Thursa Burton says her brother, Rand, is a 100-percent mentally disabled Air Force veteran who is bipolar, diabetic and was recently in danger of losing his toes from infection, but the new Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Las Vegas doesn’t want anything to do with him.
A day after a fighter jet went down during a training exercise in western Nevada, the Navy said late Sunday that the military pilot had been killed in the crash.
A Navy F/A-18C Hornet crashed during a training flight in Northern Nevada Saturday afternoon.
A Change of Command ceremony took place at Nellis Air Force Base on Friday.
Alexander Nogales’ wife recalls their bad experience with the new VA Medical Center in early February that started with a call to 911 after the Vietnam War veteran and PTSD victim started shaking and was having trouble breathing.
Less than 1½ years after the Department of Veterans Affairs opened its $1 billion VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas, earthmovers have begun churning the site again to expand the hospital’s emergency room because the existing one is inadequate.
A management shake-up is in the works at the troubled Reno benefits office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Rep. Dina Titus said Thursday after meeting with the head of the VA.
Staff Sgt. Andrew Leach faces one felony count each of murder and child abuse, neglect or endangerment with substantial bodily harm for injuries his son Aiden Leach suffered on Feb. 1, court documents said.
A trial date has been scheduled for the court-martial of a Marine accused of killing a Las Vegas prostitute who was visiting Hawaii.
With each step Steve Ririe takes through the Spring Mountains Visitor Gateway construction site he comes closer to the finish line of a journey that began 15 years ago — a memorial to Cold War heroes.
The Wisconsin National Guard announced Tuesday that it had suspended a member from honor guard duties after she apparently posted to social media a photograph of soldiers mugging around an empty, flag-draped casket.
Staff Sgt. Andrew Leach of the 99th Logistics Readiness Squadron was facing one felony count of child abuse, neglect or endangerment with substantial bodily harm for injuries his son Aiden Leach suffered on Feb. 1, court documents said.
After a rip-roaring Red Flag air combat exercise at Nellis Air Force Base last week, big, black, bat-shaped B-2 Spirit jets returned to Missouri, taking with them the lessons learned from flying mock war sorties with a mix of 100 U.S. and foreign warplanes.
It was a joyous homecoming here Sunday when 13 members of the Nevada Army National Guard C Company returned to family, friends and comrades after a 10-month deployment in Afghanistan.
They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers: a pizza that can stay on the shelf for as long as three years and still remain good to eat.
