CARY, Ill., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Illinois Conservation Police say one or more snowmobile drivers may be responsible for killing some two dozen Canada geese on the icy Fox River.
LONDON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A British company selling self-destruct text messaging says that thousands of people have signed up, from celebrities to business owners.
SANFORD, Fla., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Police in central Florida say a local man has been trying to scam restaurants by claiming that he found a hair in his food and demanding a refund.
Argentina turns Claus into tax collector... Boy gets his nose back from inside dog... 'Chute fails, pregnant woman survives... Mystery gassy geysers pop up in Oklahoma... UPI Quirks in the News.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Workers laying a new path to Ben Franklin's grave in an old Philadelphia cemetery stumbled on an old gravestone that had been buried for years.
BANGALORE, India, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Bangalore, India, may soon get the new name Bengaluru, which means "the town of boiled beans" and is closer to its original name of Benda Kaal Ooru.
BRNO, Czech Republic, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Surgeons in the Czech Republic have successfully reattached an 11-year-old boy's nose that had been bitten off and swallowed by a dog.
KINGFISHER, Okla., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Soil, water and air samples were being studied in Kingfisher, Okla., Tuesday after several mysterious gas-belching geysers suddenly appeared during the weekend.
RIVERHEAD, N.Y., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A New York man who tried to look stupid by making spelling mistakes in more than 15 bank hold-up notes has been sentenced to up to 14 years in prison.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A family erected a bloody Santa Claus display outside a New York home that has scared children and riled neighbors, The New York Post reported Tuesday.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A Missouri woman's pregnancy appears to have survived along with her after her parachute failed, and she landed face-first in an Arkansas parking lot.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- New York is the bar and bat mitzvah capital of the world, where hundreds of the Jewish coming-of-age parties routinely top $100,000 each year, a report said.
LONDON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A chain of British banks is removing clocks from its branches to reduce the amount of grumbling among customers waiting in line.
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Argentine adults are being told by jolly old St. Nick this Christmas season to pay their taxes or wind up on the naughty list, or worse, prison.
Carols have residents wishing for earplugs... One of Santa's reindeer living in Midwest... Museum to honor unlucky, dead sparrow... Ford Theatre gets Mary Lincoln's chair... The world as we know it from UPI.
LONDON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Advice to British teachers that Santa might be too scary for young children was quickly removed from a government Web site after attracting ridicule.
Museum to honor unlucky, dead sparrow... Dumpster diving soars for free air travel... Ford Theatre gets Mary Lincoln's chair... Bank has no time for whiny customers... UPI Quirks in the News.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Intended holiday cheer being spread by retailers in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., has some area residents pleading for a "Silent Night." The Flatbush Business Improvement District has installed a series of speakers that play a loop of Chris
