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WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Saturday the recent elections reflected U.S. citizens' concern with the direction the U.S. government is headed.

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PATERSON, N.J., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Three adults are facing child cruelty charges in New Jersey for allegedly cutting a 7-year-old girl, prosecutors say.

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A Florida judge ordered the man accused of a deadly shooting spree in an Orlando office building held without bail at a brief jailhouse hearing Saturday.

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Mexican prosecutors say three suspects, including three doctors, were arrested for allegedly abducting and selling newborn babies from a Mexico City hospital.

COLLIERVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Three Collierville, Tenn., teenagers must perform community service for participating in illegal organized bare-knuckle fights, a judge said.

MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The Russian navy grounded its Pacific fleet aircraft Saturday after a reconnaissance plane crashed off Sakhalin Island, leaving 11 people missing.

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A New York woman who castrated her abusive father has been sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for his death.

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- No one was injured when a 20-pound piece of fiberglass fell from a Delta Boeing 777 flight onto a lawn in Roosevelt, N.Y., officials said.

MIAMI, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Ida remained a tropical storm Saturday morning, but Mexican officials had the Yucatan Peninsula under a hurricane watch in case the storm strengthens.

FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The two police officers who ended the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, said they began first aid on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as soon as they shot him.

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A New Haven, Conn., judge says he'll release information that led to the arrest of a lab technician in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Finance ministers from the Group of 20 were urged at their summit in Scotland Saturday to get more involved in climate change.

ABERDEEN, Scotland, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- An obsessed former patient who wrote a Scottish psychologist love letters in his own blood has been sentenced to life in prison.

SANA‘A, Yemen, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A boat carrying refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea was seized in the territorial waters of Yemen, authorities said Saturday.