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• Winter watering restrictions now in effect in the Las Vegas Valley

  03-11-2016 23:28 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Landscape irrigation is now limited to one assigned day per week through Feb. 28.
  
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• RTC announces new bus line and route changes to begin Sunday

  03-11-2016 22:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A newly created bus route and service changes to 27 other routes will go in effect Sunday, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada said.
  
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• New RTC bus line, route changes begin Sunday

  03-11-2016 22:10 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A newly created bus route and service changes to 27 other routes will go in effect Sunday, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada said.
  
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• Northern Nevada county to install cameras inside all classrooms

  03-11-2016 20:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Lyon County schools will soon be equipped with cameras in every classroom.
  
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• Melania Trump speaks at campaign rally in Pennsylvania

  03-11-2016 20:03 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Melania Trump is celebrating her immigrant story as she delivers a rare speech on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania.
  
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• Power partially restored at Paris Las Vegas

  03-11-2016 19:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Power was partially restored at Paris Las Vegas about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, and guests are expected to be allowed back into the resort by 1 a.m. Friday.
  
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• Power outage hits Paris Las Vegas, causes evacuation

  03-11-2016 19:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A construction accident caused Paris Las Vegas to lose power Thursday morning, and the resort is being evacuated.
  
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• Hundreds gather at UNLV to hear DJ Steve Aoki spin, Bill Clinton campaign

  03-11-2016 18:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Hundreds of people who entered a get-out-the-vote rally hosted by former President Bill Clinton and DJ Steve Aoki this afternoon expressed excitement about casting their ballots.
  
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• DJ Steve Aoki to spin, Bill Clinton to campaign at UNLV today

  03-11-2016 18:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Superstar DJ-producer Steve Aoki is joining forces with former President Bill Clinton at UNLV for a “Get Out The Vote” show at UNLV today. It’s part of the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Bill Clinton, DJ Aoki hold get-out-the-vote event at UNLV

  03-11-2016 18:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Former U.S. President Bill Clinton fired up young people at Thursday’s “Love Trumps Hate” rally inside UNLV’s Cox Pavilion, telling them his wife’s campaign was about “building bridges not walls.”
  
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• Prosecutors confirm FBI agents posed as film crew in Bunkerville standoff investigation

  03-11-2016 18:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Federal prosecutors confirmed late Wednesday that undercover FBI agents posed as a documentary film crew to gather evidence during their investigation of the April 2014 standoff near Bunkerville.
  
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• North Las Vegas approves fast-food restaurant amid resident protests

  03-11-2016 18:21 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A divided North Las Vegas City Council voted 3-2 Wednesday night to approve a new Jack-in-the Box restaurant with a 24-hour drive-thru window that will be built in the Aliante master-planned community, despite a drawn-out protest from nearby residents.
  
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• Recovered gun may be weapon used in Iowa officers’ shooting deaths

  03-11-2016 17:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A gun found by a search dog in a wooded area is believed to be the weapon used in the fatal ambush shootings of two Iowa police officers, police said Thursday.
  
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• Iowa man charged with murder in ambush-style slaying of two police officers

  03-11-2016 17:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An Iowa man who had several run-ins with police and was banned from his daughter’s high school after waving a Confederate flag was charged with murder on Thursday for the ambush-style slaying of two police officers.
  
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• 2 Americans die in Afghanistan during raid targeting Taliban

  03-11-2016 14:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A joint raid by U.S. and Afghan forces targeting senior Taliban commanders killed two American service members and 26 Afghan civilians on Thursday, authorities said.
  
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• Early voting points to significant advantage for Clinton

  03-11-2016 12:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Hillary Clinton may not be accumulating the type of early-vote advantage her campaign wanted, but she continues to maintain an apparent edge over Donald Trump, with roughly one-fourth of all expected ballots cast in the 2016 election
  
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• Army Corps mum on alternate route for Dakota pipeline

  03-11-2016 12:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Barack Obama has raised the possibility of a reroute of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota to allay the concerns of American Indians and others who have demonstrated against the project for months.
  
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• IS leader exhorts followers to keep up fight for Mosul

  03-11-2016 11:34 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group has released a new message urging his followers to keep up the fight for Mosul as they defend the city against a major offensive aimed at routing the militants from their last urban stronghold in Iraq.
  
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• Woman booked on murder charge after death of 2 year old

  03-11-2016 10:45 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One woman was booked on a murder charge following the death of a 2-year-old girl at an apartment complex near McCarran International Airport in October.
  
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• Garth Brooks takes home biggest prize of night at Country Music Association Awards

  03-11-2016 08:29 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Garth Brooks, who lost entertainer of the year at last year’s Country Music Association Awards when he returned to music after a 13-year break, won the top prize at the show Wednesday, where Beyonce and the Dixie Chicks’ surprise duet performance was met with love and hate.
  
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• How can we get past this brutal election cycle?

  03-11-2016 08:01 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  I want the love back. Or at least the decency.
  
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• What the Masto Heck? A closer look at the senate candidates

  03-11-2016 08:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  The presidential campaign has been so messy and noisy, you might not know much about this race.
  
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• From the pitch to politics: U.S. Congressional hopeful Ruben Kihuen has a different goal in mind these days

  03-11-2016 08:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  "I see it as a responsibility to not only give back, but to help the next person up."
  
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• Favorite pop-culture moments inspired by the presidential election

  03-11-2016 08:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  “When you see how well it works for Donald Trump, do you ever think to yourself, ‘Oh, maybe I should be more racist?”
  
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• Confirmation bias has wreaked havoc on our social media accounts. Will we undo it?

  03-11-2016 08:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  It deprives you of important and relevant facts, and can easily ossify into ugly prejudices.
  
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• A primer on the big questions (but study your informative sample ballots!)

  03-11-2016 08:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  Take the initiative and find out what these ballot questions really represent.
  
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• North Las Vegas council OKs ‘community cat’ pilot program

  03-11-2016 05:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Stray cats strutting into North Las Vegas could soon be trapped, sterilized and released back to their neighborhoods, under “community cat” pilot program that received initial council approval Wednesday night.
  
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• Boulder City police had man in custody a day before deadly confrontation with highway patrol

  03-11-2016 05:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Less than 24 hours before Javier Munoz was involved in a deadly confrontation with the Nevada Highway Patrol last month, he was in the custody of the Boulder City Police Department. Then the police department released Munoz to a hospital, and a day later, he was fatally shot by a highway patrol officer as he attempted to steal a car.
  
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• Weigh all of the facts before deciding vote on Question 1

  03-11-2016 02:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Election day is Tuesday, which means that each of us have important decisions to make. Decisions that could very well determine the long-term direction of life right here in the Silver State.
  
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• Weigh all of the facts before deciding how to vote on Question 1

  03-11-2016 02:38 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Election Day is Tuesday, which means we have important decisions to make. Decisions that could very well determine the long-term direction of life in Nevada.
  
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• U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren campaigns for Clinton in Carson City, Reno

  03-11-2016 02:35 via reviewjournal.com
  
  CARSON CITY — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren rallied supporters Wednesday afternoon in Northern Nevada, urging them to volunteer and work to elect Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and senatorial candidate Catherine Cortez Masto.
  
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• Filling Harry Reid’s Nevada Senate Seat

  03-11-2016 02:17
  While Joe Heck was serving his party in Congress, Catherine Cortez Masto was fighting for Nevadans battered by the housing crisis.
  
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• Las Vegas man sentenced to 25 years in prison for 2015 convenience store robberies

  03-11-2016 02:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada on Wednesday said a man who pleaded guilty to robbing six convenience stores in 2015 in Las Vegas was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
  
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• Ammon, Ryan Bundy return to Nevada for trial over armed standoff at family ranch

  03-11-2016 02:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Brothers will stand trial along with father Cliven and two siblings over April 2014 showdown with federal agents who seized family’s cattle.
  
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• Ammon and Ryan Bundy returned to Nevada to face trial over armed standoff at family ranch

  03-11-2016 02:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Brothers will stand trial along with father Cliven and two siblings over April 2014 showdown with federal agents who seized family’s cattle.
  
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• New 9-step strategy aims to help Nevada deal with teacher shortages

  03-11-2016 01:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A national campaign from the Center for American Progress has unveiled a nine-step strategy that states such as Nevada can use to address dire teacher shortages under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.
  
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• Las Vegas council approves 3-year contract with firefighters

  03-11-2016 01:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After a hard-fought negotiation, the city of Las Vegas has a new contract with the union representing fire and rescue workers that will cost the city roughly $11.5 million over three years.
  
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• Emergency repairs to close sinking stretch of Cheyenne Avenue in North Las Vegas

  03-11-2016 01:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Emergency repairs to a sinking section of Cheyenne Avenue in North Las Vegas will continue Saturday, when a half-mile section of the road will be closed to traffic, the Nevada Department of Transportation said.
  
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• Several honored for land swap that protected gateway to Red Rock Canyon

  03-11-2016 01:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nature Conservancy, Bureau of Land Management, developers of Summerlin and others were honored Wednesday for their work to preserve the desert near the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
  
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• Dealmakers honored for old land swap that protected gateway to Red Rock Canyon

  03-11-2016 01:23 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nature Conservancy, the BLM, the developers of Summerlin and others were honored Wednesday for their work almost 30 years ago to preserve more than 5,300 acres of pristine desert at the eastern gateway to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
  
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