HOUSTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Plaintiffs' attorneys may rethink their strategy after drug maker Warner-Lambert's victory in the first lawsuit to go to trial over Rezulin, a drug once prescri
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Episcopal officials do not have a dollar figure on the damage caused by a five-alarm fire to the St. John the Divine Church in Upper Manhattan Tuesday. The fire
HOUSTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Plaintiffs' attorneys may rethink their strategy after drug maker Warner-Lambert's victory in the first lawsuit to go to trial over Rezulin, a drug once prescri
GRAMERCY, La., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- In the Cajun country of southern Louisiana, bonfires are being prepared for a spectacular Christmas Eve display that lights up the sky along the Mississippi Riv
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- An effort to decontaminate part of the Hart Senate Office Building was called off Monday morning after a mechanical failure frustrated efforts to pump enough ch
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The former Los Angeles police officer whose revelations of perjury and corruption triggered the Rampart scandal, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to feder
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The White House on Monday recanted its earlier comments that President George W. Bush could act unilaterally and bypass Congress to extend unemployment benefits to workers affected by the Sept. 11 attacks.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Although Osama bin Laden, the prize of the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, remained elusive as fighting in and around Tora Bora's White Mountains wou
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Following up on a physical examination he had in August, President Bush had four benign skin lesions removed from his cheeks, forehead and temple on Friday, acc
MIAMI, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- As reports of more violence and unrest in Haiti reached Miami Monday, the United States rushed to send more than 160 Haitians back to the nation they were so de
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The UPI Think Tank Wrap-Up is a daily digest covering brief opinion pieces, reactions to recent news events, and position statements released by various think t
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Immigrants have been sending less money to their families in Latin America since Sept. 11 due to the economic downturn in the United States that accelerated fol
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Despite a holiday season filled with horrible travel conditions, anthrax-laced offices and an increasingly bitter debate over the slumping economy, Congress can
DETROIT, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- An American Civil Liberties Union suit Monday questioned the constitutionality of police use of sting operations to crack down on homosexual liaisons.
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A federal judge Monday ordered the Michigan High School Athletic Association to change the calendar for girls' sports because the current calendar is discrimina
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Nearly a dozen airliners were either off course or out of communication with air traffic controllers during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States,
Fans react and hold up signs as floats carrying the New York Giants rides down the Canyon of Heroes for the Giants victory ticker tape parade 2 days after the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI in New York City on February 7, 2012 . UPI /John Angelillo
