BEIJING, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Pang Wei of China won the Olympic gold medal Saturday in the men's air pistol event.

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DILLON, S.C., July 3 (UPI) -- Police in Dillon, S.C., said a 13-year-old boy and his mother have been arrested after the teen took a police patrol car for a joyride.

LOS ANGELES, June 20 (UPI) -- An Internet radio station called American Idol Underground will offer an online version of "American Idol," Billboard magazine reports.

ROME, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- "Footballers' Wives" is being remade for Italian TV in the first foreign language version of the popular British drama.

OMAHA, June 26 (UPI) -- Danny Dorn's two-run double highlighted a three-run rally in the seventh Saturday as Cal State Fullerton beat Texas, 6-4, in the College World Series.

WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- The increasingly visible influence of think tanks upon public policy may be turning these traditionally low-profile, intellectually rarefied institutions into t