In a moment of solidarity, there was a moment of silence. That’s what Thomas Leslie, UNLV’s director of wind band studies, asked for as he took the stage for The President’s Concert, an event that both celebrated the university’s wind orchestra and honored Las Vegas recipients of the French Legion of Honor.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt launched a program providing free legal aid to the state’s active duty, reserve and veteran service members.
The soldiers fired M-16s at men wearing headscarves and robes. The scene for a training exercise Wednesday was on a stretch of desert on the outskirts of the Nevada National Guard’s North Las Vegas Readiness Center .
