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Of all the speakers at Saturday’s memorial stone dedication at Red Rock Canyon, Marcy Cotè perhaps said it best.
She stood up before 300 veterans, friends and family members of the fallen and told a story about her son, Budd, before he left for Iraq.

More than fifty soldiers from the Las Vegas-based Army Reserve 650th Regional Support Group, who deployed to Afghanistan a year ago, returned to McCarran International Airport on Friday night.

To the cheers and tears of flag-waving families and friends, about 50 soldiers from a Las Vegas Valley National Guard unit returned home safely Saturday after a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan.

Retired Army Col. Bill Olds knows how Col. Moammar Gadhafi operates. After all, the Libyan tyrant put a $500,000 bounty on his head after Olds led Egyptian forces in the capture of Libyan hijackers in 1985.

Army Spc. Brian Tabada of Las Vegas was killed Sunday in Afghanistan after insurgents ambushed his patrol. Tabada, 21, was a fire-support specialist trained in calling in aircraft and artillery to quell attacks on NATO troops, according to the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Ky.