KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban army that governs most of Afghanistan dismissed as "infidels" international campaigners trying to improve the rights of women living under their strict Islamic rule. "The...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- James McDougal, one of most important cooperating witnesses in Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation of President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, died Sunday...

Mariucci Arena is now closed for Minnesota's women's hockey team. The sticks are put away and the uniforms are hung up for the time being, following the Gophers 10-2 rout of Augsburg in their final home...

oats of six people, including four blind women, in a village south of Algiers, security forces said in a statement Sunday. The killings took place early Sunday on a farm in Haouch Mena, about 20 miles...

The Gophers men's basketball team got the NIT berth it hoped for and expected Sunday night. Minnesota (15-15) will host Colorado State (20-8) at Williams Arena on Wednesday night. The tentative game time...

Net: It was a voyage like any other voyage. The wine was fine, and the chicken was delicious. We were all caught in steerage, having a rollicking good time, when suddenly our ship ran into a great big...

Coming into the final series of the regular season Friday night against second-place St. Cloud State, the seventh-place Gophers men's hockey team was searching for anything to turn its abysmal season...

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) -- Debra Evans, eagerly awaiting the imminent birth of her fourth baby, was preparing her three youngsters for bed on a chilly November night when assailants invaded her apartment. The...

It was supposed to be the blueprint for an entire season, not just one series. Instead of winning its first road game in more than four months on the last weekend of the regular season, the Gophers men's...

CHICAGO -- The sweetest irony of the inaugural Big Ten Tournament would have been for Indiana and Minnesota to meet in the final, thus giving the only two coaches who voted against the idea -- Bob Knight...