trol agents were slain Tuesday in a gunbattle with a man suspected of killing a woman and her daughter. The gunman, Ernest Moore, was captured after being wounded in the shootout. The slayings of Susan...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia launched the world's first satellite into space Tuesday using a missile fired from a submarine. The German Tubsat-N satellite was put into orbit by a RSM-54 intercontinental ballistic...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- In a boost to the Palestinians and a defeat for U.S. lobbying, the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to grant the Palestinians' U.N. delegation nearly the same rights...

Net: We'd like to start the day off with a clarification and apology for misleading anyone who might have concluded that "vile" Steve Sampson is still the coach of the U.S. soccer team. Sampson, of course,...

ST. PAUL (AP) -- A newly formed anti-tobacco organization would decide how to spend $202 million of Minnesota's $6.1 billion tobacco settlement under a plan outlined Tuesday by Attorney General Hubert...

Minneapolis homicide detectives found the body of a man shot to death in a wooded area of the Como neighborhood on Tuesday morning. Penny Parrish, a Minneapolis Police Department spokeswoman, said authorities...

While regents rush to build a new soccer stadium to comply with federal law, community leaders say they feel forced to host the complex, the planning for which violates University policy. Although Board...

Minneapolis police responded to a rash of car break-ins in the Como neighborhood of Southeast Minneapolis this past week. At least a dozen residents in the area have reported damage to their automobiles....

Attending a Major League Soccer game in Columbus, Ohio, is a far cry from going to a game in the United Arab Emirates, where Mohamed Aljaabari is from. "At home, there are loads of people at the games,"...

Doomsayers fear all computers will crash in the year 2000. In other words, the start of Armageddon will be because of a computer glitch, not a meteorite. Bugs are a real fear and the biggest one of all...