JOLIET, Ill., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The husband of an Illinois teacher with severe asthma told the school board that not allowing his wife to wear a respiratory mask at work violates the law.

NEW YORK, July 13 (UPI) -- The New York Port Authority's former head may have broken federal securities law by giving a rosy view of the World Trade Center project, sources say.

WASHINGTON, June 7 (UPI) -- The treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee paid the mortgage on his Maryland home with stolen money, federal prosecutors said Friday.

WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- The National Republican Congressional Committee said Thursday it suspects its former treasurer may have stolen "several hundred thousand dollars."

WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) -- The FBI has begun an investigation of the longtime treasurer of the House Republican campaign committee, The Washington Post reported Friday.

BEL AIR, Calif., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Jane Wyatt, known to U.S. TV viewers as the idealized mom on "Father Knows Best," has died at her home in Bel Air, Calif., at 96.

NEW YORK, July 8 (UPI) -- Heavy-equipment operators at New York's World Trade Center reconstruction site and other projects have returned to work after a weeklong strike.

TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Kansas lawmakers want to outlaw the importation of prescription drugs, setting up a confrontation with Democrat Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who likes the idea.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Police in Huntsville, Alabama, said a mother charged with killing her three children admitted to starving her children untill they died.