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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto is launching a new ad pushing back against suggestions that she didn't keep the state safe as attorney general. Her rebuttal cites a Politifact Nevada fact-check that labeled a National Republican Senatorial Committee commercial as "mostly false" and said crime rates have more to do with local law enforcement than state attorneys general.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Republican operative says he made a mistake by asking potential sponsors of a forthcoming Donald Trump fundraiser at Lake Tahoe to make checks out to a PAC and not the state party. A Nevada GOP official says the issue with George Harris's solicitation letter has been resolved.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a dog that mauled a 9-year-old Las Vegas boy this week fought another dog in the same neighborhood last month. Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said Friday the owner of the 3-year-old pit bull mixed-breed was issued a citation July 11 because his dog hadn't been neutered or vaccinated. Officials haven't made the man's name public. The dog has been euthanized.
ELKO, Nev. (AP) — A federal official says more firefighters are being brought in to contain a wildfire that spread across more than 10 square miles of grassy rangeland just hours after a lightning strike in northern Nevada. U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokesman Gregory Deimel (DYE'-mul) said Friday there have been no injuries reported among the more than 200 firefighters currently battling the fire 25 miles north of Battle Mountain.
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