Just four months after launch, New Jersey's legal sports-betting industry is off to the races.

David Riggleman speaks to Dr. William Sousa, a Criminal Justice Associate Professor and Director of Center for Crime and Justice Policy with expertise in police policy and management, international police, and community crime prevention.

Las Vegas Valley residents got a chance to launch their Halloween pumpkins into the air rather than tossing them into the garbage at the annual Pitch-A-Pumpkin event Sunday at the Silverton.

UNLV and the Southern Nevada Christmas Tree Recycling Committee held the event to increase awareness about the benefits of recycling and composting. Launched pumpkins will be composted into soil, according to a news release from event organizers.

A country’s leader must provide security by economic and representational means to all its people, so that the insecurities of a faction do not manifest into acts of hate, violence and oppression against others.

Behind the daily headlines of our turbulent political climate is a stark, hard fact: the American middle class is hurting. Household incomes for the middle 60 percent of the distribution are rising, but painfully slowly, and primarily due to more work (including longer hours) rather than better wages.

As the world begins to learn about blockchain, a local professor is up to speed because he's been doing research on the new technology for about two years.

Sheldon Adelson is supporting an initiative that wants residents in Nevada to choose their electricity supplier from 2023. Berkshire's NV Energy, which belongs to Warren Buffett, currently has a monopoly in this market. The dispute over this issue has already moved almost 100 million dollars.

Whether in villages on the coast of Ghana or in the mountains of Rwanda, asking for people's poop is a good icebreaker, Mathieu Groussin says. "Everybody laughs," says Groussin, a microbiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. "Especially when we stress that we need the whole fecal sample and show them the big bowl."

When is it too much?

When does a city whose cursed baseball team fed a gargantuan sense of civic grievance and self-pity lose something by winning again and again?