Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Sheriff's officials in Maricopa County, Ariz., rescued a man two days after he fell down a 100-foot-deep mine shift filled with rattlesnakes.

Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A 20th person died Thursday as a result of a mass shooting and explosion at a school in Crimea.

Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Canned tuna company StarKist Co. agreed Thursday to plead guilty to price fixing packaged seafood, the Justice Department said.

Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A former Navy Veteran from Utah was charged Thursday for mailing threatening letters in envelopes containing castor seeds to the White House and the Pentagon, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Physical activity could lower the high rate of death associated with frailty in older people, according to a study conducted in Spain.

Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A former FBI agent was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday for leaking classified documents to a reporter.

Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Russia and Turkey agreed Thursday to allow opposition groups more time to exit Syria's western Idlib province as they work to establish a demilitarized zone.

Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Activists covered in "bloody body paint" demonstrated topless in New York City on Thursday to protest outfitter Canada Goose over the treatment of animals.

Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed two Catholic dioceses in a probe into the child sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church of Pennsylvania.

Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Magic, the dog buried under a collapsed three-story wall of bricks in Philadelphia, was found alive in the rubble Wednesday, leaving his owner in tears.