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November 12, 2009

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Tanker truck crash kills driver, causes spectacular fire, explosions
Martin Griffith
Fire Battalion Chief Ronald Nordmeyer said four nearby vehicles were destroyed by flames, but all eight occupants escaped serious injury.
Sierra tour bus crash leaves 2 dead, sends 31 to hospital
"We still don't know the cause," he said. "It's been raining off and on all day, but we don't know what the conditions were like at the time of the collision."
Sun reaps honors at press group's awards banquet
Photographer Ethan Miller captured two of those awards for a spot news photo of a firefighter with a grieving mother and a feature shot of visitors at the veterans cemetery in Boulder City on Veterans Day.
List of NPA award winners
Community Service
Navy helicopter crash leaves 2 dead, 2 injured
The H-60 helicopter, assigned to a squadron based at the Patuxent River, Md., Naval Air Station, had been training at the Fallon Naval Air Station.
Fourth subcritical nuclear test conducted at Nevada Test Site
The experiment, at the test site about 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is designed to obtain physics information on plutonium samples of varying ages. It was conducted in a series of horizontal tunnels about 960 feet underground.

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