PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Three students at one California high school have taken their own lives at the same railroad crossing, in what officials are calling a "cluster" of suicides.
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Charges have been dropped against two women arrested during a row with police at a Democratic fundraiser, the San Diego County district attorney said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Regulations proposed by the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department would lower the burden of proof for non-combat vets claiming post-traumatic stress disorder.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Rhode Island is making non-critical state employees take 12 days off without pay over the next year to save money, officials said.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Two high schools students were convicted Tuesday of third-degree murder in the beating death of a Starbucks manager in Philadelphia last year.
ENGLEWOOD, N.J., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The mayor of Englewood, N.J., says members of Congress and President Barack Obama should stop Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi from pitching his tent in the town.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. government mistakenly sent 1,700 inmates stimulus checks totaling $425,000, the Social Security Administration said Tuesday.
NASHVILLE, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A Tennessee girl allegedly was burned during a school science experiment but officials did not call 911, a lawsuit filed by the girl's mother said.
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- California plans to sell 500 cars and a lot of other stuff the government no longer needs to help close a budget gap, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Plaintiffs in lawsuits against red-light traffic cameras in Florida towns say the devices violate the principle of uniform traffic laws.
MOOSEBURG, Tenn., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A hostage situation in a Mooseburg, Tenn., barn ended Tuesday with four people dead, including the hostage taker-shooter, sheriff's department officials said.
LONDON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the Lockerbie bomber's rousing reception in Libya was repulsive but he would still work with Libya against terrorism.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Three detainee deaths and several detainee disappearances were blacked out in the CIA inspector general's report, an ex-official who read the full report says.
SPARTANBUG, S.C., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A couple in Spartanburg, S.C., allegedly locked their children in their truck in a nightclub parking lot while they partied, local authorities said.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Leading congressional Republicans said Tuesday a special counsel's preliminary review of alleged CIA interrogation abuses will hurt the national interest.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A prosecutor said he intends to seek a more serious charge against a Milwaukee teen charged with reckless homicide in the death of her grandmother's husband.
SCRANTON, Pa., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Two former judges in eastern Pennsylvania may be tried on charges that they took kickbacks to send children to a juvenile detention center.
ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The push in Ankara to find a political solution to the so-called Kurdish question has brought new challenges to the ruling Justice and Development Party.
HOUSTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Six people have been charged in Houston with sex trafficking of women and children, U.S. and local police authorities said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- An Iraqi referendum on its security pact with Washington impacts not only the nature of the U.S. military engagement, but politics in Baghdad, analysts say.
ESTES PARK, Colo., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Senators John McCain and Mark Udall agreed on the need for increased use of nuclear power during a hearing on climate change in Colorado.
