Every Monday a group of elders file into a room at Coffman Union to talk the straight dope. The University's ElderLearning Institute, a community program for people of retirement age, sponsors a new class...

The price of fame was apparently established at $541,880 last November. That was the haul from an auction of New York Yankee great Mickey Mantle's personal effects -- items ranging from his birth certificate...

THESE ARE DARK DAYS Net: On April 8, four years ago, Kurt's body was found. The day defined a generation -- but of course, the days went on. Others died. We lost Kristin Pfaff. Jerry Garcia passed into...

ST.PETER, Minn. -- The TV vans have left St. Peter. The 6 o'clock news is back to the same old footage and the viewers are no longer forced to see the horrific live shots of tornado damage in what was...

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Land and property disputes in the southern state of Oaxaca exploded in violence this week, leaving at least two people dead and resulting in the seizure of a police official and his...

Former professor emeritus of biochemistry Max Schultze, 91, died on March 25 in his Albuquerque home. Schultze began his career at the University in 1946, in the then Department of Agricultural Biochemistry....

The crisis deepens with each passing day. It makes work ethics wane. It disintegrates discipline. Its photosynthetic rays paralyze students and instructors alike, threatening the University's land-grant...

Wins for the Gophers baseball team have become commonplace this year, but seeing the names Frank Wagner, Bob DeWitt and Brandon Kitzerow connected to a victory had been a rarity until Tuesday. Because...

TORONTO (AP) -- Twelve former Cuban political prisoners, including two jailed for exposing a government spy in dissident circles, came to Canada on Tuesday after being freed at the request of Pope John...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- In a swirling mass of white robes, hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims circled the Kaaba on Tuesday, elbowing and shoving each other to move closer to Islam's holiest site...