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knpr's STATE OF NEVADA

Air Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Barbara Walters on journalism, Las Vegas and what her memoir revealed (aired 2008)

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  • How does one become the martini-carrying mayor of Las Vegas? A polarizing former boxer? A leading activist in Southern Nevada? A news station owner in Pahrump? Over the years, State of Nevada has interviewed an abundance of interesting people on even more fascinating topics. This summer, we’re revisiting some of those in the State of Nevada Summer Series.

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Remains found Saturday at Lake Mead may be from July 25 set

Aug 10, 2022

Human remains found at Lake Mead National Recreation Area last weekend may actually be from the same set of bones discovered 12 days earlier, authorities said Tuesday.

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Nevada ranks low for child well-being as pandemic 'set us all back a bit'

Aug 09, 2022

Nevada and New Mexico ranked among the worst in the nation for overall child well-being. Montana, Idaho, Colorado and Wyoming graded in the top half of states, while Utah ranked fourth.

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Participants in an interfaith memorial ceremony enter the New Mexico Islamic Center mosque to commemorate four murdered Muslim men, hours after police said they had arrested a prime suspect in the killings, in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday.

Fear turns to shock among Albuquerque Muslims as police say the shooter is a Muslim

Aug 10, 2022
Businesses were closed and people skipped prayer services after the shooting deaths of four Muslim men, three of them in the past two weeks. Now, the fear has given way to confusion over a motive.
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Art & Design
Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, delivers the keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference in 2003 in San Francisco. Jobs created a personal uniform for himself that featured a black turtleneck from Japanese designer Issey Miyake.

The story of Steve Jobs and Issey Miyake's friendship (and a nixed Apple uniform)

Aug 10, 2022
Before Jobs adopted his classic black turtleneck, he approached Japanese designer Issey Miyake to see if he could create a uniform for Apple employees. But company employees were not fans.
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National
Firefighters work the scene of a helicopter crash where former NBA basketball star Kobe Bryant died in Calabasas, Calif., on Jan. 26, 2020. Bryant's widow is taking her lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Fire Department to a

Trial in lawsuit over Kobe Bryant crash photos begins

Aug 10, 2022
Vanessa Bryant's invasion of privacy lawsuit says a deputy showed photos of her husband's remains to bar patrons and a firefighter showed them to off-duty colleagues.
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Ukraine invasion — explained
A Russian serviceman patrols Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station on May 1. A series of exchanges in recent weeks has made conditions at the plant more dangerous.

Here's just how close the war in Ukraine has come to Europe's largest nuclear plant

Aug 10, 2022
Satellite images and social media analyzed by NPR show attacks have hit structures around the plant, coming dangerously close to causing a nuclear accident.
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Muhammad Syed, 51, was taken into custody Monday in connection with the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, N.M., over the last nine months. He faces charges in two of the deaths and may be charged in the others.

Suspect denies involvement in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque

Aug 10, 2022
The 51-year-old Afghan immigrant denied any connection to the deaths that shook the city and its small Muslim community. Bullet casings found at crime scenes were linked to a gun found at his home.
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World Cafe
Tank and the Bangas perform live at a WXPN Free At Noon Concert

Listening to Tank and the Bangas' 'Red Baloon' is like scanning the radio dial

Aug 10, 2022
On this session of World Cafe, Tarriona "Tank" Ball talks about how the radio of her youth and the radio of today made her want to create her own station with the band.
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Author Interviews
A photo of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. is displayed during a news conference April 24, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif., announcing the arrest of the man suspected to be the so-called Golden State Killer.

After a career of cracking cold cases, investigator Paul Holes opens up

Aug 10, 2022
Holes spent more than 20 years investigating crimes in California and played a critical role in identifying Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the so-called Golden State Killer. His new book is Unmasked.
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