SWANSEA, Wales, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A Welsh man accused of slaying his wife strangled the woman because he was having a dream about fighting a burglar, his attorneys said.
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Christmas tree growers in Wisconsin are urging people to give up their artificial trees in exchange for donations toward buying real trees for U.S. troops.
CHICAGO, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago has been promoted to the world's sixth-tallest building, an international arbiter of building heights says.
KITTANNING, Pa., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Neighbors of a Pennsylvania man contracted to remove dead deer from roads in the southern part of the state are raising a stink about the stench.
BEDFORD, Pa., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in Pennsylvania said a man accused of murdering his wife allegedly tried to reserve the cemetery plot next to her for himself.
ANAHEIM, Calif., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A California billboard company said it will remove three advertisements for medical marijuana dispensaries after complaints about school proximity.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A Danish political party named partially after a male sex organ has claimed responsibility for covering other parties' campaign posters in penis stickers.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The publishers of the New Oxford American Dictionary said in New York that the 2009 Word of the Year, "unfriend," was inspired by Facebook.
DOMMARY-BARONCOURT, France, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A French woman said she was granted a wedding to her fiance nearly a year after his death in a car collision.
GERMANTOWN, Tenn., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Police in Tennessee said they arrested two men less than a minute after receiving a 911 call about a fast-food restaurant robbery.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A vacant 200-year-old Canadian church in west-central Nova Scotia is being dismantled and shipped to Louisiana to replace one lost to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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FARSTA, Sweden, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A Swedish man fooled bank employees into giving him almost $2 million and then presented them with a cream pie as thanks for their fine service, officials said.
LANDSKRONA, Sweden, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A town in southern Sweden will allow only one "immigrant wedding" per month to be celebrated in its community center, a local politician said.
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WAUKEGAN, Ill., Nov. 16 (UPI) -- An Illinois attorney said a family legend led to the discovery of the phrase "Thank God we have a government" inside of President Abraham Lincoln's watch.
CHICAGO, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma man said he commutes 1,680 miles a week to take an improv comedy class at the famous Chicago school that trained his hero.
SAINT PETER PORT, Guernsey, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- British officials in the Bailiwick of Guernsey said the Policy Council only became involved in World War I memorial decisions at the request of a judge.
BEAVERTON, Ore., Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A 96-year-old photographer in Oregon said he decided to plan and hold his own wake prior to his death so he could attend the event.
ATLANTA, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Atlanta-area residents who claim to be real-life vampires say don't have much sympathy for glamorous movie and TV bloodsuckers.
DANVERS, Mass., Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Officials at a Massachusetts high school that banned the word "meep" have been receiving e-mailed complaints about the move, police said.
