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KEWANEE, Ill., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- An 83-year-old Missouri woman died when a small plane piloted by her husband crashed in an Illinois cornfield.

DUNEDIN, New Zealand, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Icebergs drifting northward from Antarctica could become a tourist attraction as they near New Zealand.

BOSTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Two candidates for a U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts defended Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., in his very public dispute with a Catholic bishop in Providence.

BANGKOK, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The former prime minister of Thailand, Samak Sundarevej, died at age 74 in Bangkok after a long battle with cancer, officials said.

PARIS, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pressing to re-inter the remains of Albert Camus, one of France's greatest 20th-century writers, in the Pantheon in Paris.

MIAMI, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Miami-area minister and his wife were convicted for their participation in a $7 million scheme involving money laundering and mortgage fraud.

LATTA, Okla., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Virginia man with leukemia said he may be able to arrange to have his jailed brother transferred to Maryland for a bone-marrow transplant.

MIDDLETOWN, Pa., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Conditions have returned to normal at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant after a weekend radiation incident, utility officials say.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The already strong U.S.-India ties will be strengthened by commitments made Tuesday between the countries' leaders, U.S. President Barack Obama said.

LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. census worker found dead in Kentucky tried to fake a homicide while actually taking his own life, investigators said Tuesday.

SHIPPINGPORT, Pa., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Nuclear reactor coolant leaked into a pressurized relief tank at a Pennsylvania power plant early Tuesday in an "unusual event," officials said.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Boynton Beach, Fla., nursing home allegedly tried to leave a stroke victim at a homeless shelter after her insurance ran out, shelter officials said.

HAMILTON, Ontario, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A daring midday breakout of a prisoner from a Hamilton, Ontario, hospital Tuesday triggered a manhunt for three armed and dangerous men.

GREENWICH, Conn., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- At least 10 people were injured Tuesday when a coach bus rear-ended a tractor-trailer rig in Greenwich, Conn., authorities said.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Thirteen men were charged Tuesday with participating in a fencing ring that shipped stolen goods to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, U.S. officials said.