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Taylor Swift could make it to the Super Bowl from Tokyo. Finding private jet parking, that's tricky

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 LAS VEGAS (AP) — If Taylor Swift is jetting from her upcoming Tokyo concert to Las Vegas to see boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl the next day, she'd better already have a place to park her plane. Places to leave private aircraft at airports in and around Las Vegas have been spoken for, airport and Federal Aviation Administration officials said Thursday. Just over a week remains before the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers face off in the NFL championship game. The four airports immediately around Las Vegas have about 475 parking spaces combined, said Heidi Hayes, a spokesperson for the Clark County Department of Aviation. “Oh, they’re full,” said Rick Breitenfeldt, FAA spokesman for his sixth Super Bowl. Las Vegas-area airports also reached capacity for private planes during the inaugural Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix auto race in November, Hayes said. Clark County handles Harry Reid International, one of the busiest passenger airports in the U.S., along

Michigan school shooter's mother blames her husband in trial testimony

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A US mother on trial for failing to stop her son from carrying out a deadly school shooting has sought to put the blame on her husband. Jennifer Crumbley, taking the stand in her own defence, told jurors that the gun she and her husband purchased for their son was not her responsibility. Mrs Crumbley is the first parent to go on trial for a mass shooting carried out by a child. Her husband, James, is facing a separate trial on the same charges. If found guilty, they each face up to 15 years in prison. Their son is serving life in prison for killing four classmates at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021. He was 15 years old at the time of the attack. Mrs Crumbley, 45, took the stand on Thursday, the sixth day of the trial. She was the first witness to testify for the defence after the prosecution presented 21 witnesses. Prosecutors will cross-examine her on Friday. Mrs Crumbley said her husband brought their son to a gun store the day after Thanksgiving to buy a handgun for him as a