Today, Gray's Campus Drug store sits empty with its blank windows staring out across the Dinkytown intersection of 14th Avenue and Fourth Street. The humble shop was a local mainstay for more than 50...

TOKYO (AP) -- Snapping souvenir photos, employees watched Tuesday as Yamaichi Securities Co. -- the largest Japanese business ever to fail -- closed its doors for the last time, ending 101 years of operation. Smiling...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) --Tobacco companies add ammonia to some cigarettes because it creates a smoother smoke and creates a chocolate-like flavor, a researcher for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. said Tuesday. Plaintiffs...

QUEBEC (AP) -- Quebec's separatist government, trying to lay the groundwork for another referendum on secession, unveiled a budget Tuesday that moves toward erasing the deficit without raising personal...

The University's longest-serving dean will take a list of memories with him when he retires this June, but colleagues say he will leave 27 years of influence behind. Harold Miller will leave his role...

The Minnesota Student Association will not support proposed parking rate increases and wants to create an official process for selection of Student Services Fees Committee members, as determined at its...

As the University approaches all-but-certain defeat at the legislative funding table, this community faces its greatest crisis since in-class smoking was banned in the 30s. We have, in fact, only one reasonable...

Will this be remembered as the year smoking began its irrevocable descent into the dustbin of long-forgotten social customs, consigned with spittoons and chamber pots among once-acceptable, but now-disgusting...

PARIS (AP) -- Lawmakers approved a bill Tuesday that would cut France's workweek from 39 to 35 hours, without a pay cut, by 2000. Supporters say it will help pare the high jobless rate. The measure is...

Local pancake lovers tapped the University's maple syrup source last weekend at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum's 14th annual Sugarbush Brunch and Maple Tour. Erratic spring temperatures have stunted...