VERO BEACH, Calif., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A young Florida woman accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl accepted a plea deal in which she was sentenced to four months in jail.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- President Obama visits a Washington-area construction company to discuss the need to pass a budget and raise the debt ceiling Thursday, the White House said.
PURCHASE, N.Y., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican predecessor George Pataki both said they were dismayed by the U.S. government shutdown.
CHESTER, Pa., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A loss-prevention officer at a Philadelphia-area Rite Aid store provided inside information in a robbery that left a manager dead, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
PHOENIX, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A federal judge's ruling released Wednesday requires a monitor look over Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's shoulder to watch for any racial profiling by his staff.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Southwest Airline says it fired the pilot who took control of a Boeing 737 just moments before it landed hard at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
NILES, Ill., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A Niles, Ill., animal shelter was looking for temporary housing for all of its animals after a school bus crashed into the building Wednesday, officials said.
MIAMI, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Jerry picked up speed as it meandered out in the Atlantic Ocean Tuesday, settling on a northeasterly track as night fell, U.S. forecasters said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said President Barack Obama told congressional leaders at a White House meeting Wednesday "he will not negotiate."
SAGINAW, Texas, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A wristwatch matching one belonging to a 6-year-old Texas girl who was raped and killed was found in the home of a teenage suspect, police documents reveal.
ELLENVILLE, N.Y., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A paramedic in New York's Hudson Valley region is accused of burglarizing the homes of people he took to the hospital, police said.
WASHINGTON -- Leeland Morris of Washington D.C. food truck Red Hook Lobster Pound is anxious for the government shutdown to end after attracting only a fraction of his usual customers on Tuesday. But, one mile away, Christopher Lee of Cirque Cuisine said it was business as usual.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A group of sex offenders is working to overturn what they see as unconstitutional -- and impractical -- U.S. laws restricting where they can live.
DANDRIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A church bus blew a tire, crossed the median and overturned on Interstate 40 in Tennessee Wednesday afternoon killing at least eight people, state police said.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, said she and her husband will try to have a child next year.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union rejected requests to drop a suit filed in New York City saying the National Security Agency's phone call tracking is illegal.
WASHINGTON -- Immigration reform could be one of the first bizarre by-products of the government shutdown, according to Brookings Institution senior analyst Jill Wilson.
KINGSTON, Mass., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts state trooper, charged with driving drunk in an off-duty crash that killed a mother and daughter, has been suspended without pay, police said.
WASHINGTON -- Gen. Keith Alexander denied allegations that the NSA is “exploiting its huge collection of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections.”
NASHVILLE, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A Tennessee state senator was named in court papers as the physician whose alleged injection of a tainted spinal steroid led to a woman's illness.
TRENTON, N.J., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The administration of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says it has asked a judge to stay her ruling that would allow gay couples to get married later this month.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A college student and his parents are suing Atlantic City, N.J., police after video surfaced of five officers and a police dog beating him.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- It has been nearly two years since the 10-month-old daughter of Deborah Bradley disappeared from their Kansas City home, but the family retains hope, she said.
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney arrive on the red carpet at the New York Premiere of Gravity at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City on October 1, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo
