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...

Broken taillights, expired tabs, cracked windshields and other minor traffic violations allowed state, county and local law enforcement agencies to crack down on drunken drivers Saturday night. To find...

CHICAGO (AP) -- The search for Mr. Right may be getting even harder. The ratio of boys to girls born in the United States and Canada dipped ever so slightly between 1970 and 1990, and a study suggests...

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...

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...

THE REC-ING CREW NEAR U From Robosquirrel: Net, this is a happy little note I dropped to the Rec Center for doing such a great service to the University community: Net: Shared with one and all. At Network,...

Alcohol abuse has become the University's biggest problem, said some University officials at a conference held Monday in Coffman Union. Combatting alcohol abuse among students was the focus of a workshop...

Dear Dr. Date, I have been on a recent surfing spree through the Net and I came to this fabulous sex page filled with raunchy pornos. I often think to myself how wonderful that would be, but whenever my...

A few hours before the first Gophers' spring football practice, linebacker Sean Hoffman talked about how good it would be to start hitting again, a welcome release after he and his teammates spent much...

Three Gophers athletes were named Monday to the GTE Academic All-District V team, an honor given for excellence in both academics and athletics. Soccer player Jennifer McElmury and men's swimmers Martin...