BAGHDAD, May 22 (UPI) -- At least 12 people were killed Wednesday when gunmen opened fire inside a brothel in Baghdad, officials said.
CLEVELAND, May 22 (UPI) -- The three women allegedly held captive for years at a house in Cleveland have issued a statement of thanks for donations to funds set up for them.
DAYTON, Iowa, May 22 (UPI) -- As searchers in Iowa hunted Wednesday for an abducted teenage girl, a law enforcement official called the discovery of two backpacks and a purse major leads.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Critics say federal wage protections for these workers will drive elderly and disabled people into institutionalized settings. Advocates say that hasn't happened in states that currently extend the minimum wage to home care workers.
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 22 (UPI) -- Santa Clara County, Calif., agreed to settle for $15 million a suit stemming from a car crash triggered by a police officer eating a hamburger while driving.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (GPI)-- Female entrepreneurs in Nepal say they face many challenges, the largest being a lack of financial assistance from the government and nongovernmental organizations. There are an estimated 30,000 female entrepreneurs in Nepal. Female entrepreneurs who receive free trainings seek to empower other craftswomen by hiring them, marketing their crafts and offering alternative business funding.
CHARDON, Ohio, May 22 (UPI) -- The families of three students killed in an Ohio school shooting have sued United Way over its distribution of the Chardon Healing Fund.
MONTREAL, May 22 (UPI) -- More than a million Montreal-area residents were advised to boil water Wednesday following reports of discolored water coming from taps, authorities said.
MUSCAT, Oman, May 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, meeting with leaders in Oman, hailed the Raytheon Co.'s $1.6 billion contract for an Omani air defense system.
PHOENIX, May 22 (UPI) -- A jury in Phoenix said Wednesday it was having trouble reaching a unanimous decision on whether convicted killer Jodi Arias should be sentenced to death.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio, May 22 (UPI) -- A bus rear-ended a car on an Ohio highway, inflicting 34 car and bus passengers with non-life threatening injuries, the state highway patrol said.
HOUSTON, May 22 (UPI) -- The mother of a Texas girl who was gang raped when she was 11 says she was upset when she found her daughter, now 14, is pregnant.
WOODLAND, Calif., May 22 (UPI) -- A California defendant in a hearing on an assault charge said the words he hurled at the gay man he allegedly beat up did not make the beating a hate crime.
HARTFORD, Conn., May 22 (UPI) -- Connecticut is finalizing legislation to withhold records related to the investigation of the Newtown school massacre, a state attorney's email indicated.
MOORE, Okla., May 22 (UPI) -- Cleanup crews fanned out Wednesday across Moore, Okla., devastated by a massive tornado that killed at least 24 people two days earlier.
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