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Beatty waste dump fire blamed on rain-sodium reaction
 

A fire at a low-level radioactive waste dump in Nye County that shut down a 140-mile stretch of Nevada’s main north-south highway for almost 24 hours in October was caused by rainfall that seeped through a compromised cover and reacted with metallic sodium, according to a report released Thursday.

 
FBI offers reward in search for Las Vegas mosque vandal suspect

The FBI is offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the person or people responsible for wrapping bacon around a central Las Vegas mosque’s front door handles Sunday morning.

 
2 adults, 3 children who died in plane crash identified

Two adults and three children were identified as the people killed in a small-airplane crash in Bakersfield, Calif., on Saturday, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said.

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Woman, 24, charged with murder, child abuse, leaving accident scene in Strip crash

Lakeisha Holloway’s path to the Strip seems to have passed out of homelessness and back again. And now the woman accused of driving her Oldsmobile onto a busy sidewalk Sunday, killing one and injuring dozens of others, faces a murder charge.

 
‘Mr. Trick Shots’ realizes dream of becoming American citizen — VIDEO

Emulating American entertainer Dean Martin, a 12-year-old boy growing up in 1960s Rome picked up a pool stick. That boy, Stefano Pelinga, pool cue in hand, would go on to nab multiple international billiards titles in a career spanning three decades.

 
Protesters disrupt Catholic Masses in Las Vegas — VIDEO

In response to a string of protests that have disrupted Mass services across the valley, the Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas wonders why we all can’t just get along.

 
Firefighter training involves multiple stages

Dozens of firefighters stood just a few feet away from a rural Moapa home in the fading light of a beautiful, crisp November day and did not put out the growing fire.

 
Faraday electric car plant expected to make big impact in Las Vegas Valley

By the time the first Faraday Future rolls off the assembly line at the company’s 3 million-square-foot automobile plant at North Las Vegas’ Apex Industrial Park in late 2017, a large portion of the company’s 4,500 employees will be furnishing their new homes, buying groceries and living the Southern Nevada lifestyle.

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