NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- ABC says its U.S. evening news broadcast will be called "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer," starting Monday.
DETROIT, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Three Detroit-area men have pleaded guilty in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said Friday.
LONDON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Heavy snows produced travel chaos in Britain Friday, cutting power, forcing flight cancellations and stranding motorists, officials said.
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.