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Last year, nine teens were arrested in connection with the horrific beating death of Rancho High School student Jonathan Lewis. And just last week, four of them were sent back from adult court to juvenile court as part of a plea agreement that reduces their maximum sentence. The outrage has been palpable: Social media users have called the accused adolescents “monsters,” and Lewis’s mother said the decision was “disgusting.” So should the teens have been tried as adults? What’s really going on here? Co-host Dayvid Figler talks with UNLV Boyd School of Law professor Eve Hanan about why we have juvenile court in the first place, and why some teens (and not others) are sentenced in adult court.
The mystery of how supermassive black holes, which can be millions of times more massive than the sun and sit at the heart of most galaxies, came to exist is one of the great questions in astrophysics.
U.S. vice president Kamala Harris and former American president Donald Trump just wrapped up what's potentially their only presidential debate in Philadelphia.
The UNLV professor who was critically injured by an active shooter on campus in December 2023 returned to the classroom Wednesday, university officials said. Often referred to as the “fourth victim,” Daraboth “Bot” Rith — an economics professor in the Lee Business School — was shot 10 times during the Dec. 6 tragedy that claimed the lives of three professors. He was found by two Metro Police officers, who provided life-saving medical care.
A video capturing a "vortex" on a plane, with water spewing out from the wing during a flight, has left internet viewers guessing. The clip shared by TikTok user @ashtonvonkessler, which has over 843,000 views since it was posted on August 30, shows a couple seated on a plane. A message overlaid on the video reads: "Marrying a pilot means learning the most random aviation facts throughout your flight." The footage shows a view of streams of water shooting out from the edge of a plane wing. "What is that?" reads a caption shared with the post.
UNLV is welcoming back a professor to campus after he was seriously injured during the deadly Dec. 6 shooting at Beam Hall that took the lives of three faculty members. Economics Professor Daraboth "Bot" Rith and his wife, Dimanche, were welcomed back to a standing ovation at UNLV's faculty town hall on Tuesday.
FOX5 learned the identity of the fourth victim in the UNLV campus shooting. Dec. 6 last year, three professor’s lives were taken by a gunman: Naoko Takemaru, 69, 64-year-old professor Cha Jan Chang, known as “Jerry,” and 39-year-old associate professor Patricia Navarro Velez.
The fourth victim in the UNLV shooting on Dec. 6, 2023 that killed three, has come forward, choosing to share his story publicly for the first time, according to a UNLV spokesperson. UNLV Professor Daraboth “Bot” Rith, an economics professor in the Lee Business School, was shot and injured during the shooting. Rith was shot 10 times on Dec. 6, according to a UNLV release.
The fourth University of Nevada, Las Vegas professor injured in the Dec. 2023 shooting that left three others dead returned to the campus Tuesday. Prof. Daraboth “Bot” Rith and his wife, Dimanche, were recognized at a Tuesday UNLV town hall meeting held for staff and faculty. Since the shooting, Rith has been identified as the unnamed fourth victim.