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,...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (College Press Exchange) -- Leonard Nimoy, who would later become famous as Mr. Spock in the "Star Trek" series, had a brush with greatness 41 years ago. While trying to re-establish his...

The Gophers baseball team knew going into its weekend series at Iowa that it had to win the series to have a realistic chance at catching Illinois or Purdue -- the two teams tied for third-place -- and...

Gophers softball coach Lisa Bernstein-O'Brien figured her team would have a chance to play its way into an NCAA tournament bid. But since Minnesota finished tied for sixth in the Big Ten and missed the...

I bet politicians didn't have any idea they were voting about the role of women in society when they pushed for welfare reform. Gov. Arne Carlson last week proudly signed into law a welfare-to-work bill...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Simon & Schuster said on Monday that it is recalling all 4,000 copies of a children's book, agreeing with a Muslim group that the book unfairly portrays the prophet Mohammed as a bloodthirsty...

EVANSTON, Ill. (College Press Exchange) -- Stanford University officials, unhappy with the current college ranking system offered annually by U.S. News & World Report, have announced plans to create...

While recently roving Dinkytown sidewalks, my daydreaming was disrupted by the sight of someone ingesting the recent phenomenon known simply as the bagel. I was further intrigued as a truck blew by, announcing...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Is Rick Pitino staying at the University of Kentucky or going to the Boston Celtics? Pitino didn't reveal his decision during a meeting with his Kentucky players Sunday night, but...

TORONTO (AP) -- The search for a jungle El Dorado is over; the search for culprits in an astounding gold mine fraud has begun. Half a world apart, Canadian and Indonesian authorities opened investigations...