NASHVILLE, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Nashville is gearing up for Tuesday's presidential debate, the first ever held in Tennessee.
TORONTO, April 18 (UPI) -- The Canadian province of Ontario lifted almost all bans on clotheslines Friday in a bid to reduce the use of electric dryers, officials said.
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential dark horse Dennis Kucinich won a legal fight Monday but it remained to be seen whether he gets to debate Tuesday in Las Vegas.
DENVER, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A number of Colorado residents who prefer to dry their clothes on clotheslines are at the forefront of a growing environmental debate on the age-old practice.
AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Maine's House of Representatives has become the latest state legislature to bar cell phones and other electronic devices from official deliberations.
RALEIGH, N.C., March 8 (UPI) -- A $17.3 million study in North Carolina seeking alternatives to open-air ponds used to treat hog farm waste has ended without success.
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- North Carolina's tax on cigarettes will rise 5 cents a pack to 35 cents a pack by next July, under to an agreement reached by legislators.
SANAA, Yemen, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Yemeni legislators staged a sit-in outside parliament in Sanaa Monday to protest the suspension of the chamber's sessions.
GAZA, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Palestinian legislators Monday debated when to impose real reform following a speech by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat addressing the issue.
AUSTIN, Texas, April 14 (UPI) -- Gov. Rick Perry Monday urged legislators to "hold the line" as the Texas House began debate on a proposed $117 billion budget. The proposed budget would cut health insurance to 250,000 poor children in an effort to close a $9.9 billion budget shortfall.
