PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Construction workers found human bones under the basement floor in a Philadelphia rowhouse, police said.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- More than 29 years after Turkey's last coup, 39 of 1,223 defendants were found guilty Tuesday of trying to topple the government.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted handily Tuesday in favor of giving President Barack Obama a bigger sanctions stick to hold over Iran.

SEATTLE, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- New York police officers in Seattle for a memorial for four fallen comrades said they lost uniforms and other items when their rental car was burglarized.

KELSO, Wash., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A Washington state man used a bow and arrow to shoot a man who allegedly was trying to burglarize a vacant home, police said.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The NAACP rebuked a North Carolina homeowners association for posting an allegedly discriminatory deed restriction on its Web site, community officials said.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. survey suggests 15 percent of teens who own cellphones have received text messages containing nude or nearly nude images of someone they know.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Baghdad must move its investigation into a string of high-profile attacks out of the hands of the prime minister, Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi said.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Persistent unemployment and growing skepticism about healthcare reform sent President Obama's key approval ratings to 50 percent or lower, a poll indicates.

HOLLY GROVE, Va., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A Virginia man has been sentenced to life in prison for ending an argument with his wife over Christmas lights last winter by killing her, court records show.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- More than 100 people were charged in a 162-count indictment with mail fraud and conspiracy, the U.S. attorney for Puerto Rico said Tuesday.

LEICESTER, England, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A British man who ripped a Muslim woman's headscarf off while he was drunk has been ordered to pay her compensation.

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The husband of a missing Utah woman has retained a lawyer and refused further interviews with investigators, police said Tuesday.

VILNIUS, Lithuania, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Lithuania's intelligence chief has resigned following an ABC News report the CIA ran a secret prison for al-Qaida suspects in the country, the broadcaster said.

AMHERST, Mass., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- John Demjanjuk, an elderly Cleveland-area man accused of Nazi war crimes, is healthier than he appears, a law professor who observed his trial in Germany says.