Topic: Don Smith

UPI's White House Correspondent Merriman Smith was four cars behind the president's open limousine, on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

My overall thought of the day I spent in the Dallas bureau of United Press International on Nov. 22, 1963, is no different a half century later than it was when I left the office in the middle of night and returned to my apartment and my bride of two months.

It was a balmy, sunny noon as we motored through downtown Dallas behind President Kennedy. The procession cleared the center of the business district and turned into a handsome highway that wound through what appeared to be a park.

An upstate New York man was sought Friday as a suspect in Long Island workplace shootings that left a man dead and another in critical condition, police said.

The San Francisco 49ers announced Monday linebacker Aldon Smith has been shelved indefinitely while he enters a drug abuse treatment program.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and marijuana possession after a car crash Friday morning, police said.

The San Francisco 49ers' Aldon Smith still has a 2012 weapons case hanging over him as he prepares for the start of the 2013 season, prosecutors say.

British police said a burglar who stole a cab driver's phone from his house made the mistake of using the pilfered phone to call the cabbie's company.

Several residents of Des Plaines, Ill., oppose the proposed switch from real to fake flowers throughout the city, officials say.

Money has become the easy part in trying to get Niki, the adopted dog of a soldier in Baghdad, to a new home in central Missouri.