WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Almost 5,000 Americans die each year on streets engineered for fast cars that make little or no provision for pedestrians or bicyclers, a lobbying group said.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The entire Los Angeles Dodgers coaching staff will be back for the 2010 season, the team announced Monday.
LONDON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- British scientists say an Internet social networking tool meant to advance the science of natural history has generated responses from 1,100 registered users.
FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Intelligence agencies intercepted communications between the man accused of the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre and a radical imam, officials said Monday.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has signed up to make a cameo appearance on the military investigative drama series "NCIS," CBS announced Monday.
PARIS, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Russian Marat Safin, playing in his last event on the world tour, was a first-round winner Monday in the Paribas Masters in Paris.
CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Two Canadians who just completed a trip around the world on two wheels said they "had some major mishaps" but "every day was an adventure."
BOLTON, England, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A group of children as young as 6 threatened to shoot English paramedics, keeping them from transporting a burned toddler to a hospital, authorities said.
TORONTO, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A Canadian Indian tribe has made a groundbreaking proposal to the national government to exchange tribal status for resources, officials say.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- An eighth former U.S. State Department employee pleaded guilty Monday to illegally accessing confidential passport files, the Justice Department said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Federal Reserve Board said Monday nine of the 10 U.S. bank holding companies needing to raise capital have met or exceeded their required capital buffers.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A semi-trailer that plunged off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Monday was speeding, authorities said.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- David Elson has been fired as coach of the Western Kentucky University football team, which has lost 17 consecutive games.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Venezuela and Iran are considering a wide-ranging energy cooperation deal that will give Iran a sanctions-busting option to import up to 20,000 barrels a day of gasoline from this Latin American country.
MONTREL, Quebec, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The preliminary hearing of a Montreal woman accused of killing her two young children has been delayed a second time, police say.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- International parental child abduction must be broached when President Barack Obama meets with Japanese leaders, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators said.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Some elevated prostate-specific antigen levels in men may be caused by a hormone normally occurring in the body, U.S. researchers said.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A late season storm, Ida, pushed oil markets higher during the weekend with prices topping $79 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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