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TSA quietly tested new screening process in Las Vegas

Travelers passing through McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas during the long Memorial Day weekend might notice some changes to security screening. Or maybe not, since the pilot program was quietly enacted there more than a year ago.

DREAMer from valley will deliver Democrats’ Spanish-language response to Trump’s address to Congress

Calling hometown DREAMer Astrid Silva someone who “embodies the exact principles on which our country was founded,” Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that Silva would deliver the Democrats’ Spanish-language response to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress next week.

Prosecutors seek to restrict defense at upcoming Bundy trial in Las Vegas

Anticipating a battle in the upcoming trial against six associates of rancher Cliven Bundy, federal prosecutors this week asked a judge to prohibit defense attorneys from referencing a wide range of material that is central to defense strategy in the case.

 
2 dead and number may rise in deadly California wildfire

— Lighter winds are helping firefighters make gains on a voracious and deadly wildfire in central California that has burned 150 homes and claimed two lives.

 
At least 23 dead in West Virginia floods; search and rescue continues

Surrounded by muddy devastation, Cathy Light and her husband Chris thought it was “heaven sent” they had free burgers to munch on in a Clendenin parking lot Saturday.