PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) -- Police and animal trainers in Oregon are exploring whether horses should be used in search and rescue operations -- and a demonstration suggests they should.
Joker, a gelding, took less than 3 minutes to steer his rider ...
DETROIT (UPI) -- A diver in Michigan located a message in a bottle from two young women sent nearly 100 years ago, historians said.
Selina Pramstaller and Tillie Esper, who lived in Detroit in 1915, wrote a simple note while visiting Tashmoo ...
NEW YORK (UPI) -- Friends and family members of former New York City Mayor Ed Koch said his tombstone is inscribed with an incorrect birth date.
Koch, 88, died of congestive heart failure in February.
He had planned out every detail of his ...
PONTIAC, Ill. (UPI) -- The Pontiac Correctional Center in Illinois was on lockdown after an unloaded gun smuggled into the prison 17 years ago was found in a wall, officials said.
A state Corrections Department spokesman said investigators ...
PARKLAND, Fla. (UPI) -- Horse owners in a Florida town said motorists in the area have taken to trying to startle the animals into throwing their riders as part of an ongoing dispute.
Walter Campbell, an attorney for three non-horse-owning ...
ALBUQUERQUE (UPI) -- Albuquerque police said they captured an alleged masked intruder when he was recognized by the homeowner, his grandmother.
Investigators said the victim told officers a man wearing a purple bandanna over his face broke into ...