John McCain and Barack Obama both have big plans for the federal tax code. But the biggest difference between them involves what happens to families who make more than $250,000 dollars a year. Obama would raise their income taxes. McCain

The husband of Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will visit the Iron Range and northwestern Minnesota this week.

Allan H. Spear, a former state Senatepresident who served in the Minnesota Legislature for nearly 30years, has died at the age of 71.

Victims of the Interstate 35W bridgecollapse face a deadline this week for getting compensation from aspecial fund established by the Legislature.

Red Line customers should allow extra travel time Monday night and Tuesday morning as construction work will cause southbound trains to be rerouted from the subway.

A 15-year-old has been charged with murder for fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy in a Southeast Side grocery store on Oct. 1, police said.

Making up for a miss just minutes earlier, Jason Elam kicked a 48-yard field goal on the final play, giving the Atlanta Falcons an improbable 22-20 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sunday.

The girl who cried wolf in the Palos Heights rape case has agreed to do community service as penance, her attorney said Saturday as the public reacted with a mixture of sympathy and outrage to news that a hoax was

Firefighters rescued a woman and two cats from the top floors of a burning Ukrainian Village apartment building early Sunday on the Near West Side.

A man was held without bond Sunday in the murder of a 15-year-old boy gunned down near his South Side home Friday night in the Pilsen neighborhood. Another teen was wounded in the shooting.

A man was charged and held without bond Sunday in the May 26 murder of a 15-year-old girl chatting with friends on the sidewalk near her grandmother's South Side home.

Despite the finding of a legislative report that she had broken thestate's ethics law in the scandal dubbed Troopergate, Alaska GovernorSarah Palin said Saturday that the report actually cleared her of any"legal wrongdoing or unethical activity."

North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclearfacilities, hours after the U.S. removed the communist country from alist of states Washington says sponsor terrorism.

A car bomb exploded Sunday in a commercial street of southwesternBaghdad, killing seven people and wounding nine others, police said.

A wildfire burned about 500 acres of forest Sunday, threateninghundreds of homes and an animal sanctuary north of Los Angeles,authorities said. The blaze began about 2 a.m. in a rugged area about 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, fire

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say TropicalStorm Nana has formed in the eastern Atlantic, but predict it willweaken to a tropical depression by Monday.

A corrosive liquid overflowed from a tank at a chemical plant inwestern Pennsylvania on Saturday, evaporating into a toxic cloud thatsnaked along the ground and forced about 2,500 people to flee. At leastthree residents were believed to suffer respiratory problems.

Nations in Europe's single-currency zone agreed Sunday to temporarilyguarantee bank refinancing and pledged to prevent banks failing as partof a raft of emergency measures designed to get credit flowing again.

A Soyuz spacecraft with two Americans and a Russian on board lifted offfrom Kazakhstan on Sunday for the international space station. TheSoyuz TMA-13 capsule carrying American computer game millionaireRichard Garriott soared into a clear sky atop a Russian rocket as

The attorney for a Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague says his client is fighting extradition to the United States. Dick McNeil says 21-year-old Cpl. Cesar Laurean has filed an extradition appeal in a Mexican court.