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Suit: Marine’s body sent home to Pa. without heart

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.

Suspect in car theft rams police vehicles

A 23-year-old Las Vegas man wanted on felony warrants rammed two police cars when confronted by police Tuesday morning, Las Vegas police said.

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$80 million awarded in sand suffocation death

A judge has awarded nearly $80 million to the family of a New Mexico woman who died in 2002 when a tractor-trailer struck her car and buried it in sand, suffocating the woman as teachers and students at a nearby school frantically tried to dig her out.

Two foster parents plead guilty in child neglect case

Two former foster parents have pleaded guilty in a child neglect case that took the Clark County Department of Family Services 19 days to resolve after receiving its first allegation of neglect, according to Las Vegas police and court records.

Road rage incident leads to shooting

A man was shot in the hand after an apparent road rage incident near Flamingo Road and Arville Street Tuesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.

Three officers involved in Saturday shooting identified

Paul Kunz, Justin Marzec and Joshua Giese were identified Tuesday as the Las Vegas police officers involved in the Saturday shooting of a heavily armed 26-year-old man near Flamingo Road and Mountain Vista Street.

 
6 missing two days in freezing Northern Nevada found safe

A desperate search for a couple and four children missing for two days in the below-zero cold of Northern Nevada’s rugged mountains turned jubilant Tuesday when rescuers found them alive and well near their overturned Jeep.

Deadline today for Christmas packages to military addresses

If you’re trying to send some Christmas cheer to a special someone at a military installation, hurry to the post office. All priority and first class packages need to mailed Tuesday in order to make it by Christmas.

 
Texas woman pleads guilty to sending ricin to Obama

A Texas woman and former actress pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, under a deal that her attorney has said would cap prison time at 18 years.