LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- California's bogged-down execution process means death-row inmates can expect to live a long time and in better conditions than other inmates, officials said.
DENVER, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A meeting by Colorado's state Board of Health to change the rules on medical marijuana wasn't held properly, a state judge says.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A jury in Arkansas Wednesday found Curtis Lavelle Vance guilty of capital murder in the slaying of Little Rock TV anchorwoman Anne Pressly.
HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A Connecticut judge says he will decide soon whether a hunger-striking prisoner can be force-fed.
NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Lou Dobbs, a CNN commentator whose coverage of immigration issues has made him a controversial political figure, said Wednesday he is leaving the network.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- An elderly Irish Catholic priest kidnapped by rebels in the Philippines was freed Wednesday, government officials in Dublin said.
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday followed San Francisco's lead in banning the declawing of cats, city officials said.
MIAMI, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Last week's assault on Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez is "deplorable," the U.S. State Department says.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A former spokesman for California Attorney General Jerry Brown did not break the law by secretly taping talks with reporters, Brown's office said.
VERNON, Conn., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The altercation that killed University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard started with a comment a teammate made about a woman, police say.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is considering four options for an Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy in discussions with his advisers, a White House spokesman said.
BOLTON, Miss., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A Mississippi man has been arrested in the kidnapping, rape and aggravated assault of a 21-year-old woman, prosecutors say.
NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins was named Wednesday as a 2009 National League Gold Glove winner, his third such honor in three straight seasons.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A San Diego woman has pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about her role in a federal bribery scheme involving a military research center, officials said.
SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- California lawyer Orly Taitz, who contends Barack Obama wasn't U.S. born and so can't be president, denies she asked people to lie in court to support her case.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- One teenager who witnessed the gang rape of a 15-year-old San Francisco area girl told ABC he doesn't feel accountable for what happened.
SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A 25-year-old man who survived a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo was sentenced Tuesday to two days in jail for drunken driving, officials said.
ALBUQUERQUE, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim imam who had communicated with suspected Foot Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was born in New Mexico, records indicate.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Attorneys for convicted former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., say he should remain free on bond after his sentencing.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Leaders of the Presbyterian Church in San Francisco Tuesday voted to ordain the first openly homosexual minister in the denomination.