About 72 percent of the juvenile victims of human trafficking in Nevada come from within the state, experts said Wednesday.

Summer colds are the worst.

You’re not sure how you caught one, but you did — and now you’d love to know where it came from. Or maybe that’s one of those medical mysteries, the kind that Mary Guinan, Ph.D., M.D. solved. In her new book “Adventures of a Female Medical Detective” (with Anne D. Mather), she takes you on some not-so-cold cases.

About 72 percent of the juvenile victims of human trafficking in Nevada come from within the state, experts said Wednesday.

The 14th Amendment guarantees that Americans are all equal under the law, but in reality this is often not the case. In new research which covers nearly 78,000 felony defendants, Gillian M. Pinchevsky and Benjamin Steiner examined the whether or not criminal defendants received different treatment based on their sex or other characteristics during their pretrial period. They find that compared to men, female defendants were treated more leniently during the pretrial process. In addition, women arrested for more serious offenses were treated more harshly than other women.

States such as Pennsylvania, which rely on revenue from gambling to close monster deficits, are sure to be disappointed with future results, according to a new study released in April.

Frank Van Breukelen is a UNLV researcher who studies Pupfish. He said the fish help scientists understand humans and evolution.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at his house in Springfield, Illinois, in 2012, Colombian-born Jhon Erick Ocampo struggled to explain to them that he was an American citizen.

Who has better Las Vegas entertainment stories than the people who were backstage, and even onstage, with the stars?

A couple of recent books remind us of the big role supporting musicians played in the city’s show business history. Admittedly, I’m a little partial to both.