Gophers men's basketball senior Quincy Lewis and incoming freshman Joel Przybilla were among 32 players to receive tryout invites for the 1998 Goodwill Games. The tryouts will begin May 29 in Colorado...

Walter Library is one step closer to its technological face lift after getting a thumbs-up from the Board of Regents' Facilities Committee on Thursday. The seven-member panel voted unanimously to move...

The regents are selling it, but student leaders say they don't buy it. University President Mark Yudof and regents contend a 3 percent tuition increase will be necessary to cover next year's faculty and...

Michigan holds a clear advantage entering the Big Ten softball tournament, largely because it has won the title in each of the three years the tournament has existed. The No. 2 Wolverines (48-4 overall,...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A South Korean fisherman was killed and two others wounded when soldiers mistook their ship for a North Korean spy vessel, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. The 1.5-ton boat,...

As baby boomers age and life expectancies rise, the strain on the current Social Security program continues to mount. Arguably the nation's most crucial safety net, Social Security will run out by the...

When chess-playing computer Deep Blue II beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in October 1997, analysts hailed it as a broader victory of machine over man. But the computer's co-creator told 70 people...

DETROIT (AP) -- Chrysler Corp. is being acquired by Germany's Daimler-Benz for more than $38 billion in stock in a deal that will reshape the automaking industry and give both companies a bigger stake...

Two years after General College found itself on the chopping block, the school's officials seem primed to declare it the leading developmental educator in the country. General College Dean David Taylor...

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