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• How well do you know Station Casinos after 40 years? — QUIZ

  01-07-2016 23:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  From a flood pouring through the table game area of one of its casinos to O.J. Simpson being arrested in a robbery in the hotel at one of its properties, how well do you know Station Casinos?
  
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• Southern Nevada businesses mostly have inadequate cybersecurity

  01-07-2016 23:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  There’s a gulf in the levels of cyber-hack preparedness among Southern Nevada businesses.
  
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• Judge lets Review-Journal, other media fight secrecy in Bundy case

  01-07-2016 23:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A federal judge Friday allowed the Las Vegas Review-Journal and other media to formally oppose a government push to withhold evidence from the public in the criminal case stemming from the Bunkerville standoff.
  
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• Security guard finds missing man’s body near Mandalay Bay dumpster, police say

  01-07-2016 22:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police said a security guard found the body of a missing man near a dumpster at Mandalay Bay on Thursday morning. The man, who police said was a guest at Mandalay Bay, was reported missing at about 4 p.m. Wednesday. His body was found at 6:30 a.m. the following day.
  
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• Missing man’s body found near Mandalay Bay dumpster, Las Vegas police say

  01-07-2016 22:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police said a security guard found the body of a missing man near a dumpster at Mandalay Bay on Thursday morning.
  
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• Southwest Airlines opposes proposed stadium site near McCarran Airport

  01-07-2016 21:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A letter from Southwest, McCarran’s busiest commercial carrier, all but ends the debate about whether the $1.4 billion, 65,000-seat stadium could be built at the 42-acre site at Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane.
  
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• Teen whose texts encouraged boyfriend to commit suicide to stand trial

  01-07-2016 20:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A teenager who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and telling him to “get back in” a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes must stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state’s highest court ruled Friday.
  
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• Northwest Arizona man convicted in shooting death of neighbor

  01-07-2016 20:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Golden Valley, Arizona, man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his neighbor.
  
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• Metro officer indicted on felony charges related to insurance fraud

  01-07-2016 20:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer has been indicted on six felony charges related to insurance fraud, the attorney general’s office said. Officer Jeff Lynn Harper, 36, was indicted on charges of theft, third-degree arson, insurance fraud and burning property with the intent to defraud an insurer. The charges stem from a January recreational vehicle fire.
  
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• Las Vegas officer indicted on felony charges related to insurance fraud

  01-07-2016 20:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer has been indicted on six felony charges related to insurance fraud, the attorney general’s office said.
  
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• Mother killed in quadruple murder-suicide of family had quit work, was ‘scared for her life’

  01-07-2016 19:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  “I cannot work,” an abrupt June 18 text from the woman, Phoukeo Dej-Oudom, 35, to her manager read. “He’ll know I am where I am. I have to quit now.”
  
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• Las Vegas man killed wife, 3 children, self with gunshot wounds to head

  01-07-2016 19:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas woman and three children who were killed Wednesday each died from a gunshot wound to the head, according to information released Friday by the Clark County coroner’s office.
  
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• Five family members who died in murder-suicide Wednesday described as private

  01-07-2016 19:52 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Las Vegas woman and three children who were killed Wednesday each died from a gunshot wound to the head, according to information released Friday by the Clark County coroner’s office, and the woman’s husband later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
  
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• Las Vegas police find woman dead in wash east of Strip

  01-07-2016 19:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police found a woman dead in a wash east of the Strip Friday morning. Medical personnel and police arrived at the scene near Mandalay Bay Road and Giles Street just before 7 a.m.
  
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• Hostages taken and grenades thrown at Bangladesh restaurant

  01-07-2016 19:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Local media report that a group of up to nine attackers took hostages inside a restaurant frequented by both locals and foreigners in a diplomatic zone in Bangladesh’s capital.
  
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• Bangladesh forces move in to end hostage situation

  01-07-2016 19:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gunshots and explosions are heard as Bangladesh security forces are moving to end the 10-hour standoff with militants who stormed a Dhaka upscale restaurant and took dozens of people hostage.
  
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• Bangladesh forces kill 6 militants, rescue 13 hostages in Dhaka

  01-07-2016 19:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Bangladeshi forces stormed an upscale Dhaka restaurant where heavily armed militants held dozens of people hostage Saturday morning, killing at least six of the attackers and rescuing 13 captives including foreigners at the end of the 10-hour standoff.
  
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• 9 gunmen take hostages, exchange gunfire at Bangladesh restaurant

  01-07-2016 19:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A group of as many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, taking hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces, authorities said.
  
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• 2 officers killed in attack on Bangladesh restaurant

  01-07-2016 19:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police say two officers have been killed by attackers who stormed a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, taking dozens of hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces.
  
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• Audit slams state dental board’s system for handling records and complaints

  01-07-2016 19:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A legislative audit of the state dental board revealed systemic issues with the board’s operations, including poor record keeping and questions about how the public’s complaints are investigated.
  
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• Audit slams Nevada dental board’s system for handling records and complaints

  01-07-2016 19:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A legislative audit of the state dental board revealed systemic issues with the board’s operations, including poor record keeping and questions about how the public’s complaints are investigated.
  
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• Shortened summer a costly change for Clark County School District next year

  01-07-2016 18:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  For the Clark County School District, changing the calendar for the 2017-18 academic year means spending about $700,000 more a year on air conditioning its 357 schools, spokeswoman Michelle Booth said.
  
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• Nevada Supreme Court stops sex offender law from being implemented

  01-07-2016 18:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada Supreme Court on Friday put the brakes on a law that would impose new registration requirements on sex offenders and subject thousands of them to community notification.
  
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• Details released in fatal crash involving Tesla in self-driving mode

  01-07-2016 18:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A driver with a history of speeding who was so enamored of his Tesla Model S sedan that he nicknamed the car “Tessy” and praised the safety benefits of its sophisticated “Autopilot” system has become the first U.S. fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode.
  
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• Toddler hit by car in northwest Las Vegas

  01-07-2016 17:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police responded to reports that a 2-year-old had been run over by a car Friday morning in the northwest valley.
  
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• Mega Millions jackpot grows to $415M before Friday’s drawing

  01-07-2016 17:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Mega Millions jackpot on Friday grew to $415 million ahead of the 11 p.m. EST evening drawing, making it the 10th largest in U.S. history and the third largest in the game’s history, according to lottery officials.
  
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• US 95 near Eastern partially reopens after truck crash

  01-07-2016 15:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Some lanes of southbound U.S. Highway 95 just before Eastern Avenue have reopened after a tractor-trailer crash early Friday morning.
  
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• Truck crash closes southbound US 95 near Eastern

  01-07-2016 15:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A tractor-trailer crash on U.S. Highway 95 just before Eastern Avenue has closed the southbound lanes Friday morning.
  
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• 2 lanes on US 95 near Eastern remain closed for road work after truck crash

  01-07-2016 15:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The two right lanes of southbound U.S. Highway 95 just before Eastern Avenue remain closed after a tractor-trailer crash early Friday morning.
  
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• The Popcorn Stand: Leave wild horses alone

  01-07-2016 09:44
  
  Wild horses are a treasured asset — but also a subject for political debate in Nevada. We all agree wild horses should remain a vital part of Nevada’s landscape, but the reality is we’re never going to totally agree on how wild horses should be managed in this state. We’ll just say the reality is it’s going to take a collaborative effort from all sides with different views when it comes to the management of wild horses — and the reality is also nobody is like
  
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• Orphaned Tahoe bear cubs flourish at Reno rescue

  01-07-2016 09:44
  
  In April, four orphaned bear cubs were rescued in Stateline by Nevada Department of Wildlife and transferred to Animal Ark, a nonprofit wildlife refuge organization located in Reno. They were relocated by NDOW after their 18-year-old mother was found dead, seemingly of old age. Now almost 6 months old, the cubs have settled into Animal Ark and eat large amounts of food while playing in their habitat.“They have a little pool that I just filled up and they already have half the water out of
  
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• Nevada lawmakers approve new fraud unit for Attorney General

  01-07-2016 09:44
  
  The Interim Finance Committee on Thursday approved spending nearly $1.3 million a year for the next five years to create a new financial fraud unit within the Attorney General’s Office.Attorney General Adam Laxalt told lawmakers the number of financial fraud complaints received by his office has increased dramatically in the past few years. He said there were 600 complaints in 2014 but 952 complaints in 2015.“So far this year, we’ve already received 870 fraud complaints,&rdquo
  
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• Nevada lawmakers add staff to repository because of sex offender law

  01-07-2016 09:44
  
  The Legislative Interim Finance Committee on Thursday approved adding $534,000 to the state Criminal History Repository to cover costs from the new sex offender reporting law.The so-called Adam Walsh Act was recently affirmed by the courts and made major changes to offender reporting requirements.Julie Butler, administrator of the repository, said the law dramatically increases the workload for the repository because it makes a group of offenders now numbering about 300 to a group of 3,000 beca
  
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• Kinderland parade in Carson City

  01-07-2016 09:44
  
  4-year-old Emma Epps shows her Independence Day spirit Thursday morning during the annual Kinderland parade.…
  
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• Blue Jays outlast Redding

  01-07-2016 09:44
  
  Blue Jays outlast ReddingRENO — Scoreboard operators were busy at Wooster High School on Thursday as the Carson Blue Jays and Redding combined for 23 runs. Carson eventually won the offensive battle in seven innings 12-11.The teams banged out 26 hits between them, as well as six for extra bases.Even though Colby Zemp allowed six runs over 3 1/3 innings he still recorded the victory. He struck out three, walked five and surrendered five hits.Bryce Moyle, Abel Carter, Jared Barnard and Trev
  
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• Union group launches Facebook ads against Joe Heck

  01-07-2016 09:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The AFL-CIO on Thursday launched digital Facebook ads that attack U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, the Republican candidate in the U.S. Senate race for the seat of retiring Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
  
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• Confident Laird takes lead at Barracuda

  01-07-2016 08:53
  
  RENO — Martin Laird came into the Barracuda Championship exuding confidence, and that didn’t change after his first-round trip around Montreux Golf & Country Club.Laird, who has three top-10 finishes in his three previous appearances here, recorded eight birdies and a bogey for 15 points on Thursday morning en route to the first-round lead.Laird leads lefty Greg Chalmers, 2013 champ Gary Woodland and Camilo Villegas by one point. Colt Knost, Zac Blair, Jay McLuen and Brendan Ste
  
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• Carson City’s Knighton keeps peace as marshal at Barracuda

  01-07-2016 08:53
  
  RENO — Four years ago, David Knighton retired from his job in San Diego and moved to Northern Nevada to be near family.“I didn’t want to live in Southern California,” he said. “It was getting so crowded and too expensive. My sister lived in Dayton, and she was caring for our mother. I came out, liked the area and decided to live in Carson City.“I saw an advertisement on the Northern Nevada Golf Association website for volunteers for the golf tournament, and i
  
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• Carson City group working to keep Andersen Ranch undeveloped

  01-07-2016 08:53
  
  Residents opposed to the proposed Vintage at Kings Canyon development on the Andersen Ranch have organized in an effort to influence what happens to the property.Save Open Space Carson City is working to preserve the more than 120-acre west side ranch as open space and prevent any development on it or, failing that, to impact the scope and size of what is built there. “We’re moving forward on parallel tracks,” said Maxine Nietz, co-chair of the group, which is in the process o
  
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• Carson City 11s strike out Truckee for win

  01-07-2016 08:53
  
  Just call it a walk-off inside-the-park strikeout.After Truckee overcame a 6-1 deficit to tie the game 6-6 in the top of the sixth inning, Carson’s 11-year-old all-stars won it in the bottom of the sixth when Caleb Morgan raced around the bases after striking out for a 7-6 win in the District 1 Tournament Thursday at Governors Field.With the win in its opener, Carson advanced to a winners bracket game at 10 a.m. Saturday.Morgan led off and swung and missed for strike three, but the ball g
  
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• Barracuda Championship Notebook: Brendan Steele at 13-points after ‘nap’ on back nine

  01-07-2016 08:53
  
  RENO — Brendan Steele called it a “typical Stableford round.”Steele birdied eight of his first 11 holes, then bogeyed four in a row at one stretch, and finished with a birdie en route to 13-point performance in the first round of the 18th annual Barracuda Championship at Montreux Golf & Country Club.“Yeah, obviously got off to a great start,” said Steele after his nine-birdie performance. “I was really cooking along there and then decided to take a nap on
  
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• Fourth of July: What’s open, what’s closed

  01-07-2016 07:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The July Fourth holiday will be celebrated on Monday. Here’s a list of what’s open and closed:
  
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• Brush fire closes northbound I-15 for two hours Thursday

  01-07-2016 04:48 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A small brush fire near the onramp near Victorville at 3:46 p.m. led to the closure of the Palmdale Road offramp. By 4:25 p.m., the fire had spread, and troopers closed the ramp and all four lanes of northbound I-15. As of 6:45 p.m. two lanes had been reopened.
  
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• State interim finance panel rejects plan to boost college savings program

  01-07-2016 03:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Several members of the Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee said they were uncomfortable approving the $2.5 million sought to expand the Nevada College Kick Start program at an interim hearing.
  
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• The theory that was proved correct and put Dr. Dipak Desai behind bars

  01-07-2016 02:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  On February 27, 2008, after announcing at a news conference that tens of thousands of Southern Nevadans would have to be tested for hepatitis C and HIV, the young man who’d never been the focus of public attention would find himself thrust into the public eye for years.
  
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• Bystander fails in attempt to save woman; 5 dead

  01-07-2016 02:41
  
  LAS VEGAS — A good Samaritan could not save a Las Vegas woman screaming for help as her gun-wielding estranged husband chased her from their home to two drug store parking lots in a chaotic murder-suicide that left a family of five dead, authorities said Thursday. The man gunned down his wife outside a business and killed their children, ages 9 to 15, at their apartment before shooting himself at the residence, police said. Homicide detectives are investigating what drove him to kill his f
  
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• Tesla looking for employees at Gigafactory in Northern Nevada

  01-07-2016 02:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Electric carmaker Tesla Motors Inc is recruiting for material handlers, product excellence inspectors, skilled technicians and production associates among other positions, to work in its Gigafactory in Sparks.
  
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• Man featured in ‘Serial’ podcast will get new trial

  01-07-2016 02:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After spending 16 years in prison for the killing of his former high school girlfriend, a man at the center of popular podcast “Serial” has a chance at freedom.
  
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• Food served to some CCSD students part of recall due to possible contamination

  01-07-2016 01:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Sandwiches, chili dogs and burgers served to some Clark County School District students are part of a national recall issued last week due to possible Listeria contamination.
  
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• One suspect in Carson City auto parts store robbery arrested

  01-07-2016 01:38
  
  One suspect has been apprehended in connection with an armed robbery that occurred earlier this week.Anthony Melendrez, 34, was arrested Wednesday night at the Rail City Casino in Sparks after deputies received information the suspect was at that location. Deputies also are looking for Melendrez’s alleged accomplice Jermine Jordan.The two men are suspected of robbing the North Carson Street O’Reilly Auto Parts store in Carson City at gunpoint Monday night.Jordan is suspected to have
  
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