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• Nevada Supreme Court Justice Nancy Saitta to retire

  27-06-2016 23:56
  
  Nevada Supreme Court Justice Nancy Saitta says she plans to retire next month. According to a press rlease, Saitta wrote to Gov. Brian Sandoval last week saying she was leaving after 10 years on the state’s highest court. Her six-year term was set to expire in 2019. Saitta, 65, had previously served as chief justice of the high court and was a senior deputy attorney general before becoming a district court judge. “After nearly 20 years as a judicial officer, with 10 of those years as
  
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• Local sports roundup: Blue jays rally against Bandits; Hooligans wins two

  27-06-2016 23:56
  
  The Carson Blue Jays put together a late rally to knock off the Spanish Springs Bandits, 13-11, Sunday in the North Valleys-Spanish Springs Invitational.Carson trailed 10-8 entering the top of the seventh, but struck for five runs to take a 13-10 lead. Spanish Springs scored one off reliever Abel Carter, who picked up the save.In the seventh, Jared Barnard singled and moved to second on Kahle Good’s walk. After Brandon Gagnon laid down a but to move runners to second and third, Jesse Lope
  
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• Teen girl killed in Colorado River collision identified; boater arrested

  27-06-2016 23:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The California teenager killed in a weekend collision on the Colorado River in Bullhead City, Arizona, has been identified as Guadalupe Rodriguez of San Bernardino.
  
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• Teen girl killed in Colorado River collision ID’d; boater arrested

  27-06-2016 23:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The California teenager killed in a weekend collision on the Colorado River in Bullhead City, Arizona, has been identified as Guadalupe Rodriguez of San Bernardino.
  
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• 5.7 earthquake shakes southern Mexico

  27-06-2016 23:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A strong earthquake struck in southern Mexico on Monday afternoon, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage.
  
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• Nevada feeling Brexit economic aftershocks

  27-06-2016 23:23
  
  While Nevada may have the benefit of distance from the economic and political quake in Europe following Britain’s referendum vote Thursday to leave the European Union, analysts say uncertainty will continue to rock the markets and the Silver State along with them.On Monday, British markets continued the slide they started Friday, closing with the pound down 3.8 percent at 1.31 to the U.S. dollar, the weakest since 1985.U.S. markets also continued to slide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
  
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• Nevada DMV offering special license plates for military medal winners

  27-06-2016 22:51
  
  The Department of Motor Vehicles is now offering special license plates for combat veterans who have been awarded the silver star or bronze star for valor.The license plates were approved by the 2015 Legislature. DMV Director Terri Albertson said the plates also can be issued in versions for medal recipients who are disabled. Those plates also carry the international symbol of access and allow the vehicle to be parked in handicapped parking spots.The fee for two full size plates is $9 a year. Th
  
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• Suspect in Hawaii homicide arrested in Las Vegas

  27-06-2016 21:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman wanted in connection with a 2009 homicide in Hawaii was arrested in Las Vegas Monday morning by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force.
  
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• Lovell Canyon wildfire west of Las Vegas grows to 300 to 400 acres; blaze 20 percent contained, officials say

  27-06-2016 21:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Fire crews are still battling the wildfire in Lovell Canyon, just west of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
  
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• Lovell Canyon wildfire west of Las Vegas grows to 250 acres

  27-06-2016 21:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Fire crews are still battling the wildfire in Lovell Canyon, just west of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
  
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• Lovell Canyon wildfire near Las Vegas grows to 400 acres

  27-06-2016 21:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Fire crews are still battling the wildfire in Lovell Canyon, just west of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
  
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• ACLU challenges timeline for Nevada Supreme Court’s school choice arguments

  27-06-2016 21:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  In an emergency motion filed Monday, the ACLU asked the state Supreme Court justices to reconsider their decision to set arguments on July 29 in an appeal that the civil rights advocacy group filed less than two weeks ago .
  
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• Mermaids, La Bayou and Glitter Gulch come to a close on Fremont — PHOTOS

  27-06-2016 21:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Three Fremont Street businesses are closing their doors Monday night, leaving you no where under the canopy to find coin-paying slots, topless dancers and deep-fried Twinkies.
  
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• Nevada Supreme Court Justice Nancy Saitta is stepping down

  27-06-2016 20:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada Supreme Court Justice Nancy Saitta has abruptly announced that she is retiring more than two years before her second term is up.
  
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• Nevada offering special plates to recipients of Silver and Bronze medals for valor

  27-06-2016 20:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada’s Department of Motor Vehicles began offering special license plates Monday to combat veterans who received Silver Star or Bronze Star medals for valor.
  
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• Mound House company fires back against waste dumping charges

  27-06-2016 19:43
  
  Production Pattern and Foundry of Mound House has released a statement charging that a video posted online was designed to falsely accuse the company of illegal waste dumping.“We believe that this video was produced by the men involved to falsely accuse the company of directing them to illegally dispose of wastes from our manufacturing process and to further their own agendas,” said the statement issued by Gillian Pallesen, PPF accounts manager. Pallesen says one of the men in the v
  
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• Navy accepts delivery of USNS Carson City

  27-06-2016 19:43
  
  MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA’s Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) team finalized the delivery of USNS Carson City (EPF 7) to the U.S. Navy during a small document-signing event held onboard the ship here on June 24, 2016.The EPF program provides the Navy with a new high-speed intra-theater transport capability. The 338-foot long Carson City is an aluminum catamaran capable of transporting 600 tons, 1,200 nautical miles at an average speed of 35 knots, and is designed to operate in aust
  
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• 2 killed in separate crashes on I-40 in Arizona

  27-06-2016 19:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Arizona Department of Public Safety is investigating two fatal crashes that occurred just five miles apart on Interstate 40.
  
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• High court rejects appeal over wages for home care workers

  27-06-2016 19:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to Obama administration regulations that extend minimum wage and overtime pay rights to nearly 2 million home health care workers.
  
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• Police investigating fatal crash near Lake Mead Boulevard, Mount Hood Street

  27-06-2016 18:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal crash Monday morning in the east valley.
  
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• Police investigate fatal crash near Lake Mead Boulevard, Mount Hood

  27-06-2016 18:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal crash Monday morning in the east valley.
  
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• Agency to sterilize mustangs for first time to slow growth

  27-06-2016 18:40
  
  RENO — A federal agency is on a path to sterilize wild horses on U.S. rangeland to slow the growth of herds — a new approach condemned by mustang advocates across the West. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management also continues to resist calls from ranchers and western Republicans to euthanize or sell for slaughter the animals overflowing holding pens so as to clear the way for more roundups. Bureau of Land Management Deputy Director Steve Ellis delivered those messages at an emotional co
  
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• You can always have a trial

  27-06-2016 18:04
  
  Most commercial contracts contain mandatory arbitration clauses, which govern how disputes will be resolved. The concepts of mediation, arbitration and litigation are widely misunderstood, even by sophisticated business people who regularly deal with them. The purpose of this article is to informally discuss these mechanisms, their evolution and the most efficient combination of them.Mediation is a non-binding process, conducted by a neutral party whose goal is simply to end a dispute. The neut
  
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• Will Reno continue to Feast?

  27-06-2016 18:04
  
  Feast, a Reno fine-dining restaurant located on the cusp of Downtown and Midtown, is facing a potential name change. The Palace Station Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, which has a buffet in the casino called Feast Buffet, is threatening a lawsuit against Feast claiming trademark infringement. The Feast in Reno received a cease and desist letter about two months ago from Station Casinos, LLC. The letter said, “In short, we believe your unauthorized use of FEAST in connection with the same
  
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• When is your ‘gift’ a charitably deductible donation?

  27-06-2016 18:04
  
  When you are asked by a nonprofit to contribute to their cause and good works, it is natural to assume your gift is tax deductible. The unfortunate truth is that sometimes it is not.Not every nonprofit is a charity; in fact, most nonprofits are not. Think of nonprofits like federal credit unions, civic leagues, fraternities, pension funds, chambers of commerce, real estate boards, and business associations. These are nonprofits, but they may not be 501(c)3 charities. Contributions are tax deduc
  
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• UNR librarian represents Nevada at National Makers Fair in Washington, D.C.

  27-06-2016 18:04
  
  The University of Nevada, Reno’s own Christina Klenke, the Earth Science and Map librarian at the DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library, represented Nevada at this year’s National Makers Fair in Washington, D.C.Klenke is known in her role at the library as a facilitator of innovation amongst students and community members alike, according to Tod Colegrove, head of DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library. It was her work not only at DeLaMare, but as one of the six organizers of t
  
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• Midtown welcome

  27-06-2016 18:04
  
  Midtown — Reno’s eclectic shopping and dining district south of Downtown — is building a calendar of special events.Midtown’s latest event, the Reno Rodeo Parade, relocated to Midtown this year for its June 18 showcase down Virginia Street.“More organizations want to do events in Midtown,” Eric Madison, president of Roofdog LLC., and a board member of MidTown District Reno, said in an interview earlier this month at The CUBE @ Midtown. “We didn’t
  
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• Midtown rent increases

  27-06-2016 18:04
  
  Higher rent doesn’t just mean a landlord is getting more money. Higher rent also means a lot of landlords are putting money back into their properties via improvements, Debbie Warner, COO at Gaston Wilkerson Management Group explained. Those improvements could be a new piece of fitness equipment in the fitness room, paving the parking lot, repainting and or renovations.“Landlords lost money for several years through the recession,” Warner said in a phone interview. “Now,
  
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• Downtown Sparks transformation underway

  27-06-2016 18:04
  
  Victorian Square in Sparks is undergoing a dramatic transformation. With more than 500 apartments under construction, remodel, or approved for future construction, the square is on track to becoming a bustling location instead of open, often nearly empty, parking lots.The latest edition to the square is The Bridges development approved by the Sparks City Council June 14.J Carter Witt, president of Silverwing Development, expects to break ground on The Bridges in October.“We’re worki
  
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• Broadband comes to Nevada frontier

  27-06-2016 18:04
  
  People living in small Nevada towns like Dyer, Lund, Duckwater, Mina, Currant and Tuscarora, have been waiting a long time for Internet to arrive. In these rural areas, broadband signal once was out of the question. Now, at least in a few towns, that has changed for good.When work began nearly 20 years ago to bring broadband into the most remote communities in Nevada, the need was overwhelming. Less than 1 percent of the state’s rural areas had access to broadband service. Among those who
  
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• Blüming in Midtown

  27-06-2016 18:04
  
  Owners of Blüm Reno are looking forward to calling Midtown home.The location at 1085 South Virginia Street, near Vassar Street, will be the first northern Nevada location for Blüm, a medical marijuana dispensary.“Blüm Reno is about making our patients feel welcomed and have them walk away with more knowledge then when they came in,” Blüm spokesman Mikel Alvarez said in an email.Blüm Reno will strive to offer a high-end experience at an affordable price, he s
  
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• AboveNV is expanding drone services

  27-06-2016 18:04
  
  AboveNV, a leading Reno-based drone service company, plans to significantly expand business activities in northern Nevada based on rule changes announced by the Federal Aviation Administration for the commercial use of unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAV).Under the FAA’s long awaited rules, regulations are significantly reduced which allows for more rapid expansion of business activities in the state.AboveNV is preparing to expand its business in aerial data collection and processing servic
  
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• Man dies after being struck by his vehicle in western Las Vegas

  27-06-2016 18:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating an apparent accidental death Monday on the west side of the Las Vegas Valley after a man was struck by his own unoccupied vehicle.
  
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• Firefighters make progress against deadly California wildfire

  27-06-2016 17:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Crews made progress against a wildfire that killed two people and destroyed 200 homes as it tore through mountain communities in central California, leaving little time for residents to flee the fast-moving flames.
  
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• 2 injured in crash at Maryland and Franklin

  27-06-2016 17:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two people were sent to the hospital after a two-vehicle collision caused one car to crash into a building Monday morning.
  
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• 1 injured in mobile home fire in central Las Vegas

  27-06-2016 16:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One person was injured in an early morning mobile home fire in the central Las Vegas Valley early Monday.
  
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• Supreme Court cuts down Texas regulations on abortion clinics

  27-06-2016 16:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Supreme Court has struck down Texas’ widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics in the court’s biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century.
  
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• Spring Mountain at Rainbow reopens after crash involving Metro vehicle

  27-06-2016 16:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Spring Mountain Road at Rainbow Boulevard reopened Monday morning after Metro investigated a crash involving a police patrol car and another vehicle.
  
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• BLM wants to sterilize Nevada wild horses to slow population growth

  27-06-2016 15:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A federal agency is on a path to sterilize wild horses on U.S. rangeland to slow the growth of herds — a new approach condemned by mustang advocates across the West.
  
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• Clinton’s Day Care Plan: A Good Start, but Not Enough

  27-06-2016 10:21
  Donald Trump is right, for once: Companies need to chip in to help workers with their kids.
  
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• Woman’s body found in Henderson

  27-06-2016 08:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Henderson police are investigating the death of a 46-year-old woman whose body was found Sunday afternoon behind a store.
  
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• Review-Journal writers, editors honored in Best of the West awards

  27-06-2016 05:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas Review-Journal writers and editors took home first, second and third place honors in the 2016 Best of the West journalism contest and grants program for headline writing, investigative reporting and special topic column writing, respectively.
  
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• A Drone Start-Up Explores Underwater

  27-06-2016 03:14
  OpenROV, which builds submarine drone kits that they hope will become as popular as airborne drones, showcases the prototype of the latest version of its Trident submarine.
  
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