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Commission overrules staff on jail food bid
Clark County commissioners voted 5-2 on Tuesday to hire a more expensive food service provider for the Clark County Detention Center after the company protested the bid outcome. The vote gives Aramark Correctional Services a $5 million annual contract. County staff had passed over Aramark's bid in favor of New Era Foods Co. of San Ramon, Calif. New Era Foods Co. had pegged the ...
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NSA director says sweeping surveillance program foiled plot against Wall Street
WASHINGTON - The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. The House Intelligence Committee hearing provided a venue for officials to defend the once-secret ...
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Henderson Chooses Engineering Firm For Park Project
An engineering firm will provide design services for the Boulder Creek Park project in the amount of $132,500 under an agreement approved Tuesday by the Henderson City Council. The council voted unanimously to approve the professional services agreement between the city and Slater Hanifan Group Inc., an engineering firm with offices in Las Vegas and Phoenix. Boulder Creek Park will be near the ...
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National study rates Nevada teacher education programs low
Teacher preparation programs in Nevada are not adequately training the next generation of educators, according to a national study that reviewed more than 1,000 programs and was released Tuesday. While some state education leaders say they take the study seriously, others believe the review was flawed and lacks credibility. Programs at the state's colleges and universities received low ...
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Feds boost homeland security funding for state of Nevada
CARSON CITY -- Nevada has received a federal homeland security grant of $3.46 million, an increase over last year of nearly $700,000, the state Department of Public Safety announced Tuesday. The grant was awarded to the state Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "I am pleased Nevada has been awarded this grant, with an ...
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Clark County proposes Spring Mountains land swap with feds
Clark County wants to do a land swap with the federal government. County officials want to give up the county's 4.12 acres at Lee Meadows, in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. In exchange, they want the title to Camp Lee Canyon from the U.S. Forest Service. The move would help prevent fee increases that have been put in place for the camp. Commissioner Larry Brown also said the ...
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Commissioners pleased with new public process following police-involved shootings
After five months and three public reviews of police-related fatalities, Clark County commissioners are generally pleased with how the county's new public fatality fact-finding review process works. The commissioners on Tuesday heard a planned, routine report on the process, which offers the public a window into the decisions tied to cases in which police officers use deadly force. ...
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Man who rushed to save Rep. Giffords fights gun violence in Las Vegas
His cellphone, his bloody pants and bloody shirt are all sitting in some FBI evidence room in Quantico, Va. And Daniel Hernandez, who helped save the life of Gabrielle Giffords after the then-Democratic congresswoman from Arizona was shot in the head two years ago, said Tuesday he doesn't care to get them back any time soon. They're history, as far as he's concerned; or, rather, ...
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Southern Nevada nature opens eyes of Hispanic youth
Brushing the hair out of his eyes, Julian Elias tilts his head back and gazes up at something most Las Vegans have seen. The Hoover Dam. But few have the security clearance to view it from the bottom of Black Canyon, a location accessed by a winding worker's road reachable only by those with a key code to open the gate. Standing in the shadow of Hoover Dam's 726-foot wall of water ...
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Veterans Affairs next wrinkle backlog of appeals
While the Department of Veterans Affairs scrambles to reduce a staggering backlog of disability claims, another problem has come into view: a backlog of appeals. There are 45,000 appeals waiting to be heard by the Board of Veterans Appeals and the number is expected to swell to 102,000 by 2017, Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., said Tuesday after the VA subcommittee on disability assistance and memorial ...
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Las Vegas police officer facing drug charges relieved of duty
A Las Vegas police officer facing felony drug charges has been relieved of duty, law enforcement sources said. Officer Ramin Amely, who had been with the department since May 2007, has agreed to plead guilty to two felony drug counts in Clark County Justice Court, according to the district attorney's office. Amely was last assigned to the Metropolitan Police Department's Traffic ...
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Las Vegas Sands chief Adelson expected to return to stand
Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson will likely return to the witness stand next month. The wrongful termination lawsuit brought in Clark County District Court by former Sand China Ltd. CEO Steven Jacobs has been set for a weeklong hearing starting on July 16 over the initial question where a trial should take place. Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez penciled in ...
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Nevada receives $3.4 million homeland security
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval will decide later this week what to do with more than $3.4 million in grant money from the federal Department of Homeland ...
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91 residents find help from Red Cross management company
Las Vegas firefighters work at the scene of a three-alarm blaze at the Encantada apartment complex at 401 N. 28th Street in Las Vegas on Sunday. The fire displaced 91 residents, and Advanced Management Group has made sure they had shelter at the company's other properties. Families, neighbors and the Red Cross have also ...
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Review-Journal wins four Best of the West awards
Las Vegas Review-Journal staffers won four awards in the 2013 Best of the West contest, including first place in general interest column writing. Best of the West is a contest that rewards journalistic excellence in 14 western states including Nevada. "Obviously the competition is really tough when you're going up against the best newspapers west of the Mississippi," ...
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Nevada justices reject immigrants drivers license request
CARSON CITY -- The state Supreme Court has denied granting a Nevada driver's license to a man who might have been better off waiting for the new state driver's authorization cards to go into effect in January. A panel of the high court, in a unanimous 3-0 decision issued last week, refused Laszlo Schoka's petition that the Department of Motor Vehicles be ordered to grant him a ...
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City panel favors loosening controls on downtown liquor sales
Buying and selling booze in downtown Las Vegas could be even easier under two proposed city ordinances. On Tuesday the City Council's recommending committee heard the proposals that would loosen some alcohol restrictions under the Fremont Street Experience canopy and in the 18b Arts District. The changes are contained in two proposed ordinances that were approved by the committee 3-0. The ...
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New Las Vegas Projects Signal Better Economic Times
LAS VEGAS - The Electric Daisy Carnival takes place this weekend. Hundreds of thousands of people are coming to Las Vegas for what some are calling the party of the year. The annual music festival ...
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New citizens sworn in during Las Vegas ceremony
About 200 people representing more than 45 countries were sworn in as U.S. citizens Tuesday during a naturalization ceremony at Las Vegas City Hall. U.S. District Court Judge Lloyd D. George presided over the ceremony. The ceremony was part of the city's "Celebrate America" initiative, a program to highlight diversity in Las ...
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Congressional report says immigration bill cuts deficit
Jackelin Alfaro, 4, in a T-shirt that reads "Don't Deport my Dad," Tuesday sits in the hall with family members outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this ...
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Chrysler reverses position agrees to Jeep recall
This March 6, 2012 photo provided by the law offices of Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, LLP shows the scene of a crash in Bainbridge, Ga., where a 4-year-old boy named Remi Walden was burned and died when a Jeep Grand Cherokee was struck from the rear by a Dodge Dakota pickup truck. Chrysler agreed Tuesday to recall 2.7 million older Jeep ...
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See Las Vegas with Magellan Jets
Magellan Jets , a front-runner in domestic and international private jet travel, based in Braintree, MA, is giving away two hours in two of the hottest business jets on the market, ...
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UT man wins World Series of Poker seniors event
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A 68-year-old Utah retiree is taking home more nearly $635,000 after winning the seniors' championship at the World Series of ...
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Scott named Reno Gazette-Journals new exec editor
RENO, Nev. -; Kelly Ann Scott, a senior editor at the Reno Gazette-Journal and a 14-year veteran of Gannett Co. Inc., has been named the newspaper's new executive ...
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Authorities Unattended campfire caused California fire
Large plumes of smoke from the Carstens Fire block the sun in the Sierra National Forest near Jerseydale, Calif., in the Mariposa area on Monday. More than 700 firefighters are battling the Carstens fire which began Sunday ...
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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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