ST. MARY'S CITY, Md., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Four people have been charged with a bank robbery in southern Maryland that allegedly netted them almost $170,000, $58,000 of it already spent in two weeks.

BRAZORIA, Texas, April 16 (UPI) -- A Texas state trooper said he discovered a six-foot alligator in the back of a car driven by a burglary suspect in the town of Brazoria.

BOULDER, Colo., March 24 (UPI) -- A University of Colorado student faces criminal charges after allegedly tossing a mirror out of a dorm window, injuring a man, police said.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Federal investigators have requested years of financial records from all 124 Long Island school districts and three educational cooperatives.

Close to a decade after companies like Motorola Corp., Globalstar LLC, Teledesic and other technology pioneers started touting satellite phones, they are coming into their own.

A series by UPI examining emerging wireless telecommunications technologies and markets. This week: Local phone companies may soon be relics of a bygone era, as quaint as an RCA Victrola phonograph or a Kodak "Brownie" camera.

CHENNAI, India, June 21 (UPI) -- The earth is becoming surrounded by a dangerous mass of hurling space junk, The Hindu newspaper of India reported Saturday.

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