DALLAS, May 14 (UPI) -- The Dallas-Fort Worth region wants to build two new reservoirs in East Texas but landowners, environmentalists and timber interests have united in opposition.

WICHITA, Kan., July 8 (UPI) -- A second family of a victim of Kansas' BTK serial killer has filed suit seeking to ensure the confessed killer never benefits monetarily for his crimes.

HOUSTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A Texas company Friday reported little damage to an offshore drilling rig that was blown 30 miles from its mooring point by Hurricane Ivan. Noble Corp. said a crew boarded its Noble Jim Thompson rig by helicopter and found the only significant damage was

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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill., March 31 (UPI) -- Philip Morris is warning a downstate Illinois judge could force it into bankruptcy, jeopardizing billions of dollars in tobacco settlement money set to go to cash-strapped states through 2025. Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron earlier this month ordered the na

CHICAGO, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Illinois Gov. George Ryan Friday pardoned Gary Dotson, who was wrongly convicted for the 1977 rape and kidnapping of a woman who later admitted she made the who

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Doanld E. Westlake's newest Parker thriller, written under the name Richard Stark, is a literary rollercoaster ride of suspense, crime and deceit.