CLEVELAND, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A Cleveland stripper was in critical condition after falling 15 feet off a balcony while performing a lap dance early Wednesday, police said.
JASPER, Ala., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Federal aviation investigators said they are still trying to determine the cause of a plane crash in Alabama that killed three people.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Two homeless Cincinnati men rescued a business owner from an attempted robbery and beating, a homeless coalition official said.
VILNIUS, Lithuania, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Lithuania said citizens punished after its 1990 independence from the Soviet Union for refusing to serve in the Soviet Army are eligible for compensation.
MILAN, Ohio, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Mid-1800s Ohio Gov. William Allen's bust will be replaced in the Capitol Building's Statuary Hall by one depicting inventor Thomas Edison, state leaders said.
FORT LEE, N.J., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A teenager who was locked inside a police van for 15 hours in New Jersey has sued Fort Lee, charging he was victimized because he is Asian-American.
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara declared three days of mourning and pledged a swift investigation into the stampede that killed 60 people.
BANGUI, Central African Republic, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Rebel forces in the Central African Republic say they have stopped their monthlong advance on Bangui, the capital city, and will participate in peace talks.
TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A Topeka, Kan., man, a sperm donor in 2009, says he is now being held financially liable by the state for the child he helped conceive.
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Two Americans, one from Oregon and one from Colorado, died climbing 22,841-foot Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, a surviving climber said.
CARMEL, N.Y., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Officials in Putnam County, a rural area in New York State, say they will not give information on holders of gun permits to a newspaper.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The NCAA shouldn't have imposed arbitrary sanctions on Penn State University in the Jerry Sandusky child sex scandal, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said.
SYDNEY, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Retailers said baby formula is in short supply in Australia due to increased demand from Chinese parents seeking foreign supplies they believe aren't tainted.
LUTZ, Fla., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The pellet-gun shooting of a man of Middle Eastern descent at a Walmart is being investigated as a hate crime, the Pasco County, Fla., Sheriff's Office said.
MARLBORO, N.J., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Students and their parents had mixed feelings Wednesday as schools in a New Jersey town reopened with new staff members: uniformed police carrying guns.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Two Jordanians serving with the United Nations force in the Darfur region of Sudan were released Wednesday, more than four months after their abduction.
GREENSBURG, Pa., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Police in Greensburg, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, say they are seeking a man who phones recently widowed women, telling them he has kidnapped a relative.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Business leaders and deficit-reduction hawks say the "fiscal cliff" deal passed by the U.S. Congress is positive because it averts tax hikes, but falls short.
MANAMA, Bahrain, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A U.N. torture rapporteur has delayed a visit to Bahrain to assess the human rights situation because of scheduling conflicts, state media reported.
ALGIERS, Algeria, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence, alarmed at a jihadist sanctuary in Mali, is considering providing Algeria with a surveillance satellite to monitor al-Qaida operations.
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the government in Myanmar said Wednesday that military forces struck rebel-held territory in the northern state of Kachin.
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A Florida woman had to be airlifted from a snowy peak in Maine after emergency responders said she became unresponsive while hiking up the mountain.
