LONDON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- British soccer legend George Best was reported near death Thursday. Best, 59, suffered from internal bleeding that developed in the night, Dr. Roger Williams said. "I have to tell you his hours are numbered."

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- An attorney at the Texas Secretary of State's office has been fired for talking to a reporter about President Bush's adviser Karl Rove.

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The former chairman of the Rhode Island Senate's commerce committee has admitted accepting more than $300,000 in cash and gifts from health-care companies.

PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 2 (UPI) -- The sudden death of Trixie, a polar bear at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, R.I., remains unexplained after a necropsy.

PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 29 (UPI) -- A red wolf, one of the rarest mammals in the United States, has given birth to a healthy litter of three at a Providence zoo.

Today is Saturday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2005 with 329 to follow.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Final guidelines created by U.S. Pharmacopeia on what drugs insurers participating in Medicare Part D should include in their formularies have been delivered to government. regulators.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- The healthcare industry is going to need more of a push to make electronic records a reality, USP says no final deciison yet on Medicare model drug guidelines, and other healthcare business news.

WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- While some recent legal campaigns against some high-powered executives have fizzled -- including executives from Tyco and Adelphia -- the prosecution and convic