Correction Tuesday's column, "Teamster reformers battle corruption," should have said the Teamsters Local 320 was ordered to pay for a mailing of Rank and File campaign literature.

The University of Minnesota is a rape-free zone this week. The writing isn't on the wall, but rather on the sidewalks. The sidewalks, of course, are where every rapist looks as one chooses one's next...

SELBY, S.D. (AP) -- Nicholas A. Scherr of Mobridge pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reduced charge of first-degree manslaughter for slaying Candace Rough Surface, a young Standing Rock Sioux Indian woman, nearly...

ST. PAUL (AP) -- The ninth-grader told a counselor she was thinking about killing herself. Three months later, she wrote an English class essay about killing herself. Another month after that, she wrote...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Pale, impassive, wearing a baggy blue suit and flanked by U.N. guards, a 40-year-old Serb faced international justice Tuesday in the first war crimes trial to come out of...

We all knew the whole Minnesota Nice routine would have to go wrong someday. There's no way the collective citizenry of one state could possibly keep up the act forever. Around the country, if you mention...

NORTHFIELD, Minn. (AP) -- Hundreds of law enforcement officers from Minnesota and surrounding states joined community members Tuesday to mourn the death of Rice County Deputy Sheriff John Liebenstein. Bagpipes...

ST. PAUL (AP) -- House Speaker Irv Anderson said Tuesday that he has stripped Rep. Jeff Bertram of his leadership posts because Bertram has refused to resign and has ignored an order to undergo anger counseling. The...

The student who proposed to change the Food and Drug Administration's blood donation policy, accusing it of discrimination against possible donors, may be getting closer to his goal. Sean Wherley, president...

Elmo stumbled up toward the summit, forcing his legs to move against the gale force winds. He'd heard that there was a 60 percent chance of showers today, but he trudged on. As far as he looked in every...