WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. food safety officials say the potential for dangerous E. coli bacteria is on the rise in spinach and other fresh foods, a report said.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A World War II-era cannon has been found buried in a backyard in Baltimore, a mile away from the American Legion post where it had been stolen in 1982.

WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- A cow with obvious signs of a brain disease appeared in a slaughterhouse in upstate New York in August 1997, generating concerns about mad cow disease because it initially tested positive for the deadly disorder.

WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- On May 2, 1997, a cow showed up at a slaughter plant in Oriskany Falls, N.Y., that would spark concerns inside the U.S. Department of Agriculture as possibly being the first case of mad cow disease in the United States.

WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- Scientists, consumer groups and patient-advocates have embarked upon efforts -- including petitioning members of Congress and seeking storage space at a Canadian university -- to prevent the National Institutes of Health from destroying an irreplaceable c

MIAMI, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The financial impact of Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan on the Florida budget is estimated at $1 billion, and could go higher, state officials said.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Department of Agriculture officials, in the wake of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease last December, have insisted it would be unlikely to find the deadly disease in cows under 30 months of age, but a 1990 document obtained by United Press Internatio

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. Department of Agriculture document from 1990 obtained by UPI acknowledges British cows as young as 22 months were infected with mad cow.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture failed to test for mad cow disease or collect the correct portion of the brain on nearly 500 suspect cows over the past two years -- including some in categories considered most likely to be infected -- according to agen