OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Four members of a controversial Muslim group in Oakland, Calif., should be tried on charges of kidnapping and torturing two women last year, a judge has ruled.
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- California has paid a group of psychologists and psychiatrists what one called "a boatload of money" to evaluate sex offenders, the Los Angeles Times reported.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A task force is trying to figure out how to keep black residents in San Francisco, where they have dropped to 6.5 percent of the population, officials said.
DARWIN, Australia, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Voters in the Northern Territory moved away from the Australian Labor Party in state elections Saturday, leaving control of the state parliament in doubt.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The Washington state Ecology Department has been ordered to rewrite its regulations so storm water from new development will not drain into Puget Sound.
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain said Saturday his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, would "choose the path of retreat and failure" in Iraq.
TBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili Saturday urged Russia to accept an immediate cease-fire in South Ossetia as signs suggested the conflict was worsening.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The United Nations should adopt part of the U.S. Declaration of Independence in its charter, a leader of the Global Peace Festival said in Washington Saturday.
PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Likely Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama has a 5-point lead over likely Republican rival Sen. John McCain, a Gallup Poll indicates.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A woman with whom former U.S. presidential hopeful John Edwards admitted having an affair has ruled out taking a paternity test, The Washington Post reported.
YANGON, Myanmar, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- At least 48 people have been arrested in Myanmar for holding a march to mark the 20th anniversary of a pro-democracy revolt, activists said.
BALDWIN, Wis., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A veteran skydiver has been killed in a Wisconsin jump, possibly while making a mistake practicing a stunt move, witnesses said.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A sow grizzly bear accompanied by two cubs mauled a jogger in a park in Anchorage, Alaska, biting and clawing her, authorities said.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Barack Obama, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, has opened 29 campaign offices in Pennsylvania, a state both parties are gunning for.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Wisconsin health authorities say they are seeing more injuries among people using their cell phones to send text messages while also walking.
LONDON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Eurostar rail ridership is approaching record numbers as more passengers are abandoning air travel to cross the English Channel, say travel experts.
HOUSTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The driver of a bus that crashed in Texas, killing at least 16 passengers, had a driving while intoxicated conviction in 2001, records show.
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Oakland, Calif., has been hit with a rash of restaurant robberies, including several where masked gunmen have come in during business hours, police said.
BEIJING, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao greeted foreign leaders in separate meetings on the eve of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
BEIJING, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush made a surprise visit to the Olympic beach volleyball venue in Beijing Saturday, trying his hand at the sport.
MOSCOW, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Georgia has committed a crime against its own people and a strike against its own integrity in South Ossetia, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
TOKYO, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- About 200 Indonesian care-givers and nurses have arrived in Japan to take part in the two nations' economic partnership agreement, officials said.
