WASHINGTON (AP) -- A good corn crop helped give six Plains states the best income growth in the nation last year. By contrast, income growth in Hawaii and Alaska failed to even keep up with inflation,...

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- The mother of a leftist rebel killed in last week's hostage rescue demanded Monday that her daughter's body be exhumed, amid suspicions that commandos may have killed some rebels who...

Minneapolis police arrested five football players from the Gophers 1997 squad early Sunday morning for a disruptive party. According to police reports, officers were dispatched to a party at 721 10th Ave....

BIARO, Zaire (AP) --Thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees emerged from hiding in the jungles of eastern Zaire on Monday, their hunger more powerful than their fear of the mobs that drove them from squalid...

Although University President Nils Hasselmo is still in charge for a few more months, we recently caught a glimpse of the University's future under a new administration. In his first major move since being...

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Leptin, a hormone that acts in the brain to suppress appetite, also fights obesity by burning up fat within cells, researchers report. Dr. Roger H. Unger of the University of Texas Southwestern...

A tableful of empty margarita glasses cluttered the speckled kitchen table. Elmo sat, puffy tear-stained cheeks propped in his hands. "I want to be alone," he said in his best Garbo imitation. Nothing...

Normally, when a member of the Gophers softball team scores a run, several players leap out of the dugout to offer congratulations at home plate. But the nature of the team's celebration in the second...

When Beth Zemsky was 5 years old, she heard several children on the school playground call her brother a "fag" after he fell down. At the time, she thought the word meant klutz. "I knew a fag was something...

The Minnesota Daily's board of directors once again chose a relative newcomer to lead the paper Thursday when it picked associate editor R. Scott Rogers as 1997-98 editor in chief. Like current editor...