BROOKHAVEN, N.Y., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A woman in Selden, N.Y., is facing animal cruelty charges for allegedly killing more than 20 dogs and burying them in her backyard, her son said.

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A father cleaning guns after target practice with his 32-year-old daughter accidentally shot and killed her, police in Tampa, Fla., said.

DADE CITY, Fla., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said an alligator hiding underneath a car bit a man in Land O' Lakes, Fla.

ADELAIDE, Australia, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A 25-year-old Australian man grabbed by a shark says it released him when he punched it hard in the snout.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Four people died in a house fire Monday in Oklahoma City, authorities said.

Special Archives Report: The East German government Thursday dropped all restrictions on travel to the West, and thousands of citizens of the communist state flocked to the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Iron Curtain, to taste their new freedom.

BODMIN, England, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Three British teenagers have been arrested for setting fire to a house with fireworks and killing a 59-year-old woman trapped in the home, authorities said.

Special Archives Report: Built at the height of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall has stood for nearly three decades as a grim symbol of division and repression in Eastern Europe and as a flash point in U.S.-Soviet relations.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Prosecutors and attorneys for Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon are ready to begin jury selection for her trial on theft charges, courtroom observers say.

BERLIN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Not all Germans say they will remember publicly the fall of Berlin Wall because it is on the day Nazis began a pogrom in which nearly 100 German Jews died.

MIAMI, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Hurricane warnings and watches along the U.S. Gulf Coast were canceled Monday as weather officials downgraded Ida from a hurricane to a tropical storm.

SYDNEY, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The leaders of a venerable Australian private college say they're distancing themselves from a Web page made by students advocating rape.

TORONTO, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Ontario Minister of Energy and Infrastructure George Smitherman says he is resigning from that post to run for mayor of Toronto.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Crews Monday searched for the pilot of a plane that crashed in the Florida Everglades, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said.

LONDON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Britain's prime minister called the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan to apologize for mistakes he made in a letter to her, his office said.