In 35 years since he was an Army private until when he retires July 30 as a full-bird colonel and Nevada’s highest ranking black Army National Guard officer, Col. James Walker Jr. can attest to changes in the military and its minority landscape. But when it comes to being a soldier, the virtue of being colorblind to someone’s skin has endured unchanged.
Storms moved into the Las Vegas Valley on Sunday and lit up the sky with lightning.
It’s uncertain whether Re’Kwon Smith will play for Las Vegas High this season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament he suffered just three days ago in the Adidas Unrivaled Camp in Chicago.
Democrat Bob Goodman is back in Nevada this week and ready to accept campaign contributions and begin his long-shot effort to replace GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval in the November general election.
A motorcyclist died Sunday afternoon after a two-vehicle crash in the east side of the valley, according to Las Vegas Police.
If there is one thing we now know about new White House press secretary Josh Earnest it is this: He’s a flack paid to spin and in the course of that he will lie.
A 25-year-old Kansas City man gets two suspended sentences and 120 days in jail for a hit-and-run accident that killed a 57-year-old motorcyclist whose wife and daughter were killed by a drunken driver two years earlier.
Tears were not streaming down Khem Birch’s face. There was no reason to get carried away. But he was getting emotional and feeling sentimental, even about a basketball game in July.
As Metro’s Search and Rescue team faced being re-accredited by the Mountain Rescue Association, they were called out on a series of Memorial Day weekend emergencies, including the rescue of a fallen climber at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
Two men are dead after a crash on U.S. Highway 95 north of the valley Sunday morning. Northbound lanes of the highway were closed near Corn Creek, about 30 miles north of the city of Las Vegas. The crash occurred just after 7 a.m.
