and Nancy Ngo Using a human brain, a culture of flesh-eating bacteria virus and a bag of beer barley, University officials on Monday made their $249 million budget request look attractive. University...

Casey Hankinson is in bad shape, but my, what a humanitarian. The Gophers men's hockey captain was slowed by a hip pointer and a nasty case of the flu last week. And the sprained left thumb he suffered...

(U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The Michigan Daily's staff is divided into two parts: the editorial staff, which comprises all writers and editors, and the business staff, which mainly consists of managers...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black-owned weekly newspaper known for its investigations and battles with local officials was firebombed early Monday in an attack the publisher said reminded him of civil-rights...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Minnesota's $1.77 billion-plus lawsuit against the tobacco industry went to trial Monday with a promise from the state's lawyers to prove their case from a cache of 33 million pages...

Net: Our mailbox Monday was, of course, filled with commentary on current events, as we asked (we have you so well-trained). Of course, very little of it had anything to do with the nation's impending...

TOKYO (AP) -- In the latest embarrassment for Japan's most powerful bureaucracy, police on Monday arrested two senior Finance Ministry officials on bribery charges. Koiichi Miyagawa, 52, and Toshimi Taniuchi,...

A brave new world where the human race stagnates in cloned similarity or a genetically engineered master race ruling mankind are terrifying images of what we might become. But fear of the possibilities...

It took axe-murderer Karla Faye Tucker 14 years to turn her life around. Despite rehabilitation, she stands little chance of overturning her death sentence. By contrast, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols...

College of Liberal Arts Dean Steven Rosenstone announced Monday he will push for changes to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, but not through an immediate merger with the Department of...