NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Civil rights movement-era singer Odetta died of heart disease Tuesday in New York, her manager said. She was 77.

TORONTO, March 26 (UPI) -- A suspended Toronto-area bus driver has been reinstated and allowed to wear his Muslim cap on the job, transit officials said.

THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS Secretary of State Colin Powell will not go empty-handed to Jerusalem this week for his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ...

ER One-third of American hospitals regularly divert ambulances to other facilities because of overstressed emergency rooms.

SAN ANTONIO, April 8 (UPI) -- Hundreds of doctors closed their offices across South Texas Monday in an organized demonstration against skyrocketing malpractice insurance premiums spurred by a rising number of lawsuits in the region.