WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she meant no disrespect by blacking out the name of Sen. John, R-Ariz., from a sun visor she wore on vacation in Hawaii.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan's defense minister was stopped from leaving on an official China trip because of a court ruling striking down an amnesty protection to officials.
BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Swiss company geologist pleaded not guilty to knowingly causing $8.7 million in damage after his pioneering geothermal project caused earthquakes.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Three explosions and a fire gutted a building at a natural gas plant in southern Alaska early Thursday, authorities said.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Florida police chief says he was stunned when a lawyer friend of his was charged by U.S. authorities with running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Some mandatory furloughs at reduced pay for California corrections officers ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are illegal, a court ruled Thursday.
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LONDON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Turkish emigre living in Britain has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for drugging and torturing his teen daughter before she died in an "honor killing."
WARREN, Ohio, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Convicted ex-congressman James A. Traficant Jr. says he may run for Congress again, possibly in Ohio or Pennsylvania.
DENVER, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- An orphaned California sea lion missing its rear flippers is recovering at the Denver zoo after being rescued along the California coast, authorities say.
MIAMI, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The lawyer for the Florida teens accused in the alcohol-fueled fire attack on Michael Brewer says he wants to see text messages possibly sent by a witness.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Changes to users' privacy settings at popular social networking site Facebook violate consumer protection laws, a complaint filed with federal regulators says.
NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A New York crime lab was so poorly run and forensic work so shoddy it may have compromised almost 100 of the cases it handled, officials say.
RAMSEY, N.J., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Florida man was convicted Thursday of murdering his former son-in-law, who was in a child-custody dispute with the killer's daughter, authorities said.
HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Connecticut has rejected a convicted killer's motion to serve his prison sentence in Italy.
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