Anthony Chiaramonti, 40, was killed along with three others in a crash above North Las Vegas Airport in July.
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“It’s like my Super Bowl,” Dennis Bott Jr., an administrator at Southwest Gas Corp., said of Aug. 11, or 811 Day, an annual safety initiative.
The health district’s chief health officer says about 50 percent of eligible Clark County residents 16 and older has received at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine. Clark County has set a threshold of 60 percent before fully reopening.
All of the Clark County School District’s approximately 42,000 employees, as well as those of public charter schools, are now eligible to make appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine, the district said Wednesday.
It’s not clear whether any of them were exposed to the coronavirus at schools.
The Clark County School District has submitted a waiver to the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeking to continue offering free meals to children using a drive-thru format this school year.
Four teachers and one administrator who traveled to Seattle last week will not return to their school for two weeks as a precaution related to coronavirus, the district said.
The Southern Nevada Health District is monitoring an undisclosed number of Clark County residents who recently returned from mainland China for the new coronavirus.
The Clark County School District will eliminate all 170 dean positions at middle and high schools in an effort to erase a roughly $17 million deficit.
Veterans and the general public were treated to a free car show and barbecue Saturday in honor of Veterans Day. The event took place at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center.
Officer James Lescinsky, who was acquitted in a federal excessive force case in 2016, alleges that a tainted investigation left him branded as a liar and leaves him with no prospect of finding new employment.
The body was found on or near the 8900 block of Las Vegas Boulevard North, spokesman Eric Leavitt said. Its exact location wasn’t immediately clear.
The district announced on Tuesday that it had filed a motion to vacate the arbitrator’s decision — estimated to cost $13 million in fiscal year 2018 and $38.5 million the next year.
Today begins Sunshine Week, a national initiative to promote the importance of open government and freedom of information, and the Review-Journal is publishing several stories about the importance of government transparency.
The Nevada Highway Patrol reported 213 crashes between 10 a.m. Monday and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, a 300 percent increase from the same period a week earlier.