The Board of School Trustees decided on an Illinois-based search firm to recommend candidates for the office.
Jeff Burbank
Before returning to the Review-Journal in 2022, Jeff spent seven years as a content development specialist at the Mob Museum. Before that, he worked as a reporter for the Bay City News Service, the Las Vegas Sun, UPI, Los Angeles Times and others, including the RJ from 1991-1995. He also has considerable experience teaching at UNLV, San Jose State and DeVry University. Jeff was a Fulbright Scholar in 2011.
A Las Vegas man indicted in a scheme to steal $7 million in U.S. Treasury checks in Utah was arrested over the weekend in Lyon County, Nevada, a federal prosecutor said Monday.
Lennix Dockery was taken into custody early Saturday by the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department in Rathdrum, Idaho. He is one of three suspects arrested in connection with an April 9 fatal shooting.
A fight related to custody of a pit bull ended in the death of a 69-year-old man last summer. Months later, an autopsy by the Clark County coroner’s office revealed he died of an irregular heartbeat and the manner of death was a homicide.
Roman Ramirez, 51, was booked into the CCDC in connection with the death of Larry Vargas after they fought over a pet, according to police.
The motorcyclist hit the front passenger door of sedan and died at the scene as did a passenger in the sedan, police said.
A man turned himself in at the county jail a day after a shooting death in the northeast Las Vegas Valley.
Witnesses told police that the masked robber pointed a silver handgun, demanded money from the cash register and wore a jacket with the Hilton Grand Vacations logo on it.
The one-time police employee told police that Robert Hoy, 69, “parked his vehicle directly behind his” and came out of the vehicle carrying a gun in the parking lot of the mall.
A woman described her six years of recovery after a bullet entered three lobes of her brain and doctors told her family she would not survive.
“If we do not have an agreement with the school (district) by Aug. 26, our organization and our members will be taking a vote to engage in work actions,” said John Vellardita, CCEA executive director and chief negotiator.
The crash occurred around 4:52 a.m. at the intersection of North Lamb Boulevard and East Lone Mountain Road.
A 19-year-old man was arrested Friday on suspicion of murder with a deadly weapon.
Spencer McDonald, 30, confessed to the slayings of Dina Vail, Andrew Graden and Christopher Brassard but did not provide a specific reason for killing them, an arrest report says.
A juvenile was charged with making terroristic threats Wednesday after authorities reported someone carrying a gun inside Shadow Ridge High School.