A teenage boy called 911 to report that his mother had been beaten to death with a baseball bat by his father at their west valley apartment, Las Vegas police said.
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Katelyn Newberg joined the Review-Journal's investigative team in February 2025. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter and began covering courts and legal affairs in October 2021. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
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