MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- An 18-year-old Minnesota man admitted in a Facebook message that he had accidentally shot someone while playing with a gun, police said.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Snow began falling in Washington late Friday, kicking off what was expected to be the worst December storm in years in the capital.
MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Angry journalists confronted a Philippine politician charged in the Maguindanao massacre when he appeared in court Friday.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Three West African men who allegedly said they had ties with al-Qaida were charged Friday in New York under a law targeting narcoterrorism.
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A bomb threat note that turned out to be baseless kept an American Airlines jetliner grounded for hours Friday in Austin, Texas, an airport official said.
BARTOW, Fla., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A Florida man was charged Friday with killing his former boss, a pilot who vanished more than a year ago.
CHARLESTON, W.Va., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A jury convicted a West Virginia woman of first-degree murder Friday for walking into an intensive care unit and shooting her estranged husband in the head.
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An Irish bishop has resigned after being criticized in a report saying the Irish Catholic Church covered up priests' sexual abuse of Dublin children.
MILW, Wis., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Milwaukee School Board voted unanimously to allow condoms to be distributed at many city high schools.
GARY, Ind., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An Indiana doctor accused of healthcare fraud and on the run for five years has been arrested in northern Italy, the FBI confirms.
DALLAS, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A member of the Dallas "Scarecrow Bandits" bank robbing gang was sentenced to almost 16 years in prison, authorities say.
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Lawsuits against HMOs and insurance companies in Nevada charge they neglected to adequately inspect several Las Vegas clinics suspected in a hepatitis outbreak.
SYDNEY, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Australian customs and border-protection authorities intercepted a ship carrying 55 asylum seekers off the country's northwest coast Friday, officials said.
MINSK, Belarus, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The question of independence for two former Georgian republics will not be considered by the Belarusian Parliament before the spring of 2010, officials said.
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