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• Four taken to hospital after multiple-vehicle crash on Nellis Boulevard

  04-05-2016 23:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Four people have been taken to a hospital Wednesday afternoon following a multiple-vehicle crash, according to police.
  
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• Las Vegas police say teacher kept journal of her sexual relationship with ex-student

  04-05-2016 23:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Molasky Junior High math teacher Nicole Wilfinger kept a journal of her relationship history with former student, according to her arrest report.
  
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• Feds say NC restrictions on LGBT rights is against US civil rights laws

  04-05-2016 22:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights protections and can’t be enforced, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.
  
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• 5 things to know about the PEPCON disaster, 28 years later

  04-05-2016 22:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Twenty-eight years ago, the Las Vegas Valley experienced one of the largest explosions in history — PEPCON.
  
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• New Mexico man charged in Navajo girl’s death lured her into van

  04-05-2016 22:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A stranger who lured 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike into his van with promises of watching a movie instead walked her into the hills of a remote area of the Navajo Nation.
  
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• Motorcyclist died from injuries in March 24 crash

  04-05-2016 21:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police on Tuesday were notified about the cause and manner of a man’s death from a crash in March.
  
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• Raging wildfire forces 88,000 to evacuate Canadian town — VIDEO

  04-05-2016 21:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, Alberta, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed.
  
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• Woman charged in fatal Oklahoma State parade crash

  04-05-2016 20:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman charged with killing four people and injuring more than 40 others by plowing her car into a crowd at Oklahoma State University’s 2015 homecoming parade entered a plea of not guilty at a court in Stillwater on Wednesday.
  
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• Ex-chemist was high on drugs every day for 8 years while working at drug lab, report says

  04-05-2016 20:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A former Massachusetts chemist was high on drugs almost every day for the nearly eight years she worked at an Amherst drug lab, according to an investigative report released by the state attorney general.
  
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• Third suspect in fatal Lee’s liquor store shooting surrenders to police

  04-05-2016 18:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The final man Las Vegas police were looking for in connection with the fatal shooting of a southwest valley Lee’s Discount Liquor cashier two weeks ago turned himself in late Wednesday night — a day after police made two high-profile arrests involving the case.
  
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• Third man surrenders to police in connection with fatal Lee’s liquor store shooting

  04-05-2016 18:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The final man Las Vegas police were looking for in connection with the fatal shooting of a southwest valley Lee’s Discount Liquor cashier two weeks ago turned himself in late Wednesday night — a day after police made two high-profile arrests involving the case.
  
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• Carson City Courthouse evacuated after bomb scare; no threat found

  04-05-2016 18:47
  
  The Carson City Courthouse was temporarily closed Wednesday morning as a possible bomb scare was investigated. On Wednesday morning, a bomb threat was called into the South Lake Tahoe Courthouse and as a protective measure, Carson City officials swept the Carson Courthouse to make sure no similar devices were on the property. During the sweep, a black trash bag was found in the bushes.The courthouse was evacuated around 8 a.m. while deputies and detectives conducted a second sweep. Officials sai
  
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• Fired worker kills supervisor, self in shooting at Houston trucking company

  04-05-2016 17:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man who had been fired from a Houston-area trucking firm on Wednesday returned to the company and fatally shot a co-worker with a shotgun before taking his own life, the Harris County sheriff said.
  
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• Summerlin Parkway crash sends 2 to hospital

  04-05-2016 15:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A crash Wednesday morning on Summerlin Parkway sends two drivers to the hospital, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
  
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• Here’s how Las Vegans benefit from the tourism industry

  04-05-2016 09:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  With National Travel and Tourism Week in full swing, here’s a look at how residents in Southern Nevada benefit from the city’s thriving industry.
  
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• Whittemore talks about future of community college sports

  04-05-2016 08:21
  
  Editor’s note: This continues a series of articles on Western Nevada College intercollegiate athletics, which are being discontinued after the 2016 season.As the Western Nevada College athletics program comes near to the finish, Wildcat baseball coach D.J. Whittemore said he’s more concerned about how the value of athletics at the community college level is seen and not concerned as much about how his program is coming to an end.As the curtain comes down on WNC athletics when the 20
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: May 7, 1931: Machine sends exact message

  04-05-2016 08:21
  
  A new facsimile machine, capable of transmitting the entire contents of a newspaper across hundreds of miles in a few minutes, is being perfected here in the laboratories of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company. Tests indicate the new invention may revolutionize methods of transmitting documents, news and business messages over long distances. Business houses in New York will be able to send letters to clients in Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles as speedily as they now send teleg
  
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• Lemburg strong for CHS

  04-05-2016 08:21
  
  Lauren Lemburg pitched two strong games against Spanish Springs last weekend and came up empty handed.On Tuesday, Lemburg came up with another sold effort, and she wasn’t going to be denied.Lemburg, Carson High’s sophomore left-hander, had a no-hitter for five innings before settling for a 3-hitter in the Senators’ 9-1 win over Wooster in a Northern Division 1 softball game.The win upped Carson’s record to 5-14 in league heading into Thursday’s game at Wooster. Car
  
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• Democrats out-registering Republicans so far this calendar year

  04-05-2016 08:21
  
  The roll of active voters registered in Nevada has swelled by 73,119 since January with more than a third of that increase — 25,277, coming in April alone.Democrats have out-registered Republicans by a margin of nearly 2:1 so far this calendar year, adding 40,464 to the list compared to 23,863 Republicans. As of April, they had a registration advantage of 64,635 voters — 511,806 to 447,171.The advantage is even larger when total voter registration is considered — 103,031 with
  
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• Commission provides funds for cultural events in Carson City

  04-05-2016 08:21
  
  The Arts and Culture Special Event funding was divvied up among four groups by the Carson City Cultural Commission Tuesday. The commission approved a total of $24,000 split between the Brewery Arts Center, Capital City Arts Initiative, the Mile High Jazz Band and the La Ke Lel Be Pow Wow Committee. Gina Hill, the BAC executive director, said the requested $5,500 would be used to cover 8.6 percent of the cost of its upcoming summer music concert series, which this year is being funded in part by
  
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• Carson City students take virtual field trip around world

  04-05-2016 08:21
  
  Carson City students got the opportunity to travel the world Tuesday.Second to fifth grade students from Bordewich-Bray and Fremont Elementary were chosen to beta test a new learning program called Google Expedition Pioneer Program. The program provided technology that allowed the students to travel the world using individual virtual reality viewers and the teachers had tablet that allowed them to choose from more than 200 possible expeditions and guide the students through each. Expeditions in
  
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• Carson City officials concerned about repercussions of narcotics arrests

  04-05-2016 08:21
  
  Following recent narcotics arrests in Reno, local law enforcement warns citizens to be on the watch for loved ones who may be suffering repercussions from it.Recently, arrests were made in Reno and San Francisco relating to a major distribution source for prescription opioids, and local law enforcement is concerned about community education to detect signs of addiction and withdrawal for those who may have been getting prescription pills from the dismantled distribution source.Possible repercus
  
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• Arrests made in Lee’s Discount Liquor shooting

  04-05-2016 07:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  On what would have been the 25th birthday of the southwest valley Lee’s Discount Liquor cashier who was gunned down during an armed robbery two weeks ago, two men were arrested Tuesday night in connection with his fatal shooting.
  
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• Bachelor party turns tragic after guys fly in stunt planes to avoid forfeiting fares

  04-05-2016 06:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It came down to going out in the stunt planes or losing more than $8,000 they had ponied up for their Sky Combat Ace adventure.
  
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• US serviceman killed by Islamic State fighters in Iraq identified

  04-05-2016 05:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Navy SEAL killed in Iraq on Tuesday was identified as Charlie Keating IV, a former Phoenix high school star distance runner and the grandson of the late Arizona financier involved in the 1980s savings and loan scandal.
  
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• Man arrested in Pahrump wedding shooting

  04-05-2016 05:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nye County police have arrested a man in connection with a Pahrump wedding shooting that left two people wounded.
  
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• US Rep. Joe Heck unveils bill to change career and technical education funding

  04-05-2016 04:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  U.S. Rep. Joe Heck said he hopes to see hearings and possibly action before year’s end on a bill that would change career and technical education funding.
  
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• Lyon County Sheriff’s Office seeking missing Dayton woman

  04-05-2016 03:51
  
  The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help in locating 60-year-old Toni Davis from the Mark Twain area of Dayton. Davis, who went missing in the late afternoon or early evening of Thursday, April 28, has not been seen or heard from since, according to a Lyon County Sheriff’s Office press release. She’s said to have left on foot, but the direction of travel is unknown. Davis, a white female, approximately 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs between 150 and 170 pounds. She has
  
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• Law enforcement memorial run expected to cause traffic delays; Howell to be honored Thursday

  04-05-2016 03:43
  
  Traffic delays are expected today from about 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. as law enforcement officers run the memorial baton into Carson City from Douglas County.The baton is being run from Las Vegas to Carson for the Nevada Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Ceremony Thursday on the Capitol Grounds. The runners are expected to start at the KOA campsite in Douglas County, come down Highway 395 to Sixth Street and end on Butti Way to house the baton until the ceremony Thursday. Because there will be a police
  
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• November voters will select new Henderson justice of the peace

  04-05-2016 03:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County Commission voted Tuesday to let voters next November decide who will fill a Henderson justice of the peace vacancy.
  
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• Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race after Indiana loss

  04-05-2016 02:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz abruptly ended his presidential campaign Tuesday night after falling to Donald Trump in Indiana’s primary, a devastating loss that left him with no viable path to the Republican nomination. Trump, considered a fringe candidate a year ago, now is poised to represent Republicans in the fall presidential campaign.
  
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• Monorail to use interest money to kick-start expansion to Mandalay Bay

  04-05-2016 01:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Las Vegas Monorail has inched a little closer to becoming a mile longer — to Mandalay Bay.
  
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• Lawsuit: Nevada worker fired for not accepting Scientology

  04-05-2016 01:51
  
  LAS VEGAS — A Catholic woman fired from her job at a bottled water company led by a Nevada lawmaker has filed a federal lawsuit against the business, saying she was pressured to watch videos on Scientology and was denied pay raises because of her religious beliefs. Grecia Echevarria-Hernandez filed a discrimination lawsuit April 26 against Las Vegas-based AffinityLifestyles.com, also known as Real Alkalized Water. Republican Assemblyman Brent Jones is president of the company. His son, Bla
  
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• Harvey Whittemore finishes sentence in San Francisco halfway house

  04-05-2016 01:43
  
  RENO — Former Nevada lobbyist Harvey Whittemore is a free man after spending 21 months of a two-year prison term in federal custody for breaking campaign contribution laws. The 63-year-old former lawyer and political power-broker was released from a federal halfway house in San Francisco on Monday. The Las Vegas Review Journal reports he can reapply for his law license as early as next year. Whittemore was sent to a minimum-security prison on the central California coast in 2014 after he w
  
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• Construction starts soon for UNLV housing project

  04-05-2016 01:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Construction will begin soon for a dormitory-style housing project near UNLV’s north side, driving the school’s yearslong push to lure more students to live near campus.
  
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• Nevada first: DRI seeds clouds using unmanned aircraft

  04-05-2016 01:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For the first time in aviation history, a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft has successfully tested a cloud-seeding payload during an experimental flight in Nevada.
  
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