DENVER, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- State lawmakers nationwide will have their work cut out for them when they return to work come January facing the daunting task of tackling budget deficits that total more than $17 billion. Solving the spate of budget crises topped the list of 10 legislat
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Capital Comment -- Daily news notes, political rumors and important events that shape politics and public policy in Washington and the world from United Press I
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The United States enters the third year of the Bush presidency with three major foreign policy flashpoints that will keep the White House, the country, and inde
CHICAGO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Mayor Richard M. Daley was back in his office on the fifth floor of City Hall Monday after spending Christmas weekend in the hospital with severe stomach flu.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Mayor Richard M. Daley returned to his fifth-floor City Hall office Monday after spending Christmas weekend in the hospital with severe stomach flu. Daley and h
TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A fire believed to have been started by a portable space heater swept through a small group care home in Los Angeles County, killing two of the seven elderly re
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A survivor's cell phone calls led rescuers to the site of a light plane crash in the snow-covered Colorado mountains that killed a woman and injured three men,
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Hospital officials say one of the four people injured in a Colorado mountain plane crash has died from her injuries. Two men injured in the Sunday crash are in
MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The bishop of Manchester, N.H., refused to resign in the clergy sex abuse scandal after a contentious meeting Sunday with "angry" protesters, reports said Monday. Demonstrators said Roman Catholic Bishop John B. McCormack lied about his role in supervisin
MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The bishop of Manchester, N.H., refused to resign in the clergy sex abuse scandal after a contentious meeting Sunday with "angry" protesters, reports said Monday. Demonstrators said Roman Catholic Bishop John B. McCormack lied about his role in supervisin
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The FBI said Sunday it is seeking five men of Arab origin who are believed to have entered the United States illegally last week. The agency wants to question them, but said on its Web site there is "no specific information" the five men are linked to any
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The FBI said Sunday it is seeking five men of Arab origin who are believed to have entered the United States illegally last week. The agency said it wants to question the men even though there is "no specific information" they are linked to any potential
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Religion needs to cultivate a relationship with media to get its message out in this Age of Information and to overcome mutual distrust, panelists said at a con
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Though religion reporting was generally decried as being inadequate, religion needs to cultivate a relationship with media to get its message out. That's accord
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
