Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The seventh member of a Verbena, Ala., family was sentenced for taking part in what the Justice Department calls an "expansive" cockfighting operation.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A school in Queensland, Australia, said a book recently returned to its library was found to be nearly 120 years overdue.

Three people in central Washington were sent to local hospitals Wednesday morning after multiple collisions involving at least 30 vehicles near the town of Kittitas.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Emergency responders and farm workers in Montana teamed up to rescue four horses that fell through the ice of a frozen pond.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Two teens have been arrested in a Nov. 26 shooting in the city's Atlantic Station commercial district that killed two and wounded four others, Atlanta Police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. said Wednesday.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A Michigan man used his $10 winnings from a scratch-off lottery ticket to buy another ticket in the same game and won a $500,000 jackpot.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Apple has added end-to-end encryption to several apps, including iCloud backup. The company says the new measures are in response to increased security breaches in the tech industry.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A Virginia man loaded his four children into a stroller and ran a 10k race in 48 minutes and 1 second, earning a Guinness World Record.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The Biden-Harris administration Wednesday announced the first federal building standards designed to reduce energy use while electrifying equipment and appliances in 30% of federal building space by 2030.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Power is coming back on across Moore County, N.C., and officials expect the mass outage to be resolved by the end of the night on Wednesday.