Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Elementary school teachers in Spring, Texas, have been placed on administrative leave after allegedly giving students as young as 4 years old sleep aides in the classroom, the school district announced.

Oct. 10 (UPI) -- One person has died and 12 others remained trapped 1,000 feet below the surface Thursday following an equipment malfunction at a mining tourism site near Colorado Springs, Colo., local authorities said.

Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Guitar Player, the world's most iconic magazine devoted to all aspects of the guitar and published consecutively for close to six decades, is shuttering its print edition.

Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Two businessmen have pleaded guilty to diverting $12 million dollars away from an Air Force contract to pay for personal and unrelated business expenses, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

Oct. 10 (UPI) -- TD Bank, the 10th largest bank in the United States, has agreed to pay penalties of more than $3 billion to settle charges of bank secrecy violations and money laundering, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A 59-year old man from Schenectady, N.Y. was attacked and killed by multiple dogs in Albany, police announced Thursday. 

Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The Justice Department said Thursday that a New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime in the April break-in and property destruction at the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.

Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Bryan Kohberger's murder trial in the deaths of four University of Idaho students was delayed to July 30, 2025.  Judge Steven Hippler's Wednesday scheduling order changed the previous June 2 start date.

Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Ethel Kennedy, the widow of presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and sister-in-law to former President John F. Kennedy, died on Thursday of complications from a stroke she suffered last week.

Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A large snake was "cited for trespassing" in Colorado when it was found brazenly slithering through a resident's home.