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• Vegas stadium backers down to 2 top sites for Raiders

  25-08-2016 23:51
  
  LAS VEGAS — Backers of a proposed NFL stadium said they’ve whittled their list to two sites just west of the Las Vegas Strip and refuse to accept any less than $750 million in public funding toward the project, which they hope will soon be home to the Raiders. Representatives from Majestic Realty and the Las Vegas Sands casino company updated an oversight committee Thursday on their quest to build a 65,000-seat domed stadium, showing off their slick renderings of the proposed venue i
  
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• Vegas stadium backers down to 2 top sites

  25-08-2016 23:51
  
  LAS VEGAS — Backers of a proposed NFL stadium said they’ve whittled their list to two sites just west of the Las Vegas Strip and refuse to accept any less than $750 million in public funding toward the project, which they hope will soon be home to the Raiders. Representatives from Majestic Realty and the Las Vegas Sands casino company updated an oversight committee Thursday on their quest to build a 65,000-seat domed stadium, showing off their slick renderings of the proposed venue i
  
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• Farmer’s Market accepts SNAP option

  25-08-2016 23:43
  
  Since the inception of the Third and Curry Streets Farmers Market nine years ago, organizer Linda Marrone has wanted customers to have the option to pay for produce through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. “Just like with anything else, we feel everyone deserves access to healthy fruits and vegetables,” Marrone said. The original rules governing farmers markets limited SNAP participation to only those listed as nonprofits. However, those r
  
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• Farmer’s Market accepts SNAP

  25-08-2016 23:43
  
  Since the inception of the Third and Curry Streets Farmers Market nine years ago, organizer Linda Marrone has wanted customers to have the option to pay for produce through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. “Just like with anything else, we feel everyone deserves access to healthy fruits and vegetables,” Marrone said. The original rules governing farmers markets limited SNAP participation to only those listed as nonprofits. However, those r
  
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• Regents worry about further higher education cuts under Gov. Sandoval’s worst-case plan

  25-08-2016 23:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada’s higher education board on Thursday expressed concern over a request from Governor Brian Sandoval’s office to come up with a worst-case-scenario plan to trim spending by 5 percent in the next fiscal year.
  
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• Regents weigh plan to change how they oversee some colleges

  25-08-2016 23:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  During a winding, five-hour discussion about how the Board of Regents governs the Nevada System of Higher Education and its eight institutions, regents weighed a plan to change how they oversee some schools.
  
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• Regents fret over further higher education cuts under Gov. Sandoval’s worst-case plan

  25-08-2016 23:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada’s higher education board on Thursday expressed concern over a request from Governor Brian Sandoval’s office to come up with a worst-case-scenario plan to trim spending by 5 percent in the next fiscal year.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Counterfeit suspects arrested

  25-08-2016 22:27
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.Carson CityWEDNESDAYAt 1:08 p.m., Lorrie Lockwood, 23, of Carson City was arrested on suspicion of felony possession of a financial forgery lab, felony possession of forged bills, forged uttering a forged instrument, felony counterfeiting, felony possession of a controlled substance and felony grand larceny warrant after deputies initiated a traffic stop near Russell Way and Nort
  
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• Police say 2 Catholic nuns were killed in their Mississippi home

  25-08-2016 22:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two nuns who worked as nurses to help the poor in rural Mississippi were found slain in their home, and there were signs of a break-in and their car was missing, officials said Thursday.
  
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• Coroner IDs man whose body was found at Nellis Air Force Base

  25-08-2016 22:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Detlef Mann, 66, whose body was discovered on Aug. 16, was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
  
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• 2 men plead guilty in armed standoff near Bundy ranch

  25-08-2016 21:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Guilty plea agreements were accepted Thursday for two men who are part of the federal prosecution of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
  
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• Developers: No negotiating on $750 million for proposed NFL stadium

  25-08-2016 21:30 via lasvegassun.com
  
  Developers of a proposed NFL stadium in Las Vegas held firm that the public contribution for the project must be $750 million — or no deal. “We are not negotiable,” Las Vegas Sands President Rob Goldstein said during today’s Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee meeting. “The numbers aren’t going down. If we can’t get $750 (million), we respectfully thank you and ...
  
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• Commissioners favor inside search for new county manager

  25-08-2016 21:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Most Clark County commissioners want to appoint a new county manager from within the local government’s ranks. And that’s good news for three high-level county officials who already have indicated an interest in the county’s top job.
  
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• Clark County commissioners favor inside search for new county manager

  25-08-2016 21:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Most Clark County commissioners want to appoint a new county manager from within the local government’s ranks. And that’s good news for three high-level county officials who already have indicated an interest in the county’s top job.
  
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• How well do you know the national parks of the Southwest? — QUIZ

  25-08-2016 21:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Test your park proficiency as the National Park Service celebrates its 100th birthday.
  
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• Pedestrian struck by car last week on Harmon Avenue dies from injuries

  25-08-2016 20:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Victim was outside a marked crosswalk when he was struck on Aug. 18
  
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• Pedestrian hit by car last week on Harmon Avenue dies from injuries

  25-08-2016 20:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The victim was outside a marked crosswalk when he was struck Aug. 18.
  
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• Marine Corps acknowledges 2 men raising 1st flag at Iwo Jima misidentified

  25-08-2016 19:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Marine Corps has acknowledged it misidentified two of the servicemen who helped raise the first U.S. flag at Iwo Jima during World War II, an event that was overshadowed by the raising of a larger flag that became an iconic image of the war.
  
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• Bicyclist critical after hit-and-run in central Las Vegas

  25-08-2016 18:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A bicyclist was critically injured after he was struck by a car Thursday morning, Las Vegas police said.
  
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• Victims in fatal Goni Canyon crash identified

  25-08-2016 18:06
  
  Edwin Rico, 16, and Christopher Gonzales, 24, were identified as the deceased in the Goni Canyon rollover crash Monday morning. The Carson City Sheriff’s Office says both people died after being ejected from the vehicle. They were not wearing their seatbelts. A third person, a 22 year-old male, sustained minor injuries. He was wearing his seatbelt.Grief counselors were at Carson High School this week for Rico, who was a CHS junior. Deputies and medics responded to the off-road vehicle cra
  
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• 241 confirmed dead in Italy earthquake

  25-08-2016 17:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Rescue crews aided by sniffer dogs dug through crumbled homes Thursday looking for earthquake survivors as Italy again anguished over how to secure its ancient towns and modern cities from the country’s highly seismic terrain.
  
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• Traffic moving again after crash on US 95 at Casino Center

  25-08-2016 16:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A crash causing traffic delays near the Spaghetti Bowl Thursday morning has been cleared.
  
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• Crash is slowing traffic on US 95 at Casino Center

  25-08-2016 16:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A crash is causing traffic delays near the Spaghetti Bowl Thursday morning.
  
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• In the Race for Registered Voters, Republicans Are Gaining

  25-08-2016 11:53
  Republicans have narrowed the Democrats’ lead in registered voters in several swing states, especially in North Carolina and Florida.
  
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• Warehouse fire west of Las Vegas Strip destroys donated school supplies for children with autism

  25-08-2016 10:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The fire in the large warehouse that housed a local charity organization destroyed thousands of donated school supplies for children with autism. The community is beginning to step up to help replace the items.
  
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• Fire damages warehouse west of the Strip

  25-08-2016 10:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Flames could be seen from Interstate 15 and nearby Strip resorts as a large warehouse went up in flames early Thursday just west of the Strip.
  
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• Fire damages warehouse west of Las Vegas Strip

  25-08-2016 10:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Flames could be seen from Interstate 15 and nearby Strip resorts as a large warehouse went up in flames early Thursday just west of the Strip.
  
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• World’s largest pearl kept under bed for 10 years as good luck charm

  25-08-2016 09:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Filipino fisherman has found possibly the world’s biggest pearl, which he had hidden under a bed for more than 10 years as a lucky charm.
  
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• The Popcorn Stand: No homework for these second graders

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  In business, sports, whatever we know we have to do our homework — in other words study the subject matter thoroughly so we’ll be successful. But should second graders really have to do homework? One teacher in Texas doesn’t think so. Brandy Young has decided not to give her second grade students any homework this year. In her letter to parents she wrote: “After much research this summer, I am trying something new. There will be no formally assigned homework this year...
  
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• Ten Dollar Pony to perform at Dangberg Historic Park

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  Blues and folk music by an area four-piece band will fill Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park on Sunday, Aug. 28. Ten Dollar Pony, whose style varies between Americana, folk rock, country rock, blues, and even a little Latin, is the next band to perform live at the historic site, located at 1450 Highway 88 in Minden, about a quarter of a mile north of the Carson Valley Veterinary Hospital. The core of the band is Larry Nair on vocals, guitar, dobro, banjitar and mandolin; and Liza Beth Oliveto on
  
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• Rural Housing deal for Dayton housing

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  Nevada Rural Housing Authority is going in a new direction, starting with an agreement with Chicanos Por La Causa. The partners will soon close on NRHA’s sale of about 7 acres in Dayton to CPLC, which will build 44 detached and attached single-family houses for moderate income working families. The deal is the first in what NRHA plans to be a shift away from doing its own development to acting as a guide for other developers. “I don’t want to have to use the hammers and saws b
  
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• Peterson brothers continue fire fighting heritage in Carson City

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  The Peterson brothers are used to always being together: roommates, they’re camping buddies, Cornhole game partners and now they’re colleagues too.Clayton and Dustin Peterson are two of the newest hires at the Carson City Fire Department. Clayton has been with the department just over a year and Dustin started about three months ago, after graduating from medic school.“The two came in as top candidates,” said Fire Chief Bob Schreihans. “Dustin was seasonal with us
  
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• ‘En plein air’ painting workshop planned

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  A style of painting championed by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other Impressionism giants of the 19th Century will be covered in an upcoming workshop. Teri Sweeney Art will be holding the third in a series of three workshops on how to paint “en plein air,” or painting done outside rather than in a studio. Students who sign up will be working on location, painting what they see at scenic sites in the area. The series began in June with a monthlong drawing workshop which co
  
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• Del Carlo, Lafrance campaign for district 9

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  A race for a position not many people are familiar with will be on the ballots come November. Board of Regents is the independent governing body who oversees Nevada’s public colleges and universities. They oversee the budget and policy for the higher education system.Two women from Incline Village are running for Board of Regents, District 9 that encompasses nine counties including Douglas. Carol Del Carlo, a Republican, has been out in the community introducing herself to constituents an
  
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• Committee hearing Friday for Nevada domestic well users

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  A petition affecting the allotment of water in domestic wells has gathered steam outside of Nye County, which appears to be ground zero for homeowner concerns.A petition is originating out of both Nye County and Silver Springs to inform water users that either the state engineer or an interim legislative subcommittee committee could make recommendations for regulating the usage of domestic well water to the Legislature when it convenes in February.State Sen. James Settelmeyer, who represents ce
  
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• Comedians Tom McClain, Carla Rea, Kevin Shea, Rex Meredith, Quinn Dahle visiting Carson Nugget

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  A comedian best know for his many appearances on “The Dr. Phil Show,” “Fox Sports,” and the Emmy Award winning talk show “The Doctors” is appearing at the Carson Nugget. Those who catch Tom McClain on Friday, Sept. 2, also may recognize him from “Entertainment Tonight,” “Criminal Minds,” “CSI: New York” and several other shows along with dozens of television commercials. The Los Angeles comedian draws from his many life exp
  
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• CHS defense looks to continue stingy ways

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  When most people think about Carson High football, the Senators’ offense usually comes to mind.The kudos are well deserved on that side of the ball, but Carson High’s defense has been tough in its own right.Carson enters the season-opener Saturday (6 p.m. at CHS) against Desert Mountain-Scottsdale coming off a 10-2 season and with a defense that returns starters Justin Tschetter, Spencer Rogers, Sheldon Miller and Abel Carter.Except for the two losses to Reed (44-27 and 56-28), the
  
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• Carson High tennis: Senators look to build off 2015 season

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  Carson High’s boys and girls tennis teams enjoyed successful seasons in 2015, and are looking to improve this season.Both teams open the 2016 season today against perennial powerhouse Reno High School. The girls are at home and the boys are on the road. Both matches get under way at 3:30 p.m.On the boys side, coach Hal Wilkins returns eight of his nine starters — Taylor Saarem, Nico Salm, Ryan Tomita, Danny Dudley, Jayson Artz, Henry Sturm, Jared Barnard and Stu McElhany — fro
  
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• Amodei talks about Congress in Carson City

  25-08-2016 09:03
  
  Rep. Mark Amodei of Carson City told a breakfast meeting hosted by the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday Congress’ problem is its inability to follow its own rules and it’s lack of oversight.That list, Amodei said, is topped by the House’s attempt to impeach IRS Tax Commissioner John Koskinen straight from the floor instead of going through the Judiciary Committee and following the rules.“There are some pretty specific rules about how you impeach somebody,” he said.
  
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• With a new Amazon TV show, Emeril Lagasse deepens his food connections

  25-08-2016 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  In Eat the World, Emeril and fellow Vegas celebrity chef José Andrés visit modernist-cuisine godfather Ferran Adrià in Spain.
  
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• Downtown's indie dance scene flourishes with new venues and fresh energy

  25-08-2016 09:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  "Nobody judges you; you don’t have to dress up in a collared shirt. You just come and listen to music and dance."
  
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• Self-driving taxis hit the streets of Singapore

  25-08-2016 05:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The world’s first self-driving taxis will be picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday.
  
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• As lawmakers eye NSHE overhaul, regents review power structure

  25-08-2016 05:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada’s higher education board convenes near Lake Tahoe on Thursday for a high-stakes special meeting to consider changing how the state’s colleges are governed.
  
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• Carson City counterfeit investigation results in 3 arrests

  25-08-2016 05:11
  
  Three people were arrested Wednesday in relation to a counterfeit investigation in Carson City.The Carson City Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the Nevada Division of Public Safety Investigation Division and the United States Secret Service, conducted an investigation into a currency ring in the Carson City area.Conrad Hilbmann, 21, of Reno; Lorrie Lockwood, 23, of Carson City; and Kathleen Lockwood, 22, of Carson City were all arrested in relation to the investigation. Officers seize
  
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• New highway trims old-school Las Vegas barber shop

  25-08-2016 04:39 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Oakey Center once was a happenin’ place where movers and shakers mixed with blue-collar types. It soon will be bulldozed to make way for Interstate 15 upgrades. New Image barber shop, a Las Vegas institution for 50 years, is preparing to move.
  
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• HHS: Obamacare rate hike won’t bite most Nevadans insured through marketplace

  25-08-2016 03:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Affordable Care Act’s expansion of tax credits will help most policyholders keep monthly payments under $100, analysis shows
  
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• Carson City law enforcement arrest four in drug investigation

  25-08-2016 03:35
  
  A multi-agency operation resulted in four arrests following a drug investigation Wednesday afternoon.Law enforcement agents from Tri-Net, Nevada Department of Investigations and Carson City Special Enforcement Team had been conducting a narcotics investigation near the area of Corbett and Moody streets. Officers arrested one person when he showed up to the set-up drug buy. While officers were detaining the man, a second suspect saw the arrest and attempted to flee on a motorcycle. An undercover
  
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• Turkey takes fight to IS in Syria

  25-08-2016 03:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Turkey on Wednesday launched its first major ground assault into Syria since the country’s civil war began, sending in tanks and special forces backed by U.S. airstrikes.
  
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• Turkey makes first major foray into Syria with assault on IS

  25-08-2016 03:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Turkey on Wednesday launched its first major ground assault into Syria since the country’s civil war began, sending in tanks and special forces backed by U.S. airstrikes.
  
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• Carson City law enforcement bust operation

  25-08-2016 02:56
  
  One person is in custody after a law enforcement busted an operation in Carson City Wednesday afternoon.The Carson City Sheriff’s Office including units from Tri-NET, the Special Enforcement Team, the Gang Unit, along with Nevada Highway Patrol and Nevada Division of Investigations were in a standoff for about 30- to 45-minutes Wednesday afternoon in an attempt to end their investigation.Story is developing.…
  
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