Mendota Heights-based Petters Group Worldwide now owns more than 80 percent of Sun Country Airlines. Petters bought out co-owners Whitebox Advisors, a Minneapolis-based hedge fund, on Friday and is now solely responsible for Sun Country's operations.

Stanford University Thursday announced a partnership with Cambridge University in Great Britain that will make more than 500 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts from Britain available online.

An autopsy is under way Friday afternoon on the body of a woman found by a patrolling Solano County Sheriff's Office deputy early Friday morning.

The California Department of Transportation has canceled Friday night's scheduled closure of northbound U.S. Highway 101 near the Interstate Highway 580 connector ramp in San Rafael.

AÂ series of shockers for an elderly southwest Baltimore homeowner.

Thanksgiving is less than a week away and Baltimore's own Carmelo Anthony is helping families put food on the table.

According to federal safety investigators, rollover accidents are a national problem claiming about 10,000 lives a year. Some critics say the roof design on SUV's and vans should be changed to improve safety.

A Fort Lauderdale woman convicted in the scalding death of her 3-year-old son has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.

The Perry County coroner says whoever took the SUV he uses as Perry County Coroner is driving around a red flag.

Family members of Notre Dame football legend George Gipp have filed a lawsuit against a relative, ESPN and a sports writer after the football player's body was exhumed for DNA testing.

John Kerry accepts a Texas oilman's $1 million challenge to disprove Swift Boat claims.

Senate Republicans today blocked an effort by Democrats to act on a war spending bill that would have provided $50 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with the requirement that troop withdrawals from Iraq begin within 30 days. Democrats

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean has pulled away from the field in the Democratic Presidential nomination race: his support among Democratic primary voters nationwide has risen in the past month, and held steady after the news of Saddam Hussein's capture.

Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour pardons issued by former President Bill Clinton in January 2001 have donated thousands of dollars to the presidential campaign of his wife, Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., according to campaign finance records examined by

He has covered golf for a long time, but Steve Elling hasn't seen anything like the LPGA Tour's ADT Championship, where Friday meant finishing 16th was as good as leading by 10, and the whole crazy business starts over again