Elmo shook the oracle and turned it bottom-up. He waited as the luminescent blue words became clear through the inky haze: "Future cloudy -- ask again." So he did. "Will spring return anytime soon?" he...

After having its five-game Big Ten winning streak snapped Saturday, the first-place Gophers baseball team thought it was heading to Iowa State for a single nine-inning, non-conference game today. But...

Riding on a bus with a whole bunch of grade-school children sitting behind you really limits a conversation; at least that's what a friend of mine, who I will call "Steve," and I thought when it happened...

The Senate Children Family and Learning Committee meeting was canceled Monday. The committee was scheduled to hear the omnibus higher education bill. Sen. LeRoy Stumpf, DFL-Thief River Falls, who is a...

Continued bad weather has forced the Gophers softball team to adjust its schedule once again for this week's games. Minnesota, which had the last game of its series with Indiana cancelled Sunday, postponed...

A long-unsolved case of geological assault might now be resolved, thanks to the efforts of two University graduates. For years, geologists have been mystified by the formation of the Rocky Mountains,...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music Monday, receiving the award for "Blood on the Fields," his epic oratorio on slavery. "It means...

At a White House forum on education last Wednesday, President Clinton eagerly accepted high-profile backing for his voluntary national standardized testing for public schools plan. California Superintendent...

The University's Office of Admissions sets specific goals each year to increase the number of freshman applications, and the latest preliminary report shows their work is paying off. The report shows...

Rachel Kemptner has provided the state with its strongest evidence against Puiassance Andersen, but when prosecutor Steve Redding finished questioning her, defense attorney Paul Schneck began casting...