Wear comfortable shoes, because two days of hitting the marble floors can take a toll on one's feet. This is just some of the advice two students got before leaving for Washington D.C. on Saturday. The...

The University and several other public institutions allegedly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to a lighting-supply price-fixing scheme which officials say was in operation since 1990. The Minnesota...

When astronaut Susan Helm first went into space, she didn't realize the height to which she had gone. "I grew two inches taller in space," Helm said. "That I did not expect. That was because the spinal...

KANDY, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Three suicide bombers crashed a truck through the gates of Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple Sunday and blew themselves up, killing eight other people, wounding 23 and sparking...

Shelton Benjamin no doubt hoped he would be in a different position during the Gophers wrestling team's second encounter with Iowa than he was when the teams met five days earlier. But after nine matches...

MIAMI (AP) -- Rough seas and mechanical failure forced four Cuban exiles Sunday to abandon their attempt to make a political statement by sailing to their homeland without permission. Group leader Ramon...

The Gophers' long-overdue first win in the Big Ten this year, 76-53 over Ohio State on Saturday, allowed for a few releases of emotion that had been dammed up during their frustrating season. The most...

Although the Year of the Tiger doesn't officially begin until Wednesday, more than 200 University students attended the fourth annual Chinese New Year celebration Friday night. The event, which was organized...

Before his team headed off for a three-day tour of Iowa, women's gymnastics co-head coach Jim Stephenson talked about Friday's meet with Iowa State and Sunday's meet with Iowa confidently. "These are...

If only we could get inside the mind of Minnesota-Duluth men's hockey coach Mike Sertich and wander around for awhile. Perhaps then we could see what he meant when he derided the Gophers' "arrogance"...