His senior season has been well below expectations, but in recent weeks Gophers goaltender Steve DeBus has begun to make the best of a bad situation. Against Wisconsin early this month, he limited the...

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- El Ni¤o-powered rains sent a river spilling over its banks into a working-class district of Lima, Peru's sprawling desert capital, filling streets with up to 3 feet of water Monday. Hundreds...

NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Leftist guerrillas set off a mine Monday that killed five soldiers sent to guard polling stations in India's parliamentary elections. The explosion and other attacks raised the...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- The company that cloned Dolly the sheep announced Monday that it has cloned a calf, using cells from a fetus rather than cells of an adult animal. The calf was produced by PPL Therapeutics...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- The loss was so thorough, even Bob Knight was baffled. "You know, it's ... I don't know, I wish I could figure it out," Knight said after Michigan's 112-64 rout of Indiana, the...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was one of Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson's last chances to take on President Clinton, and Carlson used the opportunity to push his pet issue -- public funding for private schools. "I...

Yu-Shih Chen never throws anything away. Chen, chair of the Chinese program in the College of Liberal Arts, has saved departmental charts and correspondence with University officials that point an accusing...

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A man arrested in the anthrax scare was charged with new counts of violating probation and a lawyer for another suspect said Monday that prosecutors planned to drop the biological weapons...

Alleged rapist Antonio Burton's defense team made no efforts to veil its strategy in the trial's opening statements Monday in Hennepin County District Court: Puiassance Andersen committed the assaults,...

The Gophers men's golf team, led by sophomore Martin LeMesurier's 36-hole even par score of 144, is tied for sixth place at the 15-team Puerto Rico Golf Classic. Minnesota has a two-round score of 595,...