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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2015, file photo, a man rides his bike past the MGM Grand hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Casino giant MGM Resorts International announced Thursday, May 30, 2019, it’s completing planned layoffs with 779 job cuts, mostly in Las Vegas. MGM Resorts has about 77,000 employees and is the largest employer in Nevada. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

MGM Resorts announces more job cuts, calls layoffs complete

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In this April 13, 2019, photo, Las Vegas Lights FC fans celebrate the team's goal against the Tacoma Defiance in a soccer match at Cashman Field in Las Vegas. Lights goalie Thomas Olsen is at center. Las Vegas is considering a deal with a developer to reshape a downtown stadium area to boost a bid for a Major League Soccer expansion franchise. The City Council plans a vote next week to give The Renaissance Companies Inc. six months to come up with a plan involving the aging Cashman Field baseball stadium, now home to the minor-league Las Vegas Lights. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Vegas considers stadium-area plan, bid for MLS soccer team

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WNBA favorite Aces top Sparks, 83-70, to start season

By W.G. RAMIREZ - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE IN WEEKEND EDITIONS, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2019, 12:01 a.m. PDT AND THEREAFTER In Thursday, May 16, 2019 photo, Ronnakon Silpasuvun, center, owner of Archi's Thai Bistro, speaks with Cameron Belt, left, and Kai Muangchoo at his restaurant in Las Vegas. From Vietnamese churches to Thai restaurants and even on TV, signs show that Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the Las Vegas area. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Asian-Americans fastest-growing group in Southern Nevada

By MICHAEL SCOTT DAVIDSON - Associated Press

Las Vegas suburb is fastest-growing city in Nevada

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Cadesha Bishop, 25, center, listens to a court officer as her her attorney Baylie Hellman looks on after Bishop's preliminary hearing at the Regional Justice Center on Thursday, May 23, 2019, in Las Vegas. Bishop was arrested May 6 on a murder charge in the death of Serge Fournier, who was pronounced dead on April 23 from complications of blunt force injuries he suffered a month earlier. Bishop is accused of shoving the 74-year-old man off a public bus after witnesses say he asked her to be nice to other passengers. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Lawyer: More than video shows in Vegas bus shove murder case

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 8, 2018, file photo, Dallas Wings' Liz Cambage, left, drives against Connecticut Sun's Brionna Jones during a preseason WNBA basketball game in Uncasville, Conn. A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that the Dallas Wings have traded Liz Cambage to Las Vegas for Moriah Jefferson, Isabelle Harrison and the Aces' first two picks in 2020. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday, May 16, 2019, because the deal hasn't been announced. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

WNBA Preview Capsules

By DOUG FEINBERG - Associated Press

This Thursday, May 16, 2019 booking photo from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Jennifer Annette Harley. A lawyer says Harley, the on-again-off-again girlfriend of &quot;Jersey Shore&quot; actor Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, will fight a misdemeanor domestic battery charge alleging she attacked Ortiz-Magro at a Las Vegas club on New Year's Eve. Harley's attorney, Michael Cristalli, said Friday, May 17, 2019 he was surprised his 32-year-old client was arrested Thursday on a warrant issued April 17, more than four months after the incident at the Hustler Night Club. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

MTV star’s girlfriend gets new lawyer in Las Vegas case

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FILE - In this April 9, 2015, file photo, people walk into the south portal of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour of the proposed radioactive waste dump near Mercury, Nev., 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Elected officials in rural Nye County say they support moving forward with a long-studied but mothballed national nuclear waste repository in Nevada, unlike their counterparts in approximately 90 miles away in Las Vegas. But the Las Vegas Sun reports those who live near the Yucca Mountain site are split on whether storing approximately 70,000 tons of nuclear waste there is a good idea. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Some in rural Nevada see benefits in nuclear repository plan

By MIRANDA WILLSON - Associated Press

Ex-Vegas school teacher returned in custody in 2012 sex case

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks during the Human Rights Campaign's 14th Annual Las Vegas Gala at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Saturday, May 11, 2019. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Pete Buttigieg describes coming out as gay at Human Rights Campaign gala

By Michelle L. Price - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2019 photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker speaks at an event at the True Love Missionary Baptist Church in Las Vegas. Booker rose to national fame as a New Jersey mayor and senator, but his mom and other relatives have lived in Las Vegas for years. Now, he’s working those local connections to set himself apart from the crowded pack in a state that could be decisive. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Booker plays up Vegas connection in crucial Nevada caucus

By MICHELLE L. PRICE - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks during the Human Rights Campaign's 14th Annual Las Vegas Gala at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Saturday, May 11, 2019. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Buttigieg describes his coming out, need to bridge divides

By MICHELLE L. PRICE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 1997 file photo John McGrail, director of the Department of Energy stockpile stewardship program, talks about the $100 million Device Assembly Facility behind him at the Nevada Test Site in Mercury, Nev. Nevada's U.S. senators and Energy Secretary Rick Perry are set to tour the site north of Las Vegas where the federal government is handling weapons-grade plutonium shipped from South Carolina. Aides say the Friday, May 10, 2019, visit to the Device Assembly Facility at the Nevada National Security Site and briefings with Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen will be closed to the media and public. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

The Latest: Nevada senators, energy chief see plutonium site

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8 taken to hospitals after fumes on aircraft in Las Vegas

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In this July 1, 2017 file photo, a cashier rings up a marijuana sale at the Essence cannabis dispensary in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Pot businesses press for Nevada to redo licensing process

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

UNLV, Caesars Entertainment team up on Vegas teaching center

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In this April 3, 2019, file photo, Joe Jonas, left, and Sophie Turner attend HBO's &quot;Game of Thrones&quot; final season premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner get married in surprise wedding

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Taylor Swift arrives at the Billboard Music Awards on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

The Latest: Abdul ends Billboard awards with throwback set

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MGM Resorts plans to eliminate about 1,000 jobs by June

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