FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (U-WIRE) -- My best friend from high school called about two months ago to tell me that she is getting married in August. I was a little surprised; she's only been seeing her future...

Spring permeates the air. While some bask in the smell of flowers and grass, the aroma of charcoal gives barbecue connoisseurs the signal to break out the grills. Students using grills this spring --...

Bad things happen in threes, and the Gophers softball proved it this weekend. The team fell three and a half games behind first-place Michigan when the Wolverines swept all three games of the weekend...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia won't attend this week's meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers in Washington because it has not been granted the status it deserves in the organization, the head of the Central...

Minnesota's four-game sweep of Iowa two weekends ago was an accomplishment in itself. Inside that story, however, were the accomplishments of the Gophers' starting pitchers, who held a tough Hawkeyes...

It's a discovery for the books -- the biochemistry books, not the record books. Published in today's issue of the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," biochemistry professor Greg Nelsestuen...

I have a confession to make: I like Joe Camel and those cool Camel Red boxes of cigarettes that look like they're from the 1930s. I also love the Marlboro man, even though I'm not a cowgirl. And you know...

The University area is a veritable hot-bed for tanners. At least four signs advertising "tans" cling to different business windows in Dinkytown. In nearby Stadium Village, two tanning shops sit face...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Swooping down in helicopters, army forces captured a top Turkish Kurdish rebel commander in northern Iraq on Monday and brought him back to Turkey. The operation could deal a serious...

The University of Minnesota Press welcomed its new director, Douglas Armato, with a reception Monday night at the Weisman Art Museum. The University of Minnesota Press is a non-profit publisher of scholarly...