A resident of Sun City Summerlin who tested positive for the coronavirus has died. Five others in the 55-and-older community have tested positive.
Rachel Crosby
Reporter: Investigations/Projects
Email: rcrosby@reviewjournal.com
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Rachel Crosby is an investigative reporter at the Review-Journal. The University of Florida graduate and Las Vegas native cut her teeth at internships with the Tampa Bay Times and Chicago Tribune before starting at the Review-Journal as a nightside crime reporter and columnist in 2015. Her work has helped document the scope of the Oct. 1 mass shooting.
Legal advocates say landlords are still harassing tenants at a “record pace” despite Gov. Sisolak’s statewide eviction moratorium issued this week.
When schools and businesses shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic, Las Vegas saw mass blood drive cancellations.
Evictions are not supposed to be happening right now. But weekly renters are still being served eviction notices, or kicked out, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The 55-and-older community serves about 12,500 people. The patients were hospitalized as of Wednesday night.
The first Nevadan to die from coronavirus was a 69-year-old Chicago Cubs fan and retired Las Vegas business owner. He died alone at MountainView Hospital.
Las Vegas police said on Thursday that 48 employees have reported “workplace exposure” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Clark County firefighters’ exposure happened during a medical call involving a patient who has since been tested for COVID-19.
Coronavirus closures are resulting in mass Las Vegas blood shortages. Local blood drive centers are taking precautions and ask that people continue to donate.
Adolfo Orozco’s attorney argued for the cellphone to be returned and any future search be limited to the deadly December fire. A judge Tuesday sided with police.
Problems plagued Adolfo Orozco’s real estate enterprise long before a December fire, according to interviews with former tenants-turned-workers and hundreds of records.
A court filing shows investigators seized an Alpine owner’s cellphone and alleges that a live-in property manager “ordered” the rear door bolted shut before the deadly Dec. 21 fire.
Residents were frustrated that it could take additional weeks before they can get their things. They were also upset that they never got a chance to testify.
After the December fire left six dead, and a criminal investigation was opened, concerns about evidence preservation and asbestos exposure complicate the issue.
Criminal investigators raided the Alpine Motel property manager’s office and unit after the deadly December fire, seizing paperwork and a computer, records show.
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