A cross-country truck convoy protesting pandemic-related mandates and emergency measures continued its journey east on Thursday.
Nation and World
A slate of speakers rallied a crowd of about 500 in the California desert Wednesday to send off a group of truckers on a cross-country convoy in protest of pandemic-related mandates and emergency measures.
A national organizer for the convoy said the demonstration’s goals are freedom, liberty, accountability and an end to a national emergency declaration for COVID-19.
The death of former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid prompted an outpouring of tributes nationally late Tuesday afternoon.
The federal program aims to ease the financial strain of deaths due to COVID-19.
One of the six people killed in a plane crash on a suburban Phoenix golf course Monday night was an international business student at UNLV. Two others killed — Erik Valente and James Louis Pedroza — also were from Las Vegas.
Lionel Douglass remembers standing on a bluff the evening of Feb. 10, quietly admiring the Grand Canyon like he had done so many times before. Then came the roar of the flames and the screams.
Four people were killed Sunday when a small, home-built plane flying from Henderson crashed near a mountain town in Southern California, authorities said.
The pilot and three passengers who survived a deadly helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon were hospitalized Sunday in Las Vegas after an hourslong rescue effort, officials said.