SACRAMENTO, July 10 (UPI) -- Several major U.S. banks said Friday would be the last day they would honor IOUs issued by the state of California.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 10 (UPI) -- Treating strokes in U.S. children annually costs at least $42 million, the first-ever cost analysis of pediatric stroke said.
MOORESTOWN, Pa., July 10 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration is checking a Pennsylvania factory following the death of a worker who fell into a vat of boiling chocolate.
DETROIT, July 10 (UPI) -- One effect of the economic downturn in Michigan has produced more breeding grounds for mosquitoes in cities like Detroit, an entomologist says.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 10 (UPI) -- A Swedish Saab dealer says an iPod nano is a prime suspect in a fire that engulfed a parked car in the western part of the country.
MIAMI, July 10 (UPI) -- The head of the Miami-Dade school district says he wants to work with government and law enforcement to combat the practice that teenagers call "sexting."
OSTERFARNEBO, Sweden, July 10 (UPI) -- Residents of a rural district in eastern Sweden said pesticide rules adopted to protect nearby nature reserves have brought swarms of mosquitoes to their homes.
WATERLOO, Ill., July 10 (UPI) -- An Illinois insurance agent said his serial-stowaway cat has ridden more than 300 miles under the hood of his car.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 10 (UPI) -- Residents of Kingston, Jamaica, say the killing of a New Zealander in a robbery has them on edge.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 10 (UPI) -- One in three women shown to have breast cancer undergo unnecessary surgery and chemotherapy, scientists in Europe said.
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif., July 10 (UPI) -- The city of Laguna Niguel, Calif., says it is "saying 'NO' to crack" by discouraging participation in an event known as "Moon Over Amtrak."
LONDON, July 10 (UPI) -- A British science teacher has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an alleged classroom assault on a 14-year-old boy, police say.
OTTAWA, July 10 (UPI) -- Canada's international trade figures dropped in May, increasing its world trade deficit to $1.4 billion from $389 million, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 10 (UPI) -- The Trans-Alaska oil pipeline system is set to pass a volume milestone this summer as plans commence to ease its reliance on North Slope oil reserves.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Visitors to the 2009 National Barbie Doll Collectors Convention in Washington said a rift has formed among doll fans surrounding a key accessory: the box.
ANKARA, Turkey, July 10 (UPI) -- Ankara said it has extended invitations to key Caspian gas suppliers in preparation for the signing of an intergovernmental agreement on the Nabucco pipeline.
KIEV, Ukraine, July 10 (UPI) -- TNK-BP closed the necessary transactions to take near-complete control over the shares in the Lisichansk refinery, a top producing refinery in Ukraine.
NEW YORK, July 10 (UPI) -- General Motors Corp. vowed it would focus on customers after selling a majority of the company to the U.S. government Friday morning.
L'AQUILA, Italy, July 10 (UPI) -- Marco Bersani of the Attac Italy anti-globalization activist group says the concluding G8 summit in the Italian city of L'Aquila will face a protest.