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        "uri": "/2013/04/10/nevada-jury-orders-hmo-to-pay-500m-in-hepatitis-ca/",
        "title": "Nevada jury orders HMO to pay $500M in hepatitis case",
        "byline": "Ken Ritter",
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        "prettyDate": "April 10, 2013",
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        "summary": "A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak.",
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        "uri": "/2013/04/09/nevada-jury-considers-2-5-billion-hepatitis-case/",
        "title": "Nevada jury considers $2.5 billion hepatitis case",
        "byline": " Ken Ritter ",
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        "prettyDate": "April 09, 2013",
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        "summary": "With billions of dollars on the line, a Nevada jury is deliberating whether the state's largest health management organization should pay punitive damages in a negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak called the largest in U.S. history.",
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        "uri": "/2013/03/13/think-tank-calls-las-vegas-police-pay-inflated/",
        "title": "Think tank calls Las Vegas police pay ‘inflated’",
        "byline": "Ken Ritter",
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        "prettyDate": "March 13, 2013",
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        "summary": "A conservative think tank released a study Tuesday that it said shows Las Vegas police employee salaries are inflated, and called for state lawmakers to ban the use of taxpayer money to pay police officers doing union business.",
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        "uri": "/2013/02/21/trial-begins-for-insurers-in-vegas-hep-c-outbreak/",
        "title": "Trial begins for insurers in Vegas hep C outbreak",
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        "prettyDate": "February 21, 2013",
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        "summary": "A Nevada jury is being asked to hold the state's largest health management company responsible for up to $1 billion in damages for sending two women to an outpatient medical clinic owned by a once-prominent Las Vegas physician where they contracted incurable hepatitis C in 2005.",
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        "uri": "/2011/08/30/outbursts-mark-congress-jobs-hearing-in-las-vegas/",
        "title": "Outbursts mark Congress jobs hearing in Las Vegas",
        "byline": "Ken Ritter",
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        "prettyDate": "August 30, 2011",
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        "summary": "Audience outbursts briefly interrupted testimony Tuesday before a trio of Congress members in Las Vegas for a hearing about jobs and improving federal job training in a state saddled with the nation's highest unemployment rate.",
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