CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts veterinarian's family has asked a court to delay her burial because they doubt her husband's story that she killed herself in a Caribbean hotel.

GIRARD, Ill., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Three high school seniors in Illinois vandalized their school by breaking windows and glass doors, and leaving bomb threats, school officials allege.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate Banking Committee said Friday Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will appear before it Dec. 3 for a confirmation hearing.

KENNETT, Mo., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The young woman accused of assaulting police during a fracas at a Missouri Wal-Mart pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace late Friday.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Western leaders raised the possibility of sanctions against Iran if it continues to refuse to accept a draft agreement to export most of its enriched uranium.

WAUKESHA, Wis., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A Texas man has been charged with arranging the killing of his former girlfriend in her Milwaukee-area home, allegedly to get custody of their son.

OVERLAND, Kan., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Former Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday trying the alleged mastermind of the 2001 terrorist attacks in a U.S.civilian court risks national security.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Two 23-year-old men have been charged with fatally shooting five people in Arkansas last week, police said Friday.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Shaniya Davis's father accused her mother Friday of selling the 5-year-old North Carolina girl for sex to support her drug habit.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The nation's Catholic bishops Friday called the U.S. Senate healthcare reform bill an "enormous disappointment."

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- At least 25 people were killed in four bombings Friday in Afghanistan, including an attack on a politician who survived.

MIAMI, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The man authorities say led a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago was sentenced Friday in Miami to 13 1/2 years in federal prison.

DUNCAN, British Columbia, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Flooding rivers in western Canada Friday sent hundreds of people scurrying from their homes, officials said.

OXFORD, Miss., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Ku Klux Klan members in Mississippi say they plan to protest a decision to forbid the Ole Miss band to play "From Dixie With Love" at football games.