Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh entered guilty pleas to 22 financial fraud counts involving clients, his own law firm and others who trusted him over 10 years, totaling millions of dollars.

Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Road crews in Washington were left with "quite the mess to clean up" when a semi truck rolled over on Interstate 5 and spilled its load of fish across all the northbound lanes.

Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The number of people filing for unemployment benefits for the first time last week tumbled to its lowest total since January, according to new statistics released by the Labor Department on Thursday.

Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Climate Alliance Thursday announced new commitments from its bipartisan coalition of 25 governors to decarbonize by ending emissions from buildings and quadrupling heat pump installations.

Sept. 21 (UPI) -- A Georgia dentist earned a Guinness World Records title for his collection of 2,037 different toothpaste tubes, with unusual flavors including wasabi and whiskey.

Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Michigan State Police responded to an Otsego County lake where a woman became trapped inside an outhouse toilet while trying to retrieve her Apple Watch.

Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The Japanese company Toshiba is going private after a consortium tender offer of $13.5 billion took control of the company, according to a Toshiba statement Thursday.

Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Daniel Khalife, a former soldier who escaped from Britain's HMP Wandsworth prison, pleaded not guilty Thursday to escaping custody.

Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Japan's Fair Trade Commission issued a report Thursday accusing big tech companies of potentially breaking antimonopoly laws by promoting news on their platforms but not sharing the profits with content providers.

A new study quantifies exactly what wildfire smoke is doing to hard-fought gains in cleaning up the air, even in Eastern states not typically affected by wildfires.