Column: Athletes are winners even on day they lost
The idea that a union shop leader would be able to schedule practice breaks or negotiate travel upgrades for Northwestern football players always seemed a bit preposterous.
The idea that a union shop leader would be able to schedule practice breaks or negotiate travel upgrades for Northwestern football players always seemed a bit preposterous.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with rates on six-month bills unchanged, while rates on three-month bills dropped to the lowest lev…
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:
FORT MCCOY —The bands at the annual Army Concert were awesome, said Melissa Boswell.
TORONTO (AP) — Logan Couture was just a preschooler when the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series titles in 1992 and 1993. Wearing his team logo pajamas, the San Jose Sharks forward fought t…
CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mostly lower Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
POULTNEY, Vt. (AP) — A college student in Vermont is living in a 96-square-foot house he built to reduce his carbon footprint — and save money.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The dental practice of a Minnesota man who killed a well-known lion in Zimbabwe has reopened.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The latest from the presidential candidates as they meet and greet voters at the Iowa State Fair (all times are local):
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — When Phil Loadholt limped off the field in the first quarter on Saturday night, Minnesota Vikings fans started going through all the lists of available free agents a…
BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — Blue Bell Creameries will resume distributing ice cream to select markets in Texas and Alabama this month after halting sales and production following listeria contamination.
WATERHILL, Tenn. (AP) — A Middle Tennessee teen is alive, thanks to Siri.
DETROIT (AP) — Most victims of General Motors' faulty ignition switches have accepted compensation offers from the company.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A professor and associate dean at the Harvard Business School has been selected as the new president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A Russian court on Monday awarded symbolic damages of one ruble ($0.01) to a former "Kremlin troll" who sued her ex-employer and demanded closure of what she desc…
VIROQUA — A 40-year-old Viroqua man was arrested early Sunday morning and is suspected of striking a street sign and pedestrian caution light assembly with a vehicle.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall has come to Geno Smith's defense, saying the injured quarterback was not at fault in last week's locker-room fight.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The NFL and University of Minnesota have won the latest round in a legal fight over the ability of off-duty officers to carry handguns at Minnesota Vikings games.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Citigroup Inc. affiliates have agreed to pay $179.5 million to resolve federal regulators' charges of misleading investors in hedge funds that later collapsed.
TOWN OF ALMON, Wis. (AP) — An autopsy will be done to determine how a man died after he was found unresponsive in a whey tank in Shawano County.
GREENVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Writers from across the country who want to make their fictional crime fighters more factual will gather in Wisconsin this week to learn firsthand the techniques police…
A 40-year-old Viroqua man was arrested early Sunday morning and is suspected of striking a street sign and pedestrian caution light assembly with a vehicle.
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market is rising at midday, bouncing back from a discouraging report on manufacturing.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say they've found the body of a 43-year-old man who went missing while swimming in Lake Harriet in Minneapolis.
Jacob Olsen, 22, of Sparta was charged Friday with battery of a police officer, misdemeanor battery, resisting an officer, damage to property, disorderly conduct and second-offense drunken driving.