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TOKYO, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The Japanese foreign ministry said Friday North Korea will suspend its reinvestigation of abducted Japanese nationals until Tokyo has a new prime minister.

PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in Oregon say they will not seek criminal charges against a convicted rapist who allegedly threatened one of his victims.

LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Two Kentucky lawyers who allegedly defrauded clients in a settlement over the diet drug phen-fen face new federal charges of wire fraud.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Officials at a Christian college in San Diego say they are investigating a case of alleged hazing in which freshmen were forced to swim naked in the Pacific.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A judge in Los Angeles was asked to dismiss charges against a woman who allegedly harassed a girl through an online imposture until the girl committed suicide.

MIAMI, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Emergency agencies from South Carolina to the Maritime Provinces of Canada were braced for Tropical Storm Hanna early Friday as it raced northwest.

BOSTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Investigators marked James "Whitey" Bulger's 79th birthday by releasing age-enhanced photos and doubling a reward for information on the Boston crime boss.

MIAMI, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. forecasters called Hurricane Ike "extremely dangerous" as it tracked toward the Southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.

BEIJING, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- An official investigation in China has shown some of the schools that collapsed in the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan province may have been poorly constructed.

MIAMI, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Josephine was maintaining its strength over the central Atlantic Ocean, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The alleged head of a Milwaukee criminal gang nicknamed "The Body Snatchers" has been sentenced to two life terms for killing two drug dealers.

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Following are remarks delivered Thursday by presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A lot of U.S. residents move but most do not move very far, the U.S. Census Bureau says, reporting that most movers in 2006 and 2007 stayed in the same county.

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Confetti and balloons fell from the rafters onto Republican presidential nominee John McCain Thursday at the conclusion of the party convention in St. Paul.

FOREST PARK, Ohio, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A man who allegedly told police he was "tired of hearing about your Jesus" was charged Thursday with firing 36 rounds into an Ohio church.