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Mariachi students keep music alive in Smith Center performance

Clark County School District mariachi students performed with the school district’s ballet folklórico program and a 90-piece student symphony orchestra at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts after a workshop and rehearsal with professional ensemble Mariachi Cobre from Disney World.

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Vietnam vet recalls the night his company was attacked

James L. Kring knew how to pluck a string bass, crash-and-twirl cymbals and bend notes on a trombone. As a corporal in the 1st Marine Division band, he also knew how to shoot an assault rifle, fire a grenade launcher and defend himself in hand-to-hand combat.

Motorcyclists join Green Berets in early Memorial Day ceremony

The roar of more than 1,000 motorcycles drowned out the sorrowful sounds of taps on Sunday during a special and somber ceremony by Nevada’s Green Berets at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

Romney to stump in Las Vegas on Tuesday

Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will be in Las Vegas on Tuesday speaking to press in the afternoon and collecting campaign contributions in the evening at an event hosted by Donald Trump, who officially endorsed Romney in February.

Clues reveal few hints about fate of missing soldier

His family doesn’t know whether he died in uniform from injury or illness, or from an unexplained incident in France at the end of World War II. But one thing is certain: Roman G. Padilla risked his life for his country and died for it too.

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