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• Chinese officials behave oddly during Obama visit

  03-09-2016 23:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  If President Barack Obama was hoping for a graceful start to his final trip to Asia as commander in chief, this wasn’t it.
  
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• Koch group’s Nevada ground game focused on race for Reid seat

  03-09-2016 23:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An army of staff and volunteers is out knocking on thousands of doors across Nevada, putting organizing muscle into a ground game that supplements Republican-driven efforts to succeed Harry Reid with Joe Heck in the U.S. Senate.
  
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• Coroner identifies 19-year-old killed in accidental shooting at park

  03-09-2016 21:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a 19-year-old who died after an accidental shooting in the central valley Thursday night.
  
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• As students descend on campus, CSN aims to help inmates return to school, too

  03-09-2016 20:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Twenty inmates filed into a cell at the Clark County Detention Center for their own college orientation last week.
  
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• Trump tells black Detroit church he wants to learn

  03-09-2016 17:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Donald Trump swayed to songs of prayer, read scripture, and wore a traditional prayer shawl Saturday on a visit to a predominantly black church in Detroit.
  
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• Trump appeals to black voters at Detroit church

  03-09-2016 17:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Donald Trump said Saturday he wanted to help rebuild Detroit and told members of a black church that “there are many wrongs that should be made right” as the GOP presidential nominee tried to woo African-Americans two months before the election.
  
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• Detroit protestors prepare for Trump visit

  03-09-2016 17:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Toni McIlwain believes that as a candidate for president, Donald Trump has a right to go anywhere he wants. But, she says, it takes a lot of nerve for him to visit Detroit.
  
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• Hermine slams Florida, heads up East Coast

  03-09-2016 16:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The first hurricane to hit Florida in more than a decade wiped away beachside buildings and toppled trees onto homes Friday before plowing inland.
  
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• Hermine, now a tropical storm killed 2 damaged structures

  03-09-2016 16:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Tropical Storm Hermine lost hurricane strength over land but was intensifying Saturday along the Atlantic Coast, threatening heavy rain, wind and storm surges on its northward march.
  
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• Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas feel 5.6 magnitude earthquake

  03-09-2016 16:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A record-tying earthquake in the edge of Oklahoma’s key energy-producing areas rattled the Midwest from Nebraska to North Texas on Saturday and likely will focus fresh new attention to the practice of disposing oil and gas field wastewater deep underground.
  
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• Oklahoma earthquake felt as far as Nebraska, Texas

  03-09-2016 16:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One of Oklahoma’s largest earthquakes on record rattled other parts of the Midwest on Saturday from Nebraska to North Texas.
  
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• Washoe Lake nearly dry again

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  Because of the first decent winter in five years, Washoe Lake reached nearly half full this summer after being dry for nearly a year.But Washoe Lake State Park Supervisor Jennifer Dawson said it didn’t last for long.“Once those hotter temperatures hit in July and August, it started decreasing from evaporation,” she said. “It went fast. Every week you would go to the boat ramp and see it farther and farther out.”Dawson said there’s a chance the lake will go dr
  
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• Voter registration rises in August

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  The total number of registered voters in Nevada increased in August as clerks added 15,701 new names to the list.But the number of voters listed as Active Voters actually declined because of routine list maintenance by those clerks. Actives are moved to the inactive list when they fail to respond to post cards attempting to confirm they’re still registered at the same address they were during the last election cycle or when them move and fail to update their registrations.However, those v
  
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• Tickets available for Genoa festival

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  Tickets are still available for the first annual It Takes a Village Music Festival in Genoa 2-7:30 p.m. today at Mormon Station State Historic Park.Half the proceeds from ticket sales will go to the Family Support Council.Dougie L. from the National Sinatra competition will sing the Great American Song Book, while Motown era music will be performed by Gruve Nation. Beginning at 5:15 p.m. on the Grand Stage will be Rocketman, portraying Elton John.Festival food will be a sweet and spicy barbecue
  
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• Teri Vance: Creative vibe right here in Carson City

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  By now, Burning Man is in full swing. According to its website, it’s an even dedicated to “community, art, self-expression and self-reliance.”That’s a lofty standard for any city to set, much less one that comes together for one week in the middle of the Nevada desert. But it did cause me to reflect on these qualities in our own capital city. Specifically, I wondered about our access to art.Do we need to retreat to the playa to find creativity and inspiration, or can we
  
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• Reader snapshots from Carson City

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  Cathy Carney submitted this photo of a male wood duck, mirrored and swimming, at Empire Golf Course on Wednesday morning.…
  
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• Knecht: Free local government from mandatory arbitration

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  Controller Ron Knecht says local governments should be freed from mandatory binding arbitration with employee unions.He said the law requiring local governments to engage in collective bargaining with public employee unions “significantly raises costs to taxpayers and makes these governments operate inefficiently and in non-transparent ways.”The proposed legislation wouldn’t eliminate collective bargaining at the local level but would allow all local governments the option of
  
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• IHOP Memorial Run is Tuesday in Carson City

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  This Tuesday marks the fifth year anniversary since the Carson City IHOP shooting, and the National Guard is memorializing it with their annual run.On Sept. 6, 2011, Nevada National Guardsmen Lt. Col. Heath Kelly, 35, Master Sgt. Christian Riege, 38, and Sgt. 1st Class Miranda McElhiney, 31, were killed when 32-year-old Eduardo Sencion opened fire in the Carson Street IHOP. Sixty-seven year old Florence Donovan-Gunderson was also killed in the restaurant and seven others injured including two o
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on possession of a stolen vehicle

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.THURSDAYAt 4:16 p.m., Alfred Ward, 36, a transient was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic battery with strangulation after deputies responded to reports of a man and woman yelling at each other outside the Carson Street Grocery Outlet. Bail was set at $15,000. At 5:16 p.m., Samantha Shipman, 19, a transient, was arrested on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon a
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office cracks down on King Street speeders

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is cracking down on traffic enforcement around school zones, as they have been getting multitude of complaints of speeding drivers in school zones.Sheriff Ken Furlong said their agencies and the Public Works Department of Transportation have received complaints from residents and school officials people have not been adhering to the school zones around town, especially the zone around Borerwich-Bray Elementary and Carson Middle School.“King Street is
  
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• Carson City part of National Blood Donation Week

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  Nevada will be one of 26 states participating in the National Blood Donation Week next week in an effort to get people out and donating.Dr. Deliah Wachs, a Las Vegas radio personality, was part of the initiative to start the Blood Donation Week. It started in Nevada in 2015 with a proclamation from Gov. Brian Sandoval to appoint the last Saturday in April as Blood Donation Day, but she decided it needed to be bigger and started coordinating with different states to create national week. “
  
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• Carson boys soccer knocks off South Tahoe

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it and that’s the theory Carson boys soccer coach Frank Martinez is going by.Osvaldo Gomez, a top defensive player for Carson, has been the star offensively so far for the Senators. He scored his third goal in the second game of the season as Carson won a nonleague game 2-1 at South Tahoe Friday.“We’re going to keep him up there,” said Martinez about continuing to use Gomez on offense.Martinez also used starting goalie Efren Ramir
  
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• Annual Kerri Oxoby Memorial Scholarship Golf Tournament returning to Carson City Sept. 10

  03-09-2016 11:11
  
  Two Carson High School student athletes will benefit from an annual golf tournament that’s returning to Silver Oak Golf Course on Saturday, Sept. 10. The 15th annual Kerri Oxoby Memorial Scholarship Golf Tournament will begin with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. The event is organized by the Oxoby family in memory of Kerri Oxoby, a Carson High and University of Nevada, Reno, graduate who died in 2001 from anaphylactic shock following a toxic reaction from hazelnut extract in candy. She was 25.
  
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• Ugly effort by Carson

  03-09-2016 10:09
  
  RENO — Blair Roman’s post-game talk to his team was probably the shortest in his Carson High tenure.“We didn’t do anything good the whole game,” Roman said after Carson’s disappointing 34-17 loss at Foster Field. “It was the worst effort I’ve seen in eight years.“Reno played a lot faster than we played. We can play with these guys. That is the reason I’m upset.”When you give up 34 points, it sounds like a poor defensive effort. F
  
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• Nevada just escapes with an overtime victory

  03-09-2016 10:09
  
  RENO — Brian Polian warned his Nevada Wolf Pack football team about the Cal Poly Mustangs this week. It turns out the Wolf Pack didn’t take their head coach all that seriously.The Wolf Pack narrowly escaped its first loss to a FCS team in more than two decades Friday night, holding off the Big Sky Conference’s Mustangs 30-27 in overtime in front of a season-opening crowd of 19,138 at renovated Mackay Stadium. It took a 5-yard touchdown run by James Butler in overtime for the P
  
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• Looking to make TV guide proper

  03-09-2016 10:09
  
  In this day, it’s difficult making the case for publishing a television listing in the newspaper with a channel guide feature through every cable and satellite provider along with the move to on demand and streaming services. However, last Sunday the Nevada Appeal and The Record-Courier expanded the listings to offer it to all Sunday readers.Previously for the past five years the Nevada Appeal and The Record-Courier have been delivering TV listings only to those folks who’ve said th
  
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• Local exercise class improves health of Carson City seniors

  03-09-2016 10:09
  
  Florence Phillips, 85, used to rely on her walker to get to where she needed to go. But ever since she committed her time twice a week to attend fitness classes hosted by Jerry Vance at the Carson Senior Center, she progressed to a cane.“Doctors say I’m looking better than most seniors,” she said.Today, she’s already graduated from the cane and walks without support. She also can sit and rise from a chair without support, and cross her legs. Her diabetes level also decre
  
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• Kaho’s all-around effort too much for CHS

  03-09-2016 10:09
  
  RENO — The Carson coaching staff raved about Reno’s Brandon Kaho all week, and the Huskies’ standout delivered.Kaho delivered key plays in all three facets of the game to lead the Huskies to a 34-17 win over Carson Friday night at Foster Field.Kaho carried 11 times for 105 yards and two scores, caught two passes for 30 yards and a score, kicked two field goals and was a force defensively,Reno coach Dan Avansino said Kaho, who played varsity as a sophomore, had off-season shoul
  
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• Dust Devils fall and find ‘crime’ scene

  03-09-2016 10:09
  
  The most competitive Dayton football game in nearly two years ended in a 20-10 loss Friday at Sparks and what police called a “crime investigation” before players got on the bus to head home. After the game, Dayton coaches alerted Sparks police when players entered the locker room and found several personal items — including wallets, keys and cameras — allegedly stolen. “We got back in the locker room and all our stuff was ransacked and stolen,” Dayton head c
  
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• Douglas falls against Reed

  03-09-2016 10:09
  
  MINDEN — Reed only needed 18 offensive plays to score 35 first-half points en route to a 53-16 win against Douglas Friday night at Keith Roman Field.Quarterback Cameron Emerson rushed for 92 yards and two touchdowns on five carries plus he was 7-for-7 and 113 more yards through the air during the first half. Tre Bussey rushed for 100 yards and one touchdown on five carries as the five-time defending region champion Raiders surged to a 35-9 lead.Douglas (1-1) took the opening kickoff and d
  
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• Mother searching for answers after teen jumps from Red Rock Resort parking garage, dies

  03-09-2016 07:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  “We used tracking on her iPhone to find out where she was,” her mother said Friday, sniffling quietly. “It had already happened by the time everything had been connected. It was already way too late.”
  
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• Mother looks for answers after teen jumps from Red Rock Resort parking garage, dies

  03-09-2016 07:17 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Maria Kruger was supposed to meet her mom at work early Thursday. The 13-year-old had stayed with her father the night before, and her mom, Stefanie Kruger, had planned to pick up a few extra school supplies with Maria the next morning before dropping her off at Rogich Middle School.
  
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• Vandalism reported at large Burning Man camp

  03-09-2016 06:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  White Ocean, a large sound camp originally created by DJ Paul Oakenfold, was vandalized Wednesday night, according to a post on the camp’s Facebook page.
  
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• Officials say Las Vegas Medical District’s economic vital signs improving

  03-09-2016 02:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A slow but steady journey with occasional spurts of impressive growth — that’s how Las Vegas Deputy City Manager Scott Adams sees the future of the Las Vegas Medical District now that the UNLV School of Medicine is becoming a reality.
  
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• This is a test

  03-09-2016 02:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
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• Homicide suspect escapes North Las Vegas police custody

  03-09-2016 02:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man North Las Vegas police identified as a homicide suspect in connection with an Aug. 27 slaying escaped police custody Friday morning.
  
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• Las Vegas girl’s December death caused by blunt force injuries

  03-09-2016 02:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The December death of a 3-year-old Las Vegas girl has been ruled a homicide, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
  
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• Man charged in Carson City residential arson

  03-09-2016 01:29
  
  The Carson City Sheriff’s Office has charged one local man for a residential arson. Clinton Gore, 60, was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor threats late Tuesday after Carson City deputies responded to reports of a fire at the 1000 block of East Appion around 1:35 a.m. The fire had been restricted to the front door of the residence and had been extinguished by the time officials arrived.Gore was taken into custody Tuesday after the homeowners completed a citizen’s arrest against t
  
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• Nevada controller releases wish list for bills in next legislative session

  03-09-2016 01:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  State Controller Ron Knecht on Friday released a list of bills he has requested be drafted for the 2017 legislative session, including a measure that would create a hybrid retirement plan for state and local government employees.
  
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• Arrest warrant for back check case issued for Las Vegas-based World Series of Poker winner

  03-09-2016 00:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Authorities issued an arrest warrant Friday for Ted Forrest, a Las Vegas gambler with six World Series of Poker bracelets, on theft and bad check charges.
  
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