CARSON CITY -- A 20-year-old soldier from Fernley has been killed in Iraq.
Thomas Lyons died Tuesday when his convoy was hit by a rocket attack, relatives said.
Lyons was a military police officer stationed at Fort Richardson, Alaska.
His wife, Delvin, an active-duty soldier also stationed there, gave birth to the couple's first son in May.
His mother and stepfather, Jeanna and John Flint, live in Fernley.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
The memorial will include an open-air promenade, an amphitheater, and educational materials that will honor more than 200,000 veterans in the state.
The event at South 4th Street and East Garces Avenue included color guard performances, military vehicle motocades, and trailer floats with people dressed as founding fathers.
Jan Millholland seeks posthumous recognition for her late husband Paul, whose Army service records were lost in a 1973 military archives fire.
According to Veterans Action Group, the annual downtown Las Vegas parade will start at 4th Street and Garces Avenue at 10 a.m. and end at 4th Street and Stewart Avenue.
New tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday.
It’s unclear what kinds of tests he ordered and how Nevada — home of the nation’s nuclear stockpile — would be affected.
Any future U.S. test likely would take place in Nevada at the testing sites, but a lot of work likely would need to go into the sites to prepare them given it’s been over 30 years since the last test.
“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” he said in a post on Truth Social. “That process will begin immediately.”
The Pentagon confirmed Friday that it has accepted an anonymous $130 million gift to help pay members of the military during the government shutdown, raising ethical questions after President Donald Trump had announced that a friend had offered the gift to defray any shortfalls.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to U.S. Southern Command.
