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...

A state office will begin sending union election ballots to University professional workers on Monday, kicking off a three-week mail-in election. The ballot will ask professional workers if they want...

When the word "gang" is spoken in an everyday conversation, most people think of a group of black male teenagers hangin' on the street corner. I'll admit, that's what I think of, although gangs of many...

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...