Nearly one year after Kami Talley was murdered, and after two weeks of testimony in the trial for that crime, Louis Cardona "Butch" Buggs' fate is now in the hands of a jury. Defense attorney John Lucas...

DETROIT (AP) -- Auf Wiedersehen, Germany. Hello, Great Lakes states. That's what hundreds of German tourists will be saying this fall when they set out on the maiden voyage of a Great Lakes cruise ship. Three...

Last week's speculation that the Gophers men's basketball team could move up to No. 1 in the national rankings proved to be untrue Monday when the team earned a No. 3 spot in the Associated Press poll. A...

At the end of each year, University Police Chief Joy Rikala looks over the year's crime statistics and determines areas in which the police have improved and those that they need to work on. As last year's...

OREGON, Mo. -- A Minnesota man faces two felony charges after authorities said he stole an ambulance in Kansas City and drove it nearly 100 miles before police road spikes stopped him. Shawn Goodwater,...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Half of the high school students in a new survey feel less than challenged at school. But that doesn't mean they are eager to take calculus, advanced science or Shakespeare. Instead,...

Voting begins today in faculty union elections that will determine whether the University will become the nation's largest unionized institution of higher learning. University faculty members will be...

On the West Bank of the University, the new building for the Carlson School of Management is rising above its surroundings, a capitalist parvenu in the academic groves, a private-sector colossus of green...

Kiaora Bohlool came all the way from Hawaii to Minnesota in the fall of 1994 to live in a completely different environment from the one she knew. Like most of the first-year students facing a large campus...

A University program dedicated to training students to be better teachers faces an uncertain future if it does not come up with new sources of revenue. Preparing Future Faculty is a Graduate School program...