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Ariel Castro charged in Cleveland sex slave case
CLEVELAND, May 8 (UPI) -- Police said Wednesday they have completed the search of the Cleveland house where three women were kept as sex slaves for a decade.



TROON, Scotland, May 9 (UPI) -- A 55-year-old Scottish teacher made port Wednesday in Troon, becoming the first deaf person to sail solo around the world.
BEAUMONT, Texas, May 9 (UPI) -- A group of Texas cheerleaders can continue to display signs with Christian messages, a state judge ruled Wednesday.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill that would require Internet retailers to collect sales taxes on behalf of local governments. This bill has flaws that could be fixed in the House of Representatives and should be passed.
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- More than one-third of working mothers in the United States say they are the only breadwinners in their households, a survey released Thursday found.
BRUSSELS, May 9 (UPI) -- A key European Parliament committee this week signed off on legislation calling for confiscation of Mafia assets and their distribution to local communities.
Report: Jodi Arias says would prefer death penalty to life in prison
PHOENIX, May 8 (UPI) -- Jodi Arias, convicted Wednesday in the stabbing and shooting death of her ex-lover, told KSAZ-TV in Phoenix she prefers the death penalty over life in prison.
SAN DIEGO, May 8 (UPI) -- Peter Robbins, the voice of Charlie Brown in "A Charlie Brown Christmas," was sentenced in San Diego to a year in jail for threatening an ex-girlfriend.
NEW DELHI, May 8 (UPI) -- A crowded passenger bus skidded off a road and plunged into a river in northern India, killing more than 30 passengers and injuring several more, police said.
MILFORD, Conn., May 8 (UPI) -- A judge in Connecticut Wednesday offered the father of a child slain in the Newtown massacre a plea deal to resolve his bad-checks and motor vehicle case.
ST. LOUIS, May 8 (UPI) -- A Missouri appeals court reinstated $28 million in punitive damages to the families of a pilot and sky divers killed when a plane with a defective part crashed.
Report: Jackson failed to file disclosure form
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. failed to file the required disclosure form required by federal ethics laws after his resignation, records show.
PHILADELPHIA, May 8 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia man was charged with killing his 74-year-old wife after he allegedly tried to frame a young neighbor for the slaying, court records showed.
MANCHESTER, England, May 8 (UPI) -- A man who did odd jobs for a widower in northern England admitted Wednesday he ambushed Vincent Kershaw in his home and beat him to death.
RALEIGH, N.C., May 8 (UPI) -- Opponents of a North Carolina House bill that would require teens to get parental approval for birth control say it would be the most restrictive in the nation.
LONDON, May 8 (UPI) -- Boris Berezovsky, the combative Russian tycoon who died in late March in an apparent suicide, was quietly laid to rest Wednesday in a London suburb.
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Arias Is Found Guilty of Murder in Arizona
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Jodi Arias (R) reacts as she hears the verdict of guilty of first degree murder after a four month trial in Phoenix, Arizona, May 8, 2013. Arias was convicted of murdering her lover Travis Alexander in Tempe, Arizona in June of 2008. UPI// Rob Schumacher/Arizona Republic/Pool