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Federico Birrueta of Rancho Santa Rosa in Shafter, Calif., dazzled the crowd with his horse along the parade route during the 44th Annual Wasco Festival of Roses in Wasco, Calif., on Sept. 7. Farms around Wasco, in California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, produce more roses than any other place in the United States.

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Classic Las Vegas slogan returns

LAS VEGAS » The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is bringing back its classic "What happens here, stays here" ad campaign.

Visitors Authority spokeswoman Courtney Fitzgerald says the first national commercial with the tag line will air Sept. 30.

Tourism officials have been giving the slogan a rest since the summer of 2012.

Instead, they have been promoting the hotel reservation website lasvegas.com. Among other ads, tourism officials filmed commercials with late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who played a character called LasVegasdotcom who’s constantly mistaken for the travel website by the same name.

The "What happens here, stays here" ads present Sin City as a place where visitors can do things they would never want their friends and family back home to find out about.

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Crews will try to right cruise ship

ROME » Italian authorities say the operation to set the Concordia cruise ship upright is set for next week, 20 months after the ship capsized near a tiny Tuscan island, killing 32 people.

National Civil Protection agency chief Franco Gabrielli told islanders on Giglio island Wednesday that crews could try to right the ship as soon as Monday.

The Concordia’s hull was gashed by a reef it struck when sailing close to Giglio’s rocky shores Jan. 13, 2012. It rapidly took on water and capsized. Its captain is being tried for manslaughter and abandoning ship.

Airport blasted for 9/11 fire drill

BOSTON » Officials at Boston’s Logan International Airport have apologized for holding a fire drill, complete with smoke and flames, on Wednesday, the 12th anniversary of the Sept, 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The two hijacked jets that were flown into the World Trade Center towers flew out of Logan.

The runway fire drill, announced on the airport’s Facebook page, drew harsh condemnation on social media sites.

The Massachusetts Port Authority, the agency that runs the airport, said in a statement that it "apologizes for conducting the fire training exercise and understands that it may have offended many of those touched by the events of Sept. 11."