There were stories about shootings and other violent crimes. Fires, flash floods and heartrending stories of human loss. But there were stories of human triumph, too.
Military
Former Nevada legislator and longtime optometrist Robert Robinson died less than three weeks after being left outside in extreme heat by staff at the Nevada State Veterans Home in Boulder City.
Barbara Russom waited more than three months to bury the ashes of her friend, decorated Army veteran Thomas Francis Marion, at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City. And there are others like him.
A Cheyenne High School graduate and decorated Navy counselor beat 135 shore-based candidates in the Pacific Northwest for the coveted Sailor of the Year honor.
Fern Jennings of Las Vegas never knew how lonely and loyal her husband was during the Christmas of 1944 until after he died 40 years later and she opened a shoe box full of his letters from World War II.
Surveillance video wanted by the House Veterans Affairs Committee for an inspector general’s probe into the treatment of a blind Navy veteran in October during a lengthy emergency room wait at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center has been deleted.
A Marine veteran, with help from the Westminster Presbyterian Church’s food pantry, he has been a guardian angel for fellow homeless people living in hidden hooches on the shrub-dotted desert next to the North Las Vegas Airport.
An Air Force veteran talked about her work with the military, her time supporting veterans and her PTSD disability at a Wreaths Across America ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City on Saturday.
Some 350 active military families from Nellis Air Force Base received bags of groceries as part of “Operation Homefront.”
Fellow blind veterans didn’t see tears roll down the cheeks of mourners in Boulder City on Thursday when friends eulogized Navy veteran Sandi Niccuum.
Nevada veterans wait longer than any in the nation to have disability benefits claims completed, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller said at a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday.
Family and friends will pay tribute to former Area 51 commander and retired Air Force Col. Hugh “Slip” Slater when he is buried Jan. 10 at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City.
The parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in Greece say that they discovered weeks after his funeral that his body had been sent home without a heart — and that the Department of Defense later gave them somebody else’s heart in its place.
A former staffer for U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah was charged with lying about being injured in the Iraq war to collect disability benefits.
About 2,500 gathered at Pearl Harbor on Saturday to remember those killed in the 1941 Japanese attack that launched the U.S. into World War II.
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