Military
A Virginia circuit court judge sentenced former Las Vegas resident Richard R. Cruze Jr., who posed as a highly decorated Army colonel, to seven months in prison on two felony fraud charges linked to a forged military document.
Cruze also was ordered to work 100 hours of community service per year during three years of supervised probation and to attend counseling sessions and mental health evaluations.
Qualified military spouses who move here from other states already are being given state nursing and cosmetologist licenses to work their trades in Nevada.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said Tuesday most state boards and commissions are responding positively to his executive order that requires them to give state professional licenses to qualified spouses of military members who are transferred to Nevada.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed an executive Monday that requires state boards and commissions to provide reciprocity for military spouses seeking licenses in Nevada.
Of all the speakers at Saturday’s memorial stone dedication at Red Rock Canyon, Marcy Cotè perhaps said it best.
She stood up before 300 veterans, friends and family members of the fallen and told a story about her son, Budd, before he left for Iraq.
