BOSTON, N.Y., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A 25-year-old Boston-area man faces kidnapping charges for removing his father's feeding tube and taking him from a nursing home. Le Xiong was arrested at Logan International Airport about 45 minutes before he and his father, Ping Xiong, were to board a f
BOSTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A Boston-area professor is recovering from a stabbing after a student allegedly confronted her at her home over a failing grade in a hematology class.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A world-class snowboarder, who struck his head 10 years ago and suffered a seizure, had a seizure while surfing the tall waves of the California coast. Michael Meyers, 36, was stricken Friday while waiting to ride a wave and fell into the water, according
PHUKET, Thailand, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Britain's ambassador to Thailand David Fall read a poem and a foreign office minister laid a wreath Saturday in memory of the victims of last year's tsunami. At least 129 Britons died when killer waves battered Thailand. Six Britons are still missing, the
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Police, public health officials and parents in several California cities want to fine adults $1,000 for hosting teen parties where alcohol is permitted.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier was among a dozen police, troops, government employees and civilians killed in Iraq as U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Saturday. CNN said a soldier with the 205th Military Brigade died after a rocket-propelled grenade explode
NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The New York City Halloween attacker kept a diary during the seven weeks he was a fugitive and police say he kept close watch on the media. Peter Braunstein has been indicted for allegedly posing as a firefighter on Halloween, drugging a woman with chloro
FORT LEE, N.J., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A New Jersey lawyer says two clients who got bone and tissue transplants from alleged illicitly harvested cadavers both contracted hepatitis.
LONG BEACH, Calif., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Long Beach, Calif., site of one of the country's leading dog shows, is contemplating ending its ban on dog breeding.
CAIRO, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The United States Saturday demanded that Egypt free an opposition politician who was sentenced to five years in prison for fraud.
NDJAMENA, Chad, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Chad has accused neighboring Sudan of supporting a rebel attack on the town of Adre and says that "a state of war" exists.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said the Bandara Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia, does not meet security standards.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The defense authorization bill that passed Congress this week protects detainees from torture and denies them access to the federal courts.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- An anonymous Republican senator has put a hold on an intelligence spending bill to block two Democratic amendments, the New York Times reports.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Security Agency has been involved in "data mining" of telephone calls and other communications, the New York Times reports.
FAIRFAX, Va., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A zoning dispute between the city of Fairfax, Va., and the One God Ministry has sparked an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The FBI is investigating how an Indian tribe in Massachusetts has come close to federal recognition with an apparent assist from lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
