The United States is still a beacon to the rest of the world and allows people to reinvent themselves, David Halberstam said Tuesday at Willey Hall. More than 300 people gathered for Halberstam's speech,...

ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) -- Early next week, a truck convoy will leave Somerset, Wis., with a precious cargo for Gustavus Adolphus College. It'll be a 175-foot church spire, custom built to replace one destroyed...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former intelligence analyst with the Pentagon's supersecret National Security Agency was charged Tuesday with selling the Soviet Union top defense secrets, including a target list...

While the Ohio State Buckeyes are celebrating homecoming this weekend with their game against the Gophers, many of the friends and family of three Minnesota players will be welcoming their heroes home. Sophomore...

TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) -- A gas explosion set off a pile of gunpowder used to make illegal fireworks Tuesday, obliterating a two-block area of this central Mexican town, killing at least 10 people and wounding...

ROME (AP) -- A former East German spy chief said Tuesday his agency had planted a mole -- a Benedictine monk -- in the Vatican. But ex-Stasi chief Markus Wolf and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev...

For the first time in years, former Gopher and current Los Angeles Laker Sam Jacobson is spending the month of October with his basketball future up in the air. Currently, the NBA owners are locking out...

MADISON LAKE, Minn. (AP) -- Shaun Lang had been warned that he could kill somebody if he persisted in playing "chicken" with other drivers. Prosecutors and investigators think the 21-year-old played the...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Two giants of the pharmaceutical industry, American Home Products Corp. and Monsanto Co., called off their $33.6 billion merger Tuesday over what some analysts said was a clash between...

ST. PAUL (AP) -- Money flowed into the state treasury this summer faster than officials predicted last spring, according to a report issued by the Minnesota Department of Finance on Monday. Most of the...