A memorial ceremony at Nellis Air Force Base on Friday morning marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
“I wasn’t in my mind right mind,” the defendant said during a virtual court hearing. “I apologize for that, and it will never happen again.”
Timothy Harron and his wife, Latisha, billed the North Carolina Medicaid program for home health care services they didn’t provide, court records show.
Jimmy Carter Kim was arrested in 2015 after a 14-year-old from Bullhead City, Arizona, told police she was sexually abused by him.
Veteran Shamus Flynn, now a Nevada attorney, said Afghans who worked as interpreters for the U.S. military were viewed as traitors in their own country.
The two-week wrongful death trial centered on Jazmin Espana, who was struck and killed in 2017.
“I knew at that moment, this was going to change my life forever. I’ll never forget how the country came together,” Nevada Army Guard 1st Sgt. Larry Harlan said.
Attorneys gave closing arguments Friday in the trial that centers on the 11-year-old girl killed by a garbage truck in 2017.
The retrial in the fatal 2007 bombing at a Las Vegas Strip hotel has been postponed after a juror tested positive for COVID-19.
Prosecutors said they will not pursue the death penalty against Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, 35, a California woman accused of strangling her 7-year-old son near Las Vegas.
The explosion initially stoked fears of a possible terrorist attack on the Strip, but prosecutors have said it was planted by a jealous man.
As the Taliban swept through Kabul over the weekend, the takeover shocked the nation. But Nevada Army Guard Staff Sgt. Richard Rohweder, who served in Afghanistan, was not surprised.
The driver of the garbage truck that struck and killed 11-year-old Jazmin Espana in 2017 gave emotional testimony Friday at the wrongful death trial.
Before she was struck and killed by a van last year, Alanna O’Donnell was pepper-sprayed by employees at a nearby market, according to police and court records.
With a donor’s help, Las Vegas police sent a Texas lab a tiny amount of DNA from a 1989 murder case. “We were at the wall,” a detective said. “This was our last shot.”