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• Simulated flight over McCarran a roller-coaster ride

  07-08-2016 23:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The doomed flight was on a simulator inside Allegiant Air’s training center in southwest Las Vegas. The folks at Allegiant were kind enough to let me try my hand at flying an Airbus A320 during a tour of the 17,500-square-foot facility.
  
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• Car crash causes Carson City power outage

  07-08-2016 21:10
  
  Nearly 4,500 Carson City NV Energy customers remain without power as of 11 a.m. Sunday after a car hit a power pole on Curry Street.The outage was reported just after 9 a.m. Power is expected to be restored about 12:30 p.m. Almost 1,200 in Douglas County remain in the dark.When the outage was first reported, 10,000 customers in Carson City and Douglas County didn’t have power.…
  
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• Road to getting initiatives, referendums on Nevada ballot full of obstacles

  07-08-2016 20:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada Constitution gives citizens the right to weigh in on public policy issues through the use of ballot initiatives and referendums.
  
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• Possible campus of homeless services considered for Downtown Las Vegas

  07-08-2016 20:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Creating a “campus” of homeless services, a storage facility for their belongings and a mental health hub are among the ideas that have been floated to help the homeless population and curb chronic homelessness in downtown Las Vegas.
  
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• New Nevada law helping crackdown on squatters

  07-08-2016 19:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The law that took effect on Oct. 1 makes it easier to crack down on squatters in Nevada. The law is considered an improvement over the previous civil judicial process, but it hasn’t totally eliminated squatters.
  
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• New law seen helping crackdown on squatters

  07-08-2016 19:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The law that took effect on Oct. 1 makes it easier to crack down on squatters in Nevada. The law is considered an improvement over the previous civil judicial process, but it hasn’t totally eliminated squatters.
  
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• Henderson resident and sister of Manson family victim fights to keep killers imprisoned

  07-08-2016 18:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Henderson resident also thought justice had been guaranteed after the madman behind her brother’s killing, Charles Manson, and four of his followers were sentenced to the death penalty. Then the unthinkable happened.
  
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• Henderson resident remembers her brother, Charles Manson victim, as ‘my idol’

  07-08-2016 18:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Thomas John Kummer became Jay Sebring about 1958 because he liked the name of the racetrack in Florida and his hair styling business was taking off.
  
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• Las Vegas psychiatrist helps Vietnam veterans heal ‘invisible wounds’

  07-08-2016 09:16 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A group of Las Vegas area combat veterans who have learned to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder credit Dr. Steven Kingsbury with instilling a calmness in their lives in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
  
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• Lopiccolo using V&T Railroad depot tiles on Third Street remodels; also plans for ice cream shop

  07-08-2016 08:51
  
  Crowds at Bob McFadden Plaza may be too busy enjoying the new outdoor venue to notice the facelift happening to buildings that surround it. Mark Lopiccolo, owner of the St. Charles Hotel and 224 S. Carson St., the building that starts at Carson Street with Mom & Pop’s Diner and runs back to Curry Street where Bella Fiore Wines is located,is fixing up the exteriors of both structures. Replacing siding on 224 S. Carson St., Lopiccolo has improvised with tin roof tiles taken from the old
  
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• H2O for heroes in Carson City

  07-08-2016 08:51
  
  Sheriff Ken Furlong, Deputy Daniel Gonzalez, Tri County Gang Unit Deputy Dan Jones, Little Miss Douglas County Photogenic Kalila McConville Jr., Miss Douglas County Natalia Baldauskas, Nevada State Law Enforcement Officers’ Association President Sean Giurlani and Firehouse Subs co-owner Damon Kreizenbeck pose for a photo during the H2O For Heroes water drive Saturday in Carson City.…
  
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• Enthusiasts search tall and wide for state’s champion trees

  07-08-2016 08:51
  
  LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Division of Forestry has a big surprise for those who think of the Silver State as a treeless wasteland. Nevada is actually home to a long list of impressive trees, including two champion specimens, both just outside Las Vegas, that rank as the largest of their kind in the nation, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal. For the past 24 years, the state forestry division has maintained something called the Nevada Big Tree Register to track the largest and most impress
  
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• Douglas OKs Minden water rate agreement

  07-08-2016 08:51
  
  An agreement covering the cost of Minden water during the next five years was narrowly approved by Douglas County commissioners on Thursday.Commissioners Barry Penzel and Nancy McDermid sought a shorter-term agreement that could be revised after two years.Minden’s largest wholesale customer is Carson City, whose public works director expressed frustration at the process on Thursday.Carson City Public Works Director Darren Schulz told commissioners he was involved when the plan to run a pi
  
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• Congressman Mark Amodei says he’s still with Trump

  07-08-2016 08:51
  
  Rep. Mark Amodei says despite the nominee’s continuing gaffs, he’s still on board for Donald Trump.But he said Trump has a few things to learn if he’s going to win the presidency, first of all that, as the party’s nominee, he’ll be “microscoped to the ninth degree.”“That’s the reality which you live with as a Republican, Donald, and you’d better learn to deal with it,” he said.At this point, Amodei said he’s a team player a
  
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• Cone Zone for Aug. 8-12: 2nd Street and 4th Street portions in Carson City to be closed

  07-08-2016 08:51
  
  Construction updates for Aug 8-12.2nd Street and 4th Street between Carson and Curry Streets will be closed all week.Carson Street will remain one lane in each director.Telegraph and Proctor streets from Curry Street to North Plaza Street will be closed all week.Musser Street between Carson Street and Plaza Street will be closed Monday and Tuesday. Musser Street between Carson and Curry streets will be closed on Wednesday.…
  
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• Carson City Road Report for Aug. 8-14

  07-08-2016 08:51
  
  The following information applies to the period of August 8-14:Work will continue on the Downtown Corridor improvement project on Carson Street. For details regarding traffic impacts, refer to the material provided in local media outlets or go to www.carsonproud.com for more information. These sources are updated weekly throughout the duration of the project.Overnight lane closures will take place on S. Carson Street between Fairview Drive and Overland Street Sundays through Fridays from 8 p.m.
  
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• Carson City Hand Up Resource Fair

  07-08-2016 08:51
  
  Volunteer Attorneys for Rural Nevadans lawyer Elizabeth Lopez gets some help organizing informational material from her daughter, 7-month-old Cecilia Brandon, at the Carson City Hand Up Resource Fair in the Marv Teixeira Pavillion Saturday.…
  
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• New Colorado River book recasts ‘wasteful’ Las Vegas as a monument to smart water use

  07-08-2016 08:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Bellagio fountains — and Las Vegas as a whole — get high marks for water management and conservation in a surprisingly upbeat new book about the Colorado River and its future.
  
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• Lake Mead still shrinking, but lower consumption offers glimmer of hope

  07-08-2016 07:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A late-season surge of rain and snow melt made a bad year better for the Colorado River, but it wasn’t enough to lift Lake Mead out of record-low territory.
  
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• Man hospitalized after he loses control of his motorcycle in Henderson

  07-08-2016 07:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was taken to the hospital Saturday night after he lost control of his motorcycle and slid about 200 feet in Henderson, police said.
  
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• Prison inmate dies in Northern Nevada

  07-08-2016 05:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An inmate died Friday morning in Northern Nevada, the Nevada Corrections Department said.
  
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• Outside spending groups, super PACs report spending $2.7 million in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race in past week.

  07-08-2016 02:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Outside spending groups and super PACs have reported spending $2.7 million in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race in the past week.
  
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• Plan would bring electricity to over 1,000 on Navajo Nation

  07-08-2016 02:44 via reviewjournal.com
  
  More than 1,000 Navajos who live without electricity in their homes soon could get power for the first time as the tribal utility buys a system of rural Utah substations and electrical lines under the terms of a decades-old deal with a power company.
  
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• 42 Snoop Dogg fans hurt when concert railing collapses

  07-08-2016 02:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Upcoming concerts will go on as scheduled at an amphitheater where a railing collapsed during a Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa concert, injuring 42 people, promoters said Saturday.
  
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• Flight to London returns to McCarran Airport after air emergency

  07-08-2016 02:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Virgin Atlantic flight 44 departed from McCarran Airport at 3:45 p.m. and was headed for London when a fire indicator in the wheel well caused the flight to turn around and head back to Las Vegas around 4 p.m., airport spokeswoman Melissa Nunnery said.
  
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• NV Energy officials offer aid to seniors at expo

  07-08-2016 02:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Project REACH (Relief through Energy Assistance to Prevent Customer Hardships) is NV Energy’s program for income-eligible customers older than 62 or those who are medically fragile or Reserve and National Guard Members.
  
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• Central Las Vegas hit-and-run sends several to hospital

  07-08-2016 02:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Several people were transported to local hospitals after a hit-and-run crash in the central valley Saturday afternoon.
  
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• What will it take to make the Moulin Rouge succeed in Las Vegas?

  07-08-2016 00:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The site’s rich 60-year history of failed development attempts show the next developer must be better at forming and maintaining relationships, both internally within the project and externally with the black community surrounding the site.
  
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• Woman gets backlash for having invasive bear killed in California

  07-08-2016 00:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A mother of three has provoked a backlash for having a bear shot after it repeatedly broke into her Southern California mountain home.
  
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• Caesars marks half-century with fireworks display

  07-08-2016 00:19 via lasvegassun.com
  
  The sky near Caesars Palace was illuminated with a fireworks display Friday night as the property commemorated its first half-century …
  
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