UPI NewsTrack articles from December 2006

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UPI Sports Calendar for Friday, Dec. 1.
December 1, 2006... Byline: United Press International (All Times Eastern): Basketball: NBA: Charlotte at Washington, 7 p.m. Boston at Toronto, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. New York at Detroit, 8 p.m. Chicago vs. New...

'Rogue elements' probed in ex-spy's death.
December 1, 2006... LONDON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The British probe into the death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko is focusing on rogue elements in the Russian government, The Guardian reported. While British intelligence does not suspect Russian...

NBA: Detroit 87, Miami 85.
December 1, 2006... MIAMI, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Detroit won its seventh straight game Thursday night by edging the Miami Heat, 87-85. Richard Hamilton had 24 points, two rebounds and two assists for Detroit. Tayshaun Prince had 12 points and eight rebounds,...

Student faces 15 years for throwing cake.
December 1, 2006... OSLO, Norway, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Norwegian student who could get 15 years in prison for throwing a cake at the finance minister says he hopes to put his legal troubles behind him. John Waagaard's trial began Thursday in Oslo, Aftenposten...

NHL: Carolina 4, Montreal 2.
December 1, 2006... RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Justin Williams scored the eventual game-winning goal Thursday night as Carolina topped the Montreal Canadiens, 4-2. His goal came at 15:23 of the second period to break a 2-2 tie after the second...

NHL: Phoenix 7, Los Angeles 4.
December 1, 2006... GLENDALE, Ariz., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Michael Zigomanis had two goals and an assist, and four different Phoenix players scored first-period goals Thursday night as the Coyotes beat the Kings, 7-4. Ladislav Nagy and Zbynek Michalek each had a...

Student expelled for year for invitation.
December 1, 2006... BALTIMORE, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has been suspended for a year for a racially offensive fraternity party invitation that was posted online. Justin Park, an 18-year-old freshman, is banned from...

NHL: Boston 4, Tampa Bay 3 (SO).
December 1, 2006... BOSTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A goal by Phil Kessel in the seventh round of a shootout Thursday night gave Boston a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. On the game-winning goal, Kessel fired a shot that beat Tampa goaltender Marc Denis. ...

NHL: Nashville 5, St. Louis 4.
December 1, 2006... ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Scott Hartnell and David Legwand both had a goal and an assist Thursday night as Nashville beat the St. Louis Blues, 5-4. The score was tied, 3-3, after two periods. Nashville scored twice in the third on goals...

NHL: Anaheim 2, Vancouver 1.
December 1, 2006... VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Ryan Getzlaf's third-period power-play goal was the game-winner Thursday night as the Anaheim Ducks beat Vancouver, 2-1. Andy McDonald scored the other goal, and Jean-Sebastien Giguere made 23...

6.3 magnitude quake hits Sumatra.
December 1, 2006... JAKARTA, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A strong earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake measured 6.3 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was 30 miles east-southeast of Medan, Sumatra,...

Bruce Lee theme park planned for China.
December 1, 2006... SHUNDE, China, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A theme park honoring Chinese-American martial arts star Bruce Lee is planned for the city in China where his family lived. Wong Yiu-keung, president of the Bruce Lee Fan Club in Hong Kong, told China Daily...

NHL: Colorado 7, Edmonton 3.
December 1, 2006... EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Tyler Arnason had two goals and one assist Thursday night to help Colorado beat the Edmonton Oilers, 7-3. Colorado spotted the Oilers a 1-0 lead before taking a 4-2 advantage after the first period....

Japanese director Akio Jissoji dies at 69.
December 1, 2006... TOKYO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Akio Jissoji, a Japanese special-effects director responsible for two popular 1960s TV series, has died at 69. Jissoji suffered from stomach cancer, a family friend told Kyodo News Service. Jissoji directed...

Bono has meeting with Japanese P.M.
December 1, 2006... TOKYO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Bono, the rock star who has made poverty his cause, says he trusts Japan to fulfill the promises its leaders made at the 2005 G8 meeting. At a news conference Wednesday after a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,...

Coal mine where 5 died sealed up.
December 1, 2006... HARLAN, Ky., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Kentucky coal mine where five men died in an explosion earlier this year has been sealed up and abandoned. The owners of Kentucky Darby Mine No. 1 in Harlan County already owed more than $5,000 for 41 safety...

NBA: LA Lakers 132, Utah 102.
December 1, 2006... LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Kobe Bryant scored 52 points, 30 in the third quarter, Thursday night as the Los Angeles Lakers trounced Utah, 132-102. Bryant was 19-of-26 from the floor. He shot 9-for-9 -- and was a perfect 10-for-10 from...

Jockstrip: The world as we know it.
December 1, 2006... Byline: United Press International Drunk teen stumbles into wrong house BURLINGTON, Ontario, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A drunken teenager in Canada, trying to get back to the party, stumbled into the wrong house, waking the family dog and the...

Watercooler Stories.
December 1, 2006... Byline: United Press International U.N. North Korea edict includes luxuries NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- This may be a different holiday season in North Korea where a U.N. edict against nuclear technology includes luxury consumer items...

Security beefed up ahead of Lebanon rally.
December 1, 2006... BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Hundreds of police officers and armored vehicles have been stationed outside Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's Beirut offices ahead of a major protest. The officers and vehicles were put into place...

Typhoon kills more than 200 in Philippines.
December 1, 2006... MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Philippine government official said Friday the death toll from typhoon Durian is believed to have topped 200 in the country. Health Secretary Francisco Doque said about 220 residents of Daraga, Santo...

Fiji coup deadline extended.
December 1, 2006... SUVA, Fiji, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Fiji's renegade military chief failed to follow through on his threat to take over the government if it failed to quit Friday. When the noon deadline passed, Commodore Frank Bainimarama was watching a rugby...

UPI NewsTrack TopNews.
December 1, 2006... Report: Panel urges pullout of most troops WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The bipartisan Iraq Study Group will recommend that most U.S. combat forces be pulled out of Iraq by early 2008, the Washington Post reported. The newspaper, citing...

Poison in Russian ex-leader's illness.
December 1, 2006... DUBLIN, Ireland, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The family of a former Russian prime minister has claimed his illness in Ireland was the result of "an unnatural poisoning." Yegor Gaidar, who was linked to a former spy, Alexander Litvinenko, who died...

Survey: some Britons plan to drive drunk.
December 1, 2006... LONDON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A survey by Churchill Car Insurance in Britain has found that more than 13 million people in the country have ridden with drivers they suspected were drunk. The survey also found that 2 million people have driven...

Israeli Border Guard kills Palestinian.
December 1, 2006... JERUSALEM, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Israeli border guards shot and killed an armed Palestinian who attacked them Friday at a checkpoint in Hebron. One officer was taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem after being slightly injured by a...

Pakistan divests some of its energy assets.
December 1, 2006... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Pakistan is selling a 10 percent stake in its state-run energy company for $831 million, ZeeNews.com said Friday. Institutional investors from the United States, Britain and various Asian locations...

Man sues injury lawyer over golf incident.
December 1, 2006... CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A man playing golf at a Lemont, Ill., country club claims he received a concussion from a ball hit by a prominent personal-injury lawyer. Edigio "Gino" Berni claims in a lawsuit filed against Chicago attorney...

Japan ordered to pay repatriated citizens.
December 1, 2006... KOBE, Japan, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Japanese court has ordered the country's government to pay about $4 million to 61 repatriated citizens who sued over their delayed return from China. The Kobe District Court ordered the payout Friday to 61 of...

Airbus gets AWB350 financing OK.
December 1, 2006... LONDON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Shareholders of the European company that owns Airbus SA accepted a financing package for the planned AWB350 jet that will rival Boeing Co.'s 787 aircraft. European Aeronautics Defense and Space Co. owners approved a...

Wintry blast hits Midwest, Plains.
December 1, 2006... CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The first major snowstorm of the season barged across the Midwest and Plains stretching in varying intensity from Michigan to the Texas-Mexico border. Road travel, slowed to a crawl in many places, became a...

U.S. mulls end to insurgent outreach.
December 1, 2006... WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department has proposed the Bush administration end reconciliation efforts with Sunni insurgents in Iraq. The recommendation, which follows a report U.S. outreach efforts with the insurgents have...

Rayonier buying 55,000 acres in Texas.
December 1, 2006... JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Rayonier Inc., a forest products company, is paying $121 million to buy 55,000 acres of Texas timberland. The acquisition of the property, which is being sold by an investment fund advised by Global...

Crude oil falls on profit taking.
December 1, 2006... NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Profit-taking on the New York Mercantile Exchange knocked down the recently elevated price of crude oil Friday by 67 cents to $62.46 per barrel. Heating oil fell 2 cents to $1.8283 per gallon, and gasoline...

New logo for U.S. civil defense agency.
December 1, 2006... WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The Washington-based National Emergency Management Association is adopting a new civil defense insignia and retiring the old familiar triangular logo. The sign with the letters "C" and "D" inside a red circle is...

Anti-government rally fills Beirut streets.
December 1, 2006... BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- At least 200,000 demonstrators packed the streets of Beirut Friday in a Hezbollah-led protest aimed at toppling the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. Shops were closed and main roads were heavily...

U.S. stocks, bonds down, dollar steady.
December 1, 2006... NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. stocks and bonds retreated Friday but the dollar appeared to be fighting a recent downdraft against the euro and the yen. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 27.64 or 0.23 percent to 12,194.29 in...

Duck watcher ends up in with the ducks.
December 1, 2006... PLANO, Texas, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Texas woman was rescued by onlookers after her parked car plunged into a pond while she was watching some ducks. Police in Plano say the woman accidentally hit the gas pedal sending her car into the water,...

U.S. unveils new citizenship test.
December 1, 2006... WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has developed a new citizenship test it plans to introduce in 10 cities starting in early 2007. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials in Washington said the new test is designed to...

Ethics class cheating alleged at Columbia.
December 1, 2006... NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York is investigating whether students cheated on the final exam for a class focusing on ethics. Nicholas Lemann, dean of the journalism school, said the...

NYT researcher conviction upheld in China.
December 1, 2006... BEIJING, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Chinese High Court Friday upheld a three-year fraud sentence for a New York Times researcher based in Beijing. The charge of fraud, the last remaining charge against Zhao Yan after an accusation of leaking state...

Sex offenders could face lie detectors.
December 1, 2006... LONDON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- British authorities say lie detectors are proving a useful tool in monitoring the behavior of sex offenders. The BBC reports authorities conducted a study monitoring the behavior of 350 sex offenders on parole or...

3 dead, 3 critical in Chicago house fire.
December 1, 2006... CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A fatal fire on Chicago's Southwest Side has left three people dead and three others in extremely critical condition. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford told the Chicago Sun-Times the blaze started...

Liberia police to carry arms again.
December 1, 2006... MONROVIA, Liberia, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Police in Liberia are once again being allowed to carry firearms after they were disarmed under an agreement in 2003, ending a 14-year civil war. Earlier this year a U.N. arms embargo was eased, allowing...

UPI NewsTrack Business.
December 1, 2006... U.S. stocks, bonds down, dollar steady NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. stocks and bonds retreated Friday but the dollar appeared to be fighting a recent downdraft against the euro and the yen. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 69.78...

Scientists build better atomic clock.
December 1, 2006... BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The atomic clock, already accurate to within a second every 60 million years, could be improved, University of Colorado scientists said. The scientists at Boulder, Colo., built their clock using a lattice of...

Bush proclaims Dec. 1 World AIDS Day.
December 1, 2006... WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush Friday proclaimed Dec. 1 World AIDS Day and urged all Americans to join in the fight against the disease. "HIV/AIDS is a global health crisis and a constant struggle for many of our...

U.S. CEO departures accelerating.
December 1, 2006... CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The number of chief executive officer departures announced by U.S. companies grew by 113 in November, a private outplacement firm said Friday. That figure includes eight more CEOs who left as a result of options...

UPI NewsTrack TopNews.
December 1, 2006... Anti-government rally fills Beirut streets BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- At least 200,000 demonstrators packed the streets of Beirut Friday in a Hezbollah-led protest aimed at toppling the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. ...

Toiletries bear presidential seal.
December 1, 2006... WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Visitors to the White House gift shop will soon be able to purchase a line of toiletries from California that bear the distinctive U.S. presidential seal. Owner Lesa Glucroft of Tulip Boutique Inc. thought it was...

Lexis-Nexis founder Don Wilson dies.
December 1, 2006... MITCHELLVILLE, Md., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- H. Donald Wilson, principal creator of the LexisNexis database service and its electronic research unit, has died at his home in Mitchellville, Md., at 81. Wilson died Nov. 12 of a heart attack while...

Monsoon rainfall amount stable for decades.
December 1, 2006... PUNE, India, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Heavy rains balanced by less frequent moderate rain during India's monsoon season keep the rain amounts in check, researchers said. This, researchers said, could explain why monsoon-delivered rains remained...

Spy poison shows up in second man.
December 1, 2006... LONDON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- An Italian man who met a former Russian spy the day he allegedly was poisoned has tested positive for radiation, a report says. The Health Protection Agency confirmed Mario Scaramella was found to have isotope...

Sex clubs closing but it's not about sex.
December 1, 2006... AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Amsterdam authorities are closing 33 of the city's sex clubs by the end of the year but it has to do with something other than sex. Prostitution has been legal in the Netherlands since 2000. The...

Fruitcakes catapulted into the air.
December 1, 2006... ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Some people are fond of throwing caution to the wind but in a number of U.S. towns, residents send old fruitcakes into the air. Long a favorite subject of ridicule, holiday fruitcakes of all shapes and...

Lear Corp. divests key U.S. assets.
December 1, 2006... SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Lear Corp., a U.S. auto parts group, is divesting its North American vehicle interior business. Lear, which did the same earlier this year with its European vehicle interior business, said Friday in a...

Schizophrenia studies should open dialog.
December 1, 2006... ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Recent studies on schizophrenia treatment and cost should spark discovery of a third generation of treatment, a U.S. mental health advocacy group said. A series of studies on the treatment of schizophrenia...

Abortion drug may aid breast cancer fight.
December 1, 2006... IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A chemical in the so-called abortion pill could prevent breast cancer caused by a faulty gene, researchers in California said. RU-486 isn't meant for long-term use such as cancer prevention, the researchers...

U.S. manufacturing contracted in November.
December 1, 2006... TEMPE, Ariz., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. manufacturing stagnated in November, the first such failure to advance in 41 months, an industry group reported Friday. The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index fell last month to...

England's solid start in 2nd cricket test.
December 1, 2006... ADELAIDE, Australia, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- England cricketers shrugged off a first test loss to Australia with a solid 3 for 266 on the first day of the second test in Adelaide. Paul Collingwood, 98 not out, and Kevin Pietersen, 60 not out,...

Finches feasting in Minnesota supermarket.
December 1, 2006... MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Minneapolis-area supermarket has hired professional help to evict a pair of avian invaders that are having a feast in the bulk foods section. So far Mark Anderson of Plunkett Pest Control has been unable to...

EU insists Serbia arrest war crime suspect.
December 1, 2006... BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The European Union says it will resume talks with Serbia only after a Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect is handed over to a U.N. tribunal. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said the EU stand on Serbia...

Carbon dioxide emissions accelerating.
December 1, 2006... MELBOURNE, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The rate of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere has more than doubled since the 1990s, Australian researchers report. Almost 8 billion tons of carbon were spewed into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide in...

Serbia grants license to Austria Mobilkom.
December 1, 2006... BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Serbia has granted Austria's Mobilkom a license to become the country's third mobile phone operator for $426.9 million, Serbian media said Friday. The Serbian agency for telecommunications said it had...

Sir Lankan leader's brother survives bomb.
December 1, 2006... COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The brother of Sri Lanka's president has survived a suicide bomber's attack that left 14 people injured in Colombo Friday, police said. Gothabaya Rajapaksa, brother of Sri Lankan President Mahinda...

Serb military schools open to girls.
December 1, 2006... BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Girls will be allowed to enroll in Serbia's military schools for the first time next year, an army general said Friday. Maj. Gen. Vidosav Kovacevic, the head of the Belgrade Military Academy, said girls...

Alleged madam sent newsletters to workers.
December 1, 2006... WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Federal investigators looking into a Washington escort service have discovered the boss sent newsletters to her employees. Court filings list the newsletters among a number of documents agents found when they...

Sunoco buys rest of Italian affiliate.
December 1, 2006... HARTSVILLE, S.C., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Sonoco Products Co., a U.S. packaging company, said Friday it bought the 75 percent of Italy's Demolli Industria Cartaria SpA it did not already own. Demolli, with annual sales of about $60 million, is...

HSN recalls pressure cookers.
December 1, 2006... ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- HSN LP of St. Petersburg, Fla., said Friday it is recalling about 1,450 of its Ultrex-brand pressure cookers. The cooker's lid can open while its contents are under pressure, allowing the contents be...

L.A. airport hotels fight living wage law.
December 1, 2006... LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A group of Los Angeles workers plans a water-only fast next week to highlight a dispute with hotel owners over a new "living wage" law. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed the living-wage measure into law this...

Russian probe finds fake drug market big.
December 1, 2006... MOSCOW, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Sales of counterfeit drugs in Russia could be as high as $300 million annually, an investigation by the country's Interior Ministry showed. Police found the number of violations found during the 10-day Operation...

Kerkorian unloads all his GM stock.
December 1, 2006... BEVERLY HILLS, Wash., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- General Motors Corp. stock was holding its value Friday, despite California investor Kirk Kerkorian selling 28 million shares of the U.S. automaker's stock. Kerkorian's decision to unload all his GM...

Kyoko Yonemoto wins Paganini competition.
December 1, 2006... MOSCOW, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Japanese violinist Kyoko Yonemoto has won first prize at the Moscow Paganini International Violin Competition. The competition on Wednesday, marked the first time a Japanese citizen has won first prize at Paganini,...

U.S. lawmakers get look at Korea complex.
December 1, 2006... KAESONG, North Korea, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Three U.S. congressmen got a first-hand look Friday at the inter-Korean industrial complex in Kaesong, North Korea, and apparently liked what they saw. "The project is ideal because it combines the...

Sea grasses conservation efforts urged.
December 1, 2006... CAMBRIDGE, Md., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Saying sea grasses are harbingers of a coastal ecosystem, University of Maryland scientists are urging a worldwide conservation effort to preserve them. "Sea grasses are the coal mine canaries of the costal...

PerezHilton.com sued over 'stolen' photos.
December 1, 2006... LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Hollywood photo agency is suing Perez Hilton.com's Mario Lavandeira for copyright infringement over some photos used on his Los Angeles-based Web site. The agency claims in the suit that Lavandeira posted...

Iridex buys Laserscope's aesthetics unit.
December 1, 2006... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Iridex Corp. will buy part of the laser instrument business of Minnesota's American Medical Systems Holdings Inc. for about $28 million. Laserscope, which is based in San Jose, Calif., makes lasers for...

Massachusetts publications sold for $70M.
December 1, 2006... FAIRPORT, N.Y., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The Journal Register Co. will sell seven Massachusetts publications to Gatehouse Media Inc. of New York for about $70 million. The deal includes two newspapers, The Herald News of Fall River and the Taunton...

Va. county head reverses homeless food ban.
December 1, 2006... WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The head of the Board of Supervisors in Fairfax County, Va., is halting an attempt to prohibit churches from donating food to homeless shelters. Chairman Gerald E. Connolly says church suppers and feeding the...

Beirut protesters call for new government.
December 1, 2006... BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Hundreds of thousands of protesters assembled in central Beirut Friday to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his Cabinet. Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun told the crowd that...

Russia's Forbes scraps new issue.
December 1, 2006... MOSCOW, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The publisher of Russia's version of Forbes magazine has withdrawn the December issue under pressure, a report says. The pressure allegedly came from a company that incudes the mayor of Moscow's wife as an...

England to ban pub and club smoking.
December 1, 2006... LONDON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The British government has decided on a near total indoor smoking ban in England that takes effect on July 1. Smoking will be banned in pubs and in private clubs ranging from modest workingmen's bars to exclusive...

Willa Ford set to marry NHL's Mike Modano.
December 1, 2006... LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- National Hockey League star Mike Modano is engaged to "Dancing With the Stars" alumna Willa Ford, Ford said in Los Angeles. "We were out to dinner the other night, and I think he had (the ring) with him the...

World's most expensive cars in Los Angeles.
December 1, 2006... LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The world's most expensive automobiles went on display Friday as the Los Angeles Auto Show opened its doors to the public. Show stoppers ranged from the $1.4 million Bugatti Veyron 16.4 to a $500,000 bat-like...