LONDON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Rembrandt painting sold last week for $33.2 million was bought by a representative for Las Vegas casino owner Stephen A. Wynn, sources say.
SPRING VALLEY, Wis., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Experts said animal tracks discovered in Wisconsin could belong to a cougar seen wandering recently in Minnesota.
DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Police in Iowa said they are on the lookout for a man with giant screwdrivers believed to be behind a number of vending machine thefts.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A House ethics panel Friday dropped its probe of Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., and two other members of the defense spending panel Murtha leads, aides said.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Pittsburgh men's basketball Coach Jamie Dixon says it would be a mistake for the school to leave the Big East Conference for the Big Ten.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- World leaders took a "meaningful and unprecedented" step in Denmark Friday by striking a voluntary agreement to fight global warming, U.S. President Obama said.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Environmentalists lashed out Friday at the agreement on climate change announced at the international conference on global warming in Copenhagen.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Choreographer Shane Sparks was arrested Friday and charged with eight counts of felony child molestation, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman said.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Parliament has voted unanimously to ban cluster munitions, putting the country among a growing list of nations ratifying an anti-bomb convention.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An American drew a 366-day prison term Friday for scheming to obtain kickbacks on government contracts in Afghanistan, the Justice Department said.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said it ordered the state Capitol to shut down its cafeteria due to a rodent infestation and other violations.
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ATLANTA, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Eleven states report widespread influenza activity, down from 14 states a week earlier, U.S. health officials said Friday.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices topped $73 per barrel Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange on lower supplies and demand-punching winter weather.
CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Grain futures closed mixed on the Chicago Board of Trade Friday with equities trading modestly higher and oil prices up during a winter chill.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Austin-Round Rock area in Texas is the safest big city region in the United States, Farmers Insurance Group of Companies said Thursday.
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A study tracking 3,000 orphans in five Asian and African countries has found those in orphanages do as well as those in community settings.
Church's controversial billboard defaced ... Web site lists 'great' ice festivals ... Swede lawmaker apologizes for drunken antics ... Bank sorry for giving porn link to kids ... UPI Quirks in the News.
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