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• Man found with missing North Las Vegas boy released from custody

  13-05-2016 23:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A family friend accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old boy in North Las Vegas this week has been released from custody.
  
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• Why We Keep Dreaming of Little Green Men

  13-05-2016 23:52
  Conspiracy theories like those surrounding Area 51 tap into a primal need to piece together a secret order.
  
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• Lane closures begin this evening in Washoe Valley

  13-05-2016 23:27
  
  Motorists should expect delays traveling through Washoe Valley beginning this weekend.Construction crews will reduce northbound I-580 to a single lane beginning today (Friday) at 7 p.m. until 5 a.m. Monday, May 16, for what NDOT officials described as a marathon paving session.Additional sessions will be scheduled through early June during weekends to avoid impacting weekday commuter travel on the highway that sees as many as 32,000 vehicles a day.The southbound lanes were repaved last fall.In a
  
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• Las Vegas police investigating death of a 3-year-old

  13-05-2016 23:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating the death of a 3-year-old child Friday afternoon.
  
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• Judge says Ariz. sheriff Arpaio is in contempt of court in racial profiling case

  13-05-2016 22:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A judge has found the longtime sheriff of metro Phoenix in contempt of court Friday for disobeying his orders in a racial profiling case, bringing the lawman a step closer to a possible criminal contempt case that could expose him to fines and even jail time.
  
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• Check out what Helldorado Days looked like in the 1960s and ’70s — PHOTOS

  13-05-2016 21:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The first Helldorado event was in 1934, and the Review-Journal has been around to cover almost every one since. We selected some of our favorite photos from past events to help pump you up for this weekend’s festivities.
  
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• District Court judge denies injunction against Nevada State Democratic Party

  13-05-2016 20:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A District Court judge in Clark County ruled Friday against eight people who sued the Nevada State Democratic Party’s executive board, alleging party officials didn’t properly notify them of an important change in application deadlines to run for leadership positions at the state party convention Saturday.
  
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• Inmate facing 24 years switches identity and escapes Washington jail

  13-05-2016 20:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man convicted of kidnapping and aggravated assault walked out of a Washington state jail after switching identities with a fellow inmate, triggering a manhunt by federal and local authorities, officials said on Friday.
  
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• Clark County schools waiting to comment on federal transgender requirement

  13-05-2016 20:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County School District cautiously reserved comment on a new directive the Obama administration issued Friday requiring all public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.
  
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• Italian woman, 116, now oldest person in the world after American dies

  13-05-2016 17:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Surrounded by relatives and neighbors, Italy’s Emma Morano greeted with a smile the news that she, at 116, is now the oldest person in the world.
  
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• Feds say public schools must allow transgender students access to restrooms

  13-05-2016 16:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Public schools must permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity, according to an Obama administration directive issued amid a court fight between the federal government and North Carolina.
  
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• Woman arrested for arson in large apartment fire that injured 1 person

  13-05-2016 14:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Sixty-one-year-old Shirlena Rutherford was arrested for arson in the early morning fire Friday at a large northwest Las Vegas apartment complex, located at 6666 W. Washington Ave., that left one person injured and displaced more than 40 others.
  
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• 1 injured in large apartment fire at Washington and Rainbow

  13-05-2016 14:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person was injured in an early morning fire at a large apartment complex at Washington Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard in northwest Las Vegas.
  
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• WNC roundup: baseball sets up showdown; softball’s season ends

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  Like they did throughout the regular season, the Western Nevada College Wildcats won their Region 18 baseball tournament game against Salt Lake, 5-4, on Thursday in Henderson by a number of players filling their roles.Matt Young set the tone by throwing five scoreless innings. Chad Bell delivered a two-out, two-run single to provide some breathing room. Abe Yagi blasted only his second home run of the season, but his insurance run turned out to be the difference. Casey Cornwell executed a bunt
  
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• Prep roundup: Fallon edges Dayton baseball in playoffs

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  ELKO — Fallon scored an unearned run in the sixth inning to edge Dayton, 5-4, in the first round of the Northern 1A regional baseball tournament Thursday at Spring Creek.The loss drops Dayton into a consolation bracket game today at 8 a.m. against either Fernley, South Tahoe or Elko. Dayton needs a win to stay alive.“For a young team without any playoff experience, I was proud of our effort against the defending state champion,” Dayton coach Mike Burrows said. “We just h
  
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• Nevada Appeal at 150: Feb. 1, 1961: World’s first space chimp home safe

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  Ham the happy space chimp returned to the United States from a 420-mile rocket trip to help scientists find out whether space is safe for people. The 3 1/2-year-old chimpanzee arrived at Patrick Air Force Base aboard an Air Force C131 plane which had brought him 170 miles from Grand Bahama Island. Ham is the first hominid launched into space. This continues the Appeal’s review of news stories and headlines during its Sesquicentennial year.…
  
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• Jury seated as Getty trial begins

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  Whether the death of 10-week-old Ava Douglas was the result of murder or an accident will be up to a jury seated on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court.Ava’s father, Trent Getty, 24, is standing trial accused of first degree murder in the death of his infant daughter.Getty wiped tears from his eyes as defense attorney Maria Pence described to the jury how he had cared for the girl during the first months of her life after she was born on Oct. 28, 2014.During opening arguments, Penc
  
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• Hockey great warns about substance abuse in Carson City

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  Former NHL hockey goalie Clint Malarchuk speaks to an audience about the dangers of substance abuse and how he overcame his own struggles at the Carson City Juvenile Probation facility Wednesday.…
  
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• First election deadline Saturday

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske says several key election deadlines are rapidly approaching, the first on Saturday.That’s the final day to register to vote in the primary or make changes by mail in registration information such as address and party affiliation. It’s also the last day to register at a registration agency such as DMV or the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the final day for military and overseas citizens to submit an application, registration cha
  
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• Cradlebaugh bridge project on Highway 395 substantially done

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  A project to buttress Cradlebaugh bridge on Highway 395 crossing the Carson River has been substantially completed, according to the Nevada Department of Transportation.Two bridges cross the Carson River and two cross the adjacent Cradlebaugh Slough were seismically retrofitted with approximately 20,000 pounds of reinforcing steel and other improvements as part of the state’s effort to retrofit older bridges for enhanced safety and stability during potential earthquakes. Roughly 8,000 cub
  
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• Cave Rock gets first addition in eons

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  For the first time since it was the neck of an active volcano, Cave Rock will see an addition of material as a means to get traffic safely along the east shore of Lake Tahoe. Looking very much like a cave, the lakeside tunnel of Highway 50 will be extended 60 feet by the Nevada Department of Transportation.The 27-foot tall structure will replicate natural colors, patterns and textures to match the existing rock face. Lighting and white paint will be added inside each tunnel for better visibilit
  
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• Carson’s season ends in loss against Manogue

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  All good things end eventually.The Carson Senators’ Cinderella season ended with a disappointing 10-3 loss to Bishop Manogue Thursday afternoon in a loser’s bracket game of the Northern Division I regional baseball tournament at Peccole Park.Carson ended the season with a 23-11 record, the best in coach Bryan Manoukian’s four-year tenure. The season ended far too early as far as the Senators were concerned. After finishing second in the regular season, the Senators had the sta
  
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• Carson High track: Senators’ 1600 relay team has eyes on the prize

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  Asa Carter, Ian Van Rensselaer, Brandon Basa and Hector Gomez-Barrios made the most of their first time together as a relay team.The Carson quartet posted the fastest qualifying time in last week’s 1600-meter relay trial with a 3:26.55, and hope to improve on that mark at Saturday’s regional final at the Jim Frank Track & Field Complex.It’s an interesting group.Basa (52.69) and Gomez-Barrios (51.38) run individual 400s regularly, while neither Carter and Van Rensselaer hav
  
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• Carson City School District budget hearing Wednesday, May 18

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  The Carson City School Board will hold its final budget hearing for Fiscal Year 2016-17 at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 18.The meeting will take place in the board room of the Carson City School District building, 1402 W. King St.Andrew Fueling, director of Fiscal Services for the district will take the board through the budget timeline, along with discussion and action of Capital Improvement Plan and subsequent approval of the final budget. The district budget lists projected General Fund revenues
  
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• Carson City Chamber of Commerce hosting social media seminar May 18

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  Putting Carson City on the map in more ways than one is the goal of Dr. Lindsay Chichester, UNR Extension Educator, who has partnered with the Carson City Chamber to make marketing business on the web less intimidating. Chichester has taught two previous classes and all agreed at the end of the three-hour session, they were ready to take their marketing to the next level using the business components of Facebook. Taking a poll of the attendees, Chichester found 46 percent of the attendees becam
  
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• Carson City Chamber luncheon to address creating sense of place

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  Experts in urban planning agree for a city to be an economic success, a sense of place is the most important element. A “Soul of the Community” survey, conducted by Gallup in 2010 in 23 cities for the Knight Foundation, found “physical beauty, opportunities for socializing and a city’s openness to all people” ranked more important than jobs and the economy. This soul is called sense of place and differentiates one city from another at a time when planners are creat
  
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• Brewery Arts Center summer music features Dangermuffin, SambaDá and 8 other bands

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  Music will soon fill Carson City’s summer nights. The Brewery Arts Center is launching a 10-week concert series starting June 4 with Mumbo Gumbo, a seven-piece band which describes its music as a mix of soul, zydeco, folk, blues, rock, cajun, Caribbean, and country. The concerts are free and being held outdoors at the BAC every Friday (except for Saturday, June 25) through Aug. 4. There will be food trucks, a painting wall for attendees to get creative, activities for kids and special eve
  
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• Annual postal workers food drive is Saturday

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  The 24th annual postal service’s Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is set for Saturday.Postal workers are asking people across the state and the nation to set out non-perishable food items such as canned goods by their mailboxes. Mail carriers pick up the donations when they deliver your mail.Last year Nevada residents gave a total of 529,000 pounds of food and nearly half of it, 226,000 pounds, came from northern Nevada.A spokesman said the food drive, the nation’s largest one-day food d
  
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• 2 Carson deputies finish POST training

  13-05-2016 09:06
  
  Two Carson City Sheriff’s Office deputies graduated from the Nevada Peace Officer Standards and Training Academy on Thursday morning.Deputies Michael Jerauld and Taylor Mieras were among those honored at the graduation ceremony at the POST building in Carson City. There were 28 officers from all across Nevada sworn in as Category I peace officers, meaning they had all of the training to serve as law enforcement officers. Orlando Guerra, POST commander, talked to the graduation attendees a
  
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• Pilot dead in 1-seat helicopter crash in remote Nevada site

  13-05-2016 08:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Authorities say a small single-seat helicopter crashed in a remote Nevada canyon about 75 miles north of Las Vegas.
  
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• Man wanted after fatal North Las Vegas hit-and-run posts photo of injuries on social media

  13-05-2016 08:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The man North Las Vegas police named as a suspect after a fatal hit-and-run crash Saturday reportedly posted a selfie on social media shortly after the wreck, police said Thursday.
  
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• Kit fox family makes a home at shooting range — PHOTOS

  13-05-2016 07:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A family of kit foxes picked an interesting spot to make their home — the Clark County Shooting Complex.
  
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• Kit fox family makes a home at Las Vegas shooting range — PHOTOS

  13-05-2016 07:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A family of kit foxes picked an interesting spot to make their home — the Clark County Shooting Complex.
  
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• Soon-to-be UNLV grad finds passion in social work

  13-05-2016 05:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nearly every county in Nevada suffers from a mental health professional shortage, according to the 2016 Health Workforce Supply in Nevada report produced by the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
  
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• Soon-to-be social work graduate seeks to enter understaffed mental health field

  13-05-2016 05:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nearly every county in Nevada suffers from a mental health professional shortage, according to the 2016 Health Workforce Supply in Nevada report produced by the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
  
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• Grand jury sought in case that includes alleged attempt to bribe US Sen. Harry Reid

  13-05-2016 04:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A county prosecutor in Utah wants a grand jury to probe a complex case that includes allegations of an attempt to bribe U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev .
  
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• Seniors get their due at West Prep Academy — PHOTOS

  13-05-2016 04:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  West Prep Academy honored graduating seniors with their second annual Grad Walk on Thursday.
  
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• Seniors get their due at Las Vegas’ West Prep Academy — PHOTOS

  13-05-2016 04:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  West Prep Academy is the only school within the district that teaches grades K-12.
  
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• White House decree to address school restrooms and transgendered students

  13-05-2016 03:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping decree telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
  
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• Teen hospitalized, 3 dogs saved after central valley fire

  13-05-2016 03:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Another dog was found dead inside later, and a cat could not be located.
  
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• Teen hospitalized, 3 dogs saved after central Las Vegas fire

  13-05-2016 03:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A teen was hospitalized with minor burns after escaping a fire within a central valley home Thursday morning.
  
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• Men may face federal charges after drunken dip in Devils Hole

  13-05-2016 02:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Charges could include conspiracy to commit a crime, destruction of property, trespassing, destruction of habitat, killing of an endangered species — a felony — and a charge of possessing a firearm as an ex-felon.
  
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• Men may face federal charges after drunken dip at Death Valley’s Devils Hole

  13-05-2016 02:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Charges could include conspiracy to commit a crime, destruction of property, trespassing, destruction of habitat, killing of an endangered species — a felony — and a charge of possessing a firearm as an ex-felon.
  
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• Donald Trump’s Chief Fund-Raiser Heads Straight for Las Vegas

  13-05-2016 02:45
  Steven Mnuchin, a hedge fund veteran himself, starts calling on big-money donors at a hedge fund conference gilded with Trump supporters.
  
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• Las Vegas youth homeless center to get new, expanded location

  13-05-2016 02:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A year from now, more homeless youths will have access to beds and more resources. On Thursday, officials held a groundbreaking ceremony on the site of a new homeless youth center off South Maryland Parkway and East Flamingo Road.
  
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• Peters SWAC Player of the Year

  13-05-2016 02:31
  
  When a hitter registers the type of offensive statistics Western Nevada College’s D.J. Peters did during the 2016 season, few can question why he was chosen as the Scenic West Athletic Conference Player of the Year.Peters followed his outfield mentor, Jake Bennett, as the conference’s top player after his Ted Williams-like season, which included a .401 average, 14 homers, 57 RBI, 59 runs scored, 69 hits, five sacrifice flies and a .727 slugging average. Mind you, these powerful numb
  
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• ‘Grim Sleeper’ serial killer blamed for 5 more deaths

  13-05-2016 01:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  If the “Grim Sleeper” took a break from murdering women in Los Angeles, it was shorter than initially believed, according to prosecutors seeking the death penalty for the serial killer.
  
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• Escapee from Carson City work crew still at large

  13-05-2016 01:23
  
  More than a day after he walked away from a work crew in downtown Carson City, authorities are still looking for prison inmate Michael David Lillie.Lillie arrived at the Stewart Conservation Camp along Carson City’s southern border April 8 to serve a sentence for felony DUI.“We had some reported sightings and a lot of leads to follow up but haven’t located him yet,” said Department of Corrections public information officer Brooke Keast.She said since Lillie is a local re
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct, open container

  13-05-2016 00:39
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.WEDNESDAYAt 10:35 a.m., a 56-year-old Carson City man was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct and open container after deputies responded to reports of a suspicious subject near the 2800 block of North Carson Street. Bail was set at $400.At 12:02 p.m., a 50-year-old Carson City woman was arrested on suspicion of violation of a suspended sentence after deputies conducted a
  
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• Supporters of a move to repeal Nevada’s new commerce tax not ready to quit

  13-05-2016 00:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Backers of a move to repeal Nevada’s new commerce tax are not ready to quit after the state Supreme Court issued a potentially lethal blow to their efforts, state Controller Ron Knecht said Thursday.
  
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