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In this file photo, Phil Jaynes, the president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 720, addresses demonstrators in front of the Nevada statehouse on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 in Carson City, Nev. Labor groups want state lawmakers to pass a bill guaranteeing workers laid off during the pandemic have a 'right to return' and get first priority when resorts and casinos need to rehire workers. (AP Photo/Samuel Metz) **FILE**

Unions want priority rehiring of workers as Nevada reopens

By Sam Metz - Associated Press

Las Vegas area police find 3 different homicides in a day

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Jon Simmons, sommelier at Hugo's Cellar at the Four Queens for the past 37 years, poses for a portrait Thursday April 29, 2021 in Las Vegas. Simmons has been the man for 37 years. The Las Vegas Sun reports that as Las Vegas’ current elder statesman of wine, Simmons is now pouring glasses for grandchildren of his original customers in the legendary nook of Old Vegas at the Four Queens. (Christopher DeVargas /Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Vintage Vegas sommelier restocking wines for 100% reopening

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Michigan court: Call to UP police was a terrorist threat

By ED WHITE - Associated Press

Report finds Vegas-area home prices setting monthly records

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This photo provided by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office shows a Las Vegas-based tour bus that crashed, Jan. 22, 2021, in Dolan Springs, Ariz. A crash report on the tour bus that flipped on the way to the west end of the Grand Canyon, killing one passenger, doesn't draw any conclusion about the cause but points to speed as a factor. Four dozen people from across the country were on the bus operated by Comedy On Deck Tours when it veered into a dirt embankment, over ruts and rocks, and hit Joshua trees Jan. 22. (Mohave County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Records: Speed likely factor in fatal Arizona tour bus crash

By FELICIA FONSECA and JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 21, 2020 file photo a nurse dons personal protective equipment before the opening of a temporary coronavirus testing facility for casino employees at the Las Vegas Convention Center, in Las Vegas. Health officials in Las Vegas say they hope to administer more than 1,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine a day to area residents once a big drive-thru COVID-19 shot clinic opens Tuesday, May 4, 2021, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. (AP Photo/John Locher,File)

All Nevada counties now have local COVID-19 control

By SCOTT SONNER and KEN RITTER - Associated Press

Kenia Cobas, a former Las Vegas buffet helper, who spent 15 years at Green Valley Ranch before her layoff in March 2020, sits outside in Las Vegas on April 14, 2021. Lawmakers are considering a proposal that would require resorts give laid-off workers back the jobs they had before the pandemic. (Ed Komenda/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)

Laid-off workers lobby for return to jobs at pre-COVID wages

By ED KOMENDA - Associated Press

People ride an escalator along the Las Vegas Strip, Saturday, April 24, 2021, in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is bouncing back to pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, with increases in airport passengers and tourism. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Vegas hitting jackpot as pandemic-weary visitors crowd back

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - Las Vegas Raiders general manager Mike Mayock speaks during a press conference at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, in this Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, file photo. The Las Vegas Raiders spent the free agency period dismantling their offensive line and mostly ignoring the secondary. Now heading into the NFL draft, those are the two spots that appear to be the most urgent needs for the Raiders to fill starting with pick No. 17 in the first round. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Raiders trade up for S Trevon Moehrig in 2nd round

By JOSH DUBOW - Associated Press

Vegas agency links more liver ailments to ‘Real Water’ brand

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 25, 2021, file photo, people play craps while wearing masks and between Plexiglas partitions as a precaution against the coronavirus at the opening night of the Virgin Hotels Las Vegas in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is bouncing back to pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, with increases in airport passengers and tourism and casinos statewide reporting $1 billion in winnings last month for the first time since February 2020. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Vegas tourism, airport, casinos show rebound from virus

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 31, 2021, registered nurse Sofia Mercado, right, administers a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination event for workers at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in North Las Vegas, Nev. Nevada health officials are redoubling efforts to make it easier to get COVID-19 shots — with new drive-thru clinics in working-class neighborhoods in Las Vegas and expanded outreach to Reno's Hispanic community — to try to reverse a decline in vaccinations statewide. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Nevada trying to reverse decline in vaccinations statewide

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2019 file, photo, investigators work the scene of a fire at a three-story apartment complex in Las Vegas. Aging multi-unit and extended-stay buildings in Las Vegas that have been converted from motels or hotels to apartments will be regularly inspected as a legacy of the deadliest residential fire in the city's history in December 2019, city officials decided. (AP Photo/David Becker, File)

Deadly fire spurs law to inspect old Vegas rental properties

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FILE - This Nov. 10, 2016 file photo released by the Nevada Department of Corrections shows the newly completed execution chamber at Ely State Prison in Ely, Nev. Zane Floyd, a convicted Nevada mass murderer, is mounting a range of legal challenges to a bid to schedule his execution in early June 2021, including questioning whether the district attorney in Las Vegas really wants the lethal injection carried out at a decommissioned prison in Carson City. (Nevada Department of Corrections via AP, file).

Nevada inmate fighting on several fronts to avoid execution

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2019, file photo, are &quot;ghost guns&quot; on display at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco. A gun control bill proposed by a Nevada lawmaker who survived a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas has sparked opposition from both Second Amendment activists and police reform advocates. The state Assembly on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, passed a proposal by Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui to ban build-your-own &quot;ghost guns.&quot; (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Nevada lawmakers halve gun bill amid enforcement concerns

By SAM METZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 7, 2008 file photo Tempest Storm, an 80-year-old burlesque dancer, performs during the Burlesque Hall of Fame's annual All-Star Burlesque Weekend held at the Palms hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Tempest Storm, the legendary burlesque star who blazed a trail for strip-tease artists for more than a half-century, died Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at her Las Vegas apartment, her longtime friend, confidant and business partner Harvey Robbins, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She was 93. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Tempest Storm, legendary burlesque star, dies at Vegas home

By JOHN KATSILOMETES - Associated Press

Topless clubs among businesses that can reopen in Vegas

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021, file photo, people receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Las Vegas. Lawmakers in Las Vegas are linking plans to fully lift capacity and distancing restrictions beginning May 1, with vaccination rates in the state's key tourism region, while Reno-area businesses could soon have no capacity limits and voluntary distancing rules. County lawmakers in the state's two most populous areas approved separate plans Tuesday, April 20, for consideration Thursday by the state's COVID-19 Response Task Force appointed by Gov. Steve Sisolak. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Vegas links COVID-19 plan, vaccinations; variants up in Reno

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Rural Nevada counties want to reopen well ahead of June 1

By KEN RITTER and SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press