NAHARAYIM, Jordan (AP) -- Grabbing a comrade's assault rifle, a Jordanian soldier fired on Israeli junior high school girls taking a field trip Thursday to a Jordan River island known as a symbol of Mideast...

In recent years, the volume of information stored in public and private databases has grown almost inconceivably. In a matter of seconds, a computer can sift through millions of documents to find a specific...

Justice is blind, right? In an ideal world punishments always fit the crime, the innocent never suffer, and the guilty never go free. It's the American way! However, in some cases, justice seems to be...

A dispute between the University and former women's gymnastics coach Katalin Deli returned to Hennepin County District Court on Wednesday, about a year since the last court appearance. At issue is whether...

Robots for pouring wine, cleaning CDs and tossing coins into a piggy bank were featured Wednesday in the Lots of Robots show in Coffman Memorial Union. The robots were built by students enrolled in Professor...

The Gophers' last home game was a week ago, but Williams Arena (the parking lot anyway) was still filled with Gophers men's basketball fans Wednesday morning. More than 200 pompon-waving Minnesota supporters...

The once-crowded aisles, barely wide enough for a person to walk through, might be a thing of the past, but Dinkytown's oldest grocery store is still selling as much as it ever did, said House of Hanson...

Minnesota sports fans have been teased for years. This is not a local phenomenon, of course. Cleveland, Denver, Buffalo and a handful of other cities have had teams that go to the brink of a championship,...

I love bats, and if I could marry one I would. So you can imagine how excited I was on a recent visit to the Science Museum's bat exhibit. The best part was seeing the four live bats on display. They were...

After three months of public interviews and legislative lobbying, the regent-search process ends today as three new and two returning regents are sworn in at this month's Board of Regents meeting. H. Bryan...