FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Immigration experts are at odds on how quickly Hispanic immigrants are blending into U.S. society and whether the rate of assimilation even matters.

CHICAGO, May 29 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say the absence of a gene know as sphinx produces increased male-male courtship in the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

LOS ANGELES, July 27 (UPI) -- Johnny Depp said he hopes to trade pirate's garb for medieval clothing of undead Barnabas Collins in Hollywood's take on the campy serial "Dark Shadows."

EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 28 (UPI) -- A Scottish man who confessed to an armed robbery when he was hospitalized after a suicide attempt has been sentenced to two years in prison.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine official has said surgery to open the sinuses has changed to become less painful and allow for faster healing.

NEW YORK, March 29 (UPI) -- The stop-snitching movement has spread across the United States, worrying police and prosecutors who often use informants to win convictions, a report said.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A Tennessee man is facing reckless endangerment charges for allegedly leafing through pornographic magazines while driving.

Internet-based hacker-activists -- known as hacktivists -- seem to be behind the mass e-mailing this week of the MyDoom worm, which has commandeered consumers' computers around the globe to serve as a staging area for another, more potent attack on their

SEATTLE, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The Minnesota teen arrested for altering the "Blaster" worm was not the author of the "Blaster" worm or the "SoBig" virus attack.