In a game of long defensive stretches, Butler walked away with a 56-48 win over Texas on Thursday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament’s Midwest Regional.
Target Corp. next month will raise the minimum wage for all of its workers to $9 an hour, matching moves made by rivals including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and TJX Co.s , a source familiar with the matter said.
The problem with being a modern parent is that everyone seems to have an opinion on how to do it. Within five minutes online, you may feel as though you’ve doomed your kids to disease, death or endless years of therapy.
The president whose major policy achievement is mandatory health insurance thinks maybe voting should be mandatory, too.
Police found over 20 pounds of marijuana, 260 pounds of marijuana edibles, 82 pounds of THC extract and 53 guns at Super Budz on Wednesday, according to Metro.
The United States is deeply disturbed by reports that Syrian government forces attacked the town of Sarmin using chlorine as a weapon on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement on Thursday.
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson scored a career-high 23 points and collected 10 rebounds and freshman Stanley Johnson matched his season best of 22 points as the second-seeded Wildcats cruised past the No. 15 seed Tigers in NCAA Tournament round of 64 play at Portland, Ore.
A first edition set of “Mein Kampf,” signed by its author Adolf Hitler and given to one of the earliest members of the Nazi Party, is going up for auction.
R.J. Hunter capped a 13-0 run with a long 3-pointer with 2.8 seconds left as the 14th-seed Panthers stormed back to shock the Bears in NCAA Tournament round of 64 play in Jacksonville, Fla.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help to identify two men they said robbed a store near the intersection of Jones Boulevard and U.S. Highway 95 on March 11.
Slot machine giant International Game Technology signed a deal with the $3.5 billion Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas to provide games to half of the casino’s slot machine floor.
Not only does breastfeeding have clear short-term benefits, such as protection from infectious diseases and a reduction in mortality, it’s also been shown to be associated with an increase in intelligence.
There’s lots of charity news in Las Vegas Friday. Let’s start with the 2nd Annual A Games. It’s a fundraiser billed as an “X Games”-style event for children on the autism spectrum.
Instead of gifts for her birthday, second-grader Symphony Devine asked for donations to Lake Mead Christian Academy’s Capital Campaign for the expansion of the North Campus. A donation of $345 was presented to the academy on Jan. 29.
The Mo’ne Davis story is coming to Disney Channel. The 13-year-old who made history last summer as the first girl to pitch a shutout in the Little League World Series is the subject of a biopic that the cabler is developing with producer Debra Martin Chase.
Robert Brown led the way with 21 points as the Blazers stunned the Cyclones in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in Louisville, Ky.
Likely GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush is returning to Las Vegas May 13 to headline the Clark County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner.
David Peeples, 29, also known as “D-Peeps,” overdosed in February on on hydrocodone, the Clark County coroner said Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied on Thursday abandoning his commitment to the eventual creation of a Palestinian state, backing away from comments he made during his re-election campaign that drew sharp criticism from Israel’s ally the United States.
If Notre Dame is going to make a deep NCAA Tournament run, it will need big man Zach Auguste to perform like he did in Thursday’s opening game against Northeastern.
A school district is under fire for an act a student was forced to perform in a locker room. A controversial picture was texted to CBS46, showing what we were told was a soccer player eating a pickle off another player’s rear end.
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Calling it a good week would be to undersell the past few days for defensive tackle Devon Still, who re-signed with the Cincinnati Bengals two days after doctors informed him his 4-year-old daughter is likely cancer free.
When extraterrestrial beings mistake violence in classic video games for a declaration of war, the lifeforms wage war against planet Earth via video game pixels.
Former Major League Baseball pitching great Roger Clemens on Wednesday reached a settlement to a defamation lawsuit filed years ago by a former trainer who said he injected Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, Newsday reported.
State and federal health officials have launched an investigation after a worker at Zion National Park tested positive for tuberculosis.
Surveillance video of two U.S. Secret Service agents drunk driving at the White House may have been erased as part of the agency’s policy of deleting recordings every 72 hours, CNN reported on Thursday.
More than five years after a 14-year-old Alabama girl with special needs says she was persuaded by a teacher’s aide to act as bait to catch an accused sexual predator, her attorneys have filed a civil lawsuit.
An official with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles told lawmakers Thursday that the long lines at offices are growing in part due to new demands placed on the agency, with bills this session that could add voter ID cards, moped registration and medical marijuana caregiver cards for pet owners to the mix.
Our beloved America just isn’t juvenile enough, so this summer, comic/actor Tom Papa will begin hosting a primetime game show that slimes adults the way Nickelodeon slimes kids.