Thanks to two convincing wins over Northern Iowa in mid-February, the Gophers softball team headed to Cedar Falls, Iowa, fairly certain it would wind up with a sweep of Wednesday's doubleheader. But the...

and Melanie Evans About 40 police officers raided the Gopher Campus Motor Lodge Wednesday evening, arresting five individuals for possession of marijuana and crack cocaine. The four adults and one juvenile...

Blomkest, Minn., is well-known for turkey farming. But one day it might be known for more than supplying the country with Thanksgiving dinner. If the catcher of Minnesota's baseball team keeps improving...

University President Mark Yudof said Wednesday undergraduate tuition rates likely will climb 3 percent next year. While calling the prospective increase "modest," Yudof said faculty salaries and other...

Adam Miller and Jill Sanders have diverse interests and backgrounds, but they see themselves as a team that can provide great balance for the Minnesota Student Association. Presidential candidate Miller,...

Athletes often talk about going back to basics to improve, and one Minnesota athlete has met with success doing just that. Nicole Chimko, a thrower for Minnesota's women's track and field team, has seen...

ve young men linked to a skinhead, white-supremacist group were charged with second-degree murder Wednesday in the beating death of a 65-year-old Sikh man at the temple where he worked as caretaker. The...

MONTREAL (AP) -- At least 30 people were injured, three of them seriously, in an explosion Wednesday at a brake-shoes factory near Montreal, police said. Police spokesman Marc Parent said the most serious...

The stakes of Russian roulette are always life or death. But the winner isn't always determined by the barrel of a gun. These days in Moscow, the game is being played at the highest levels of government...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (U-WIRE) -- What the hell are we doing here? Each day we climb out of a warm bed and drive a distance, often incredibly long, to get to St. Louis University, surviving traffic just to be...