More time spent parenting doesn’t necessarily lead to better outcomes for children, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
Cornerback P.J. Williams, a top draft prospect out of Florida State, was arrested early Friday morning for driving under the influence.
Sponsors of the bill in Carson City say outrage and a boycott call following passage of a similar law in Indiana have dampened their desire for legislation seen by many as enabling discrimination.
The valley can expect windy, dusty Easter egg hunts Sunday afternoon, according to the Clark County Department of Air Quality.
An accused New York City gang member was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for a slew of violent crimes, including three murders, after being convicted in a trial in which prosecutors used his graphic rap lyrics against him.
Illinois private equity firm Z Capital Partners, which already owns 39.5 percent of Affinity Gaming, has offered to buy the rest of the Las Vegas-based casino company for $9.75 per share.
A lab technician at the Children’s Heart Center Nevada who had access to patient files containing personal information was arrested two months ago on suspicion of identity theft, the center’s attorney said Friday.
Here are five storylines to track during the 2015 Major League Baseball season which opens on Sunday.
The McDonald’s High School All-American dunk contest that took place without Derrick Jones on Monday night in Chicago might as well be rendered null and void.
Barrick Gold Corp. will lease space inside a building at 2270 Corporate Circle Drive in Henderson, near the 215 Beltway and Green Valley Parkway.
The stepfather of the victim in a high-profile child murder case in Bullhead City is going to the Arizona Department of Corrections for unrelated convictions.
A suspended San Antonio police officer, who was accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in his marked patrol car in 2013, was shot on Thursday night by a woman during a dispute inside a home, officials said.
Dan Kennedy was driving to work Tuesday morning in Salt Lake City when he saw a large orange bag spill onto the roadway from a truck in front of him.
Universal’s “Furious 7” has jumped out with $60 million in 45 international markets in its first two days — an impressive indication of blockbuster business for the record-setting tentpole.
Many hardworking, well-educated people struggle to make ends meet. Meanwhile, some of the dumbest and laziest among us open their bizarre lives to reality TV crews and celebrate all the way to the bank.
Tiger Woods ended weeks of speculation on Friday when he announced he will play in next week’s Masters golf tournament at Augusta National.
A mother filed a lawsuit against the San Diego Unified School District, a teacher and a former principal for a school’s restrictive restroom policy, which denied students the right to use the restroom during class.
Three years later, Adam Smith still hasn’t been able to shake the viral YouTube video that cost him his job and changed his life.
Liberace opened the Riviera hotel-casino on April 20, 1955. Sixty years later, crooner George Bugatti will be last entertainer on April 25.
A 21-year-old man is in critical condition and after an early Friday crash in a construction zone near “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign.
France will ban excessively thin fashion models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail, under a new law passed on Friday.
Los Angeles Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton will not be disciplined or suspended for violating his drug treatment program, an arbitrator ruled Friday.
A 16-year-old girl driving with friends escaped serious injury after she was ejected from a car that plunged 100 feet (30 meters) off a cliff in northern Arizona, and the vehicle landed on top of her, police said on Thursday.
Since the recession, the rich have benefitted most from financial gains, but interestingly, at the same time, it’s the poor who upped their giving during that period while higher-income people gave less, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Anthony Ray Hinton is thankful to be free after nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row for murders he says he didn’t commit. And incredulous that it took so long.
The rainbow flag, a symbol of gay rights, flies prominently on the Visit Indy website and Indiana’s Republican Governor Mike Pence personally phoned the head of a Seattle company that gathers 56,000 gaming nerds in the heartland each year.
Children exposed to tobacco smoke at home are up to three times more likely to have attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) as unexposed kids, according to a new study from Spain.
One “Price Is Right” contestant didn’t have to try very hard to win a car after show model Manuela Arbelaez accidentally spoiled the suprise.
Getting Sen. Harry Reid on his show was quite a coup, but then “State of Nevada” producer Joe Schoenmann got a telephone call from President Obama.
Obese people are better at detecting the scent of chocolate and find it more pleasant than non-obese people, according to a small United Kingdom study.