State legislators are not following a statute that recommends the amount of funding to the University, forcing administrators to put a higher tuition burden on students. The statute, updated in 1995,...

Minnesota's women's hockey program has become accustomed to the hoopla that has surrounded it throughout its first campaign. More than 8,000 fans showed up for the Gophers' first game. There has been...

College of Human Ecology adviser Doris Wiehe wanted to buy a coat for her daughter-in-law. She found one Thursday at an unlikely place: the St. Paul Student Center. The long blue coat she bought for $3...

ST. PAUL (AP) -- Personal finance is a missing link in Minnesota students' education and should be required under proposed graduation standards, several people testified Thursday before an administrative...

Upon entering their 13th weekend of the competitive season, the third-ranked Gophers wrestling team is hoping that the notorious number brings Minnesota a two-match eastern sweep. So far this week, however,...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stubbornly refusing to share their toys, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic lost their heads Thursday over a bear of very little brain. Winnie the Pooh, the lovable, huggable bear...

When police investigating a murder in 1990 needed more evidence to solve the crime, they called University botanist Anita Cholewa. "I've always been something of a Sherlock Holmes," said Cholewa, a curator...

No matter how divergent the fortunes of Michigan and Minnesota have been during the last two years, the two teams have still managed to create quite a rivalry -- both with actions and words. Last season,...

Net: Happy Reagan's Birthday, one and all. Today our beloved former president, who braved the Cold War and stayed away from interns, turns 87 years old. Net's thoughts are with him, and we hope yours are...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- A Russian-built cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff in the Azores Islands, killing all seven Bulgarian crew members, officials said Thursday. The Antonov 12 plane crashed...