A local health expert advised against taking an over-the-counter heartburn medication to treat COVID-19 as news broke this week of a clinical trial regarding the medicine.
Katelyn Newberg
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Katelyn joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s metro desk in June after graduating from the University of Florida. She previously worked with the paper in the summer of 2017 as an intern on the business desk. Before graduating college she was the editor in chief of the Independent Florida Alligator. She was born and raised in Orlando, Florida.
The Nevada Highway Patrol identified a woman killed Monday night after being hit by a tractor-trailer in the northwest valley as an 18-year-old from Las Vegas.
A music teacher at B. Mahlon Brown Academy of International Studies was arrested this month after he made two students feel “scared and harassed,” according to an arrest report for Jason Markel.
Fight for Nevada, a political group that advocates for Gov. Steve Sisolak’s recall, organized a Las Vegas protest Saturday attended by about 400 people amid the coronavirus pandemic.
According to data from the Southern Nevada Health District, there are now 3,570 cases of the virus in the county and 174 deaths as of Saturday morning.
Wayne Allyn Root, a former Review-Journal columnist and conservative radio host, held a protest on Friday where about 980 cars drove down the Strip to demand businesses reopen.
Las Vegas police have identified the man shot and killed by officers after he pointed a shotgun toward them during an attempted carjacking on Tuesday.
Four inmates at the Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center told the Review-Journal that a third staff member has tested positive for the coronavirus at the facility.
The Clark County coroner’s office on Thursday identified the 21-year-old man killed in a rollover crash Tuesday night northwest of Las Vegas.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department’s website, two more employees have tested positive for the coronavirus since Friday.
A motorcyclist was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a single-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon in the east Las Vegas Valley, police said.
An “elderly man” was hospitalized with second-degree burns Wednesday after “a combination of smoking material and medical oxygen” caused a fire, officials said.
The Critter Care Grooming Store in the northwest valley was damaged in a possible electrical fire Wednesday morning, the Las Vegas Fire Department said.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday announced that the previous day’s report of a deputy testing positive for the coronavirus was incorrect, but that a second detention center employee has tested positive.
A Henderson music teacher was arrested April 9 on suspicion of unlawful contact with a minor, school police announced Tuesday.