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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.

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ATLANTA, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Police in Atlanta said a bank robber explained to a teller that he was behind on mortgage payments and wished the worker a "Merry Christmas."

MADISON, N.J., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- H1N1 flu is on the decline, but close to 4-in-10 U.S. children tested positive last week for the pandemic, officials of a laboratory testing company say.

WEST JORDAN, Utah, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A Utah man shot his estranged wife and two young sons in her new apartment and then took his own life after sending text messages, police said Friday.

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. markets traded only narrowly higher overall Friday, despite strong gains among blue chip financial stocks.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A draft climate change deal was struck in Denmark after U.S. and Chinese leaders agreed on monitoring developing nations' emission limit pledges, aides said.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A U.S. company working on pro-democracy issues in Cuba under a government contract has confirmed a subcontractor is being held there.

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. law enforcement officials say they are worried Mexican drug traffickers have stepped up their efforts to corrupt border police.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- More than 35 percent of Egyptians and Saudis interviewed in a recent survey considered it their duty to back regional mujahedin financially, a scholar notes.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of Vicks Dayquil Cold & Flu Liquicaps for packaging failures.

FAIRFAX, Va., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Two friends who discovered a newborn girl in front of a Virginia townhouse when they were teenagers said the girl contacted them 20 years later.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Muslim leaders in the United States say relations between the religious community and the FBI have worsened in recent months, a newspaper reported Friday.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of Home Depot dehumidifiers due to a fire hazard.