NEW YORK (AP) -- Lock the door, hide your valuables. The local television news is on. Two new studies have measured local TV news shows' preoccupation with crime stories, and suggest it may help create...

The final out of the Gophers' 17-8 win against Northwestern on Sunday had been recorded, giving Minnesota three wins in the four-game series. As their teammates emptied from the dugout to the field, Gophers...

The University's Board of Regents got a preview of the second part of the school's biennial request for state funding at its meeting in Duluth on Friday. But regents and administrators also used the review...

Not to sound dire or anything, but credit cards are spelling out doom for our culture. Plastic is burning the bridges between the money we have and the money we think we have. Here on campus, a part-time,...

The Gophers women's tennis season came to an abrupt end Friday, losing 5-2 to Indiana in the first round of the NCAA Midwest regional tournament. And while coach Martin Novak said he was satisfied with...

Joel SawyerDULUTH -- University officials gave Gov. Arne Carlson the cold shoulder Friday when they rebuffed his offer to negotiate moving the University's southeast steam plant off the Mississippi River. In...

Prior to the start of the Big Ten men's golf championships on Friday in Columbus, Ohio, conference officials sent out a mailing, previewing the top teams and individuals in the Big Ten. The conference...

Welcome to "Prime Time Live." I'm Dianne Sawyer. Last week, the news cried out to America like a wailing infant that a 63-year-old woman had successfully given birth to a child. That event makes her the...

Editor's note: This is the first of a three-day series on the 25th anniversary of the "Eight Days in May" antiwar demonstrations and the legacy of activism at the University.At about 1 p.m. on May 10,...

Partisan wrangling over details in the agreement between President Clinton and Republican leaders to eliminate the budget deficit by 2002 is slowing momentum behind the deal. Most Democrats and Republicans...