NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The city of New Orleans is applying to host one of the three presidential debates scheduled to take place after the primary next year.

OYSTER BAY, N.Y., March 22 (UPI) -- Janet Brown, an in-the-know retailer who brought important designers to her store's wealthy patrons, died in a car accident near her Oyster Bay, N.Y., home.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania's senior U.S. senator has less than two weeks to shore up support for his ascension to the top spot on the powerful Judiciary Committee.

MIAMI, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Tickets for the campaign's first presidential debate at the University of Miami next Thursday are going to be extremely hard to get.

BOSTON, April 16 (UPI) -- Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, on the eve of a federal trial in Boston, dropped his civil rights suit against the Commission on Presidential Debates, it was