Friday, September 18, 2009

UPI | Top News - September 18, 2009 11:30am CDT

MORRISVILLE, N.C., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Surveillance efforts are being increased at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina following several baggage thefts, authorities say.

RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A state board in North Carolina has voted to allow illegal immigrants to attend community colleges statewide if they pay out-of-state tuition.

CHICAGO, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Four former Chicago police officers charged in a corruption scandal are expected to plead guilty in exchange for cooperating with authorities, sources say.

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A suspicious object mounted to a Walt Disney World bus prompted the suspension of all bus services at the Florida theme park complex, authorities say.

MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Russia will abandon its planned rocket battery in response to President Barack Obama's shelving of the U.S. missile defense shield in Europe, officials said.

CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A Carnival cruise ship will begin weekly trips from Charleston, S.C., to the Bahamas and Key West, Fla., in 2010, officials say.

CHICAGO, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Law enforcement officers were on the alert Friday for a gray Volkswagen believed to be driven by armed fugitive Robert Maday, authorities in Chicago said.

TORONTO, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A 15-year-old national lottery in Canada that's paid out $7 billion in prizes was set to hold its final draw Friday night.

DALLAS, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- DNA exonerations of people convicted because of mistaken identifications have spurred ID reform measures, law enforcement officials said.

TRIPOLI, Libya, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The Libyan spy convicted of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland published papers Friday he says would have secured his release on appeal.

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Several factors led New Haven, Conn., police to arrest Raymond Clark III in the death of a Yale University student, people familiar with the investigation said.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Immigration helped Sweden's imports and exports nearly double during a five-year period, a soon-to-be-published study indicates.

WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Methane gas ignited at a coal mine in southern Poland Friday, killing three miners and severely burning at least 27 others, the state mining authority said.

SEOUL, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A dam discharge that killed six South Korean civilians showed no evidence that North Korea staged a water attack, a South Korean official said Friday.