A rally of about 100 students Thursday marked the first big show of solidarity for campus groups in jeopardy of losing funding in a student services fees lawsuit. Students and community members joined...

University-sponsored 4-H clubs will legally be allowed to discriminate against homosexuals if state legislators have their way. The House is withholding nearly $40 million in state funds from the University...

University student Chris Mester is squeamish about repaying his student loans as his spring graduation rapidly approaches. "Now it's starting to get scarier," said Mester, a senior American studies and...

TOKYO (AP) -- A top Finance Ministry official hanged himself Thursday, becoming the fourth high-ranking Japanese bureaucrat to commit suicide in a widening scandal over corruption in high places. Yoshio...

Net: So many letters, so little time. Here are some new discussions:THE PLUSES AND MINUSES OF PLUSES AND MINUSES From Nonplussed: does putting a dress on a dead horse make it work any better? Net: No,...

When the Gophers men's hockey team last went on the road for the first round of the playoffs, senior co-captain Casey Hankinson couldn't walk across the living room, much less streak down a sheet of ice. That...

In St. Paul, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Minnesota state attorneys are waging a courtroom battle with Big Tobacco over $1.77 billion in smoking-related medical costs. A recent salvo targeted the tobacco...

A thief who made off with $800 from the Blimpie Subs and Salads till last month picked the right victim. The store didn't have electronic surveillance. But things are about to change. Paul Nelson, general...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Astronomers say they've spotted the most distant object known, a baby galaxy so far away that its starlight may have taken 12.2 billion years to reach Earth. That means it's being seen...

A legal attack on the way each student's $158.01 quarterly fees are divvied up has the potential to rupture the entire process and leave many groups scraping for funds. But the effort is not a new phenomenon. For...