BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Bound for Iraq in a last-chance peace mission, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared Thursday he was "reasonably optimistic" about his chances of ending the weapons-inspection...

After 50 years of service, Dinkytown's lone drugstore is closing. Gray's Campus Drug, located on Fourth Street and 14th Avenue, will shut its doors for the final time at 6 p.m. tonight because of a continuing...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Predictability has been the name of the game through day one at the Big Ten women's swimming and diving championships. As expected, sixth-ranked Michigan is proving to be the best...

George Bush, the subject of impressions as President of the United States, did some impersonations of his own Thursday night at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Bush, who was president from 1989 to...

TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese lawmaker hanged himself in a Tokyo hotel room Thursday, hours before he was expected to be arrested in a widening financial scandal. Shokei Arai, 50, killed himself while other...

Alaska-Anchorage coach Dean Talafous has heard it all before. During his first head coaching stint, at Division III Wisconsin-River Falls in the mid-80s, fans criticized Talafous for coaching a slow-down,...

A group of faculty rode the bus between the St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses, walked to the farthest points of each campus and even carried heavy books. Their verdict: Fifteen minutes to get from a lab...

University students will soon have the opportunity to give more detailed critiques of their instructors' performances because of a policy change approved Thursday by the Student Senate and University...

Michigan State had little time to celebrate its first win over Michigan in three years before ... well, maybe the players had too much time to celebrate. Star point guard Mateen Cleaves, 20, and forward...

There has always been at least one constant in junior Gophers women's basketball guard Mindy Hansen's life. She had to deal with her parents getting divorced when she was younger, the difficult experience...