Jury selection began Wednesday in the trial of alleged rapist Antonio Burton, as attorneys questioned potential jurors in Hennepin County District Court. Of a pool of 30 possible candidates to sit on the...

Historian Anthony Cohen spoke to a group of more than 100 people Wednesday at Coffman Union about travelling along the Underground Railroad, which is the network of rail lines and waterways slaves used...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A supermarket chain and one of the nation's largest pharmacy companies said Wednesday they have stopped sharing medical information with a marketer paid to send customers prescription...

When a team is forced to stitch together a suspect, patchwork lineup, you don't expect the other team is the one that will eventually unravel. But that's exactly what happened in the Gophers' 82-77 win...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)-- Thailand's Supreme Court freed an Iranian man Wednesday who had been sentenced to death for attempting to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok in 1994. The court ordered Hossein...

BOSTON (AP) -- North American universities are cashing in on faculty inventions like titanium orthodontic wire and grass that needs less mowing to the tune of more than half a billion dollars a year, according...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- New killings in western Algeria claimed 23 lives Wednesday, Algerian security forces said, amid reports of a new government campaign to wipe out armed Islamic groups in the region. The...

Cranes and bulldozers were supposed to follow on the heels of tubas and trombones that accentuated a November groundbreaking ceremony for a new alumni and visitor center. But construction on the University...

The College of Liberal Arts might provide 47 percent of the University's undergraduate instruction, but it only receives 23 percent of the Twin Cities' campus instructional budget. The underfunding has...

By summer, students who ride Metro Transit buses will have the Twin Cities at their fingertips without having to dig too deep into their pockets. Riders will be able to get their hands on a ticket to...