DENVER, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Rising energy and gasoline prices dominated Tuesday's nationwide town hall meeting at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

KEY WEST, Fla., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. government says Florida's Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum needs a license and proper confines to display its number of extra-toed cats.

LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Gold opened in London up $5.20 to $512.20 per ounce Wednesday on central bank purchases of the commodity as its upward movement appears unstoppable.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The discovery of a flu-infected duck in British Columbia prompted U.S. agriculture officials to ban poultry imports from the Canadian province's mainland. Canadian authorities found the virus in the infected duck was not the much-feared H5N1 strain that t

WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Agriculture Department is reported to have cleared an animal suspected of having mad cow disease after skipping a key test last year.

LOS ANGELES, May 10 (UPI) -- The merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy will better position the two merchant-power giants for a future in which tightening environmental regulations and a return to competitive electricity markets will play a significant role.

WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- Two U.S. cows from 1997 that recent media reports indicated might not have been properly screened for mad cow disease were both tested multiple times and were negative for the deadly disease, United Press International learned in a two-year investigation

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. government wants to review a tape of the near fatal mauling at "Siegfried and Roy's" final show last year, but producers refuse to give up the video.

WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Inspector General has launched an investigation into allegations an agency supervisor in Texas violated federal policy and ordered that a suspect cow not be tested for mad cow disease, United Press International has le