OMAHA, March 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force announced a milestone in the development of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System's ground segment.

CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk has emerged as President-elect Barack Obama's top candidate for U.S. trade representative, Democratic officials said.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Convicted terror supporter Salim Ahmed Hamdan Thursday received a 5 1/2 year sentence, far short of the 30 years-to-life sentence prosecutors wanted.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver of supporting terror but acquitted him on other charges.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 1 (UPI) -- A Florida judge departed upward from sentencing guidelines and imposed a life sentence on a 17-year-old youth convicted of second-degree murder.

DENTON, Texas, June 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. professor of music says he wants to get the word out that playing music can damage hearing.

DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Outsourcing, a trend that has taken U.S. automakers on a global search for cheaper parts will, in part, be headed back home, a report said Friday

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- An Israeli major last week carelessly drove into the West Bank town of Jenin, a city that even foreign correspondents were warned not to enter in cars bearing Israeli license plates.

DETROIT, June 25 (UPI) -- Stock analysts are bullish on General Motors Corp. as higher paid hourly workers take buyouts and are replaced by lower-wage temporary workers.