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• NV Energy program could help residents lower their power bills

  20-06-2016 23:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas residents watching their electric meter spin away in the current heat wave can take advantage of a program called PowerShift from NV Energy to save money on their utility bills while still keeping their homes cool and comfortable.
  
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• Polygamous leader Lyle Jeffs flees home confinement

  20-06-2016 23:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs has fled home confinement in Salt Lake City less than two weeks after he was let out of jail pending trial on charges in a multimillion-dollar food stamp fraud scheme.
  
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• Lake Havasu police fatally shoot man after domestic violence incidents

  20-06-2016 22:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A pair of domestic violence incidents ended in a fatal police shooting in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, on Sunday.
  
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• Kingman police fatally shoot man after domestic violence incidents

  20-06-2016 22:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A pair of domestic violence incidents ended in a fatal police shooting in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, on Sunday.
  
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• Judge relaxes some house arrest restrictions for mom of ‘affluenza’ teen

  20-06-2016 22:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A judge has eased the house arrest restrictions for the mother of a Texas teenager whose lawyer blamed “affluenza” as a mitigating factor in the teen’s 2013 drunken driving crash that killed four people.
  
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• Nevada judicial panel approves $3M for 34 specialty courts statewide

  20-06-2016 22:00 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Nevada judicial panel has approved $3 million in funding for 34 specialty courts statewide, including new funding for three specialty courts in Las Vegas, Reno and Sparks.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Multiple arrests on domestic battery charges

  20-06-2016 21:20
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.Carson CitySATURDAYAt 2:30 p.m., Bernard Turner, 34, of Carson City was arrested on suspicion of felony parole and probation hold and domestic battery-second offense after deputies responded to reports of a battery near the 300 block of Winnie Lane. Bail was set at $5,000.SUNDAYAt 11:47 a.m., a 45-year-old Carson City man and a 40-year-old Carson City woman were arrested on suspi
  
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• Two escapees sought

  20-06-2016 20:39
  
  Law enforcement is looking for two minimum security inmates who walked away from the Humboldt Conservation Camp northeast of Lovelock.They were last seen at a convenience store off Grove Street in Reno Sunday shortly after noon.Nicco Donavan Way, 25, is 5’6” with blue eyes, brown hair, a two inch scar on his chin and tattoo on the right side of his neck.James Westbrook, 23, is 6’2” tall with hazel eyes, brown hair and the word “Jay” tattooed on his right forea
  
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• Inmate sought, other captured

  20-06-2016 20:39
  
  Law enforcement is looking for a minimum security inmate who walked away from the Humboldt Conservation Camp northeast of Lovelock.The man was last seen at a convenience store off Grove Street in Reno Sunday shortly after noon. It appears he shaved his head to change his appearance. James Westbrook, 23, is 6’2” tall with hazel eyes, brown hair and the word “Jay” tattooed on his right forearm.Westbrook was serving time for burglary and being under the influence of a contro
  
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• Coroner IDs 1 of 2 people killed Friday in crash near Searchlight

  20-06-2016 20:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One of the two people killed Friday morning in a crash on state Route 164 near Searchlight has been identified as Robert Smith, 43, of El Monte, California.
  
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• Baltimore officer caused Freddie Gray’s neck to break, state argues

  20-06-2016 20:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Prosecutors tried one last time on Monday to persuade a Baltimore judge to convict the driver of a police wagon in which 25-year-old black arrestee Freddie Gray’s neck was broken on the way to a police station.
  
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• Potential demolition of two vacant motels

  20-06-2016 20:19
  
  A Special Meeting of the Reno City Council will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, June 21, 2016, at 10 a.m. at Reno City Hall.What: Reno City Council Special MeetingWhen: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 10 a.m.Where: Reno City Hall, first floor, 1 E. First Street in RenoItems of interest on the agenda are as follows:E.2 - Council will consider approval of a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Reno and REMSA for implementation of Omega Protocol Response regarding medical calls. Omega protocol
  
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• Dog dies in house fire near Lamb and Carey

  20-06-2016 20:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A home in the eastern Las Vegas Valley was damaged and a dog died during a fire Monday morning.
  
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• Man who died after jumping from I-15 overpass identified

  20-06-2016 18:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County coroner’s office has released the name of the man who died after jumping from the Flamingo Road overpass onto Interstate 15 Sunday afternoon.
  
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• 12 people displaced after east Las Vegas house fire

  20-06-2016 18:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Twelve people, including a newborn, have been displaced after a fire in the east Las Vegas Valley early Monday morning.
  
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• FBI releases partial transcripts of Orlando gunman’s phone calls

  20-06-2016 17:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Orlando gunman Omar Mateen spoke in Arabic to a 911 dispatcher, identified himself an Islamic soldier and demanded to a crisis negotiator that the U.S. “stop bombing Syria and Iraq,” according to transcripts released by the FBI on Monday.
  
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• FBI releases complete transcripts of Orlando gunman’s phone calls

  20-06-2016 17:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI on Monday released what they said was the complete transcript of the phone conversation between the Orlando, Florida, shooter and 911 police operators in which the gunman pledges allegiance to Islamic State’s leader.
  
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• Süp’s next labor of love

  20-06-2016 17:07
  
  “Salad dressing is something we really thought we could do. People asked for it a lot,” Kasey Christensen, co-owner of Süp, said.Their website expresses the Süp concept: “Süp is a labor of love coming from the heart and dreams of Christian and Kasey Christensen. Their desire is to work with their staff, creating healthy, fresh soups in MidTown Reno. Being a part of such a wonderful community is truly key within their concept. So their tradition of ‘Soup Su
  
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• Social Buzz

  20-06-2016 17:07
  
  This is the first of a new NNBW column featuring tips on using social media to boost business.LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service and thus aims to represent a persons’ business self. Think: meeting a new contact for work. One of the first things to occur in an opening meeting is associating a name to a face. So, presenting the best whether it is walking into a physical meeting or a potential business connection via a LinkedIn profile. Both affords the same opportunit
  
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• Reaching Higher

  20-06-2016 17:07
  
  Twenty-five years ago, the Nevada athletics department made the most significant advancement of its history: the jump to NCAA Division I-A and major college athletics.That move set the stage for new and greater heights in the progression of Wolf Pack Athletics and success would soon follow — highlighted by championship football teams in the mid-1990s during Nevada’s days in the Big West Conference. Dominance in the Big West gave way to another move, as Nevada jumped to the Western A
  
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• Raley’s grocery store planned for Truckee; ‘this location is just perfect’

  20-06-2016 17:07
  
  TRUCKEE, Calif. — A Raley’s grocery store will soon be proposed for the Joerger Ranch planned community development in south Truckee and could be open by 2018, officials said Friday.Raley’s, in partnership with JMA Ventures, announced plans Friday morning to develop the store at the corner of Highway 267 and Soaring Way, next to Truckee Tahoe Airport.“As we move forward on our journey of health and wellness, Truckee is an important location to enhance our vision,”
  
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• Old becomes NEW again

  20-06-2016 17:07
  
  Before Midtown was Midtown, it was considered the next best place to open a business for owners who couldn’t afford Downtown rents. Early business owners “saw it as the only viable district left,” said Eric Madison, an entrepreneur and president of Roofdog LLC, plus a MidTown District board member and mentor with The CUBE @ Midtown (a business incubator). “It’s on the main thoroughfare, so it became the de facto next place to expand and revitalize.”During the
  
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• Midtown mixed-use development underway

  20-06-2016 17:07
  
  Construction is well underway on the first mixed-use development in Midtown. The 21,000-square-foot project, called 1401 Midtown, will include a combination of office, retail, restaurant and residential occupants. Blake Smith, chairman and CEO of S3 Development Company, LLC, purchased the property about 18 months ago. The 9,000-square-foot building previously housed the headquarters for Heritage Bank of Nevada. S3 Development is currently in the construction process of renovating the existing b
  
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• First container park, The Eddy, moves forward

  20-06-2016 17:07
  
  Reno’s first container park is coming to downtown. The development, called The Eddy, will be located on the south side of the river at 16 South Sierra St. on the vacant dirt lot next to the Wild River Grille and Riverside Artist Lofts.“The main premise behind (The Eddy) is to build a community space that services all sorts of activities from special events to farmers market to live entertainment,” Kurt Stitser, co-owner of The Eddy, said in an interview with NNBW. The containe
  
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• All that is GRAND

  20-06-2016 17:07
  
  The Grand Sierra Resort has been undergoing what seems like endless upgrades throughout their property since it was purchased by the Meruelo Group in 2011.“We are very diverse, but the idea is to provide the best experience for guests,” Christopher Abraham, vice president of marketing for the Grand Sierra Resort (GSR), said.Having recently invested $5 million in renovations on their Grand Buffet, which reopened last month, as well as upgrades to their Summit Tower rooms and a new we
  
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• Airport authority could release 2 acres for development

  20-06-2016 17:07
  
  The Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO) Land Use Plan provides a basis for future development while also preserving adequate land for existing and future airport operations and facilities. All land owned by the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority in proximity to the Reno-Tahoe International Airport is identified in the RNO Land Use Plan, which was adopted on March 12, 2015.The Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority (RTAA) is proposing changes to the adopted Reno-Tahoe International Airport Land Use Plan to a
  
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• Addition of retail giant among changes at mall

  20-06-2016 17:07
  
  The slogan for DICK’S Sporting Goods is ”Every Season Starts at DICK’S.”Now the owners of Meadowood Mall hope the Fall 2016 season starts with the national retail chain opening its doors at the shopping center.Construction is underway on the south side of the mall on DICK’S approximately 50,000-square-foot store that’s expected to open sometime in the last quarter of this year.It will be the third location for DICK’S in Nevada, with the other two in Las
  
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• US Supreme Court lets assault weapons bans stand in 2 states

  20-06-2016 16:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place gun control laws in New York and Connecticut that ban assault weapons like the one used in last week’s massacre at an Orlando nightclub, rejecting a challenge brought by gun rights advocates.
  
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• Not Forgotten: Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, Las Vegas Visionary

  20-06-2016 14:27
  Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel is mainly remembered as a vicious mobster, but he also helped turn Las Vegas from a sleepy desert town into a grown-up playground.
  
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• Toddler in critical condition after near-drowning

  20-06-2016 06:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A toddler was taken to the hospital Sunday night after nearly drowning in a pool, police said.
  
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• Las Vegas toddler in critical condition after near-drowning

  20-06-2016 06:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A toddler was taken to the hospital Sunday night after nearly drowning in a pool, police said.
  
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• Cleveland reacts to NBA championship win

  20-06-2016 06:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After a full seven-game championship, basketball fans in Cleveland have what they want. Here’s how the city reacted.
  
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• Power outage affects 2,400 Las Vegas Valley customers Sunday night

  20-06-2016 04:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Power was restored to all but 660 of the affected customers by 10 p.m.
  
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• Power outage affects 2,400 Las Vegas Valley customers

  20-06-2016 04:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  NVEnergy is reporting power outages across the valley affecting more than 2,400 customers.
  
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• 1 injured in central Las Vegas crash

  20-06-2016 03:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 66-year-old woman is in serious condition after a 2-car crash in the central Las Vegas Valley.
  
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• As many as 19 people displaced after apartment building fire east of the Strip

  20-06-2016 03:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County Fire Department is investigating an apartment building fire that displaced up to 19 people on Sunday.
  
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• Two inmates walk away from Northern Nevada firefighting camp

  20-06-2016 03:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two minimum-security inmates walked away from a firefighting camp on Sunday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
  
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• Library District in Las Vegas sued after banning gun-carrying woman

  20-06-2016 01:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  According to court filings, the library personnel summoned police who handcuffed Flores and took her firearm, holster and five rounds of ammunition.
  
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• Las Vegas-Clark County Library District faces lawsuit after banning gun-carrying woman from Rainbow facility

  20-06-2016 01:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  According to court filings, the library personnel summoned police who handcuffed Flores and took her firearm, holster and five rounds of ammunition.
  
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• College of Southern Nevada adds two soccer teams to its ambitious athletic plans

  20-06-2016 00:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The College of Southern Nevada has decided to grow its athletic program, expanding from two teams to five in the past year. Men’s and women’s soccer begin play this fall, joining women’s volleyball as the newest teams to don the Coyote colors.
  
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• College of Southern Nevada adds soccer teams to its ambitious athletic plans

  20-06-2016 00:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The College of Southern Nevada has decided to grow its athletic program, expanding from two teams to five in the past year.
  
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