NEW YORK (AP) -- Restaurants now have a way to nab employees who don't stop by the sink and lather up before leaving the bathroom. An infrared detection system that alerts employers when workers leave...

Elmo stirred in his seat as Baring Som, the fresh, new surfer-metal band out of that sleepy little northern California town, left the stage in a flurry of screams and hoots. Now it was time. Elmo couldn't...

The history of the white colonization of North America is replete with atrocities committed against the continent's original inhabitants. In his mad search for gold, Christopher Columbus slaughtered and...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bidding for a veto-proof majority in the Senate, Republican backers of a ban on certain late-term abortions agreed to minor changes in their bill on Monday and pocketed the endorsement...

Junior swimmer Manolis Lentaris has started swimming again following two seasons of turmoil at Minnesota that saw him suffer various injuries, academic troubles and motivational problems. This time, however,...

The University has actively removed asbestos from its buildings for the past six years. The projects won't necessarily be getting smaller, nor will the University be asbestos-free anytime soon. Officials...

Though more than 3,000 different commercially available products have asbestos in them, administrators at the University's Twin Cities campus are most concerned with the large number of ceiling tiles...

Gophers freshman women's tennis player Nora Sauska lost on Monday in the first round of the NCAA Singles Championships, falling to No. 1 seed Karin Miller of Duke, 6-3, 6-4. Sauska, a native of Budapest,...

One of Christina Jacobson's class assignments requires the College of Liberal Arts sophomore to find the most effective way to get in touch with her state representative: e-mail or snail mail. From what...

The Minnesota Legislature is about to enter a special session that could drag deliberations about a K-12 education bill well into the summer. Although extra sessions are a burden on the taxpayer, they...