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• Reid calls on Nevada’s congressional delegation to stand up for Astrid Silva

  09-09-2016 22:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Retiring Senate minority leader responds to Donald Trump Jr.’s comments in Las Vegas TV interview.
  
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• Reorganization of Clark County School District gets final approval

  09-09-2016 21:58 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A controversial plan to overhaul the Clark County School District, with more money and autonomy flowing to individual campuses, is officially law.
  
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• ‘Day of Action’ protests planned Monday in Carson City, 27 other state capitals

  09-09-2016 21:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Protests will call on politicians to support a “moral policy agenda” that includes living wages, union rights, and racial justice.
  
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• Zika funding gone, says Disease Control and Prevention Director

  09-09-2016 20:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The head of the government’s fight against the Zika virus said that “we are now essentially out of money” and warned that the country is “about to see a bunch of kids born with microcephaly” in the coming months.
  
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• Texas mattress store apologizes for ‘tasteless’ ad mocking 9/11

  09-09-2016 19:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Texas mattress store that used bedding to stage a mock collapse of New York City’s Twin Towers in an ad for a Sept. 11 sale has come under a barrage of protests that described it as a tasteless pitch and called for the business to go bankrupt.
  
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• North Dakota pipeline protest grows to 1,000 before Friday ruling

  09-09-2016 19:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Awaiting Friday’s critical federal ruling on the Dakota Access pipeline, more than 1,000 people gathered at the site of a long-running protest in North Dakota.
  
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• Judge denies tribe’s request to block North Dakota pipeline work

  09-09-2016 19:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A Federal judge has denied the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request to stop work on 4-state Dakota Access pipeline.
  
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• Woman in failed Paris terror attack once engaged to 2 French extremists

  09-09-2016 18:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Three women behind a thwarted attack near Notre Dame Cathedral were radicalized by Islamic State commanders in Syria, and one had been engaged to an extremist who killed a priest in July, the Paris prosecutor said Friday.
  
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• ISIS directed Thursday’s failed Paris terror attack

  09-09-2016 18:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The three women arrested after a car loaded with gas cylinders was found near Notre Dame cathedral were directed by Islamic State militants in Syria and were completely committed to the cause, the Paris prosecutor said on Friday.
  
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• Mercury brought to school campus prior to Wednesday, officials say

  09-09-2016 18:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky said the EPA hasn’t determined when the mercury came in the building but it says it was before Wednesday.
  
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• CCSD superintendent speaks about contamination at Las Vegas school — VIDEO

  09-09-2016 18:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky will speak to the media this morning about the contamination at Johnson Junior High.
  
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• Warm, sunny weekend ahead for Las Vegas Valley

  09-09-2016 17:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Residents can expect a warm and sunny weekend before the valley starts to cool down again, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Facebook under fire for censoring Vietnam War photo

  09-09-2016 17:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nick Ut’s most famous photograph — the image of 9-year-old Kim Phuc running from napalm — defined the horrors of the Vietnam War.
  
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• Facebook reverses position on censoring Vietnam War photo

  09-09-2016 17:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Facebook Inc. has reversed its decision to remove Nick Ut’s famous “napalm girl” photo from the Vietnam War after an attack from the Norwegian prime minister, who said the photo “shaped world history.”
  
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• Fire causes $107K damage to Henderson home, displaces 4

  09-09-2016 16:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A cigarette discarded near the garage of a Henderson home caused a fire and displaced four adults Thursday.
  
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• Federal audit rips Nevada’s Hardest Hit Fund contractor for ‘culture of waste and abuse’

  09-09-2016 16:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Millions of dollars meant to help distressed Nevada homeowners stay in their homes at the height of the recession were squandered by a Nevada contractor on excessive rent, holiday parties, employee gift cards and other lavishness.
  
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• Federal audit rips contractor that administered Nevada’s recession housing fund for ‘culture of waste and abuse’

  09-09-2016 16:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Millions of dollars meant to help distressed Nevada homeowners stay in their homes at the height of the recession were squandered by a Nevada contractor on excessive rent, holiday parties, employee gift cards and other lavishness.
  
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• Nigeria on brink of catastrophic famine

  09-09-2016 14:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The whimpers from skeletally thin babies too weak to cry are a harbinger of worse things to come: A quarter of the children lucky enough to make it to this emergency feeding center are dying. They are the latest victims of Boko Haram’s Islamic insurgency.
  
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• Giant cruise ship navigates the melting Arctic

  09-09-2016 14:20 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Crystal Serenity’s visit to Alaska’s western coast is historic. Some remote villages see dollar signs, while environmentalists say the voyage represents global warming and man’s destruction of the Earth.
  
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• MasterCard faces record $18.6B lawsuit over excessive fees

  09-09-2016 13:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  MasterCard is being sued for $18.6 billion in Britain for allegedly charging excessive fees on millions of transactions over a 16-year period.
  
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• Facebook cofounder pledges $20M to defeat Trump

  09-09-2016 13:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A billionaire Facebook co-founder says he is giving $20 million to help defeat Donald Trump.
  
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• NASA launches historic mission to asteroid

  09-09-2016 13:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The first NASA explorer of its kind took off on a seven-year quest Thursday, chasing after a big, black, unexplored asteroid to gather a few handfuls of gravel for return to Earth.
  
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• Missing 9/11 flag returns to New York City after 15 years

  09-09-2016 11:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An American flag raised at ground zero on Sept. 11 in a defining moment of patriotic resolve took its place at the site Thursday after disappearing for over a decade.
  
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• Region on edge after North Korea conducts largest nuclear test ever

  09-09-2016 10:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  North Korea said Friday it conducted a “higher level” nuclear warhead test explosion that will allow it to finally build “at will” an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.
  
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• Obama condemns recent North Korea nuclear test

  09-09-2016 10:09 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Barack Obama is condemning North Korea’s latest nuclear test and says the U.S. “does not and never will” accept the country as a nuclear state.
  
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• The Popcorn Stand: Looking forward to Scully’s finale

  09-09-2016 08:43
  
  As a San Francisco Giants fan, I’m looking forward to the final regular season game at AT&T Park between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants.Not because it looks like the Dodgers will have the division title wrapped up by then. But because it will be an historic moment, Vin Scully’s final regular season broadcast as the Dodgers’ announcer.I still can’t keep track of all the stupid rules and agreements when it comes to television coverage of Major League
  
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• Readers Snapshots from Carson City area

  09-09-2016 08:43
  
  The evening sky is seen behind a sunflower in Patty Montague’s backyard on Johnson Lane.…
  
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• Comma Coffee in Carson City hosting jazz & poetry event Sept. 13

  09-09-2016 08:43
  
  Cindee LeVal, pictured, and the Mile High Jazz Band will be joined by several poets and readers from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sept. 13 at Comma Coffee for an evening of big-band music and poetry on the theme “Falling.” The program will feature poets and readers Rita Geil, David Bugli, Tracy McQuay, Susan Sara Priest, Timothy Rhodes, and Amy Roby. Poems will explore the arrival of autumn, sharing a plane ride with a cat, meteor showers, windfalls under apple trees, other subjects, and, of c
  
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• Carson volleyball falls to Spanish Springs

  09-09-2016 08:43
  
  Carson High got a glimpse at its volleyball future much of Thursday night against Spanish Springs, and it was pretty good.After dropping the first two games, 20-25 and 18-25, coach Robert Maw made some changes and watched a much younger team win 25-20 and 25-22 before blowing an 8-2 lead in the fifth set and falling 13-15 at Morse Burley Gym.“I was thinking about that a few times during the match,” Maw said after a lengthy discussion with his team. “We had a lot of younger pla
  
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• Carson City teacher earns national grant

  09-09-2016 08:43
  
  Voya Financial, Inc., a leading provider of retirement plans for educators, announced Christina Bourne, a teacher at Mark Twain Elementary School, has received a $2,000 grant as part of the company’s 2016 Voya Unsung Heroes awards competition. Through the Voya Unsung Heroes program, Voya Financial awards grants to K-12 educators nationwide to honor their innovative teaching methods, creative educational projects, and their ability to positively influence the children they teach. This year
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on suspicion of felony car burglary

  09-09-2016 08:43
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.WEDNESDAY:At 6:58 a.m., Hugo Ramirez, 20, of Carson City was arrested on suspicion of felony vehicle burglary after deputies responded to reports of a suspicious person near California and Colorado streets. Bail was set at $20,000.At 8:13 a.m., Garett Chambers, 39, was arrested on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance, felony possession of a dangerous drug with
  
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• 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony to be held in Carson City

  09-09-2016 08:43
  
  On Sunday morning, Carson City will host its annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony, commemorating the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.The ceremony will be held at the World Trade Center I-Beam Memorial in Mills Park to remember the emergency service personnel and thousands of innocent men, women and children who were killed 15 years ago.“Each year we gather together to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001. This year will mark the 15th year since the
  
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• Dozens stranded overnight in cable cars high above French Alps

  09-09-2016 08:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A series of cable cars carrying tourists stopped working at high altitude over the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps on Thursday, prompting a major rescue operation and leaving 45 people trapped in midair overnight, France’s interior minister said.
  
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• Dozens rescued after spending night in cable cars high above French Alps

  09-09-2016 08:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A series of cable cars carrying tourists stopped working at high altitude over the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps on Thursday, prompting a major rescue operation and leaving 45 people trapped in midair overnight, France’s interior minister said.
  
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• School Board votes to support state mandate for parental opt-in for sex ed classes

  09-09-2016 06:51 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County School Board late Thursday voted to support the Nevada Legislature’s mandate that parents grant permission before their children participate in sex education courses.
  
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• Angry parents pepper officials at town hall meeting with questions about mercury contamination

  09-09-2016 06:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The meeting, originally planned as a forum for parents to ask questions of school district, police and EPA officials, turned into a free-for-all, with parents shouting questions at the officials.
  
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• Angry parents pepper officials at town hall meeting with questions

  09-09-2016 06:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The meeting, originally planned as a forum for parents to ask questions of school district, police and EPA officials, turned into a free-for-all, with parents shouting questions at the officials.
  
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• Las Vegas Paiutes to protest pipeline in solidarity with North Dakota tribe

  09-09-2016 06:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas Paiute tribal members plan to protest Friday in solidarity with a North Dakota tribe fighting development of a pipeline slated to run above the Missouri River, a sacred resource.
  
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• Clark County CFO could be named next county manager

  09-09-2016 03:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Yolanda King could be named Clark County’s next chief executive officer this month.
  
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• Defense group joins objection to ‘Las Vegas Law’

  09-09-2016 03:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A group of defense attorneys asked the Nevada Supreme Court to join in a request to prevent the Clark County District Attorney’s television show from filming trials.
  
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• In Las Vegas, no neighborhood is safe from burglary

  09-09-2016 03:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  My wife, Patricia, and I drove out of town last weekend for some R&R. However, within minutes of driving onto our Summerlin street, the wonderful feeling of restoration that comes with three days on the waterfront turned into a high-anxiety downer.
  
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• UNLV hopes to fill top journalism school post by end of academic year

  09-09-2016 03:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  UNLV hopes to find a permanent leader for its ailing journalism school by the end of the academic year, school administrators said Thursday.
  
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• Medical marijuana dispensary set to open in Carson City

  09-09-2016 03:19
  
  Carson City’s first medical marijuana dispensary is set to open later this month.The dispensary, RISE, held a ribbon cutting and hosted tours of its store on Clearview Drive at Carson Street Thursday.The dispensary operated by Green Thumb Industries (GTI) has tentative plans to open Sept. 16, but its opening depends on scheduling a final inspection by the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, which oversees the state’s medical marijuana industry. This is GTI’s third
  
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• Transit authority adds bus route, changes service on 27 others

  09-09-2016 02:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Find out if your trip will be affected beginning Nov. 6
  
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• North Las Vegas set to add 18 new firefighters with help of grant

  09-09-2016 02:36 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Eighteen new firefighters will be hired in North Las Vegas, with help from a $3.67 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response program.
  
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• Nevada Board of Regents gets out of coach-hiring business

  09-09-2016 02:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The state’s higher education board has given Nevada’s college presidents more authority over hiring of high-profile coaches.
  
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• Storey County man arrested on suspicion of open murder charge

  09-09-2016 02:06
  
  A Storey County man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of open murder.According to the Storey County Sheriff’s Office, Bret Black, was arrested after an investigation into the 2014 death of Black’s wife at their Highlands home. Black surrendered to the Sheriff’s Office after a warrant for his arrest was issued on Wednesday. The surrender was arranged through his attorney David Houston of Reno. Black is currently being held in the Storey County Jail. Bail was set at $250,000.&he
  
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• Energy infrastructure plan in front of Carson City School Board

  09-09-2016 02:06
  
  The Carson City School District board will vote Tuesday on a plan to fund construction of energy conservation projects for district school facilities.The resolution before the board proposes an installment purchase agreement with a term of 20 years to finance the cost of acquiring, constructing, improving SWand equipping energy projects in the district. The maximum cost of the proposal would be $7 million.A spokesman said the agreement would be repaid from the district’s funding including
  
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• State briefs: Gardnerville lawyer applies for Saitta’s Supreme Court seat

  09-09-2016 01:59
  
  Gardnerville lawyer Michael King Powell is the first to apply for appointment to the Supreme Court seat vacated by the resignation of Nancy Saitta.Powell, 68, primarily practices criminal law. He has appeared not only in Washoe and Douglas County courts but U.S. District Court, the 9th Circuit Court and U.S. Supreme Court.He has lived in Nevada for 48 years.The deadline for application to be considered for the appointment is today.The applicants for the post will be reviewed and interviewed by a
  
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• Gardnerville lawyer applies for Saitta’s Supreme Court seat

  09-09-2016 01:59
  
  Gardnerville lawyer Michael King Powell is the first to apply for appointment to the Supreme Court seat vacated by the resignation of Nancy Saitta.Powell, 68, primarily practices criminal law. He has appeared not only in Washoe and Douglas County courts but U.S. District Court, the 9th Circuit Court and U.S. Supreme Court.He has lived in Nevada for 48 years.The deadline for application to be considered for the appointment is today.The applicants for the post will be reviewed and interviewed by a
  
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