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CORRECTS SPELLING OF NICOLAS - Actor Nicolas Cage testified in support of a bill proposing tax incentives to filmmakers at the Legislative Building Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Proponents of the measure say it will bring jobs and revenue to the state. Cage's agent Michael Nilon is at left. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)

Nicolas Cage supports Nevada film tax credit bill

A cameo by actor Nicolas Cage lent some pizazz to a hearing in the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday about a bill proposing tax incentives to entice filmmakers to the Silver State. In a three-piece suit with slightly rumpled hair, Cage guest-starred in the Senate Finance Committee meeting as Sen. Aaron ...

  • Updated: 7:53 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Cirque du Soleil performers debut part of the new Michael Jackson One show at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on May 7, 2013. The sneak peek offered glimpses of the show to media and was not open to the public. The show is scheduled to debut in its entirety on June 29, with preview shows starting May 23. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jessica Ebelhar)

Michael Jackson show in Vegas more of a good thing

Michael Jackson spent his life breaking music industry records. Four years after his death, the pop star's estate has delivered another first: Jackson is now the only person, place or thing to have inspired two Cirque du Soleil shows. The Montreal-based acrobatic-theater company presented a sneak peak of its new ...

  • Updated: 6:51 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Nevada Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Reno, left, talks with lobbyist Rocky Finseth at the Legislative Building Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Earlier Tuesday, Hickey presented his bill that would establish a cooling-off period for state lawmakers, restricting how quickly they could become lobbyists. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)

Cooling off bills get chilly reception in Senate

Bills seeking to restrict influence pedaling by slowing the revolving door between leaving public office and returning to the same halls as a lobbyist received chilly receptions from lawmakers Tuesday. AB77, sponsored by Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Reno, would establish a cooling-off period for state lawmakers, barring them from ...

  • Updated: 6:48 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013
File - This Oct. 17, 2012 file image released by the Las Vegas Police Department shows rapper Flavor Flav, also known as William Jonathan Drayton, Jr., in a police booking photo. Entertainer Flavor Flav is expected to plead not guilty in Nevada state court to felony charges alleging he chased and threatened his longtime girlfriend's 17-year-old son with a butcher knife during a family argument last October. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Police Department, file)

Flavor Flav assault trial set for Sept. in Vegas

A Las Vegas judge has scheduled a September trial for entertainer Flavor Flav on felony charges he chased and threatened his longtime girlfriend's 17-year-old son with a butcher knife. A court spokeswoman says the case is set for Sept. 30 in Clark County District Court for the 54-year-old former rap ...

  • Updated: 3:55 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013
In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013, phogto, Sam and Liz Weidner, of Hudsonville, Mich., view a home for sale in Cascade Township, Mich. A survey shows U.S. home prices rose 10.5 percent in March compared with a year ago, the biggest gain since March 2006. Core Logic, a real estate data provider, said annual home prices have now increased for 13 straight months. Prices are rising in part because more buyers are bidding on a limited supply of homes for sale.. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Survey: US home prices up 10.5 pct. in past year

A survey shows U.S. home prices rose 10.5 percent in March compared with a year ago, the biggest gain since March 2006. Core Logic, a real estate data provider, said Tuesday that annual home prices have now increased for 13 straight months. Prices are rising in part because more buyers ...

  • Updated: 2:39 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013
This Aug. 29, 2011 file photo shows a DC-10 air tanker dropping fire retardant on the Powerline Fire near Warm Springs, Ore. The U.S. Forest Service announced May 6, 2013 that it has chosen seven aircraft offered by contractors to be the next generation of firefighting aircraft, among them a DC-10. Awarding of the contracts must wait to see if any bidders file protests. The Forest Service has used the DC-10 when needed in the past, but the new contract would be the first time the agency has planned use of such a large aircraft for firefighting. (AP Photo/The Bulletin, Rob Kerr)

Feds add bigger, faster planes to wildfire fleet

As the wildfire season ramps up across the West, the U.S. Forest Service is adding bigger, faster planes to its fleet to fight the fires. The forest service announced Monday that it has selected contractors to provide seven air tankers that fly faster and drop a larger payload of fire ...

  • Updated: 11:16 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2013
FILE - In this March 18, 2013 file photo the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., asks a question during the committees's hearing on immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington. About the proposed bill Sessions says, “The supporters promoted the bill aggressively before anybody saw the language, and certain Republicans and conservative voices sort of held their fire, but that's beginning to change.” Sessions was a leading voice in the Senate against the bill in 2007 and is reprising that role this time around, making floor speeches, issuing press releases and holding briefing calls with reporters to argue that the bill would unlock a much larger volume of immigration into the U.S. than advertised, to the detriment of U.S. workers and jobs. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Study sets off immigration bill squabble

A bipartisan Senate immigration bill would cost the government a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years to provide benefits for millions of people now living in the U.S. illegally, the Heritage Foundation said in a report Monday, setting off a fierce dispute with fellow conservatives who attacked the ...

  • Updated: 6:44 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2013

Shania Twain announces fall show dates in Vegas

After nearly a decade-long hiatus marred by burnout, a painful divorce and physical problems that affected her ability to sing, country superstar Shania Twain said she's finding her groove as a Las Vegas headliner. On Monday, Twain announced 22 new show dates this fall for "Shania: Still the One," a ...

  • Updated: 3:46 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2013
FILE - This Dec. 1, 2012 file photo shows Shania Twain performing at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Twain has announced 22 new show dates this fall to round out the first year of her two-year Las Vegas Strip residency. Twain said, Monday, May 6, 2013, that the show at Caesars Palace is “a dream performance scenario” that allows her to balance her roles as a mother and as a country superstar. The 47-year-old Canadian singer known for “Any Man of Mine” and “That Don't Impress Me” made a grand entrance into Sin City on horseback and returned to the stage in December after nearly a decade in hiatus. (Photo by Eric Jamison/Invision/AP, file)

Shania Twain announces fall show dates in Vegas

Shania Twain has announced 22 new show dates this fall to round out the first year of her two-year Las Vegas Strip residency. Twain told The Associated Press Monday that the show at Caesars Palace is "a dream performance scenario" that allows her to balance her roles as a mother ...

  • Updated: 3:08 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2013
Casaundra Dotts Ho, right, and her husband Ben, pose for a family photo Saturday, May 4, 2013 after Casaundra Dotts Ho graduated in the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine commencement ceremony, at Beasley Coliseum in Pullman, Wash. The couple got married Friday, and she wore her wedding dress under her graduation robe during the commencement ceremony. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Dean Hare)

Wash. State graduate wears wedding gown under robe

With friends and family already gathered for her graduation from Washington State University, Cassie Dotts thought it would be a good time for another ceremony — her wedding. She married University of Idaho fisheries science graduate Ben Ho in a ceremony on Friday in Moscow, Idaho. Then she received her ...

  • Updated: 1:38 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2013
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