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FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2014, file photo, Phil Mickelson, left, shakes hands with Tiger Wood after the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. Woods and Mickelson play pay-per-view exhibition Friday in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) **FILE**

Tiger Woods-Phil Mickelson pay-per-view 10 years too late

By Doug Ferguson - Associated Press

FILE--In this Nov. 2, 2018, file photo, North Las Vegas Police Department Assistant Chief Pamela Ojeda responds to questions during a news conference in North Las Vegas . Ojeda has been promoted from assistant chief to head of the department, which has about 315 officers. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP, file)

North Las Vegas names 1st female police chief

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FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2016, file photo, former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani, kisses Miriam Adelson's hand as he arrives for the presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Miriam Adelson is a doctor, philanthropist and humanitarian, but is perhaps best known as the wife of Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino magnate considered one of the most powerful Republican donors in the United States. She gets to add a new title Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, when President Donald Trump honors her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Trump honors GOP donor, 6 others with presidential award

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

Juan Calleros, from left, Fher Olvera and Alex Gonzalez, of Mana, perform at the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year gala honoring Mana at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Mana honored as Latin Grammys’ Person of the Year

By REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

A plane flies over MetLife Stadium with a message that reads “SHAME ON JETS/MGM #ENDGUNVIOLENCE #STOPMGM” ahead of an NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills in New York on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Dennis Waszak Jr.)

Airplane banner denounces Jets’ partnership with MGM

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. - Associated Press

Brendan Kelly speaks with reporters outside his home, as he shows his Route 91 tattoo, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Kelly, a Marine who was at Borderline Bar and Grill on Wednesday night, helped people get out after a gunman opened fire at the establishment. Kelly also survived the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting in 2017. (AP Photo/Ryan Pearson)

A year apart, some country music fans face 2 mass shootings

By Kathleen Ronayne and Amanda Lee Myers - Associated Press

Brendan Kelly speaks with reporters outside his home, as he shows his Route 91 tattoo, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Kelly, a Marine who was at Borderline Bar and Grill on Wednesday night, helped people get out after a gunman opened fire at the establishment. Kelly also survived the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting in 2017. (AP Photo/Ryan Pearson)

A year apart, some country music fans face 2 mass shootings

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and AMANDA LEE MYERS - Associated Press

People vote at the Enterprise Library, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz)

Vote-site changes, turnout blamed for long lines in Nevada

By KEN RITTER and SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper was absent from the team's NatsFest on Saturday at a time when he and his agent Scott Boras (left) have a grievance against the team regarding a provision that was not included in Harper's contract in 2010. That provision would make him eligible for arbitration early. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Nationals likely to be left out of Bryce ‘Harper’s bazaar’

By Thom Loverro

Rep. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., speaks at a Democratic election night party after wining beating Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The Latest: Nevada voters OK medical equipment tax relief

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People vote on Election Day at the Enterprise Library Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz)

VoteCast: Nevada voters say nation headed wrong way

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

Clark County Commission Chair and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Sisolak speaks at a rally Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The Latest: Giuliani stumps for GOP’s Tarkanian in Las Vegas

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Senator Dean Heller, R-Nev., speaks at a Republican rally in Reno on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, before introducing Donald Trump Jr. President Trump's son also was headlining events Friday in Carson City, Pahrump and Las Vegas in the key battleground state. Heller is the only incumbent GOP senator up for re-election in a state Hillary Clinton carried in 2016. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner).

Big-name guests stump in swing Nevada as Rosen, Heller

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

The Latest: Police seek help in wrong-house gang shooting

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Rep. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., center, walks through the Expertise Cosmetology Institute during an event for her Senate campaign, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in Las Vegas. Battleground races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor will make Nevada voters Tuesday a key decider of power in Congress and the state’s political landscape for a decade. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The Latest: Kimmel roasts Heller, Trump at Las Vegas rally

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FILE - In this June 12, 2013 file photo, James Flavy Coy Brown talks during a news conference at the ACLU headquarters in Las Vegas. A Nevada jury has put the state and a mental hospital administrator on the hook for close to $9 million in class-action damages for sending patients unaccompanied to states including California, Florida and Michigan. Brown is the lead plaintiff. An eight-woman civil jury decided Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018 that every Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital patient who was given a bus ticket to another city and no other arrangements for care after June 2011 should receive $250,000. Damages could top $22 million, according to attorney Mark Merin, who represents Brown. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Nevada jury: $250K per mental patient dumped to other states

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

Kimmel, Flowers to headline Las Vegas rally Friday for Rosen

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The Latest: Trump Jr., Guilfoyle to rally with Nevada GOP

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FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2018, file photo, U.S. team captain Jim Furyk attends the press conference of the losing team after Europe won the 2018 Ryder Cup golf tournament at Le Golf National in Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, outside Paris, France. Furyk plays in Las Vegas this week, his first competition since the Ryder Cup.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Column: Ryder Cup over, Furyk returns to full-time job

By DOUG FERGUSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 28, 2017, file photo, Alessandro Cesario, the director of cultivation, works with marijuana plants at the Desert Grown Farms cultivation facility in Las Vegas. A marijuana trade group says pot production, processing and sales could be a billion-dollar industry in Nevada by 2024. That's a key finding in an economic analysis being released Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, by the Nevada Dispensary Association. It projects that pot-friendly policies in tourist-oriented Las Vegas and Reno could make Nevada one of the nation's largest marijuana marketplaces. State officials have reported almost $530 million in pot sales since July 1, 2017. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Pot group predicts $1B in Nevada tax revenue over 7 years

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press