University officials lured a prominent scientist away from Yale two years ago with the promise of a $3 million tool that will help him and others study the building blocks of life. As early as this month,...

Although she bought an on-campus parking permit, College of Liberal Arts freshman Sam Bias still got a ticket after she parked in an illegal area of a St. Paul lot, which she said was unmarked. And even...

After five hours of debate, the Senate approved a nearly $1 billion statewide budget bill for capital projects Thursday that would send the University its largest construction budget in history. The University's...

The Gophers baseball team is off to its best start in 40 years, and is in position to tie its 1958 mark of 12-2 at the Hormel Foods Baseball Classic this weekend at the Metrodome. Minnesota (9-2) opened...

With plans for a golf course and research center squashed in the Legislature, University officials will now have to wait for greener pastures in the next bonding session. When this year's session started,...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A woman accused of beating and mutilating her 3-year-old daughter in St. Louis endured her own violent past. Clintresa Phillips, 21, saw her mother stabbed to death and has been...

West African rhythms and South African songs emanated through the walls of the Great Hall on Thursday in Coffman Union. More than 100 students, children, staff and faculty members gathered to participate...

Net: We're doing our mail bag spring cleaning, and here more short notes about life at the U. Today we run responses from recent letters -- the good, the bad and the squirrely. Good day, boyz n' grrls!ON...

It's been 39 years since Minnesota's wrestling team has won a Big Ten championship. Since then, the Gophers have come close, but have never captured the first-place honor. The Big Ten title has been rooted...

LONDON (AP) -- The maker of the AIDS drug AZT said Thursday it will slash the price for pregnant women in poor countries, an unprecedented move to make AIDS drugs more widely available in the Third World. In...