Like most other farmers south of the Twin Cities, Dan Ireland, who owns 800 acres in Mankato, Minn., is getting pinched by the depressed demand for his most important crop: corn. But in at least one respect,...

The Clinton administration recently issued a federal mandate through the Department of Health and Human Services that requires state Medicaid programs to cover the new potency drug, Viagra, when it is...

SEATTLE (AP) -- Watching Peyton Manning and Jon Kitna, it was hard to tell who was the No. 1 pick in this year's NFL draft. All Archie Manning's tutoring and that extra year at Tennessee couldn't get Peyton...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Urging trapped and weakened survivors not to give up, rescue teams took hope themselves Sunday from the whispered response of a woman wedged in the debris -- while lifting 20 more...

(U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Peoria, Illinois. When I moved to this city of 112,000 in June, I expected to find myself living among all things all-American. County fairs featuring tractor pulls, livestock...

labs. Seyfried said the ship's facilities surpass even those he uses at the University. Ding took the first dive, an hour-and-a-half plummet to the bottom, where he would stay for more than five hours....

BEIJING (AP) -- After ordering tens of thousands of residents to abandon their homes, engineers dynamited levees along a stretch of the swollen Yangtze River on Sunday to ease floodwaters menacing cities...

Gophers head football coach Glen Mason finished the 1997 season with many lingering questions. Beginning today, he hopes to find some answers when incoming freshmen report to practice, followed by the...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Elvis and the Dysfunctional Family. Rock band? No, it's the title of a scholarly conference highlighting a week of events marking the 21st anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. "The...

Little hands tend tiny plots each summer in a north Minneapolis garden that just keeps on growing. The J.D. Rivers Outdoor Discovery Center has stewed up gardening enthusiasm during its 16-summer existence. Now,...