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• Person killed, another hurt in central valley apartment shooting

  26-03-2016 23:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A person was shot and killed in the central valley early Saturday morning, police said.
  
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• 1 dead, 1 hurt in central valley shooting

  26-03-2016 23:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A person was shot and killed in the central valley early Saturday morning, police said.
  
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• Man killed in multi-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon ID’d

  26-03-2016 21:25 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man who died in a five-car collision Thursday afternoon has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
  
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• Man fatally shot inside vehicle in Spring Valley early Saturday morning

  26-03-2016 20:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was shot and killed inside a vehicle in Spring Valley early Saturday morning, according to a Metro news release.
  
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• Man fatally shot inside vehicle in central valley early Saturday morning

  26-03-2016 20:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was shot and killed inside a vehicle in the central valley early Saturday morning, according to a Metro news release.
  
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• American Airlines co-pilot detained after he’s suspected of being drunk

  26-03-2016 18:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Federal authorities say an American Airlines co-pilot has been detained at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after he was suspected of being drunk.
  
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• Civil drones: Tools of peace tested near tools of war

  26-03-2016 17:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  When the state of Nevada set out to demonstrate its civil uses for drones as one of the six FAA-approved test beds for merging the budding industry into the national airspace, it chose a secure swath of high desert where the nation’s nuclear bombs were tested during the Cold War.
  
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• Utah station mimics life on Mars

  26-03-2016 16:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Life at the Mars Desert Research Station replicates the hardships of life on the Red Planet, but they can’t eliminate oxygen.
  
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• In Utah, everyone can hear you scream

  26-03-2016 16:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Life at the Mars Desert Research Station replicates the hardships of life on the Red Planet, but they can’t eliminate oxygen.
  
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• US Navy captain exchanged classified information for prostitutes, luxury travel

  26-03-2016 16:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The party’s nice while it lasts, but the hangover can be a real headache. U.S. Navy Capt. Daniel Dusek was sentenced to 46 months in prison Friday for giving classified information to a foreign defense contractor.
  
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• Two Las Vegas home invaders with a crowbar injure one, escape with property

  26-03-2016 11:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two Hispanic males armed with a crowbar forced their way into a home and robbed it at approximately 1 a.m.
  
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• 2 men armed with crowbar invade Spring Valley home early Saturday morning

  26-03-2016 11:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two men armed with a crowbar forced their way into a Spring Valley home about 1:15 a.m. Saturday.
  
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• Chris Carver withdraws from Carson City mayor’s race

  26-03-2016 08:11
  
  The race for Carson City mayor has already been reduced from four candidates to three.Chris Carver, who filed to run for mayor just before the deadline last Friday, posted on his website Friday he was withdrawing from the race. On Saturday, the post was removed. The Carson City clerk’s website still shows Carver as being in the race.In the letter posted on his website, Carver stated: “It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that I am withdrawing from the race for Mayor of Cars
  
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• Teri’s notebook: Students volunteer with Stewart Indian School, Washoe Tribe

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  After spending a week working at Stewart Indian School and with other tribal organizations, Adriana Rocha, 21, an education major at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, saw gaps in her own curriculum. “Native heritage is something I know nothing about,” she said. “I didn’t learn anything about it in school at all. Just being here is mind blowing.”Rocha is the student leader for a service learning trip where the students helped clean up the Stewart Indian Cemetery a
  
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• Stanford ‘Haase’ new coach in ex-South Tahoe star

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford hired University of Alabama at Birmingham coach Jerod Haase as its new basketball coach Friday, a week and a half after firing eighth-year coach Johnny Dawkins. Athletic director Bernard Muir is determined to return the Cardinal to being a regular NCAA Tournament contender as the program was under longtime coach Mike Montgomery over nearly two decades. Haase, who just completed his fourth season at UAB, will be formally introduced Monday on The Farm. “Stan
  
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• Silver State Charter School’s request to lower required graduation rate denied

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  The Nevada Charter School Authority on Friday rejected a request by Silver State Charter School to lower the graduation rates SSCS must reach during the next three school years to 45 percent instead of 60 percent.Silver State lawyer Ryan Russell said the school’s board was concerned requiring graduation rates to increase from 25 percent to 50 percent in just two years and 60 percent by the third year was “too aggressive.”“They did not want to set the school up for failur
  
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• Petition to raise minimum wage withdrawn

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  The PLAN backed initiative petition to raise Nevada’s minimum wage has been withdrawn.The Secretary of State’s website shows the petition by the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada was withdrawn earlier this month after lawyers for the two sides jointly agreed to dismiss the Supreme Court appeal of District Judge James Wilson’s order allowing the petition to proceed. The high court dismissed the appeal March 10.Wilson ruled the proposed ballot question could go forward d
  
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• Nevada Office of Economic Development Board approves tax breaks for Minden firm

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  The Office of Economic Development Board on Friday approved an expansion of tax breaks for Cristek Interconnects, a Minden company who produces high-tech wiring, connectors, electromechanical assemblies and other components for the defense industry.Company owner Cristi Cristich said the firm is expanding its operations in the Carson Valley with plans to begin also exploring possibilities in the drone market.The company will get a total of $76,123 in sales, business and personal property tax aba
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: Nov. 4, 1965: Explosion levels First Baptist Church

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  Shortly before 4 o’clock yesterday, an explosion of undetermined cause blew Carson City’s First Baptist Church apart and brought hundreds of spectators into the downtown area. The pastor, Rev. C.R. Gibson, had left his study in the church only moments before to go get a haircut. He had just got settled in the barber’s chair when the blast occurred. His wife later said she was just preparing to go to the church. There was no one in the building at the time and the only injury r
  
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• Local roundup: Wildcat baseball and softball teams split

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  PRICE, Utah — Homers haven’t been the primary source of Western Nevada College victories in 2016, but that changed on the team’s current road trip.Abe Yagi smacked a game-tying, two-run homer and D.J. Peters slammed a tie-breaking, two-run shot as the Wildcats rallied for a 12-5 Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball victory over Utah State University Eastern on Friday. Tim Lichty homered in Game 2, but the Golden Eagles rallied for an 8-5 victory.“Give them credit; th
  
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• Good Friday remembered in Carson City area

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  An actor portraying Jesus carries a cross at St. Gall Catholic Church in Gardnerville Friday.…
  
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• Carver withdraws from Carson City mayor’s race

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  The race for Carson City mayor has already been reduced from four candidates to three.Chris Carver, who filed to run for mayor just before the deadline last Friday, posted on his website Friday night, carsoncitypolitics.com, he was withdrawing from the race.In the letter posted on his website, Carver stated: “It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that I am withdrawing from from the race for Mayor of Carson City. As many of you know, I retired from DHS due to disability and over th
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Be cautious of bicyclists on the road

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is advising residents to be more cautious of bicyclists on the roadways.With the warmer weather, more cyclists are on the roads and motorists need to pay extra attention, as they are driving, especially in residential areas where children are going to be, said Sgt. Scott McDaniel. “You can never predict when they may unintentionally come out onto the roadway in front of you,” McDaniel said in a press release. “When you see children slow d
  
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• $10 million in tax breaks approved for Hyperloop

  26-03-2016 08:09
  
  Nevada’s economic development board Friday approved $10 million in tax breaks for Hyperloop Technologies, which is designing a space-age, high-tech system for moving people and cargo at hundreds of miles per hour.Hyperloop would work similar to the now ancient system businesses used to use to move paperwork through four-inch diameter copper tubes inside a building using compressed air to push a capsule from one place to another.Only Hyperloop would use huge diameter tubes to move cargo an
  
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• Fleeing suspect’s gun goes off, killing him

  26-03-2016 07:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating the death of a suspect whose gun went off, shooting him in the head, as he ran from officers Friday night outside a southeast valley strip mall.
  
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• 9 face murder charges in recorded after-school brawl in Georgia

  26-03-2016 06:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It started out as a fistfight. Two girls — emboldened by bystanders alternately yelling out support or derision — went toe to toe in the residential street before they tumbled to the ground.
  
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• Gunshot death of fleeing suspect under investigation by Las Vegas police

  26-03-2016 05:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating the death of a suspect whose gun went off, shooting him in the head, as he ran from officers Friday night outside a southeast valley strip mall.
  
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• Wolves kill and waste 19 elk in Wyoming

  26-03-2016 05:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  State wildlife officials said they’ve never seen anything like it: A pack of wolves killed 19 elk at a western Wyoming feeding ground and didn’t even bother to eat.
  
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• Man suspected of shooting California family, wrapping them in plastic and duct-tape

  26-03-2016 05:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A business associate of a popular practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine was arrested Friday in connection with what California authorities say was the horrific slaying of the herbalist, his wife and the couple’s 5-year-old daughter.
  
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• Ten States Still Have Fewer Jobs Since Recession

  26-03-2016 04:03
  Ten states still have not regained all the jobs they lost in the recession, even after six and a half years of recovery.
  
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• NHP and CHP team up to issue over 300 citations on Interstate 15

  26-03-2016 03:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada Highway Patrol has released the results from its Friday team-up with the California Highway Patrol, Metro and Henderson police to catch spring break speeders on Interstate 15.
  
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• Drone delivers package to Nevada residential area, a first for US

  26-03-2016 03:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a small Nevada town in what its maker and the governor of the state said Friday was the first fully autonomous urban drone delivery in the U.S.
  
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• 21 protesters arrested at Nevada National Security Site

  26-03-2016 03:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Twenty-one protesters were arrested Friday at the Nevada National Security Site, according to a release from the Nevada Desert Experience.
  
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• Reid takes his Supreme Court case to UNLV law students

  26-03-2016 01:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid found a supportive audience when he took his Supreme Court nomination campaign to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Friday.
  
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• Nevada Sen. Harry Reid takes his Supreme Court case to UNLV law students

  26-03-2016 01:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid found a supportive audience when he took his Supreme Court nomination campaign to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Friday.
  
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• Supreme Court disbars defense lawyer Brian Bloomfield

  26-03-2016 01:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada Supreme Court Friday permanently disbarred defense lawyer Brian Bloomfield over his conviction in a scheme to defraud the court system.
  
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• Husband not a suspect in Mason Valley woman’s death

  26-03-2016 01:07
  
  YERINGTON — Sheriff’s deputies investigating the shooting death of a U.S. Postal Service worker in rural Nevada say they don’t consider her husband a suspect in what he originally reported was an accident. Lyon County Sheriff Al McNeil has released few details about Tuesday’s death of 26-year-old Johnie Nichole Shadden at her home in Mason Valley, which is on her mail delivery route about 75 miles southeast of Reno. Sheriff’s spokesman Michael Carlson said Friday in
  
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• Utah businessman convicted of lying to banks

  26-03-2016 00:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Utah businessman who was a key figure in an influence-peddling scandal that ensnared two former state attorneys general was convicted Friday of lying to banks but cleared of dozens of other charges
  
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• Split verdict for businessman key to toppling Utah lawmen

  26-03-2016 00:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Utah businessman who was a helicopter-flying philanthropist before he became a key figure in an influence-peddling scandal that ensnared two former state attorneys general was convicted Friday of lying to banks but cleared of dozens of other charges
  
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• Nevada inmate found hanged in cell

  26-03-2016 00:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An inmate committed suicide at High Desert State Prison on March 23, according to a release from the Nevada Department of Corrections.
  
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