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By MIKE SHORO LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

October 24, 2016 - 6:23 am

Power was restored to most homes that had outages in the Las Vegas Valley early Monday morning.

NV Energy reported 1,115 customers lost power in North Las Vegas just before 5 a.m. due to equipment issues, but power was restored as of 7:15 a.m.

About 55 customers lost power in south Las Vegas about 6:45 a.m., according to NV Energy, and power is expected to come back by about 9:30 a.m.

Contact Mike Shoro at mshoro@reviewjournal.com. Follow @mike_shoro on Twitter.

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