
UTEP women's basketball team loses to Houston, 57-55
UTEP's Sviatlana Trukshanina pressures Houston's Jasmine Johnson as she dishes off in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Conference USA tournament Tuesday in Tulsa, Okla.

UTEP basketball coach Tony Barbee has led Miners to success his way
UTEP is ready to play for another championship, a Conference USA Tournament championship.

3 Navy dogs died after being neglected by contractors training them to detect explosives
The Navy says that three dogs died and dozens more were in poor health after being neglected by a private security contractor in Chicago that had been hired to train the dogs to detect explosives.

Lady Blues To Open NCAA Tournament Friday
The No. 7-ranked Washburn Lady Blues open NCAA-II South Central Regional play as the No.

Sonoma County Sues Bodega Bay Vacation Rental Firm
The owner of a closed Bodega Bay vacation rental company is being sued by Sonoma County for millions in overdue taxes and penalties.

National awards: Turning to Turner too obvious to miss
Evan Turner is the CBSSports.com National Player of the Year. There's no other reasonable choice.

Chasing the dots ..
People, Politics, Policies and Power Play POLICY development is plotting direction and actions to provide guidance to all members of a grouping to achieve desired outcomes, in this case, Namibia; it is an Executive function and is based upon stated national intent, realities and interpretation of the future.

Whittier celebrates Arbor Day
City officials celebrated Arbor Day Tuesday with a tree-planting ceremony at Michigan Park.

Correction: Photo caption corrected
A caption that ran with a photograph in Tuesday's Standard-Times contained an error.

Butler claims NCAA berth
Scott Grote and his Wright State teammates didn't have any answers for Butler's Shelvin Mack in the Horizon League championship game Tuesday.