ST. PAUL (AP) -- Civil penalties for bad personal watercraft operators are in a new plan coming up for House debate today. "Citizens have been frustrated; they feel they have no recourse," said Rep. Kris...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- U.S. envoy Dennis Ross was left empty-handed Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused a U.S. proposal that he withdraw troops from 13 percent of the West Bank. The...

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...

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,...

Part of President Mark Yudof's $249 million capital bonding request for the University of Minnesota calls for funding a complete renovation and updating of Murphy Hall on the East Bank campus. Murphy Hall...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Three Vietamese businessmen were sentenced to life in prison and ten other defendants received lesser prison terms in one of Vietnam's biggest corruption trials, newspapers reported...

Purdue head baseball coach Steve Green took a swing and struck out in Major League style during a March 10 tournament game in Fresno, Calif. The swing, however, was not with a bat and was not at a ball....

Around 1200, when the first universities were popping up in Europe, books were hard to come by. Although this had its advantages -- students did not have to pay hundreds of dollars for textbooks each term...

It is an alluring prospect for surgeons: an ample supply of organs to end the loss of 3,000 patients who die each year while waiting for potential organs. The possibility of harvesting pig hearts and...

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...