CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Teamsters union and United Parcel Service Inc on Sunday said they reached a tentative five-year agreement that will raise parcel workers' wages and increase the company's contributions to funds providing pensions and benefits.

AP - The Mafia bribed an FBI agent with cash, stolen jewelry, hotel rooms, liquor and prostitutes for tips about wiretaps and other help, prosecutors said in a letter unsealed Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in California certified a class action lawsuit against Target Corp brought by plaintiffs claiming the discount retailer's website is inaccessible to the blind, according to court documents.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who want to become pregnant, are pregnant or breast-feeding should eat at least 12 ounces of fatty fish such as tuna every week to help themselves and their babies, experts will recommend later on Thursday.

AP - When Diane Dotson is sick, she waits for the wagon.

AP - A federal prosecutor from Florida accused of flying to Detroit last month to molest a 5-year-old girl committed suicide in his cell Friday in federal prison, authorities said.

AP - Protesters blocked the city's Columbus Day parade route Saturday, pouring a bucket filled with fake blood and dismembered baby dolls onto the street as police arrested 83 people.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two years ago, Mike Metcalfe awoke from a five-day coma ago to discover he was diabetic, a new statistic in a disease that has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and other rich countries.

AP - When pundits complain about 'pit bull politics,' this isn't what they mean.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The cost of dining out in New York City held steady over the past year despite an 11 percent spike in prices at top-tier destinations, according to the 2008 Zagat guide released on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Crash tests of some popular midsize sport utility vehicles turned in an unexpectedly mixed performance in side-impact tests, a leading insurance group said on Thursday.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - David Lee 'Tex' Hill, who flew with the Flying Tigers in China during World War Two and was said to be the inspiration for John Wayne's character in a 1942 movie about the squadron, died at his San Antonio home on Thursday at the age of 92, his family said.

AP - The mother of a woman who cut a baby from the womb of an acquaintance she killed testified that she caught her then-husband having sex with her daughter in 1984.

AP - A fugitive wanted in Tennessee on multiple counts of child rape and exploitation was captured Saturday near Matamoros, Mexico, and jailed in southern Texas.

AP - Sen. Larry Craig says he will file an appeal Monday over a judge's refusal to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from his arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting.

CARSON CITY, Nevada (Reuters) - Nevada's highest court gave a reprieve to a former construction worker scheduled to die on Monday, ruling that his execution should await a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the issue of lethal injection and that the state's methods involved excessive sedation.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's a new twist on the $64,000 question. That's what the richest schools in New York state spend per pupil.

AP - A private Islamic school supported by the Saudi government should be shut down until the U.S. government can ensure the school is not fostering radical Islam, a federal panel recommends.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An elderly California man who acted as a plaintiff in Milberg Weiss LLP class action lawsuits spanning two decades pleaded guilty on Thursday to three charges stemming from a federal probe into a secret kickback scheme by the law firm.

AP - Few in this small Tennessee town can believe the woman they knew as Linda McElroy was capable of murder. Her neighbors and friends learned this week that she was really fugitive Linda Darby — who was convicted of killing her husband but escaped 35 years ago from a life sentence at an Indiana prison.

AP - A fast-growing wildfire whipped up by 50-mph winds consumed about 100 acres early Sunday amid dry conditions in northeast Los Angeles County, authorities said.

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox advanced to the World Series with a crushing 11-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park on Sunday, taking the American League Championship Series by a 4-3 margin with the Game Seven victory.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Technicians began filling shuttle Discovery's fuel tank for a launch attempt at 11:38 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, officials said.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy judge in Texas said on Tuesday he would appoint a mediator to try to hammer out a deal on the fate of 29,000 acres of giant, 2,000-year-old California redwood trees, which environmentalists and loggers battled over in the 1990s.

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox battered the Colorado Rockies 13-1 in Game One of the World Series on Wednesday, snapping the National League champions' 10-game winning streak with a record-setting scoring spree.

SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. troops will remain on the Korean peninsula even if the North and South reach a peace deal to replace the armistice that ended their 1950-1953 war, South Korea's foreign minister said on Friday.

AP - Black soldiers court-martialed 63 years ago in the rioting death of an Italian prisoner of war at Fort Lawton were unfairly denied access to their attorneys and investigative records and should have their convictions overturned, the U.S. Army said Friday.

DENVER (Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies 10-5 on Saturday to move within one victory of winning the World Series.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Red Sox fans poured through the streets of Boston early on Monday to celebrate their team's second World Series victory in four years, some hurling rocks at police in riot gear and lighting fires.

AP - Use of cholesterol and blood pressure medicines by young adults appears to be rising rapidly — at a faster pace than among senior citizens, according to an industry report being released Tuesday.

AP - A Harvard Law School professor best known for defending the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and for helping parents sue chemical companies in a case popularized by the film 'A Civil Action' has a new cause: poker.