LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The wife of guitarist Roderick Poole called her husband a champion of the underdog during the Los Angeles sentencing of his killer.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 12 (UPI) -- A New Haven, Conn., eighth-grader was suspended from school and stripped of his class vice president title for buying a bag of Skittles at school.

AURORA, Ill., June 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. flag that once flew at a Pentagon base in Iraq has been stolen from the suburban Chicago church it was given to in December.

NAPLES, Italy, March 7 (UPI) -- U.S. and Italian scientists are warning the next eruption of Mount Vesuvius might be significantly more deadly than Italian authorities expect.

DENVER, May 19 (UPI) -- A rich, pro-choice donor to a Colorado Springs Catholic church is taking on his bishop over his decision to withhold Mass from abortion rights advocates.

DENVER, May 14 (UPI) -- A Colorado Catholic bishop has refused communion to those who support candidates backing abortion rights, stem-cell research, euthanasia or gay marriage.