The lot in Dinkytown where the old Burger King building stood, on the corner of 14th Avenue Southeast and 5th Street Southeast, will soon have a new occupant. But the new business might be a surprise...

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Randy Johnson was everything the Houston Astros wanted when they sacrificed their future to get him: overpowering, dominating, intimidating. Everything including a winner. Johnson, pitching...

Stand-down: a halt in normal military operations -- Webster's dictionary, McGraw-Hill edition. More than 800 homeless military veterans "halted" this weekend from the harsh realities of life on the street...

The Daily's effort to address a human rights issue in the July 21 editorial ("Ethics buried with Guatemalan victims") is laudable. Such issues must be discussed publicly and acted upon. But it is my opinion...

Sarah McKenzie A 35-year-old woman working on her Ph.D. in international development at the University was murdered in Uganda while on a six-week public health care mission. Friends and family of Cecilia...

Current public policy debates are increasingly placing greater emphasis on the need for stronger ethics. Human rights and environmental issues compete for center stage. The quotes found in the following...

At 10 a.m. today, U.S. Capitol Officer Jacob J. Chestnut's funeral procession will leave Fort Washington on its way to Arlington National Cemetery. Chestnut will be laid to rest with Detective John M....

Their SAT scores make high school teachers giddy. The best colleges will court them. Corporations will pay them richly. And for the past two weeks, they've been at the University working and studying...

The sound of childrens' voices filled the laboratory as 15 elementary schoolers craned their necks to see Chirp the chinchilla cradled in teacher Kendra Hunding's arms. The children are part of a group...

ROME (AP) -- Two U.S. Navy fighter jets collided Thursday over the Mediterranean during routine operations, and one crewman died after ejecting from a jet that crashed. After the collision, one of the...