A Pakistani court sentenced Wednesday the doctor accused of helping the United States catch Osama bin Laden to 33 years in jail, a Pakistani official said. Shakeel Afridi was sentenced under...

Mitt Romney is within one win of receiving the Republican nomination for president. He won all 75 delegates in the Kentucky and Arkansas primaries Tuesday, giving him a total of 1, 067.  That means...

  Why? Because looking at the twangy lineup will probably make you smile, not squint. Call me old-fashioned, call me country, call me whatever you want — but make sure you let me call shot-gun...

Egyptians went to the polls Wednesday to vote for the country’s first freely elected leader in decades. Voters waited in long lines outside polling stations across the country to cast ballots for...

Bill Tramel, the Gophers' associate head men's and women's swimming and diving coach, was named the head coach at Marshall University on Wednesday. Tramel spent six years as a coach at Minnesota before...

The Big Ten announced its postseason baseball honors for the 2011-12 season Tuesday, and Gophers starting pitcher TJ Oakes was named a first team All-Big Ten selection.Oakes, a junior, held a 7-3 record...

History was made Tuesday after the first private rocket was launched into outer space.  Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, launced its Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday morning, marking the first...

 Here is your Daily Digest for Tuesday, May 22: Interim Best Buy CEO strikes different tone Best Buy’s interim CEO made a blunt assessment of his companies place in the market Tuesday, telling...

The Gophers will be facing the Big Ten's elite football teams at TCF Bank Stadium by the time head coach Jerry Kill is in his fifth full season with the team.  The Big Ten has announced the football...