The earthquake happened at 11:34 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It struck about 14 miles north of Barstow.
Julie Wootton-Greener
Education reporter
Email: jgreener@reviewjournal.com
Phone: 702-387-2921
Julie joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in July 2019 as a reporter for The View, covering the southwest/Henderson area. She grew up in southern California, and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. She worked as an education and health reporter at the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho for eight years. Before that, she was an education and county government reporter for two years at the Elko Daily Free Press in Elko, Nev.
The auctions — which typically draw an average of 1,800 bidders — are held three times a year. The first one of 2020 is Feb. 29.
Katherine Cassell was selected for the 2020 VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship Program. The semester-long program allows fellows to work in four areas of veterans’ policy.
Christopher Loftus started on the job Feb. 3 as CEO and managing director. Desert Springs Hospital — part of the Valley Health System — is on East Flamingo Road.
The crash happened at 1:23 p.m. at the intersection of W. Twain Ave. and S. Rainbow Boulevard, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada said on Twitter.
A 78-year-old man was driving a 2018 Dodge Challenger north on South Fort Apache Road near the intersection with West Tropicana Avenue when the car entered the southbound lanes and struck the front of a 2017 Hyundai Elantra traveling south on South Fort Apache Road, police said.
One person was transported to a local hospital with unknown injuries Saturday after a downtown Las Vegas apartment fire.
The approximately 65,000-square-foot Glenn and Ande Christenson School of Education Building will cost an estimated $55.9 million to construct. It’s slated to open in 2021.
McDoniel Elementary School’s slogan is: “Bringing the world’s oceans to the desert.” The lab was created in 1989, and now includes 10 saltwater and two freshwater tanks.
The forecast weekend temperatures are “quite a bit above average for this time of year,” said Alex Boothe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The recall is for 113-gram foil bags containing “Sugar Kid SALTED EGG FISH SKIN,” which were imported in late 2019, the USDA said.
A 29-year-old motorcyclist died Friday night at the scene. A 34-year-old woman sustained moderate injuries and was transported to University Medical Center’s trauma unit.
Jerashaun Jackson, 31, and her ex-boyfriend, 28-year-old Akoya Hudgins, are being held at the Clark County Detention Center.
Clark County School District second-grade teacher Jeff Rapp wrote Nevada State College’s first official fight song, “All Will Hail Black and Gold.”
Henderson’s animal shelter had a 91.7 percent “no kill” rate in 2019 — a slight increase over the previous year. In total, 4,492 animals were brought to the shelter in 2019.
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