Disease and hunger have killed at least 200 refugees trapped in eastern Sierra Leone, where fighters loyal to the West African nation's ousted miltary junta remain active, a government spokesman said Thursday. Most...

Net: We knew it would happen. At a research institution, it was inevitable. It never fails; after the creative fancies of heartfelt poetry comes ...LITERARY CRITICISM ... the bane of all true art. Poetry...

"Ber" knows softball, but "Ber" also knows hockey. Gophers softball player Amber Hegland -- Ber to her friends and family -- is taking a page from the Bo Jackson book on two-sport athletes. The senior...

Campaign promises by Adam Miller and Jill Sanders to reinstitute a 10th Avenue connecter bus and improve the communication between the greek system and the Minnesota Student Association was enough to...

University officials declared a victory Thursday as lawmakers passed a plan to finance $206.8 million for campus building projects, using a rare parliamentary maneuver to help the school while staying...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner doesn't just decry the ills of capitalism in America, he proposes an alternative: socialism. The 41-year-old playwright delivered the annual Joseph Warren...

The Board of Regents added a new word Thursday to the University's policy lexicon: decentralization. In a meeting heavy on discussion and light on policy changes, University President Mark Yudof furthered...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Paul Wellstone is setting up a campaign organization, but he says he's still months away from deciding whether he's going to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000. The...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Muslims rushing to fulfill a ritual known as "stoning the devil" set off a huge stampede Thursday that reportedly killed more than 150 pilgrims, many of them elderly, on the...

Now everyone knows the truth. It wasn't his admiration of Glen Mason or the chance to help rebuild a former power that persuaded Steve Loney to leave his alma mater, Iowa State, and take the offensive...