In this decade alone, commercial airplane crashes have taken the lives of hundreds of Americans. Yet the Federal Aviation Administration and the airline industry it oversees insist that the risk of dying...

Women's gymnastics coach Jim Stephenson walked up to senior Kristen Vandersall while she stretched during Wednesday afternoon's practice. He smiled at her with encouragement and said, "Come on Vanny,...

The University will receive a visit today from an international pioneer in education reform. Taiwanese Minister of Education Dr. Wu Jin will lecture on educational reform in the Republic of China at 2...

Minnesota's women's golf team is hoping that a trip to Indiana this weekend will help them scrape away the cobwebs that accumulated during its three-month layover. The No. 17 Gophers will compete Friday...

IRAPUATO, Mexico (AP) -- Shops here sell strawberry keychains and strawberry dolls. Restaurants feature strawberry shakes. The local festival is the Strawberry Expo. And the fields are full of strawberries,...

Bob Zgonc served as an officer of the Minnesota Highway Patrol for 28 years. He was an outdoorsman who loved to hunt, fish and walk in the woods, but that was before the tremors, shakes and muscle rigidity...

When most students think about spring break they probably picture a vacation in Mazatlan or the Bahamas. However, for some students and local farmers, traveling to Cuba was not only a break activity,...

Last year at this time, junior Bob Hubbard entered the Cooke Hall Gym for practice in preparation for the men's gymnastics NCAA East Regionals meet. But instead of warming up to work out, he was told...

It might not be as revolutionary as the major league's adoption of interleague play, but the Big Ten is making a scheduling change of its own this year. Now, the first (Friday) and last (Sunday) games...

The importance of an interactive University community to freshmen and sophomores has increased considerably, according to a recently released University survey. Researchers in the Office for Student Development...