The Cook County Medical Examiner's office identified the body of a man found Tuesday in a channel of the Chicago River as Blaine resident Trevor Hoheisel. Through surveillance camera footage and the night's...

University supporters need a new budget legislation slogan, because key lawmakers say "249" is out of the picture. Dealt cuts in both the Senate last week and an instrumental House committee early Wednesday,...

Until March 1993, Skeeter Burroughs' only form of exercise was marching band. Then, five years ago this month, the University spent more than $38 million on the Recreation Center. For Burroughs, that...

A year ago when the Gophers men's basketball team advanced to the Final Four, large caravans of Minnesota fans traveled to every NCAA tournament game and all the campus-area bars and restaurants overflowed...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippines government has reached its first major agreement with Communist rebels aimed at ending their 28-year insurgency, President Fidel Ramos said Wednesday. The agreement...

A Chicago police diver discovered a body Tuesday thought to be a Minnesota man who had traveled to Illinois to watch Gophers basketball and disappeared over the weekend. The body, found in the Chicago...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Blacks and Hispanics have a puzzling, additional risk factor that makes them much more susceptible than whites to Alzheimer's disease, researchers say. It's been known since 1992 that people...

A roomful of students Tuesday said their organizations should receive more money than the Student Services Fees Committee allotted them last week. Some also said the fees process should change. In attendance...

soldiers opened fire Tuesday on a van carrying Palestinian workers at a West Bank roadblock, killing three passengers and wounding at least four others. The Israeli army arrested two soldiers who fired...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Cigarette advertising is an important influence on children when they decide to begin smoking, an expert witness maintained Tuesday in Minnesota's tobacco trial. But Cheryl Perry...