Though the percentage of women participating in the labor force in the Twin Cities is about 20 percent above the national average, there are still gender disparities in employment patterns, according...

It's doubtful that the following debate would ever find its way inside the fences of a tennis court, but it could be said that playing the piano and mastering the game of tennis have much in common. When...

The idea of battling wind, rain and massive changes in elevation to weave across five states in a solar-powered vehicle is a challenge. But members of the 1997 University Solar Vehicle Project said the...

Collective bargaining on university campuses is becoming a hot issue across the country. Last fall, the University gained national attention for a faculty unionization drive that ultimately failed. On...

NEW YORK (AP) -- It was advantage no one after Game 3 of world chess champion Garry Kasparov's match against IBM's Deep Blue computer, as man and machine played to a draw. Tuesday's stalemate left their...

As anticipated, the Gophers men's golf team received an invitation to the NCAA Central Regional on Tuesday. "We've expected to get there all year," Gophers coach John Means said before learning that his...

Fifty-one years after Suzuko Numata lost her left leg to the American atomic bomb in Hiroshima, she no longer thinks of herself as a victim. "I always think of the innocent children and adults who lost...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Former Gophers women's basketball coach Linda Hill-MacDonald was named on Tuesday first head coach of the Cleveland Rockers of the WNBA, a women's professional basketball league. Hill-MacDonald,...

Gov. Arne Carlson signed a tough, new anti-crime measure on Tuesday that lowers the burden of proof for prosecutors when seeking convictions for stalkers. Under the new law, which amends the original...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The death of a Massachusetts woman who took diet drugs to fit into her wedding dress has increased scrutiny of an unapproved but widely used drug cocktail known as "fen-phen." Before Mary...