Eighty days of trial, 39 million documents and eight University professors later, the state, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and the tobacco companies inked a $7 billion settlement Friday. Each...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- The Gophers baseball team might have played its final conference series of the 1998 season over the weekend at Northwestern, but in a sense the three-month-old season has just begun. With...

Law School graduates saw Geraldine Ferraro and Walter Mondale share a stage on Saturday for the first time since the pair's failed presidential bid in 1984. "We thought we'd try it again and see if we...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A burst water pipe left a million people without water in Malaysia's capital area, where 2 million people have already suffered drought-induced water shortages for two months. More...

In less than two hours Friday, University President Mark Yudof showed the Board of Regents how his $1.6 billion budget plan would bolster faculty without hurting students with higher tuition. It was the...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Michigan's Sara Griffin took home the award for Big Ten Pitcher of the Year on Friday night, but the Gophers softball team would like to present her with an award of its own -- Big...

Missing from the rows of budget items under scrutiny Friday at the Board of Regents meeting: the Medical School's bid for an early retirement package. Deadlines for including the proposal in the upcoming...

The Gophers men's golf team finished the Big Ten Championships tied for third place with Northwestern at Forest Akers West Golf Course in East Lansing, Mich. Minnesota shot a 36-over 1188. Indiana won...

Wearing a vibrant yellow suit that fairly glowed in the dim hall, Maya Angelou hypnotized more than 2,400 luncheon-goers Friday afternoon at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Espousing a message of economic...

One year ago today, May 11, 1997, marked a change in mankind's view of the universe as profound as the Copernican revolution. In the final game of a six-game match, Gary Kasparov finally met his better...