Mac Butler believes he'll beat the bloated Red River and save his home again this year. But a canoe and kayak are tied up outside his house just in case he's wrong.

The Seattle Seahawks have finally stepped into the free agent marketplace, agreeing to terms with tight end Chris Baker.

A new Ohio State University custodial employee who received a bad job evaluation shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, officials said Tuesday.

With her boyfriend in severe abdominal pain, Sharon Edge called 9-1-1 for an ambulance in the early morning hours of Feb. 6. Heavy snow was falling –- so heavy it would all but bring the city to a standstill – and Curtis Mitchell needed to go to a hospital.

An exasperated White House newly committed to preaching partisan peace slammed Republicans for playing politics on national security and making ignorant allegations about the investigation into the Christmas airliner plot.

Hoosiers and Who Dats. And, oh yes, the two best teams in the NFL also happen to be on hand for Sunday's Super Bowl.

The leader of the country's largest university thinks it's time to re-examine how professors are awarded tenure, a type of job-for-life protection virtually unknown outside academia.

The last young backpackers flew away from Machu Picchu as clouds closed in again Friday, leaving Peru to grapple with flood damage that will close its top tourist site for weeks, or even months.

Some T-shirt makers have been hit with cease-and-desist letters from the NFL demanding that they stop selling shirts with the traditional "Who Dat?" cheer of New Orleans Saints fans. The NFL says the shirts infringe on a legal trademark it owns.

Pete Carroll's coaching staff with the Seattle Seahawks is coming together with a heavy mix of NFL experience and few ties with Carroll's last coaching job at Southern California.

Hungry, haggard survivors clamored for food and water Saturday as donors squabbled over how to get aid into Haiti and rescuers waged an increasingly improbable battle to free the dying before they become the dead.

Football Coach Paul Wulff said Friday that Morton's 35 years of coaching experience will be a big plus for the Cougars, who had one of the nation's worst offenses last season.

Seattle's antsy new coach started the Seahawks' next search hours after he got to town Tuesday. Carroll joined team chief executive officer Tod Leiweke in interviewing Omar Khan, a contract administrator with the Steelers. And that was just the beginning.