May 17 (UPI) -- A grocery store in Washington has claim to the title of the state's luckiest store after selling three big prize-winning lottery tickets in a single week.

Swarms of crickets are taking over towns in the West. Some roads in Idaho have been so covered with crickets that maintenance crews had to bring in a tractor to clear them off.

May 17 (UPI) -- On Friday the U.S. Department of Transportation announced $63 million in local road safety grants for 99 communities. The money is from the Biden administration's bipartisan infrastructure law.

May 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in Tokyo are struggling to deal with problems caused by an especially wily invasive species: North American raccoons.

May 17 (UPI) -- A New Mexico judge Friday is hearing actor Alec Baldwin's motion to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charge in the 2021 fatal shooting on the "Rust" film set.

May 17 (UPI) -- Workers at Mercedes-Benz's automotive plants near Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Friday voted against joining the United Auto Workers union.

May 17 (UPI) -- Lawyer and former Trump advisor John Eastman Friday pleaded not guilty to several Arizona felonies charging conspiracy and forgeries in the 2020 pro-Trump fake electors scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election r

May 17 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden on Friday signed a memorandum updating United States policy on the Antarctic region in an effort to protect it from the effects of climate change.

May 17 (UPI) -- Police on Friday morning took into custody a woman who led officers on a wrong-way chase on a Southern California freeway.

May 17 (UPI) -- Attorneys for Hunter Biden have asked a California judge to push the date for his upcoming tax trial to September or later.