming arts. For one 45-minute period each week for three sessions, kindergarten through fourth grade students learn about lessons such as energy, force and motion and magnets. Each lesson relates to a standard of teaching for that grade level, so the kids can apply what
  
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• O’Keefe’s season has included top finishes in elite tournaments

  22-01-2016 07:47
  
  When Brady O’Keefe shows up for a wrestling match, his hair could be any number of colors. Ditto for his shoes. Sometimes the colors are so bright you need shades.O’Keefe isn’t bashful about being a bit flamboyant, either, and he’ll talk a little smack once in a while, too. It’s all in good fun, and it’s not really bragging if you can back it up, and O’Keefe certainly can do that.Entering Saturday’s Albany Invitational, O’Keefe is 24-7 after
  
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• No mirage: Washoe a lake again

  22-01-2016 07:47
  
  After being dry for nearly a year, a couple months of intermittent snow and rain have turned Washoe Lake into a lake again.“There’s not much,” said Washoe Lake State Park Supervisor Jennifer Dawson. “If you blink you might miss it.”Those storms, coming one after another, have also built the best snowpack in the Sierra in more than five years. Dawson said she is encouraged by the snow pack.“When spring hits and the snow actually melts, it will be exciting to s
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: Oct. 20, 1916: V&T trains run daily

  22-01-2016 07:47
  
  This continues the Appeal’s review of news stories and headlines during its Sesquicentennial year.…
  
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• Fremont Elementary School taking applications for pre-K

  22-01-2016 07:47
  
  Fremont Elementary School is still taking applications for their new pre-kindergarten program starting in February. Fremont was the last Title I school in Carson City to not have a Pre-K class, but recently, funds became available and the district decided to create the class at Fremont. “We are so pleased that we can offer this service to all of our families now,” Fremont Principal Casey Gilles said.Gilles said the school wasn’t able to start a class until February because it
  
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• Division II schools interested in Carson High School standout Asa Carter

  22-01-2016 07:47
  
  With national signing day for college football looming, Carson High three-sport standout Asa Carter has three offers currently on the table.Carter has a walk-on offer from the University of Nevada and partial scholarship offers from Division II schools Southwest Baptist in Missouri and Northern State in Aberdeen, S.D.Carter was among a group of northern Nevada players who visited Northern State last weekend. Reed quarterback Matt Denn was also on the trip. Northern State is a member of the Nort
  
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• Carson City School Board, Board of Supervisors discuss school resource officers

  22-01-2016 07:47
  
  From cops in schools to the Race to the Top grant, Carson City’s School District and municipal governing boards got review and preview treatment Thursday.Members of the School District Board of Trustees and the Board of Supervisors heard presentations running the gamut of those and other initiatives during the third annual such joint night meeting.“This is moving,” Sheriff Ken Furlong said of the growing cops in school initiative and the work of an advisory board for the progr
  
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• Carson City Board grapples with street finance

  22-01-2016 07:47
  
  Street construction and maintenance finance bedeviled Carson City’s Board of Supervisors with the old problem raising past issues and future hopes Thursday.Future hopes came during a presentation by Transportation Manager Patrick Pittenger detailing years of low maintenance funding and pointing to the need, in his view, for new funds via public approval by voters of gasoline tax indexing.“Washoe County has reaped the benefits,” said Pittenger, noting the Reno-dominated county
  
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• Senators visit Miners in key boys contest

  22-01-2016 07:39
  
  Carson High puts its unbeaten league record on the line today at 7 p.m. when it visits Bishop Manogue in a key Sierra League boys basketball game.Carson, 15-5 overall and 9-0 in Northern Division 1 play, is 2.5 games ahead of the Miners and four clear of Douglas entering tonight’s game.At 5:15, the Carson girls take on league-leading Manogue. The Senators are tied for third in league play with Douglas. Both teams are 4-5.The Senators beat Manogue twice in double-overtime last year, the se
  
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• Illinois paid lottery winners before college students

  22-01-2016 07:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Some of Illinois' neediest college students are falling victim to the state's budget mess. Thousands returned to school after winter break confused and worried about having to come up with a couple thousand dollars more for tuition this semester.
  
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• House fire in northwest valley displaces 1; cause unknown

  22-01-2016 06:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  While a northwest valley man was running errands Thursday afternoon, his home caught fire, gutting one bedroom and leaving "a coating of black soot over everything," Las Vegas Fire Department officials said.
  
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• Twelve Marines declared dead after helicopter crash off Hawaii

  22-01-2016 06:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Twelve U.S. Marines missing after two military helicopters collided last week offHawaii's Oahu island have been listed as deceased, the military said on Thursday.
  
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• Faint Praise for Bernie Sanders From Bill Clinton: ‘His Slogans Are Easier to Say’

  22-01-2016 06:36
  The former president distinguished his wife, Hillary Clinton, from Mr. Sanders on college tuition, foreign policy, tone, and their responses to the water crisis in Flint, Mich.
  
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• In Las Vegas speech, Bill Clinton backs wife's presidential candidacy

  22-01-2016 06:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former President Bill Clinton visited Las Vegas on Thursday with a singular mission: bolster support in Nevada for his wife, Hillary Clinton, who is angling for the Democratic presidential nomination.
  
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• MGM's parking policy proves costly

  22-01-2016 06:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  You'll have to cough up $10 to park, but MGM Resorts International is already paying in other ways.
  
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• Lawmakers consider NSHE breakup as regents talk consolidation

  22-01-2016 05:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  As state lawmakers consider dismantling the Nevada System of Higher Education, the agency's Board of Regents will gather Friday in what some political insiders criticized as a bureaucratic stunt aimed at thwarting reform efforts.
  
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• Filming of new 'Bourne' movie to restrict areas of Strip

  22-01-2016 04:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Anyone planning on travelling to the Strip late Thursday to early Friday should expect traffic delays.
  
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• Allegiant Air promotes from within to replace COO

  22-01-2016 04:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air has promoted from within to fill the vacancy left with the abrupt resignation of Chief Operating Officer Steve Harfst.
  
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• Think plink: Target shooting meets video games in new digital diversion

  22-01-2016 03:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two brothers from Georgia are bridging the gap between live target shooting and video games. Cabel and Pete English of Atlanta debuted their new game, Plinker, at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show, or SHOT Show, this week at the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
  
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• New e-commerce company delivered to TRIC

  22-01-2016 02:31
  
  EDAWN has bagged yet another distribution center for the Reno/Sparks market.In its second announcement this month, the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada said Thursday that e-commerce newcomer Jet.com has opened a 160,000 square-foot, west coast warehouse and distribution center in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center.The announcement comes on the heals of its Jan. 14 announcement that BetterWorld Books would open a warehouse in the Stead area of Reno.“We have several others we&
  
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• Nevada regulators may consider ‘grandfathering’ solar users

  22-01-2016 01:23
  
  The Nevada Public Utilities Commission indicated it might budge on its much-protested decision to apply new, higher rates to rooftop solar power customers who bought their systems in years past. Commissioner David Noble submitted a draft order Wednesday, saying there wasn’t enough information on whether so-called “grandfathering” would be a good idea and calling for reconsideration of the matter. The commission is expected to decide Monday whether to proceed with Noble’s
  
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• Former drug exec Shkreli, lawmakers clash ahead of congressional hearing

  22-01-2016 01:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli was on a collision course with Congress on Thursday as lawmakers warned he could be prosecuted for contempt if he does not appear next week for a hearing about drug prices.
  
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