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In this March 24, 2014, file photo, Immigration Reform for Nevada supporter Robert Telles is seen during an event outside the office of U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., in protest of Congress not taking action on comprehensive immigration reform. Police say they are serving search warrants in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Las Vegas newspaper reporter last week. In a statement Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022 Metro Police didn’t specify where they were searching in connection with the death of reporter Jeff German. But the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported uniformed officers and police vehicles were seen outside the home of Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) ** FILE **

Police raid elected official’s home in Las Vegas reporter death investigation

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

Jeff German, host of "Mobbed Up," poses with Planet Hollywood, formerly the Aladdin, in the background on the Strip in Las Vegas, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. Authorities say German, a Las Vegas investigative reporter has been stabbed to death outside his home and police are searching for a suspect. The Las Vegas Review-Journal says officers found journalist German dead with stab wounds around 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, after authorities received a 911 call. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Police release images of possible suspect in reporter’s killing

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Las Vegas Aces guard Chelsea Gray (12) passes around Seattle Storm's Tina Charles during the first half of a WNBA basketball game Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Sam Morris) **FILE**

Aces begin postseason hungry for first WNBA title

By Doug Feinberg - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Dakota Snider, a thunderstorm is seen from Highway 159 over Las Vegas on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. A summer monsoon thunderstorm season unseen in Las Vegas in the last 10 years brought lightning and heavy rain to some areas late Thursday, and ceiling leaks that soaked playing cards and gambling at some Strip casinos. No injuries were reported, and damage estimates were not immediately provided as Friday dawned sunny and clear. (Dakota Snider via AP)

Vegas’ wettest monsoon in a decade floods casinos, leaves two dead

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A sign marks the water line from 2002 near Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Saturday, July 9, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. The largest U.S. reservoir has shrunken to a record low amid a punishing drought and the demands of 40 million people in seven states who are sucking the Colorado River dry. (AP Photo/John Locher)

More human remains discovered as drought dries Lake Mead

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People navigate the rainy walkways as some power is out at the Fremont Street Experience as a powerful storm moves through the area on Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Southwest rains flood deserts, cascade into Vegas casinos

By Ken Ritter and Felicia Fonseca - Associated Press

FILE - From left to right are Lander County Sheriff Ron Unger, Eureka County Sheriff Jesse Watts, Elko County Sheriff Aitor Narvaiza and Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association founder Richard Mack in the Elko City Park in Elko, Nev., on June 20, 2020. The Constitutional Sheriffs' group declares on its website that a sheriff's powers in a county are greater than those of any other official and &quot;even supersedes the powers of the President.” (Jeff Mullins/The Daily Free Press via AP, File)

Conspiracy-promoting sheriffs claim vast election authority

By John Hanna and Christina A. Cassidy - Associated Press

FILE - Donald Trump, left, his son Donald Trump Jr., center, and his daughter Ivanka Trump speak during the unveiling of the design for the Trump International Hotel, in Washington, Sept. 10, 2013. Former President Trump and two of his children got their questioning postponed Friday, July 15, 2022, in a New York civil investigation into their business dealings, a delay that follows the death of Trump’s ex-wife Ivana. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Report finds Trump’s ‘cesspool of crime’ comment missed mark

By Colton Lochhead and Nick Robertson - Associated Press

Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodriguez is greeted in the dugout after scoring on a sacrifice hit by Abraham Toro against the Oakland Athletics during first inning of a baseball game, Thursday, June 30, 2022, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)

Rodriguez homers, Mariners beat Athletics 8-6

By Luke Olson - Associated Press

The stone courthouse in Goldfield, Nev., is seen on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. Elected officials in a rural Nevada county decided Thursday, June 23, 2022, to postpone until Friday certifying results of the 317 votes cast in their jurisdiction during the state's June 14 primary election. The decision in Nevada comes a week after lawmakers in a Republican-leaning rural New Mexico county initially refused to certify their primary election results. (Ed Komenda/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)

Nevada counties face deadline to certify election results

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

Elvis impersonator Brendan Paul, right, walks down the aisle during a wedding ceremony for Katie Salvatore, center, and Eric Wheeler at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. Authentic Brands Group (ABG) sent cease-and-desist letters earlier this month to multiple chapels, saying they had to comply by the end of May, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Elvis image bans shake, rattle and roll Las Vegas chapels

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Bellagio Fountains and exterior with the Strip as seen from the Chateau Rooftop at Paris Las Vegas on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, in Las Vegas. In 2007, not long before Las Vegas’ frenzied real estate market imploded, Nevada lawmakers approved a seemingly minor tweak to a tax law. The change ensured property owners could use a range of entities when shifting real estate to an affiliate to exempt these transactions from transfer taxes, according to an investigation by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Newspaper: 2007 Nevada tax change cut cost of property deals

By Eli Segall - Associated Press

A close-up view of a microphone in the classroom. (Photo credit: Nigita via Shutterstock)

Nevada mom goes viral after school board cuts her mic during meeting

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

A formally sunken boat sits on cracked earth hundreds of feet from what is now the shoreline on Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Monday, May 9, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. Lake Mead is receding and Sin City is awash with mob lore after a second set of human remains emerged within a week from the depths of the drought-stricken Colorado River reservoir just a short drive from the Las Vegas Strip. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Bodies found in Lake Mead renew interest in Vegas mob lore

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

Chris Castillo throws a freshly-cut log as he and his cousins clear a wireline along a family member's home in Las Vegas, N.M., Monday, May 2, 2022. Wind-whipped flames are marching across more of New Mexico's tinder-dry mountainsides, forcing the evacuation of area residents and dozens of patients from the state's psychiatric hospital as firefighters scramble to keep new wildfires from growing. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Wildfire torching New Mexico pine forests keeps growing

By Cedar Attansio and Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

This photo taken Monday, April 25, 2022, by the Southern Nevada Water Authority shows the top of Lake Mead drinking water Intake No. 1 above the surface level of the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam. The intake is the uppermost of three in the deep, drought-stricken lake that provides Las Vegas with 90% of its drinking water supply. (Southern Nevada Water Authority via AP) ** FILE **

Vegas water intake now visible at drought-stricken Lake Mead

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A person walks outside Eldorado High School in Las Vegas Friday, April 8, 2022. A student who attacked a teacher in a classroom at the school is facing counts of attempted murder and sexual assault, according to Las Vegas Metro Police. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP) ** FILE **

Las Vegas area school district will provide teachers with panic buttons

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times

FILE - Grammy Awards are displayed at the Grammy Museum Experience at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. on Oct. 10, 2017. The 64th annual Grammy Awards will be held in Las Vegas on April 3. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo could score big at Grammys

By Jonathan Landrum Jr. - Associated Press

Olivia Rodrigo arrives at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Wild-and-wacky Grammys red carpet does Las Vegas proud

By Leanne Italie - Associated Press

Denver Broncos new starting quarterback Russell Wilson, center, is flanked by head coach Nathaniel Hackett, right, and general manager George Paton after a news conference Wednesday, March 16, 2022, at the team's headquarters in Englewood, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Von Miller leaves LA for Buffalo as free agency begins

By Barry Wilner - Associated Press