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Vets ride RTC buses for free on Veterans Day

All active military service members and veterans will receive free rides on Regional Transportation Commission buses between 12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Nov. 11.

Las Vegan remembered for WWII service, Jewish federation support

Jerome Countess, a Silver Star recipient in World War II and a longtime supporter of the Las Vegas Jewish Federation, died March 18 at University Medical Center after a fall in his Summerlin home. He was 99.

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Las Vegas pigeons reprise dramatic World War I flight

As part of the Racing Pigeon Cross Country Relay, local racing pigeons deliver a message first carried by a famous Black Check cock carrier pigeon named Cher Ami, who single-wingedly saved a beleaguered American battalion.

Comments sought on military range expansion near Fallon

The Bureau of Land Management is gathering public input on plans to more than triple the size of the Navy training range near Fallon by cutting off public access to almost 770,000 acres of federal land.

Pilot error caused Nellis helicopter crash that injured 4

A Nellis Air Force Base rescue helicopter crashed Aug. 18 because the pilot over-corrected after a gunner warned that a trailing helicopter was closing too fast during a night training exercise, Air Combat Command said Thursday.

 
Korean War veteran presented with Purple Heart in Henderson

A good thing happened after a Veterans Affairs doctor rejected Warren Sessler’s disability claim because his Army records didn’t show he had been wounded: He finally received a Purple Heart medal officially from a general.

250 Nevada Guard soldiers sent to Middle East — PHOTOS

Calling the Nevada National Guard the “silent sentinel that protects our freedom and way of life,” Gov. Brian Sandoval sent more than 250 of the state’s citizen-soldiers on their way Monday for a mission to coordinate supply operations for U.S. forces in the Middle East.