Disasters bring out in us what it really means to be human. Nothing reveals the essence of humanity better than a raw, destructive incident. Take for example, the great flood of 1997. The stories of communities...

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. By now, most -- if not all -- of you are surrounded by homage to the break-down of the color barrier in baseball. There...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Fresno State point guard Dominick Young has filed suit accusing The Fresno Bee of libel for reporting that Young is the focus of a point-shaving investigation. A Superior Court lawsuit...

The University's Institute on Race and Poverty aspires to expand its research and influence with new grant money. The institute recently received $240,000 from the Otto Bremer Foundation. The grant, spread...

I recently accompanied my 6-year-old sister on her birthday trip to see "Pocahontas on Ice" with her two little blonde friends. My sister loves to think that she looks like Pocahontas because she has long...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- What makes that morning whiff of coffee so alluring? It could be your nose telling you, "Drink up, it's good for you." A University of California-Davis chemist found that the beguiling...

"Great Caesar's ghost," yelled Elmo as he realized that he'd put off doing his taxes for the 15th year in a row. He shuffled through his stack of W-2s, found his 1040EZ book and took a deep breath before...

In the last two games that Gophers softball pitcher Steph Klaviter has started, Jennifer Johnson has come on in relief to earn the save. Stress the earn on that. In two consecutive starts, Klaviter plowed...

Thousands of fans followed the Gophers men's basketball team down the road to the Final Four. Now the University archivists are looking for some of those fans to help them capture their experiences for...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A retired Russian naval captain, accused of treason for exposing potential radioactive contamination, was among seven winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize awarded on Monday. Other...