Archive for July, 2009
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009The National Weather Service in Las Vegas has issued a flash flood warning for central Mohave County in northwest Arizona and extreme east central Clark County in southern Nevada.
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Nevada Gov. Gibbons headed home from Mideast trip (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons was due back in the state late Wednesday or early Thursday after a weeklong overseas trip that included military briefings and visits with Nevada troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Nevada High Court rejects appeal in death penalty case (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009The Nevada Supreme Court has dismissed another appeal from death row inmate Timothy Redmen, convicted of murdering and mutilating a Las Vegas man and tossing his body into a trash bin.
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Nevada travel: Ely’s Ghost Trains keep on steaming (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Railroad » A place for history buffs and kids. East Ely, Nev. » Conductor Gene Rogers shouted “all aboard” as the distinctive sound of a steam railroad engine, complete with whistles and bell, roared to life on a recent Sunday morning at the Nevada Northern Railway yard in eastern Nevada.
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Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger sacked by Nevada lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault (New York Daily News)
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and Ohio native Ben Roethlisberger has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by a woman in Nevada.
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Nevada Sees an Opening in California’s Troubles
Monday, July 20th, 2009Nevada hopes that California’s economic woes will inspire its businesses to move to a healthier business climate across its shared border.
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CFN 2009 preview: Nevada (Fox Sports)
Monday, July 20th, 2009You may not know who Colin Kaepernick is, but CFN says you’ll likely be familiar with the Nevada QB and his team by season’s end.
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OJ Simpson getting unusual shot at winning release from Nevada high court (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Monday, July 20th, 2009LAS VEGAS - Few in Nevada legal circles believe O.J. Simpson has any real chance at freedom when the state’s Supreme Court justices consider letting him trade a prison cell in rural northern Nevada for a golf course in Miami while he appeals his conviction in a gunpoint hotel room heist.
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Nevada Officials Resist DOE Mercury Storage Plans (KOLO 8 Reno)
Sunday, July 19th, 2009Nevada officials have expressed concerns over a U.S. Energy Department proposal to store up to 17,000 tons of mercury at the Hawthorne Army Depot.
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Nevada unemployment rate hits record 12 percent (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Saturday, July 18th, 2009Nevada’s unemployment rate jumped from 11 percent in May to a record 12 percent in June, the highest since the state started tracking the rates in the mid-1970s, according to a state report Friday.
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