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...

Several top administrators at the University might find themselves without a job sometime in July if the Board of Regents approves President-designate Mark Yudof's plan for reorganizing central administration...

Proposed changes in federal Pell Grant awards would not help students but instead would save money for the state, said government officials on Monday at the Capitol. Lisa DeReinee, the state's department...

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) -- With their pretend marriage in shambles, fifth-graders Cody Finch and Katie Rose Sawyer faced each other in domestic violence court on Monday and swore they'd never, ever speak...

CHEVY CHASE, Md. (AP) -- The Los Angeles high school team that won a national science quiz for a second straight year on Monday knows enough to argue points of astronomy and biology with the judges. Challenging...

This year's Minnesota Student Association elections proved once again that when it comes to voting for the University's student leaders, apathy always wins. This year's president and vice president-elect,...

Today marks the last day of voting in the University professional workers' union election, with ballots in the mail-in vote due at the state Bureau of Mediation Services by 4:30 this afternoon. The ballots,...