Twin Cities man challenges No. 3 finish in Croatian vote
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A Twin Cities businessman who returned to his native Croatia to run for president finished third in the election Sunday and is claiming he was cheated out of a spot in the upcoming runoff between the top two ...
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Croatia's pro-Western president, Stjepan  Mesic, narrowly failed to clinch re-election on Sunday, paving  the way for a run-off vote against the candidate of the ruling  conservative government.
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ANDRE AGASSI&#39;s chances of qualifying for the season-ending Masters Cup suffered a setback in Stockholm today. The No.1 seed lost 3-6 6-3 7-6 to Thomas Johansson in the ($1.
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Kobe Bryant will take part in the 3-point shooting contest at All-Star weekend against a field that includes defending champion Jason Kapono and the last repeat winner, Peja Stojakovic.
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Pro-Western president Boris Tadic and hardline challenger Tomislav Nikolic vie in elections on Sunday that will decide who drives Serbia's response to the trauma of the expected breakaway of its Kosovo region.
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Croatia's pro-Western president, Stjepan Mesic, narrowly failed to clinch reelection yesterday, paving the way for a runoff against the candidate of the ruling conservative government.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Top seed Andre Agassi strengthened his challenge for a place in next month&#39;s ATP season final with a 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/4) semifinal victory over Tommy Haas at the Stockholm Open.
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Roger Federer, in search of a third straight Australian Open title, will face Novak Djokovic, one of three Serbs in the menâs and womenâs semifinals in Melbourne.
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Fourth seed Marat Safin survived an  injury scare and his first tough examination of this year's  Australian Open as he battled to a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over  Mario Ancic of Croatia in the third round Friday.
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FARMINGTON, United States : World golf number one Vijay Singh, a seven-time winner this year, will not have second-ranked Tiger Woods to overcome here this weekend when he goes for his third PGA victory in a row.
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World number one Roger Federer will try  to deny Lleyton Hewitt his third Masters Cup title in Sunday's  final.
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Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader won  parliament's backing on Saturday for his proposed centre-right  coalition cabinet, which faces the uphill task of speeding up  Zagreb's European Union membership talks.
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Most Sundays, Bob Peltier buys six ad pages in the two Twin Cities newspapers. But Labor Day weekend was a turning point for the president of Edina Realty, Minnesota's top real estate firm.
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There's a three-team race in the AL Central, and the Minnesota Twins are surging toward the lead with three weeks left in the regular season.
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Predrag Lezaic was tired of traveling four hours from Ely to Minneapolis to get the food from his native Croatia that he craved.
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By Adam Wilson, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 8--Three union men are vying for the Democratic spot on the ticket against a maverick Republican, state Rep. Tom Campbell of Roy.
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Croatia's pro-Western president failed to win an outright majority for re-election on Sunday, forcing him to face a runoff vote against the conservative government's candidate in two weeks.