Kevin West

More than two weeks before the NFL draft, the Houston Texans have already decided they'll take Fresno State quarterback David Carr with the No. 1 pick.

Carolyn Peck was hired as the women's basketball coach at Florida, leaving the WNBA and returning to college after leading Purdue to the 1999 national title.

Team lawyers asked a judge to throw out a Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission lawsuit that seeks to fend off elimination of the Twins and keep the club alive and in town indefinitely.

A day care van slammed into a bridge embankment on Interstate 240 on Thursday, killing an adult and four children and critically injuring four other children.

Two Georgia politicians wrote letters to the State Board of Pardons on behalf of a prisoner now under investigation for allegedly plotting to kill the judge who put him behind bars.

A Texas laboratory worker probably contracted skin anthrax last month because he was not wearing gloves when he handled vials of spores collected from last fall's mail attacks.

AOL vice president John Borthwick said companies like Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Dell have expressed interest in creating highly customized computers, which would run Windows almost invisibly, but their contracts with Microsoft keep them from doing so.

Former Arkansas basketball coach Nolan Richardson is due $3 million in deferred compensation in addition to the $3 million buyout of his contract that resulted from his March 1 firing.

Nurses and teachers are in short supply. Home furnishing stores are hiring, as are hotels, amusement companies and other recreation-type businesses. And temporary employment agencies are being asked to fill more jobs.

New claims for unemployment insurance shot up last week, but the layoffs picture was distorted by federal requirements related to how laid-off workers who exhausted their benefits may seek to get them extended.