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Judge grants Britney Spears right to choose lawyer in conservatorship case

LAS VEGAS, NV - SEPTEMBER 24: Recording artist Britney Spears performs onstage at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena on September 24, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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US coronavirus cases rising again, doubling over three weeks

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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake, aftershocks strike California-Nevada border, felt throughout Bay Area

OAKLAND, Calif - Several earthquakes struck along the California-Nevada state line Thursday afternoon. According to the United States Geological Survey, the first temblor was a magnitude 6.0 and hit in Alpine County at 3:49 p.m. It's preliminary magnitude was 5.9.

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Magnitude 5.9 earthquake, aftershocks strike California-Nevada border, felt throughout Bay Area

OAKLAND, Calif - Several earthquakes struck the eastern edge of California along the California-Nevada state line Thursday afternoon. According to the United States Geological Survey, the first temblor was a magnitude 5.9 and hit in Alpine County at 3:49 p.m.

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Surveillance video shows California inmate stealing firetruck; taking wild ride in escape attempt

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California inmate firefighter left "half a block of destruction" when he stole a firetruck in an apparent Independence Day escape bid and later tried to carjack a second vehicle, officials said Monday.The 31-year-old inmate from Orange County was part of an inmate crew fighting a vegetation fire caused by illegal fireworks late Sunday in the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Shingle Springs east of Sacramento, said California’s corrections and firefighting agencies, which jointly oversee the inmate firefighters.The inmate stole a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection all-wheel-drive wildland firefighting engine designed to carry four firefighters, in what California Highway Patrol Sgt.

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Las Vegas is bouncing back, but the virus is on the rise too

LAS VEGAS - Fifteen months after the pandemic transformed Las Vegas from flamboyant spectacle to ghost town, Sin City is back.Tourists are streaming in again, gambling revenue has hit an all-time high, the Las Vegas Strip has its first new casino in a decade, and big concerts are starting at a gleaming new stadium.

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US COVID-19 cases rise, likely due to Delta variant

After weeks of substantial decreases, COVID-19 cases are beginning to rise again in the United States, likely due to infections caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant (B1617.2). The increase is seen most prominently in Southern and Western states, and communities with low vaccination rates.

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Miss Nevada Kataluna Enriquez 1st transgender woman vying for Miss USA

Queen USA 2016, Kataluna Enriquez attends the 2nd Annual TransNation Festival Closing Gala "Eleganza" at Cicada on October 21, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Unique Nicole/Getty Images) LAS VEGAS - The Miss USA competition will see its first transgender woman compete for the crown after Kataluna Enriquez won the Miss Nevada title Sunday.Enriquez, 27, is also the first transgender woman to win the Miss Nevada title.

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Police in Las Vegas responds to call of possibly armed suspect at MGM Grand

LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Police in Las Vegas responded to a call of a possibly armed suspect at the MGM Grand Monday afternoon.The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to a call from the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. Officers on the scene were told there was a person with a gun.LVMPD, however, said there was no credible information that shots were ever fired and a victim has not been found.Get your top stories delivered daily! Sign up for FOX 11’s Fast 5 newsletter. And, get breaking news alerts in the FOX 11 News app. Download for iOS or Android.AdvertisementThis is a developing story.

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Salmonella outbreak linked to frozen cooked shrimp, CDC says

Frozen shrimp for sale at the new Whole Foods Market in Chevy Chase, Maryland. (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images) The U.S.

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Soon, there will be only two Kmarts left in California

GRASS VALLEY, Calif. - Soon, there will be only two Kmarts left in California.The Kmart in South Lake Tahoe will close, as will the one in Watsonville. This means Grass Valley and Martinez will soon be the only communities in California with a Kmart. Grass Valley is a city in Nevada County, 60 miles from Sacramento. Martinez is located in Contra Costa County. Up until recently, Kmart had six locations in the Golden State.Kmart began life in the late 1800s as a five-and-dime store in Tennessee.

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San Jose mother arrested after body of 7-year-old son found in Las Vegas

DENVER, Colo. - A 35-year-old mother from San Jose has been arrested after the body of her 7-year-old son was found in Las Vegas.In a Facebook post on Tuesday morning, Las Vegas police said Samantha Moreno Rodriguez arrested in Denver, Colo., by the Denver Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force led by the FBI.

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Most Las Vegas resorts now operating at 100% capacity

LAS VEGAS - Gambling giants MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment are opening their Las Vegas gambling floors to 100% capacity with no person-to-person distancing requirement, after state regulatory approval.Most of the resort corridor’s biggest properties were affected by the Nevada Gaming Control Board decision based on workforce vaccination rates.Caesars Entertainment's properties moving to 100% capacity on the casino floor include: "The expansion to full capacity and the elimination of social distancing on our casino floors in Las Vegas is a result of our Team Members' commitment to doing their part to put us all on the road to recovery," said Tom Reeg, CEO of Caesars Entertainment.

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California set to expand Pfizer vaccine for children ages 12 to 15

A person receives a COVID-19 vaccine in a file image. (Photo by: Jose More/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California is nearing approval of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for its 2.1 million children ages 12 to 15, state health officials said Tuesday, one day after the federal government expanded its use.Nationally and in California, the shots are set to begin Thursday after a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisory committee issues recommendations Wednesday for using the two-dose vaccine in children as young as 12.In California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup is independently reviewing the U.S.

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Jill Biden to visit Utah school as US moves toward reopening

SALT LAKE CITY – First lady Jill Biden plans to speak at a Salt Lake City school Wednesday as the U.S. makes uneven progress toward reopening classrooms during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Dream Chaser spaceplane ready for shuttle-style landing at Kennedy Space Center next year

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – The makers of the Dream Chaser spaceplane are inching closer to its first space flight, which will culminate with a space shuttle-style landing at Kennedy Space Center.

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Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo turns himself in after pregnant lover found dead

Felix Verdejo focus during the Shakur Stevenson vs Toka Kahn Clary Press Conference at the MGM Grand Conference Center on December 10, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo turned himself in to federal agents Sunday night just hours after authorities identified the body of a dead woman as his 27-year-old lover, officials said.The body of Keishla Rodríguez was found in a lagoon in the U.S.

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Nashville COVID ICU nurses give patient a spa day

COVID-19.A woman fighting the virus after being on a ventilator for weeks got tender loving care from frontline workers in the COVID Intensive Care Unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.LAS VEGAS MAYOR CALLS NEVADA GOVERNOR A 'DICTATOR' OVER STRICTER CORONAVIRUS ORDER"I walked by the room and without any fanfare these nurses had undertaken the idea of giving her a spa day and they were brushing her hair out," Dr. Wes Ely told News 2.

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Britney Spears requests to address the court herself in conservatorship case

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - OCTOBER 18: Singer Britney Spears attends the announcement of her new residency, "Britney: Domination" at Park MGM on October 18, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Spears will perform 32 shows at Park Theater at Park MGM starting in Febr LOS ANGELES - The court-appointed attorney for Britney Spears said during Spears' latest conservatorship hearing Tuesday that the pop star wants to address the judge in court. Samuel Ingham III did not say what the 39-year-old singer wants to tell Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny, and the judge did not specifically say she would hear what Spears has to say.

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Burning Man festival canceled for 2nd year in a row due to COVID-19 pandemic

RENO, Nev. (AP) - Burning Man organizers announced Tuesday they are canceling this summer’s annual counter-culture festival in the Nevada desert for the second year in a row because of the COVID-19 pandemic.The San Francisco-based group posted a video on its website that said there are too many uncertainties to resolve in time to hold the event as scheduled Aug.

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Burning Man festival canceled again due to COVID-19... after considering mandatory vaccines

Burning Man organizers have announced that they are canceling this summer's annual counter-culture festival in the Nevada desert for the second year in a row due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The San Francisco-based group posted a video on its website that said there are too many uncertainties to resolve in time to hold the celeb-beloved art event in the Black Rock Desert 100 miles north of Reno, usually attended by tens of thousands of people.Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell said the 'difficult decision' to not hold the event as scheduled August 26 to September 3 is 'based on the best information available to us'.

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Burning Man is not returning this year.

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With OK from experts, some US states resume use of Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine

Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine on Saturday. Among the venues where it was being deployed: the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Among the other states ordering or recommending a resumption, along with Indiana, were Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.Those moves came swiftly after US health officials said Friday evening that they were lifting an 11-day pause on vaccinations using the J&J vaccine.

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Blue states chart diverging paths on death penalty debate

CARSON CITY, Nev. – An effort to repeal the death penalty in Nevada is exposing polarization in the Legislature while proving party affiliation can be an unreliable predictor when it comes to capital punishment.

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Burning Man mulling mandatory COVD-19 vaccines for August

RENO, Nev. – Burning Man festival organizers have said that they are considering requiring attendees to prove they have been vaccinated for COVID-19 if the organizers move forward with plans to hold this year’s counter-culture festival in the Nevada desert.

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Nevada teen suffers seizures, brain clots after J&J vaccine

LAS VEGAS – An 18-year-old woman in Nevada who suffered seizures after receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has received three brain surgeries related to blood clots, a spokesperson for her family said.

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Deaf Black woman detained, handcuffed by police as crying daughters asked to interpret

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Video showing the dramatic detainment of a Black deaf woman as police ask her crying children to interpret for her is going viral after the woman documented the entire incident during a Facebook live on April 7 in North Las Vegas.Andrea Hollingsworth was waiting in her car with her two 11-year-old twins in the backseat after moving out of her ex-friend’s home, according to a North Las Vegas police report.Hollingsworth, who is deaf and cannot read lips, had returned to her former friend’s home to retrieve $200 she had originally paid for rent but felt was owed back since she moved out of the home, police said.Freeze frame of Andrea Hollingsworth’s Facebook live video.

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Sierra Nevada, prepping for Florida launch and landing, unveils space station concept

Sierra Nevada, the company aiming to launch and land its Dream Chaser spaceplane on the Space Coast, unveiled its take on an Earth-orbiting space station this week, joining a series of others aiming to find alternatives to the aging International Space Station, reports News 6 partner Florida Today.

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Problem gambling foes warn on sports betting college deals

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A national group that fights compulsive gambling is concerned about financial deals between colleges and sports betting companies.

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Russian man admits ransomware plot against Tesla in Nevada

RENO, Nev. – A Russian man has pleaded guilty to offering a Tesla employee $1 million to get computer malware into the electric car company’s massive electric battery plant in Nevada for a ransomware attack that never happened, according to court records.

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FDA warns against drinking this bottled water after several reports of liver damage

BPA, a chemical found in many consumer products, including plastic water bottles, is likely present in the human body at much greater levels than previously believed, according to a new study. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)ORLANDO, Fla. - Do you drink bottled water? The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put out a warning against one of them after several people reported liver damage. The FDA is advising consumers to not drink Real Water’s alkaline water.

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Pick Six: Unusual teams hallmark of NCAA Tournament

INDIANAPOLIS – One of the beauties of the NCAA Tournament is that every team has a story.

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The Latest: 1st north Nevada case of UK variant is confirmed

RENO, Nevada — Health officials have confirmed the first northern Nevada case of a COVID-19 variant that originated in the United Kingdom, and they’re trying to determine if the infection linked to a large gathering in Washoe County may have spread to others.

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Nev. Democratic Party in upheaval after progressive takeover

LAS VEGAS – The state Democratic Party in Nevada has for years been among the strongest in country, buttressed by the state's powerful former senator, Harry Reid, and credited with helping Democrats chalk up wins in the swing state since 2016.

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‘Megadrought’ persists in western states with no end in sight, according to scientists

Water gradation marks are seen along the earthen dam at Briones Reservoir in Orinda, California Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021.

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Nevada governor proposes giving tech firms power to govern

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Nevada's governor on Friday unveiled a proposal that would allow technology companies to establish jurisdictions with powers similar to those of county governments, arguing the state needed to be bold to diversify its economy and pushing back against those who have likened the idea to company towns.

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Conservative gathering in Orlando to feature Trump’s false fraud claims

WASHINGTON – A gathering of conservatives this weekend in Florida will serve as an unabashed endorsement of former President Donald Trump’s desire to remain the leader of the Republican Party — and as a forum to fan his false claim that he lost the November election only because of widespread voter fraud.

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Conservative gathering to feature Trump's false fraud claims

WASHINGTON – A gathering of conservatives this weekend in Florida will serve as an unabashed endorsement of former President Donald Trump's desire to remain the leader of the Republican Party — and as a forum to fan his false claim that he lost the November election only because of widespread voter fraud.

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Lawsuits filed against auto insurers over excessive rates amid COVID-19 pandemic

LAS VEGAS - Class action lawsuits were filed in Nevada against 10 major auto insurance companies on Tuesday, contending that the companies charged excessive insurance premiums during the pandemic by failing to account for a drop in driving and crashes.The lawsuits acknowledge that some insurers provided discounts over the emptier roads and drop in accidents and claims, but the discounts did not offer "any meaningful relief that actually reflects the reduction in cars on the road and reduced driving during the pandemic," according to the court filings.

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Lawsuits filed against auto insurers over rates in pandemic

LAS VEGAS – Class action lawsuits were filed in Nevada against 10 major auto insurance companies on Tuesday, contending that the companies charged excessive insurance premiums during the pandemic by failing to account for a drop in driving and crashes.

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The Latest: West Coast Conference tourneys won't have fans

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:

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80 acre cattle ranch bordering Area 51 for sale - including mailbox sought out by alien enthusiasts

RACHEL, Nev. - For $4.5 million you can be the owner of a cattle ranch in the beautiful Nevada desert overlooking the infamous Area 51 military base. The area along State Route 375 is also home to the "most photographed mailbox in the world," according to the Los Angeles Times.While most people don’t typically find themselves in rural Nevada, more than 100 miles outside Las Vegas, the mailbox is one of many sites where alien fans flock to in order to snap photos of the mailbox and the state’s 98 mile-long 'Extraterrestrial Highway' signs.Now the owners of the mailbox are selling the 80-acre cattle ranch as well as a permit to graze 250 cows into Area 51.The ranch comes with cattle and equipment, according to the property listing.The Times

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White House promises vaccine help as states rush to catch up

DALLAS – A giant vaccination center is opening in Houston to administer 126,000 coronavirus doses in the next three weeks. Nevada health officials are working overtime to distribute delayed shots. And Rhode Island is rescheduling appointments after a vaccine shipment failed to arrive as scheduled earlier in the week.

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Pastrnak has hat trick, Bruins beat Flyers 7-3 in Lake Tahoe

STATELINE, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 21: Nick Ritchie #21 of the Boston Bruins attempts a shot on Carter Hart #79 of the Philadelphia Flyers in the second period during the 'NHL Outdoors At Lake Tahoe' at the Edgewood Tahoe Resort on February 21, 2021 in Sta STATELINE. Nev. - David Pastrnak had three goals and the Boston Bruins took control by scoring three times in a 1:39 span of the second period to beat the Philadelphia Flyers 7-3 on Sunday in an outdoor game on the shore of Lake Tahoe.After a delay-filled opening game of the weekend between Colorado and Vegas because of bright sun that made for poor ice conditions, the game Sunday went off with fewer hitches.

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Pandemic makes prostitution taboo in Nevada's legal brothels

LAS VEGAS – Before the coronavirus pandemic, tourist-dependent Nevada had a notorious attraction: It was the only place in America where someone could legally pay for sex.

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Tahoe setting is 'mic drop' moment for outdoor NHL games

STATELINE, Nev. – Some players snapped pictures of Lake Tahoe and the majestic Sierra Nevada mountains as they came out for their first look at the picturesque outdoor rink that will host a pair of NHL games this weekend.

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Viral Vegas: Deaths jump, tourism slumps amid long pandemic

LAS VEGAS – Six weeks ago, thousands of New Year’s revelers gathered beneath the neon-lit marquees on the Las Vegas Strip — even though the big annual fireworks show was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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