Seventy years after the D-Day invasion of Normandy to liberate France from the grip of Germany’s Nazi regime, Las Vegas barber Gaetano “Guy” R. Benza, part of the Allied Expeditionary Force, returned there today to reflect on his life-changing experience.
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Clark County commissioners made history Wednesday when they launched public hearings for medical marijuana dispensaries, hearing from 18 of 81 applicants they’ll hear from by Friday.
On the second day of landings at Normandy, Army Pfc. Benjamin Goo remembers the bullets flying and the sight of soldiers’ bodies as his unit penetrated the shoreline on Omaha Beach to join the invasion of Nazi-occupied France.
The 13th annual ARC-CSI conference began with crash test day on Monday at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. This is the 12th year the conference has been held in Las Vegas.
Almost a year after the Henderson Police Department’s single officer involved shooting of 2013, Edward Scheboth Jr.’s motives for firing at police officers before being killed remain in question.
Two of the Las Vegas Valley’s most colorful political figures bonded last month in a profanity-laced conversation aimed at Clark County commissioners, according to a recording obtained by the Review-Journal.
A judge set bail at $1 million Thursday for a Las Vegas mother accused of shooting and critically wounding her 11-year-old son.
Family members of two men killed by Las Vegas police announced Thursday they will support a former undersheriff — who resigned after a controversial decision about use of force accountability — in the upcoming sheriff’s election.
Twelve schools nationwide have been named Grammy Signature Schools for 2014. The program gives money to public high school music programs based on excellence, financial need or both. Las Vegas Academy was one of two gold-level schools to receive $5,000.
A vacant downtown apartment complex was heavily damaged by fire Tuesday night, according to the Las Vegas Fire Department.
Today, as veterans and families across the nation pause for Memorial Day, Gene Ramos of Las Vegas will be thinking about the comrades he lost in the Korean war and another friend who endured POW hardships with him.
The 36-foot high Tornado is the first slide of its kind in Las Vegas. It opened this weekend.
Staff members became Splash Test Dummies as they tested out the new Tornado water slide at the Las Vegas Wet ‘n’ Wild water park.
The North Las Vegas VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas is one of the few places in the Department of Veterans Affairs where feet, ankles, legs, hands, wrists and arms are made from scratch and fitted to perfection.
Las Vegas police shootings are trending down and Metro reforms are on the rise. It’s looking good for Metro after the U.S. Department of Justice released its final progress report Wednesday after a wide-ranging, multi-year study of Metro’s policies related to deadly force.