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• Police officer shot, critically wounded outside Maryland police station

  13-03-2016 23:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A police officer was shot and critically wounded on Sunday as an active-shooter situation unfolded outside a Prince George’s County police station in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, authorities said on Twitter.
  
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• Officer dies after Maryland shooting; two in custody

  13-03-2016 23:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A police officer was fatally shot in an “unprovoked attack” near a police station in a Maryland suburb of the nation’s capital, authorities said Sunday.
  
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• Suspect in Slenderman stabbing committed to mental hospital, attorney says

  13-03-2016 22:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One of two teenage girls accused of trying to kill a classmate near Milwaukee to appease the online fictional character Slender Man is being treated at a state mental hospital, the girl’s attorney said.
  
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• Suspect in Slenderman stabbing case committed to mental hospital, attorney says

  13-03-2016 22:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One of two teenage girls accused of trying to kill a classmate near Milwaukee to appease the online fictional character Slender Man is being treated at a state mental hospital, the girl’s attorney said.
  
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• Officials investigating east valley apartment fire that took one life

  13-03-2016 20:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person has died and six people were displaced from their east valley apartment after a fire Sunday morning, according to the Clark County Fire Department.
  
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• 1 dead, 6 displaced after east valley apartment fire Sunday morning

  13-03-2016 20:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person has died and six people were displaced from their east valley apartment after a fire Sunday morning, according to the Clark County Fire Department.
  
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• Warren Jeffs’ wives attempt to wear hidden microphones to prison visits

  13-03-2016 19:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Earlier this year, a wife of former polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs tried to visit him at a Texas state prison with a tiny microphone implanted in her hollowed-out watch.
  
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• Father of slain 9-year-old Chicago boy charged with shooting 3 people

  13-03-2016 19:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The father of a 9-year-old Chicago boy who was shot and killed in November has been charged with shooting three people.
  
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• Fire damages vacant downtown apartment building Sunday morning

  13-03-2016 16:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A vacant apartment building in downtown Las Vegas caught fire Sunday morning, according to a Las Vegas Fire and Rescue release.
  
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• Motorcyclist killed in early Sunday morning crash

  13-03-2016 16:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 20-year-old man is dead after crashing his motorcycle into a car early Sunday morning, according to a City of North Las Vegas press release.
  
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• Recipe: Corned beef & cabbage

  13-03-2016 10:00 via lasvegassun.com
  Rí Rá Irish Pub shares its recipe for a St. Patrick's Day favorite.
  
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• Parking 101: An insider's advice on how to navigate Las Vegas garages

  13-03-2016 10:00 via lasvegassun.com
  John Katsilometes attends a lot of events around Las Vegas, so he’s become a bit of an expert on getting in and out of parking garages efficiently. He shares some of his secrets.
  
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• WNC baseball takes 3 out of 4 from Salt Lake

  13-03-2016 08:35
  
  No pitcher likes seeing two-time Major League Baseball draftee D.J. Peters coming to the plate, especially with the bases loaded.Salt Lake pitcher Jayden Hartle faced that predicament on Saturday afternoon and paid the price. Peters crushed a Hartle changeup well over the left-field fence for a game-turning grand slam, leading Western Nevada College to a 10-5 Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball victory in West Jordan, Utah.Peters supplemented his big offensive day with a two-run homer on a
  
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• Prep roundup: Big days for Dayton baseball, Carson track

  13-03-2016 08:35
  
  YERINGTON — The Dayton High baseball team improved to 4-0 with wins over Yerington and Bishop Saturday morning at the Yerington Tournament,The Dust Devils knocked of Yerington, 8-5, and then blanked Bishop, 6-0. The Dust Devils open league play Friday at home against Elko at 3 p.m.“I was impressed with our starting pitching today,” coach Mike Burrows said. “Trevor (Burrows) and Isaac (Von Schoff) only being sophomores gives us something positive to look for down the road
  
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• Lompa Ranch on Carson City Board of Supervisors agenda

  13-03-2016 08:35
  
  The Carson City Board of Supervisors will take up changes in plans for Lompa Ranch that would allow development of apartments and smaller-lot homes at the 250-acre site.The Planning Commission approved the zoning and plan changes at its Feb. 24 meeting, sending the issue to the supervisors, who will decide on it Thursday.The changes would require new zoning, going from the existing single-family one-acre and agriculture to single-family 6,000, multi-family duplex, multi-family apartment, neighb
  
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• King for a day in Carson City

  13-03-2016 08:35
  
  Jake Fenzke gives 3-year-old Cameron King a high five while playing Plinko on Friday at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Nevada Mardi Gras Day/BGC Night Out Carnival. …
  
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• Interfaith environmental group moves past partisan politics

  13-03-2016 08:35
  
  For the editor of National Geographic it all started with the arugula she bought to make a nice green salad. Then came working late, an impromptu dinner invitation and, days later, finding a bag of green goop in the back of her fridge. She “could have made six salads with what I threw out,” she says in the March edition of National Geographic.For the Interfaith Environmental Group it all continued last Thursday with a presentation by Midge Breeden on food waste.“If food waste
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: Dec. 29, 1972: Air crash survivors defend cannibalism

  13-03-2016 08:27
  
  “The moment arrived when we had nothing more to eat ...”With these opening words, Alfredo Delgado Salaberry, a 25-year-old law school student, explained to a nationwide radio audience why he and other survivors of a plane crash resorted to cannibalism to remain alive. “We thought if Jesus in his Last Supper distributed his body and blood to all his Apostles, he was making it understood that we had to do the same thing: take the body and blood which would then go through incarn
  
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• Cone Zone: Downtown Carson City road work for March 13-19

  13-03-2016 08:27
  
  Construction schedule for the downtown corridor project for March 13-19:Carson Street will continue to be one lane each direction. West Sophia, Ann, Washington and Spear streets will be closed or affected by traffic control at various times throughout the week. Look for signage. East Telegraph Street in both directions will be closed for several days, early to midweek. Fall Street will be closed to through traffic, but parking in surrounding lots will be accessible. For more information, check t
  
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• Carson baseball beats South Tahoe, Douglas

  13-03-2016 08:27
  
  Carson High stretched its winning streak to four straight and tuned up for the start of league play by knocking off South Tahoe and Douglas on the final day of the Mike Bearman Memorial Tournament Saturday at Ron McNutt Field.In the opening game, the Senators scored six first-inning runs and rode the complete game performance by Trevor Edis to a 10-1 win, and then took advantage of six Douglas errors to beat the Tigers, 12-2, in a game stopped because of the 10-run rule.Carson is 4-1 heading in
  
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• DA criminal informant safeguard rarely used in Clark County, records suggest

  13-03-2016 08:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  In 2008, the Clark County district attorney’s office created a database to assure lawmakers that prosecutors would be upfront about deals made with criminals in exchange for their testimony.
  
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• DA criminal informant safeguard gets rarely used in Clark County, records suggest

  13-03-2016 08:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  In 2008, the Clark County district attorney’s office created a database to assure lawmakers that prosecutors would be upfront about deals made with criminals in exchange for their testimony.
  
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• Students groomed on hygiene

  13-03-2016 08:19
  
  Connie Robertson, 8th grade health teacher at Virginia City Middle School, speaks with James Young’s 5th graders at Hugh Gallagher Elementary prior to her students taking over a personal hygiene presentation Thursday.…
  
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• Students combine high school, college and internships in manufacturing

  13-03-2016 08:19
  
  William Dakota Gershel and Timothy Ibarra, both seniors at Carson High School, have participated in Career and Technical Education programs since attending CHS as freshmen. Ibarra participated in two years of auto technician courses and two years in auto body courses. Gershel experimented in a variety of CTE courses including culinary, web design and welding.“CTE is a different way to learn, a different approach to thinking about careers,” Gershel said. “CTE gives you a divers
  
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• Memories of WNC athletics: John L. Harvey Field’s beauty goes beyond baseball

  13-03-2016 08:19
  
  Editor’s Note: Throughout the rest of 2016 Western Nevada College baseball and softball seasons, which is the last for WNC athletics, the Appeal is featuring columns every Sunday from those who are sharing their memories of the programs.To limit the memories to just one or a few might be somewhat difficult since so many come to mind.I have to remember my first encounter with Coach D.J. Whittemore during the summer of 2011. My son came to Nevada to play in a tournament and one of the venue
  
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• Ken Beaton: Ridin’ the radio waves

  13-03-2016 08:19
  
  1919 was a great year! Everette Furr was born and took his place with the Greatest Generation. At 10 years, the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began. After surviving 12 years of the Great Depression, he joined the Navy in September 1941.Furr graduated from boot camp in San Diego and became a radio operator. His orders were to board the USS Nitro (AE-2), an ammunition ship bound for Hawaii. He was assigned to Kaneohe on the north side of Oahu, Hawaii.Established in 1919, Kaneohe b
  
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• Carson City Water Resource Recovery Facility to see $30 million in improvements

  13-03-2016 08:19
  
  Failing.David Bruketta, Carson City utility manager, uses the word repeatedly during an hour-long tour of the city’s Water Resource Recovery Facility. As in: “All the mixing equipment is failing. If we can’t treat solids we have a problem.” Or, similarly, “electrical controls so outdated we can’t get parts for it,” he says, and sludge heaters that are “well beyond their useful life.” Three years ago, the back of a sludge heater blew off. The
  
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• Carson City road report for March 14-20, 2016

  13-03-2016 08:19
  
  The following information applies to the period of March 14-20. Work will continue on the Downtown Corridor improvement project on Carson Street. For details regarding traffic impacts as a result of the project, go to www.carsonproud.com. These sources will be updated weekly throughout the duration of the project.Utility work will continue from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays at the following locations, with possible flagger controlled traffic: Mountain Street between Fleischmann Way and Long Stre
  
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• ‘Point Break’ thieves wore masks of presidents to rob cellphone stores in Las Vegas

  13-03-2016 08:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Four men were arrested last month in connection with a string of armed robberies at cellphone stores around the valley. Like a scene from a movie, the suspects in the case wore masks of U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, according to Las Vegas police records.
  
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• Las Vegas veterans memorial moves closer to completion — PHOTOS

  13-03-2016 07:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The long-sought Las Vegas Veterans Memorial moved closer to completion Saturday as veterans and officials involved in support of its construction gathered Saturday at the Sawyer Building to prepare the site for the memorial’s May 27 dedication, seven years after it was envisioned.
  
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• Kyle Busch Prevails in Xfinity

  13-03-2016 06:00
  Kyle Busch made it 3 for 3 in the Xfinity Series this season, cruising to a victory at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz.
  
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• Two Mint 400 drivers injured during Nevada race

  13-03-2016 05:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two drivers were injured Saturday night during the Mint 400 race on an off-road course near Primm.
  
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• Rubio wins District of Columbia’s GOP convention

  13-03-2016 05:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida narrowly won the District of Columbia’s Republican convention on Saturday, seizing his third primary-season victory as a critical contest looms in his home state.
  
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• Shuttle bus collision with car injures 12 near downtown Las Vegas

  13-03-2016 05:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Twelve people were injured, one critically, when a shuttle bus overturned on Interstate 15 after a car swerved into its lane, causing it to overturn Saturday night, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• Nevada judge throws out immigration lawsuit linked to Mexico grandmother

  13-03-2016 04:46 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The federal government does not have to explain to a Nevada man why his wife — a grandmother and farmer in Mexico — has been denied entry to the U.S. for more than 20 years under “alien smuggling” rules, a federal judge has ruled.
  
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• Rain, snow slam Northern California, Sierra Nevada

  13-03-2016 04:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Rain and wind returned with a vengeance Saturday afternoon, sending people scurrying through downtown San Francisco just hours after a dry spell that spared the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade.
  
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• Prom event gives hundreds of high schoolers free gowns, tuxedos in Las Vegas

  13-03-2016 02:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A long line of high school students wrapped around Zappos Plaza on Saturday morning.
  
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• Fire at Henderson manufactured home causes $30k damage

  13-03-2016 01:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A manufactured house caught fire Friday night in the Henderson area, according to a Henderson Fire Department press release.
  
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• Teen moped rider seriously hurt in northeast valley crash

  13-03-2016 00:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two teens were hospitalized Saturday afternoon after being hit by an SUV in the northeast part of the valley, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Artsy kids gain opportunities to shine

  13-03-2016 00:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For the past 20-plus years, local high school students eager to follow that star have had exactly one place to go: the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts. This school year, however, the options have expanded.
  
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• Bundy about to trade soapbox for cell block

  13-03-2016 00:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  There are times it seems Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy has spent as many years on the stump as in the saddle, pouring forth his views on federal lands and the Constitution from the dusty middle of nowhere.
  
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• At least 3 dead, thousands evacuated as historic floods swamp South

  13-03-2016 00:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  As the Leaf River rose north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 26-year-old Rebecca Bruce and her fiancé grabbed what they could and left the shed where they live. The water was more than 2 feet deep indoors when they left, she said.
  
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