UPI NewsTrack articles from March 2005

UPI NewsTrack archives from March 2005

Ex-ballplayer accused of killing woman.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... CHIBA, Japan, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A former professional baseball pitcher in Japan has pleaded guilty to robbing and killing a woman, but he denies his crime was premeditated. Forty-two-year-old Hiroshi Ogawa, a former pitcher with the Chiba...

UPI Newstrack Sports.(Newswraps)
March 1, 2005... Chaney won't coach in Atlantic 10 tourney PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Temple University coach John Chaney announced Monday he will not coach in the Atlantic 10 Championship Tournament. Chaney has been under fire since game last...

Stella McCartney gives birth to a boy.(Entertainment News)
March 1, 2005... LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- The daughter of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, British fashion designer Stella McCartney, has given birth to her first child, a boy. A spokesman for Stella McCartney and her publisher husband Alasdhair Willis said that...

Demonstrations follow fuel price increase.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... JAKARTA, March 1 (UPI) -- In Indonesia, angry demonstrations have followed the government's announcement of a 29 percent price increase for fuel products. Angry students burned tires in the capital, Jakarta, and protests broke out in major...

Malaysia, Singapore resume bilateral talks.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, March 1 (UPI) -- Singapore and Malaysia were due to resume talks Tuesday to examine outstanding bilateral issues in more details. Singapore Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad...

Casino operators interested in Singapore.(Business News)
March 1, 2005... SINGAPORE, March 1 (UPI) -- Response from foreign casino operators to take part in Singapore's proposed integrated resort has been strong. At least 10 key players have submitted concept plans, Channel NewsAsia reported Tuesday. Eighth...

Top Assam militants surrender.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... GUWAHATI, India, March 1 (UPI) -- Two top leaders of a rebel group fighting Indian rule in the northeastern state of Assam have surrendered to Indian police, the BBC reports. Media chief Suman Barua and explosives expert Chandan Borah, of...

Steel company drags heels leaving Beijing.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... BEIJING, March 1 (UPI) -- The Shougang steel company, the single greatest source of air pollution in Beijing, Tuesday backed out of its promise to quit the city before the 2008 Olympics. State media announced Monday the central government...

Former PM denounces Nepal king's coup.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... KATMANDU, Nepal, March 1 (UPI) -- The leader of the Nepali Congress, under house arrest since King Gyanendra's royal coup, has called on the king to withdraw his proclamation of absolute rule. G.P. Koirala, one of Nepal's leading...

Bangladesh brings 15 Islamists to court.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... NATORE, Bangladesh, March 1 (UPI) -- In Bangladesh, 15 suspected leaders of radical Islamic groups have been charged with sedition, the BBC reported. Officials at Natore District Court accused the 15 of trying to destabilize the country...

S.Korea asks Japan to apologize.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... SEOUL, March 1 (UPI) -- South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun urged Japan to offer a sincere apology and compensate for its past wrongdoings, Kyodo News reported Tuesday. Roh made the remarks at a Seoul ceremony remembering the March 1...

Indonesians protest rise in fuel prices.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... JAKARTA, March 1 (UPI) -- Anti-government rallies erupted across Indonesia Tuesday to protest a sharp increase in domestic fuel prices. The government announced Monday the increase of domestic fuel prices by an average of 29 percent, aimed...

Japan's jobless rate at six-year low.(Business News)
March 1, 2005... TOKYO, March 1 (UPI) -- Japan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at a six-year low of 4.5 percent in January, unchanged from December, Kyodo News reported Tuesday. The number of unemployed fell 270,000 to 2.96 million in the...

Indian islands list tsunami missing.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... PORT BLAIR, India, March 1 (UPI) -- The government of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands has published a list of more than 1,500 people missing from a single island after December's tsunami. The local administration, releasing the names of...

Japanese working women like English.(Quirks in the News)
March 1, 2005... TOKYO, March 1 (UPI) -- A Japanese magazine survey of young working women found that English language was the course taken by most during the past year. The women's learning and culture magazine Keiko to Manabu asked working women in their...

Nepali troops kill 70 rebels in clash.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... KATMANDU, Nepal, March 1 (UPI) -- At least 70 Maoist rebels and four members of Nepal's security forces have been killed in fierce fighting in southwestern Nepal, the army said Tuesday. The battle, one of the heaviest in recent weeks, took...

Jockstrip: The world as we know it.(Quirks in the News)
March 1, 2005... Byline: United Press International Giant snowball crushes schoolboy TORPHINS, Scotland, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A 10-year-old boy in Scotland was killed when a giant snowball he and his friends made rolled down a hill and crushed him, The...

Jordan's trade with Israel on the rise.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... AMMAN, Jordan, March 1 (UPI) -- Trade between Jordan and Israel increased in 2004 over the year before, an official report said Tuesday. A report by Jordan's General Statistics Department said the volume of Jordanian exports to Israel was...

Female Tamil Tiger leader shot.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 1 (UPI) -- A female Tamil Tiger leader was shot and wounded near an army checkpoint in eastern Sri Lanka in an attack that could rekindle violence in the volatile region. Unknown gunmen shot the leader of the...

Malaysia rounds up illegal immigrants.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 1 (UPI) -- Malaysian police began rounding up illegal immigrant workers early Tuesday, immediately after a four-month amnesty expired. The immigration police headed to construction sites, restaurants and...

Beijing's pollution passed to province.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... BEIJING, March 1 (UPI) -- The head of Shougang steel company, forced out of Beijing for excessive pollution, denied Tuesday its move to Hebei province would merely pass on the problem. Long regarded as the biggest air polluter in China's...

A $135M house fit for a 'new Russian'.(Quirks in the News)
March 1, 2005... LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- The most expensive property ever to hit the British real estate market is attracting serious attention from Russia's nouveau riche. Called the first stately home to be built in Britain in more than three centuries,...

Watercooler Stories.(Quirks in the News)
March 1, 2005... Byline: United Press International Two-year-old girl to marry in Pakistan KUTCHA CHOHAN, Pakistan, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A two-year-old Pakistani girl has been forcibly engaged to marry a man 33 years her senior in Kutcha Chohan, the...

Saudi floods kill five boys.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 1 (UPI) -- Heavy rains and floods that swept the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and its suburbs in the past two days have killed five youth, reports said Tuesday. Saudi newspapers said five boys aged between 10 and 16...

Survivor found one week after Iran quake.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... TEHRAN, March 1 (UPI) -- A week after a powerful earthquake flattened most of his city, a man in southeastern Iran has been found alive in the rubble of his house. The official Iranian News Agency said the 40-year-old man was pulled out...

U.S. judge's mother, husband slain at home.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... CHICAGO, March 1 (UPI) -- The mother and husband of a Chicago federal judge have been found dead in pools of blood in the family's home, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday. Federal Judge Joan Lefkow made the discovery Monday night when...

China rewrites rules on religion.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... BEIJING, March 1 (UPI) -- China introduced new rules on religion Tuesday, which the government says will protect freedom of faith, but which critics say could lead to tighter controls. The rules are intended to provide a legal framework to...

Khatami: Iraq is main worry for Iran.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... TEHRAN, March 1 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mohammed Khatami expressed deep concern Tuesday over continuing instability in neighboring Iraq. The Iranian News Agency quoted Khatami as saying "developments on the Iraqi scene and the state of...

BTK suspect to be charged in 10 deaths.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... WICHITA, Kan., March 1 (UPI) -- The serial killing suspect known as BTK, Dennis Rader, will be charged Tuesday with 10 murders via a video court appearance from a Wichita, Kan., jail cell. Rader, 59, who is in the Sedgwick County jail on...

Rice: Syria must withdraw from Lebanon.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- Syria must immediately withdraw from Lebanon, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterated Tuesday. Speaking at a press conference with her French counterpart Michel Barnier during a London meeting on...

Iran slams Hulla bombing in Iraq.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... TEHRAN, March 1 (UPI) -- Iran Tuesday strongly denounced the suicide bombing attack that killed 110 Iraqis in the city of Hulla west of Baghdad Monday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Asafi said Tuesday, "The attack was a terrorist,...

Israel denies Syria contacts.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... AMMAN, Jordan, March 1 (UPI) -- Israel denied Tuesday press reports about an alleged meeting that took place last week in Jordan between Israeli and Syrian officials. A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Amman said, "The reports are...

Israeli army destroys half-ton bomb.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... JERUSALEM, March 1 (UPI) -- The Israeli army said a car containing a half ton of explosives was found parked in the West Bank city of Janin and destroyed safely, the BBC reports. Israeli army Col. Oren Avman told Israel Army Radio the bomb...

Rock weighs down Oscar TV ratings.(Entertainment News)
March 1, 2005... NEW YORK, March 1 (UPI) -- Nielson ratings for Sunday's 77th Annual Academy Awards dropped 5 percent from 2004, despite being hosted by racy comedian Chris Rock. Some 41.5 million viewers on average watched ABC's Oscar telecast, drawing a...

Home secretary defiant on terror bill.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- British Home Secretary Charles Clarke said Tuesday there would be no more concessions on his controversial anti-terror legislation. The Prevention of Terrorism Bill -- under which control orders ranging from...

UPI NewsTrack TopNews.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... U.S. judge's mother, husband slain at home CHICAGO, March 1 (UPI) -- The mother and husband of a Chicago federal judge have been found dead in pools of blood in the family's home, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday. Federal Judge...

Asylum-seeker numbers falling globally.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 1 (UPI) -- Changing world circumstances are behind a 20 percent drop in the number of people seeking asylum in 2004, a United Nations report has determined. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' latest...

Blair opens conference on helping PA.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair Tuesday opened an international conference to help the Palestinians implement their plans for a future independent state. Twenty-three countries are participating in the conference,...

Abbas urges political process with Israel.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday urged, "a serious political process" with Israel to keep order from collapsing. Abbas spoke at the opening session of the London Meeting Supporting the Palestinian...

Britain announces flu pandemic plan.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- Millions of doses of drugs to combat a bird flu pandemic are to be stockpiled, the British government announced Tuesday. Health ministers told reporters without the antiviral drugs, an outbreak could kill 50,000 in...

Health Tips ... from UPI.(Science News)
March 1, 2005... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SPECIAL SCREENING FOR OSTEOPOROSIS PATIENTS Researchers advise patients with bone-thinning osteoporosis be screened for celiac disease, an intestinal disorder caused by wheat flour intolerance. The scientists at...

Gonzales extols Patriot Act extension.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- In his first major address, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has called for extending the U.S. Patriot Act because terror threats do not expire. Gonzales made the remarks at the conservative think-tank...

Bush Social Security support sags.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Support for U.S. President George Bush's record on Social Security has dropped, a USA Today/Gallup poll released Tuesday indicates. Bush made Social Security reform a key part of his second term agenda. He...

White House jockeying begins for govs.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Many governors, including Virginia's Mark Warner, who recently gathered in Washington, may wish to make the place -- and the White House -- a permanent home. Even though the United States is just three months...

Passengers escape from aircraft blaze.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... MANCHESTER, England, March 1 (UPI) -- More than 200 passengers escaped through emergency chutes when their aircraft caught fire at Britain's Manchester Airport Tuesday. The Pakistan International Airlines plane, Flight PK789, caught fire...

Paul Wolfowitz may be next World Bank head.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Paul Wolfowitz, the U.S. deputy secretary of defense, has emerged as a top contender for the job of leading the World Bank. The White House National Security Council and the Council of Economic Advisers are...

France to hold EU charter referendum.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... VERSAILLES, France, March 1 (UPI) -- The French government has approved a constitutional revision to allow for a national referendum on adopting the European Union charter. Gathered in Versailles, 892 lawmakers in the National Assembly and...

Anti-IRA campaign bound for United States.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... DUBLIN, Ireland, March 1 (UPI) -- The family of a man killed by the Irish Republican Army last month is considering taking a campaign against the group to the United States. Robert McCartney, 33, from the republican Short Strand district of...

Singer Chaka Kahn's son held in L.A.death.(Entertainment News)
March 1, 2005... LOS ANGELES, March 1 (UPI) -- The son of singer Chaka Kahn faced a murder charge Tuesday in the shooting death of a teenager last fall. Damien Holland, 25, surrendered at a Los Angeles police substation late Monday after learning that he...

Reporter pleads for help in Iraq video.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... Byline: ELIZABETH BRYANT BAGHDAD, March 1 (UPI) -- A French journalist who disappeared two months ago in Iraq is seen in a new videotape pleading for help. "Help me. It's urgent," Florence Aubenas said in the video sent to the...

Analyst downgrade hammers GM, Ford.(Business News)
March 1, 2005... DETROIT, March 1 (UPI) -- A Wall Street downgrade of General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. could lead to more production cuts and even bigger cash-back rebates. Ronald Tadross, an influential analyst with the brokerage firm Banc of...

Potential Toys 'R' Us buyers down to four.(Business News)
March 1, 2005... WAYNE, N.J., March 1 (UPI) -- The final bidders for Toys "R" Us Inc. now include just four potential investor groups seeking the New Jersey toy retailer. The four groups are buyout specialists Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.; a partnership...

Plea for release of Jordan prisoners.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... AMMAN, Jordan, March 1 (UPI) -- The families of Jordanian prisoners in Israel Tuesday pleaded with King Abdullah to help secure their release. A committee representing the families held a news conference in Amman Tuesday as the prisoners...

Staph infection strikes jail populations.(UPI Science Report)
March 1, 2005... DALLAS, March 1 (UPI) -- A staph infection that is resistant to treatments and could be deadly if not caught, is striking several U.S. jails and could spread to the general public. The Dallas County Jail has seen incidences of...

U.S., France demand Syrian withdrawal.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- The United States and France Tuesday reiterated their call for a full and immediate withdrawal of all Syrian military and intelligence forces from Lebanon. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and French Foreign...

Putin creates 'friendly' youth party.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... MOSCOW, March 1 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and his aides have created a mysterious pro-Kremlin political youth party, The Independent reported Tuesday. Called Nashi, or One of Us, the group reportedly was formed with the...

PA sends envoy to Syria to meet with Jihad.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... GAZA, March 1 (UPI) -- An official Palestinian envoy is going to Syria to meet with Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants based in Damascus, sources said Tuesday. The sources said Palestinian National Security Adviser Jibril Rajoub will travel...

Fossett tries solo, non-stop world flight.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... SALINA, Kan., March 1 (UPI) -- Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett waited for ideal wind conditions in Kansas before taking off on the first solo, non-stop around-the-world airplane flight. Ground winds and turbulence delayed takeoff until...

S.F. board votes to hike transit fares.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 (UPI) -- Bus fares in San Francisco have taken a step closer to being raised by 25 cents. The chances of blocking the fare increase and other proposed fee hikes were seen Tuesday as mixed since the city's Board of...

Rice criticizes Israeli plans.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday tacitly criticized Israel's latest plans for a security barrier. The plans call for a barrier creating a big settlers' enclave southeast of Jerusalem, another west...

More gunfire surrounds 50 Cent.(Entertainment News)
March 1, 2005... NEW YORK, March 1 (UPI) -- One of rapper 50 Cent's aides was recovering from a bullet wound to the leg Tuesday after being shot in front of a New York City radio station. The shooting occurred in front of Hot 97 as the entourage left a...

Czechs slash fiscal deficit.(Business News)
March 1, 2005... PRAGUE, Czech Republic, March 1 (UPI) -- The Czech Republic's fiscal deficit fell sharply in 2004 to 3.9 percent of gross domestic product, official figures showed Tuesday. The 2004 deficit compares with a whopping 12.5 percent of gross...

J.P. Morgan to spin private equity unit.(Business News)
March 1, 2005... NEW YORK, March 1 (UPI) -- New York's J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. will spin off its large private-investment arm into an independent entity next year. The plan to spin off J.P. Morgan Partners LLC, as the big bank's private equity business in...

EU bloc prepared to work around Britain.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... BRUSSELS, March 1 (UPI) -- Pro-European Union countries have created a contingency plan to proceed even if Britain rejects the draft constitution, The Telegraph said Tuesday. The draft constitution must be ratified by all 25 EU member...

Executions outlawed for young killers.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that executing someone who committed murder before age 18 is unconstitutional. In the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy said the Eighth Amendment, with its ban...

U.S. stocks rise.(Business News)
March 1, 2005... NEW YORK, March 1 (UPI) -- U.S. stock traders Tuesday ignored a weak manufacturing report for February and focused on encouraging construction data. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 65.26 or 0.61 percent to 10,831.48 in mid-morning...

GTMO abuse allegation inquiry gets new hea.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has appointed a three-star general to head an investigation into FBI allegations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Twelfth Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Randall Schmidt will...

Texas may see high school steroid testing.(UPI Science Report)
March 1, 2005... PLANO, Texas, March 1 (UPI) -- Texas officials may begin testing high school athletes for steroids as early as this fall after nine students admitted using the drug at one school. Charles Breithaupt, athletic director of the University...

GM, Chrysler rev up European sales efforts.(Business News)
March 1, 2005... GENEVA, Switzerland, March 1 (UPI) -- Chrysler Group and General Motors Corp.'s Cadillac division are using a Swiss auto show to boost their European market share. The U.S. arm of DaimlerChrysler AG unveiled a compact five-door car that,...

Drought plagues Jamaica with brushfires.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 1 (UPI) -- Jamaican firefighters are being taxed to the limit by hundreds of brush fires brought on by two months of drought, the Jamaica Gleaner reported Tuesday. In the parish of St. Elizabeth, Senior...

Threatened lynx found in Wyoming forest.(UPI Science Report)
March 1, 2005... JACKSON, Wyo., March 1 (UPI) -- Wildlife biologists have confirmed the presence of the threatened Canada lynx in a Wyoming forest. Tracks and other signs indicate at least four of the reclusive cats live in the Bridger-Teton National...

Court urged to ban N.C. tax preparer.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... GREENSBORO, N.C., March 1 (UPI) -- The Justice Department said Tuesday it has asked a judge to bar a North Carolina man from preparing tax returns for customers. Oscie K. Parker of Thomasville, N.C., allegedly prepares customer tax returns...

Aftershocks continue in Asia quake area.(UPI Science Report)
March 1, 2005... DENVER, March 1 (UPI) -- More aftershocks -- one of them strong -- continue to hit the Indian Ocean area near the site of the great Dec. 26 earthquake. After more than two months, the aftershocks continue on a daily basis and occasionally...

Quartet demands full withdrawal from Gaza.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- The United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations Tuesday called for a "full and complete" Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The four alluded to Israel's disengagement plan, which calls for...

Oprah gave $50 million to charity in 2004.(Entertainment News)
March 1, 2005... CHICAGO, March 1 (UPI) -- Oprah Winfrey's fans know how generous she is giving away gifts as big as new cars, but the talk show queen gave more than $50 million to charity last year. Oprah was No. 24 on a list of the top 60 philanthropists...

Flurry of motions filed in Schiavo case.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... MIAMI, March 1 (UPI) -- The family of a brain-damaged Tampa woman have filed a flurry of motions to save her life, including a petition for a divorce from her husband. Terri Schiavo's family filed 11 new motions and asked for quick action...

Search for missing girl narrowed.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... HOMOSASSA, Fla., March 1 (UPI) -- National experts and search dogs have been called in to help find a missing 9-year-old Homosassa, Fla., girl. Jessica Lunsford has been missing from her trailer home since Wednesday night and so far...

Vandalism hits Calif. schools, churches.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... DAVIS, Calif., March 1 (UPI) -- Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti were sprayed on north central California schools and a church and another church was vandalized this week, authorities said. An elementary school and a middle school were...

Crotch-biting skunk executed.(Quirks in the News)
March 1, 2005... MILWAUKEE, March 1 (UPI) -- The wife of a Wisconsin man whose penis was bitten by their pet skunk has more sympathy for the skunk who's now dead than she has for her husband. The embarrassing and painful incident began last week when Dan...

$12 billion needed for post-war Sudan.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... KHARTOUM, Sudan, March 1 (UPI) -- The cost of Sudan's post-war reconstruction and development was estimated at $12 billion Tuesady by local and international experts. A report issued by the Sudanese government, former southern rebels from...

Miami jury convicts mob boss.(UPI Top Stories)
March 1, 2005... MIAMI, March 1 (UPI) -- Reputed mobster Ronnie "One-Arm" Trucchio has been convicted in Miami federal court of running a criminal enterprise for the Gambino crime family. Trucchio, 53, who a defense attorney said was on trial only because...

Anti-wrinkle case to be tried in Florida.(UPI Science Report)
March 1, 2005... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 1 (UPI) -- A federal judge has assured Dr. Bach McComb will be tried in Florida on charges he conspired to commit fraud involving anti-wrinkle medication. Federal Judge Barry S. Seltzer transferred McComb's...

Tim Hudson gets new deal from Braves.(Sports News)
March 1, 2005... KISSIMMEE, Fla., March 1 (UPI) -- Right-hander Tim Hudson reached a three-year contract agreement Tuesday with the Atlanta Braves. MLB.com reported that the deal, which amounted to a four-year extension through 2009, is expected to pay...

New Zealand raises gasoline tax.(UPI Science Report)
March 1, 2005... WELLINGTON, New Zealand, March 1 (UPI) -- New Zealand will boost the tax on retail sales of gasoline starting next month, TVNZ reported Tuesday. The tax hike, nearly 20 cents per gallon, means almost half of the retail price of gasoline...