The rash of kid shootings recently covered by the media is not sufficient to warrant fear of an epidemic. The shootings are shocking and horrible, but not enough to indicate that kids are suddenly taking...

Republican party delegates endorsed St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman as their candidate for Governor at the Target Center's first-ever hosting of a state political convention Friday night. The ease with which...

Leslie Zander began attending mass at the Newman Center because she felt it was something she should do. Now, after two years of involvement with the center, Zander said it has given her more than a place...

Net: Today, we offer you a poem elegizing a new University landmark:From ZooKid: In honor of the beautiful new bike ramp on the West Bank, I give you FRUSTRATIONU of M-Twin Cities Has a campus that is...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Lee Janzen won the 1993 U.S. Open by holding off Payne Stewart down the stretch. On Sunday, he turned back Stewart once again in the Open, this time by overcoming a seven-stroke deficit. Showing...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the nation struggled over how to keep guns out of the wrong hands, the Justice Department estimated Sunday that under the pre-sale checks of the Brady law some 69,000 handgun sales...

Gophers track athletes Vesa Rantanen and Steffan Strand were named third team Academic All-American last week. The two were key components to helping Minnesota win the indoor and outdoor Big Ten track...

Masami Suga refused to clean out her desk Sunday. Suga, one of the two remaining staff of the Refugee Studies Center, worked her last paid day Sunday. With Suga out of a job and University administrators...

CHASKA, Minn. (AP) -- From hospitals in St. Paul to high-tech firms in Rochester, employers in Minnesota are angling for immigrants, welfare recipients and other job applicants once considered too much...

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- After failing to rescue the depressed oil market by slashing production this spring, OPEC now hopes a new round of cuts might do the trick. But analysts and traders are skeptical,...