FRIDLEY, Minn., Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A Minnesota man who police say became uncooperative died after state troopers shot him with a Taser.

BOLINGBROOK, Ill., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Celebrity mentalist The Amazing Kreskin reportedly offered to assist in the search for missing suburban Chicago mother Stacy Peterson.

ERIE, Pa., June 14 (UPI) -- Police and the media played a hand in reuniting a Pennsylvania man with the engagement ring he lost in an airport.

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MINNEAPOLIS, April 26 (UPI) -- State troopers in Minneapolis arrested two women engaged in a fistfight in the middle of rush hour traffic on a freeway.

ROCKVILLE, Md., March 12 (UPI) -- Love, or at least lust, can conquer all, even a floundering economy. Or that's what Hooters is betting.

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., March 1 (UPI) -- Obscure lectures on the size and shape of Hell may have led legendary Italian astronomer Galileo to one of the most important discoveries in the history of science -- the principle of scale invariance, or the idea that in nature, size matters.