WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers struggled to win last-minute changes in a huge $500 billion spending measure or to find out precisely what was in it as Congress prepared for its likely passage Tuesday. White...

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Mike Tyson got his boxing license back today, 15 months after he lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ears during a title fight. Tyson told the Nevada Athletic Commission that he had...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Shaquille O'Neal won't get his overdue $15 million. Patrick Ewing won't get the first chunk of his $18.5 million. They and 224 other players won't be paid anytime soon because an arbitrator...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Twenty years after lawyers for a San Francisco murder defendant hatched the so-called "Twinkie defense," a man who shot three family members has taken the next logical step -- the diet-drug...

The clouds of cigarette smoke that fill bars often conjure alternate memories and smell differently than the sweet smell of tobacco smoldering in a grandfather's pipe. But scientists now have reason to...

Halloween is just two weeks away, but the Gophers have already been spooked. Early in game one Friday night, sophomore outside hitter Nicole Branagh fell to the Sports Pavilion court clutching her left...

Sophomore Kris Scholz and senior Amber Hegland have been selected captains of Minnesota's womens' hockey team for the 1998-99 season. Last year, Scholz led the Gophers in assists with 34 to rank third...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- High deer populations in parts of southeastern Minnesota are destroying some native plants, according to University of Minnesota researchers. "In some areas deer are changing the whole...

The search for the next Hosea Crittenden began Monday morning at Williams Arena. Would-be Gophers arrived at 7 a.m. for the 13th annual walk-on tryout with gym bags over their shoulders and beat-up hightops...

BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) -- The No. 14 bus stop was packed with soldiers waiting for a ride to a nearby army base during Monday morning rush-hour when suddenly there was a hissing noise. The attack, by a...