WELLINGTON, Fla., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Twenty deputies, two canine units and a police helicopter were summoned to a mall in Florida to arrest a family in a case that began with baggy jeans.
YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Some residents of Yellowknife, in the Canadian Northwest Territories, are worried about the future of 20 shacks that once housed the town's pioneers.
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been spotted carrying a new cell phone, apparently dedicated to calls from his new girlfriend.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Josh Carter scored 20 points Saturday to lead the 11th-ranked Texas A&M Aggies to an 83-54 victory over the Florida A&M Rattlers.
KIRUNA, Sweden, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Richard Branson's next venture, Virgin Galactic, plans to offer flights into the northern lights from a spaceport in northern Sweden.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- New York's "Good Riddance Day" drew scores of people eager for a fresh start through the use of an industrial-size shredder.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Playing with toy guns can help young boys perform better academically, the British Department for Children, Schools and Families contends.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles Police Department teamed up with a local animal welfare group to use colonies of feral cats to control rodent populations.
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Vatican is denying reports it plans to install more exorcists around the world so possessed people can get help quickly.
BOSTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A man waiting for a heart transplant at Boston's Tufts-New England Medical Center is planning to get married at the hospital this weekend.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Police in Alaska, who thought they were in hot pursuit of a robbery suspect, ended up charging their quarry with drug possession and reckless driving.
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A Christmas brawl at the most remote place on earth, Scott-Amundsen Station at the South Pole, left one man with a broken jaw.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. Web site said the "Bush Out of Office Countdown 2008" desk calendar has become their second-most popular humor calendar.
DUNBAR, S.C., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A Dunbar, S.C., woman who allegedly wiped her nose on a police corporal's shirt has been charged with battery on a police officer.
MINNEAPOLIS , Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Minneapolis has been named "America's Most Literate City," ousting Seattle from its two-year run at the top of the best-read city list.
WHITTLE-LE-WOODS, England, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A Whittle-le-Woods, England, man was fined $60 by a police officer after he left his car unattended while it was running to defrost the windows.
A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic
