FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Feb. 6 (UPI) --
Sheriff's deputies used a stun gun on a woman who was holding up the drive-through line at a North Carolina McDonald's restaurant, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.
Deputies used what is called a "drive stun," not a full stun-gun hit, on Evangeline Marrero Lucca, 37, said Debbie Tanna of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- China wants all parties to stop the violence in Syria, a spokesman said, defending its veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution on the Middle East nation.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A report published Monday by anti-poverty groups in Alberta urges the government to rethink its approach to fighting poverty in the Canadian province.
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Italian priest Gabriele Amorth claims in his latest book the pope inadvertently took part in an exorcism of two men, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.
OTTAWA, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Compensation checks will begin arriving this week for victims of a 2008 Canadian Listeria outbreak, CBC News reported Monday.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein joined the Americans for Marriage Equality movement with a video, released Monday, supporting same-sex marriage.
LAHORE, Pakistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- At least 11 people including women and children died when a three-story medicine-making factory collapsed in Lahore, Pakistan, authorities said.
ATLANTA, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A legal doctrine protecting landowners from liability in wild animal attacks on their property is being considered by the Georgia Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing rights since 1787, no longer influences other government constitutions, an American scholar said Monday.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- An Alaskan man threatened a number of local terrorist acts in an extortion attempt and was arrested by Alaska State Troopers Monday, police said.
SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The arraignment of an ex-Marine charged with the slaying of four homeless men, a woman and her son in Southern California has been delayed.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Michigan senatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra denied accusations a TV ad shown during the Super Bowl was racially insensitive to Asian-Americans.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A book by U.S. Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, "Kosher Jesus," focusing on Jesus' Jewishness, is heresy, some Jewish critics say.
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A federal judge in San Diego heard arguments Monday on whether killer whales at SeaWorld are detained as slaves and their captivity violates the 13th Amendment.
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Josh Powell's family said they panicked at e-mail messages before his apparent suicide and resultant death of his two young sons in their Washington home.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Texas' Parks and Wildlife Department received $1.4 million in response to a public plea, but donations are unlikely to solve its financial woes, officials say.
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