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Volunteers needed to advocate for disabled foster children
Some of the most vulnerable children -- children in the foster care system with disabilities -- need someone to make sure they get necessary services to excel in school. A 6-year-old program is providing that support but needs more volunteers to meet the growing demand for children who have no one else to help them in local schools. Sponsored by the nonprofit Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, ...
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Cox announces back-to-school fairs
While the current school year wraps up, Cox Communications is planning its 2013 back-to-school fairs. Event dates are Aug. 10 at Meadows mall, 4300 Meadows Lane; Aug. 17 at the Boulevard mall, 3528 S. Maryland Parkway; and Aug. 24 at The Galleria at Sunset, 1300 W. Sunset Road. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The back-to-school fairs are free events that feature a coalition of community agencies and ...
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Tao Group and Rape Crisis Center enter partnership in Las Vegas
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | 10:39 p.m. At first glance, it looks like an unusual partnership, but then in light of revelations of pimps hustling hookers and luring party girls into the world's oldest profession, it makes perfect sense. Our Tao Group, which has the restaurant and nightclubs Tao in The Venetian and Lavo in the Palazzo, as well as Marquee in The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, has ...
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Club Read provides summer fun for kids teens
Children of all ages are encouraged to read at local libraries. Registration begins June 1 for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District's Club Read ...
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Ghost towns provide glimpse of states boom-and-bust past
Nevada's rural landscape is punctuated with ghost towns -- communities built on the promise of mining riches, and then discarded when the dream either died or never quite became reality. The names of many Nevada ghost towns -- Goldfield, Midas, Silver Peak and Goldpoint -- attest to the aspirations of those dreamers who hoped they had stumbled upon the next Comstock Lode. In some cases, the ...
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Las Vegas still leads nation in underwater homeowners but crisis seems to be subsiding
A vacant HUD home is shown in North Las Vegas April 2, 2013. A neighbor said that it has been vacant for a bout two years. (1524 Gaber Court, North Las ...
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Rape Crisis Center welcomes 14 volunteers at grand opening
Volunteer advocacy training graduate Brenda Carter receives her diploma from Daniele Dreitzer, right, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center during an open house Wednesday at the center in Las Vegas. Carter, 53, was raped when she was ...
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Protesters at Las Vegas tech show take aim at Mexican billionaires corrupt practices
Jessica Padron, left, and members of Two Countries One Voice protest against Carlos Slim, a Mexican businessman listed as the second richest man in the world by Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, in front of the Venetian Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The group accuses Slim’s telecommunication companies of engaging in predatory and monopolistic practices. The protest coincides with CTIA, a ...
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Jurors return guilty verdicts in capital case involving 2010 crime spree
Family members of victim Prisma Contreras, from left, cousin Gabby Luna, sister Denise Espitia, and mother Josefine Contreras, react during the reading of the guilty verdicts against defendant Gregory Hover in courtroom 3E at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on ...
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Wedding Chapel Celebrates 70 Years in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS -- After more than eight years of delays, a sex offender who worked as a nurse is going to prison for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old patient. The nursing board gave Paul Santiago a ...
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Former Las Vegas youth soccer coach sentenced in rape of teen
A former youth soccer coach who was accused of raping a team member has been sentenced to at least 23 years in prison. Court records show that Marvin Geovanny Juarez, who coached the Atleticos Club Las Vegas soccer team, pleaded guilty in March to attempted sexual assault of a minor, lewdness with a child, and use of a minor in the production of pornography. On Monday, District Judge Kathleen ...
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Not a good alfalfa farming year for Nevadas Sen. Heller
WASHINGTON -- It was a down year for the alfalfa farm owned in Nevada by Sen. Dean Heller. Heller reported $13,545 in hay sales off the family property in Smith Valley in 2012, a drop from $34,110 the year before. A financial disclosure report the Nevada Republican filed with the U.S. Senate this month suggested in a notation the "Heller Hay Farm" had a loss for 2012. The ...
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Salmonella creates complications hard choices for pregnant Las Vegan
Lyudmyla Radchenko is seen in a recent undated photo. Radchenko, who is nearly nine months pregnant, became ill with salmonella after eating at the Firefly on Paradise restaurant. Her pregnancy limits options for treatment and a C-section has been scheduled in the hopes of minimizing the baby's exposure to the ...
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First wave of summer Wet n Wild ready to welcome crowds
With thousands of season passes already sold, Wet 'n' Wild is bracing for a large turnout when it opens to VIP and select pass holders this weekend. The hotly anticipated water park in the southwest part of the valley can accommodate around 6,000 ...
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Congress completes work on Stolen Valor Act
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday put the final touch on a bill to punish people who falsely pass themselves off as war heroes and try to profit from it. The Stolen Valor Act passed without dissent, two days after it was approved overwhelmingly by the House. Now it goes to the White House where President Barack Obama was expected to sign it into law. The pending law would make it a federal ...
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Titus in new push against VA medical claims backlog
WASHINGTON -- A "pay as you rate" bill to speed payments to former service members was introduced Wednesday in Congress, part of a new push for the Department of Veterans Affairs to reduce a swollen backlog of claims. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., sponsored the bill that she had previewed this spring. It would require the VA to pay for treatment of medical conditions as soon as they are ...
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Photos Wet ’n’ Wild water park is ready to make a splash in Las Vegas
children -- across the Valley are waiting with bated breath for the opening of Wet 'n' Wild Las Vegas water park, and the wait ends this Memorial Day Weekend. Well, for some lucky folks. VIP patrons with the right connections, money and/or luck will be the first to slip and slide at Wet 'n' Wild beginning Saturday, but Wet 'n' Wild opens to single-day ticketholders ...
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Doctor details push for quick procedures cost savings at endoscopy clinics
Of all the physicians snared in the federal hepatitis C outbreak investigation, Dr. Eladio Carrera had worked for Dr. Dipak Desai the longest. Yet Carrera testified Wednesday that he was an outsider who wasn't treated kindly by his boss. While other physician partners received generous bonuses from Desai several times a year, Carrera said he only received one. And Carrera's slow-paced ...
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Jose Canseco Denies Accusation of Sexual Assault in Las Vegas
Former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco has been accused of sexual assault, Las Vegas police said Wednesday. Police said they contacted Canseco during the morning and he had agreed to be interviewed, the Las Vegas Sun reported. The questioning had yet to take place. Canseco, 48, who lives in Las Vegas, clubbed 462 home runs, was a six-time all-star and won two World Series ...
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Man linked to Boston bombing suspect killed by FBI in Florida
ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his possible links to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed by a federal agent in Florida on Wednesday after he suddenly turned violent, the FBI ...
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Dust advisory issued through Wednesday night
Strong winds expected through Wednesday afternoon and evening have put residents and operators of local construction sites on alert for high levels of dust, according to air quality officials. The Clark County Department of Air Quality has asked construction sites in the Las Vegas Valley to take precautions to prevent blowing dust from reaching unhealthy levels. Officials will continue to ...
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Ex-South Tahoe cop guilty of witness tampering
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. -; A former South Lake Tahoe police officer faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of witness tampering and ...
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Senate advances NV Energy move to close coal-fired plant
CARSON CITY -- State senators unanimously backed a bill Wednesday that would require NV Energy to close the Reid Gardner power plant near Glendale and replace it with cleaner power generating facilities. Under Senate Bill 123, 800 megawatts of coal-fired generated electricity must be replaced by the end of 2019. The loss of energy would be replaced with 350 megawatts of renewable energy and the ...
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Judge admonishes prosecutor in hepatitis C case
State prosecutors dodged a mistrial Wednesday after defense attorneys aggressively argued that they knowingly violated Dr. Dipak Desai's attorney-client privileges by questioning a witness about a meeting where criminal defense lawyers were present. Richard Wright, who represents Desai, said prosecutors knew the meeting in question was privileged. He also argued that the prosecutors ...
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Gun background check bill clears another hurdle Nevada Senate
CARSON CITY -- A bill requiring background checks for private sale gun purchases won approval Wednesday in the Senate on an 11-10 party-line vote. It now goes to the Assembly where Democrats have a 27-15 majority. The vote to pass Senate Bill 221 did not come before Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson, R-Las Vegas, attempted to amend the measure to eliminate the requirement that private gun ...
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Reno's roads in contention
Reno is in need of road improvement projects around the city, the residents of Reno agreed with this when they voted in favor of fuel taxes to fund these projects, but with many projects needing to be done and costs increasing there is disagreement about how to prioritize the funds.
In 2008, a number of road project in and around Reno were presented to voters, which would be funded by incremental increases in fuel taxes over the next ten years. Broadly speaking, there are six main road infrastructure projects. Read more
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