MERILLVILLE, Ind., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An Indiana woman discovered five days before Christmas that the company that pays her pension believed she had been dead for a month.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A British survey finds that men have far more time to sleep, play computer games, spend time with friends and watch television than women.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A college student jailed for three weeks after she was caught with condoms filled with flour has sued the Philadelphia police.
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A free counseling hotline has been established to help reduce the holiday stress of unsightly spills and stains on clothes, tablecloths and napkins.
MISSOULA, Mont., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Montana firefighter who rescued a calico cat trapped in a cage on chunk of ice in the Clark Fork River has adopted the cat and named her Lucky.
TENERIFE, Spain, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A drunken, abusive passenger on a flight to Tenerife spent 36 hours cast away on a tiny Atlantic island after the airline dumped him.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Paw Paw, Mich., man's idea to free his car mired in mud went slightly awry when the driverless vehicle careened across a field at 100 mph.
VIENNA, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A series of posters marking the Austrian republic's 60th anniversary showing naked models masked as world leaders has created a political embarrassment.
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BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A test drive of a used car in Washington state got a little cold and wet after the prospective buyer crashed it into a pool.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A passenger who brought a video game console as a carry-on item prompted a mass evacuation of a terminal in the MacArthur Airport in Long Island, N.Y.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A New York bus driver says the Christmas decorations that cost him his gig with Golden Touch Transportation still will be up for Three Kings Day Jan. 6.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Nice guys, and gals for that matter, are more likely to keep their job and likeability can even trump incompetence, a report said.
VERO BEACH, Fla., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A disgruntled Florida foot doctor who thought a patient had been rude refunded the man's insurance claim with 29,000 pennies.
NEWCHURCH, England, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The parents of a missing 3-month-old penguin in a British zoo have stopped grieving and are courting again in preparation to replace him.
CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. residents have gotten more miserable, a University of Chicago poll concludes, with 92 percent reporting problems with illness and affording medical care.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A jockey in Ireland has been suspended for mistakenly standing up in the stirrups and celebrating his win 80 yards short of the finish line.
