COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Police on Monday were seeking vandals who ransacked an Islamic Center during the weekend, breaking water pipes and scattering copies of the Koran throughout the
CHICAGO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A 41-year-old woman charged with felony neglect was held in lieu of $300,000 bail Monday after her mother died after she was found in a squalid South Side apart
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Capital Comment -- -- News notes, political rumors and important events that shape politics and public policy in Washington and the world from United Press Inte
COLUMBUS, Afghanistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Police on Monday were seeking vandals who ransacked an Islamic Center during the weekend, breaking water pipes and scattering copies of the Koran throughout the
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- O.J. Simpson's hip-hop show in Connecticut Sunday night was a flop. The Hartford Courant reported Monday that while some 600 had been expected for the show at Stage East in East Hartford, fewer than 100 bought tickets, and many left before the former foot
BOSTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The shoe-bomb suspect who allegedly tried to blow up an American Airlines jetliner over the Atlantic has been linked by British intelligence to an indicted co-conspirator in the Sept. 11 attacks, according to media reports Monday. Islamic convert Richard
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- O.J. Simpson's hip-hop show in Connecticut Sunday night was a flop. The Hartford Courant reported Monday that while some 600 had been expected for the show at Stage East in East Hartford, fewer than 100 bought tickets, and many left before the former foot
BOSTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The shoe-bomb suspect who allegedly tried to blow up an American Airlines jetliner over the Atlantic has been linked by British intelligence to an indicted co-conspirator in the Sept. 11 attacks, according to media reports Monday. Islamic convert Richard
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Defenseman Teppo Numminen scored the go-ahead goal with 6:54 remaining Sunday night as the Phoenix Coyotes snapped a nine-game road winless streak with a 4-2 vi
HONOLULU, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Nearly 4,000 travelers at Honolulu International Airport were delayed for some two hours Sunday after a passenger picked up a suspicious carry-on bag at a secur
NEWPORT, Ore., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Michigan man wanted for allegedly murdering his wife and three small children and throwing them from shore into two separate coastal inlets near Waldport, a
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The first of four viewing platforms opened to the general public on Sunday, giving visitors an unrestricted view of the devastation and the ongoing recovery eff
PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Parade watchers who venture to Southern California for the 2002 Tournament of Roses parade on Tuesday can expect tighter security as organizers try to uphold th
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Multiculturalism is a word of great flexibility. In social life it often means no more than a benignly favorable attitude to the ethnic and cultural heritage of
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- To properly predict where the muddled Middle East peace process might go in the next year, one would need to have the combined knowledge of Aladdin's genie, as
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Green is the color of Islam. Will there be a red, white and blue version of it as well? "This is the best country to bring up a family," says Abdulwahab Alkebsi
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- At the start of 2002, Russia is the inscrutable sphinx of the great powers, facing both east and west, confronting the prospects of both prosperity and poverty,
LONDON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Bush administration, flush from its triumph in the brisk 9-week war against the Taliban and still outraged by the Sept. 11 attacks, is in no mood to pay muc
A one-of-a-kind 8 x 4 foot portrait of Marilyn Monroe made from 2,100 bite sized stuffed cupcakes stands in the lobby next to her wax figure on the eve of Marilyn Monroe's 86th birthday at Madame Tussauds in New York City on May 31, 2012. UPI/John Angelillo
