Editor's note: About 50,000 students, staff, faculty members and visitors converge on the University's Twin Cities campus every day. In the midst of this sea of people, it's easy to think of the strangers...

Among shelves of books, a collection of chairs and a table full of vegetarian morsels, a conclave of humanitarian activists assembled at a West Bank bookstore Friday to plan an illegal journey to Iraq. body...

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) -- Chancellor Helmut Kohl's strength with eastern German voters plummeted Sunday as voters in a state election channeled their disillusionment into support for an extreme-right...

MSA MADNESS Net: Our ongoing MSA debate continues, with these letters: From Screech, The Pizza Club for Studs President: Well, the MSA elections are nearly upon us. And, as usual, the candidates are using...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Some of the Minnesota men's track team's best athletes were at the prestigious Drake Relays this weekend, but most of their performances fell short of the pace they set while winning...

Among the scattered beer cans, candy wrappers and cigarette butts scooped from the Mississippi River banks, Benjamin Franklin poked his eyes out of the trash heap. Melissa Bean found a $100 bill during...

ST. PAUL (AP) -- A company whose plans to build a synthetic granite factory in Cohasset fell through may have violated state grant rules by spending $500,000 on machinery instead of training, according...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Track meets are interesting to observe. One weekend Minnesota faces essentially no challenge in team competition, and the next weekend it's facing Olympians in some of its events. Just...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's warring factions promised Sunday to continue a cease-fire as they opened face-to-face talks in Pakistan aimed at ending the bloody civil war that is devastating...

As Shannon Beeler goes, so goes the 21st-ranked Gophers softball team. The junior shortstop led the Gophers (39-16, 10-8 in the Big Ten) to two victories in a three-game road series with Indiana (11-31,...