ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Florida report lists St. Petersburg as the top city in the state for hate crimes in 2004, a statistic city officials say stems from one confrontation.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- While many U.S. citizens buy drugs over the Internet and on occasional trips to Canada, state-run pill plans reportedly are slow to catch on.
DENVER, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- With a year of high-profile problems in meeting needs from natural disasters, emergency planning tops the list of issues for U.S. state legislatures in 2006.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Seasoned DNA experts who worked on identifying the dead in the Balkans have agreed to help Louisiana ID Hurricane Katrina victims.
OSLO, Norway, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Norwegian police say a man found dead on an Oslo quay tried to recruit participants for terrorist activities but his death was unrelated.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Authorities are putting together the pieces of the lobbying web of Jack Abramoff, and the resulting investigation could brew into a wide Washington scandal.
KIRKUK, Iraq, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Thousands of Iraqi Kurds are moving into the oil-rich area around the city of Kirkuk, creating what one politician called an ethnic "time bomb."
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An online poll published Thursday shows 49 percent of U.S. voters believe President George Bush has authority to order wiretaps without court approval.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The British government in 1975 considered treating Saddam Hussein for his bad back as a way to improve relations with him, newly disclosed documents show.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- EU officials are concerned that U.S. sanctions against companies selling Iran weapons are hobbling a unified effort to end a nuclear standoff.
SANAA, Yemen, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A landslide Thursday near a mountain village in Yemen, southwest of the capital Sanaa, killed at least 30 people while many others were reported missing.
RAFAH, Gaza, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Palestinian security forces were reported negotiating with the kidnappers of three Britons taken in the southern Gaza Strip.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Alabama may soon require motorists to take drivers' license exams only in English instead of the current practice of offering other languages.
MACON, Miss., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department is suing a Mississippi county Democratic Party chairman for discriminating against white voters.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- After months of setbacks fueled by political missteps, U.S. President George Bush was able regain public support with tactics including reassurances on Iraq.
QUETTA, Pakistan, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A fugitive senior Taliban commander was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia by a Pakistan court on Thursday for attempted murder.
TULKARM, West Bank, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Palestinian suicide bomber killed two Palestinians and an Israeli soldier at a West Bank checkpoint, the Israeli army says.
PATCHOGUE, N.Y., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Patchogue, N.Y., man is charged with two counts of child endangerment after police discovered his 2-year-old nephew drunk while he slept.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- 'Tis the time of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, but observing it and spelling it can be two different things.
Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler
