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NORRISTOWN, Pa., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A brother and sister in the Philadelphia suburbs have been charged with illegally tracking their father's movements before he was killed in January.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, took aim at Gov. Rick Perry, filing Thursday to create an exploratory committee for a possible run against him in 2010.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- George W. Bush kicked off his last Christmas season as president of the United States by lighting the national Christmas tree in Washington Thursday.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A Metrolink train conductor who survived a September train crash near Los Angeles says the commuter train had a green light before the crash, his lawyers said.

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LONDON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The British Conservative Party, in another sign of hard times all around, is laying off 10 percent of the staff at its headquarters.

DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Police in Durham, N.C., were searching for three people who kidnapped a Bank of America branch manager and his 13-year-old daughter Thursday, officials said.

LEEDS, England, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A mother of seven in northern England was convicted Thursday of faking the kidnapping of her 9-year-old daughter in hopes of collecting a reward.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A top Democrat in Congress wants U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey to clarify a statement on officials who signed off on torture and surveillance policies.

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Democratic nominee Al Franken Thursday called for an "intensive search" for missing ballots, as the recount in the Minnesota Senate race neared its end.

DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Congress has until the end of 2009 to pass healthcare reform, or lose its opportunity until after the 2010 election, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa., said.

COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The Columbia, S.C., City Council has closed a legal loophole that kept officials from prosecuting people for having sex in parks, officials said.

DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Former Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong lost his bid Thursday to keep his case in U.S. bankruptcy court.

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Lawyers for polygamy sect leader Warren Jeffs have appealed their client's convictions of being an accomplice to rape.

MANCHESTER, England, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- An early winter storm choked roads Thursday in northern England and southern Scotland and led to the closing of several hundred schools.

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A 20-year-old woman in Oregon who set a tow truck on fire has been sentenced to two years' probation.

LONDON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A fungicide used in leather furniture made in China has been linked to the deaths of three people in France and Britain.

OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly's viewers tied up phone lines in the Washington governor's office Thursday with calls complaining about a holiday display.

DAKAR, Senegal, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Mauritania security forces routinely torture detainees with electric shocks, burnings, beatings and sexual violence, an international rights group said.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Two Britons who had sex on a United Arab Emirates beach are appealing their deportation and suing newspapers for defamation, their lawyer said Thursday.