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FILE - In this March 3, 2005, file photo, a Chinese paramilitary police guard checks the documents of visa seekers outside the U.S. embassy in Beijing before letting them in. Chinese tourists, already among the fastest-growing and highest-spending groups of international visitors to the United States, are poised to make an even bigger impact, thanks to a rule change that would allow visitors to get visas valid for 10 years. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)

Longer visas for Chinese could spur US tourism

By Deepti Hajela - Associated Press

President Barack Obama walks in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, to award the National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology and Innovation. The awards are the highest honor bestowed by the USs Government upon scientists, engineers, and inventors. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama will return to Nevada for immigration rally

By Michelle Rindels - Associated Press

President Obama.

JUDSON PHILLIPS: King Barry (Obama) the First

By Judson Phillips

FILE -In this August 2012 file photo provided by Wolves of the Rockies a wolf pack stands on a hillside of the Lamar Canyon in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. A Center for Biological Diversity report identifies almost 360,000 square miles of potential gray wolf habitat in the West and Northeast, including roughly 6,000 square miles in scattered patches of Nevada. (AP Photo/Wolves of the Rockies,File)

Report says wolves may find habitat in Nevada

By Henry Brean - Associated Press

Martin Jacobson holds up the World Series of Poker main event bracelet after winning the tournament and its $10 million prize, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014, in Las Vegas. Ryan Riess, who won the tournament last year, is at right. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Swede wins World Series of Poker, $10M top prize

By KIMBERLY PIERCEALL - Associated Press

Spirit flight links Vegas to western Pennsylvania

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Rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight appears in court on a traffic warrant Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, in Las Vegas following his arrest as a fugitive in a California robbery case. Thursday's court appearance for the 49-year-old founder of Death Row Records stems from a suspended license charge in Las Vegas. Knight and comedian Katt Williams were arrested and charged with robbery Wednesday after a celebrity photographer reported the men stole her camera on Sept. 5 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Suge Knight hospitalized after fall in jail cell

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

The dismantling of the Harmon Hotel at CityCenter continues Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, in Las Vegas. Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in Nevada state court for a civil trial with millions of dollars at stake for the casino company that owns the flawed hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and the company that built it. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Jury selection begins for Vegas Strip hotel case

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

Allegiant flight returns safely to Vegas airport

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FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2014,, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin walks off the court during the second half of an NBA preseason basketball game against the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City. Las Vegas police are investigating a man&#8217;s allegation that Griffin attacked him in a Las Vegas nightclub during the weekend. Officer Jesse Roybal, a department spokesman, said Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, that a battery complaint was filed Sunday stemming from an altercation involving the NBA player. No arrest was made. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Blake Griffin faces battery complaint from Vegas club incident

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FILE - In this June 12, 2011, file photo, former heavyweight boxing champion Leon Spinks waves during a Boxing Hall of Fame parade in Canastota, N.Y. Leon Spinks is in a Las Vegas hospital after a second operation for abdominal problems. The 61-year-old boxer who catapulted to fame by beating Muhammad Ali in 1978 had the second surgery in recent days after complications from the first emergency surgery. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Spinks fighting a different battle

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

Nevada state Senator Kelvin Atkinson rubs tears from the eyes of Sherwood Howard during a rally to celebrate an appeals court ruling that overturned Nevada's gay marriage ban Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, in Las Vegas. Atkinson proposed to Howard when he had heard about the ruling Tuesday. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Gay marriage hopes dashed after US justice’s order

By KIMBERLY PIERCEALL - Associated Press

Logan Seven prepares to raise a an equality flag at the Chapelle de l'amore wedding chapel Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, in Las Vegas. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down the ban on same sex marriages in Nevada and Idaho on Tuesday. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Marriage bureau in Vegas preps for gay marriages

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

A JetBlue Airbus A320 airliner That has to return to long Beach, Calif., because of an emergency is seen at the Long Beach Airport in Long Beach, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said flight 1416 was bound for Austin, Texas, when the crew declared an emergency due to a problem with one of two engines on the Airbus A320. Airline spokesman Morgan Johnston said none of the 142 passengers and five crew members was injured during the evacuation, though three passengers were treated at the scene and one passenger was taken to a hospital for observation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

JetBlue adds flights between Vegas, San Francisco

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FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2014 file photo, a Southwest Airlines jet plane lines up for a landing at Love Field in Dallas. British billionaire Richard Branson on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 said that Virgin America should get gates at Love Field, near downtown Dallas, to create competition for Southwest Airlines, which controls most of the gates there. The U.S. Justice Department agrees. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Virgin America adds Las Vegas to Boston route

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Casino mogul Steve Wynn speaks at the Global Gaming Expo, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in Las Vegas. It&#8217;s not the gambling but everything else -- including giving people a chance to live big -- that remains key for casinos Wynn said at the event. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Casino mogul says experience, not gambling, is key

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A small dog looks out from beneath a car in the front yard at a home where more than two dozen dogs were killed in an overnight fire in North Las Vegas on Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. Firefighters say at least 41 dogs were killed and 52 survived after the fire. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Chase Stevens)

41 dogs dead in fire at Nevada councilman’s house

By Michelle Rindels - Associated Press

Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis opened Giada at The Cromwell, a showcase for her creative Mediterranean cuisine. (Photo by Lark Gould)

GOULD: Travelers should say Viva! to changes in Las Vegas

By Lark Gould

**FILE** Jeffrey Neely, the central figure in a General Services Administration spending scandal, sits at the witness table as the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform investigates wasteful spending and excesses by GSA during a 2010 Las Vegas conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GSA ‘Hot tub’ man indicted on billing charges

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2014, file photo, singer Rod Stewart kicks a soccer ball to the crowd as he performs at the Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Vina del Mar, Chile. A soccer ball kicked into the crowd is bouncing back to Stewart in the form of a lawsuit by a Southern California man who says his nose was broken at a Las Vegas concert in October 2012. Mostafa Kashe’s civil negligence complaint filed Monday Sept. 22, 2014 in Nevada state court, alleges that a ball that the raspy-voiced British singer kicked from the stage at the Caesars Palace resort hit him. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages of at least $10,000 plus attorney fees from Stewart, promoter AEG Live and Caesars Entertainment Corp.(AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo, File)

Fan claims injury from Rod Stewart soccer ball

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press