GENEVA (AP) -- Hoping to end an acrimonious dispute with Jewish groups, three Swiss banking giants announced today they would contribute $71 million to open a humanitarian fund for Holocaust victims. Switzerland...

Last Friday, despite my trepidation over almost all things religious, I attended a Shabbat dinner at Hillel, the Jewish student center. Boyfriend is taking a Jewish studies class in which he must have...

In case you may have missed the news, there's an alien invasion trailing the heels of comet Hale-Bopp. Yep, that's right, a spaceship four times the size of Earth is hiding in the comet's tail, steering...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- Jeff Capel and Roshown McLeod made key shots down the stretch Wednesday night as No. 8 Duke beat No. 2 Wake Forest for the first time in 10 meetings 73-68, likely denying the...

The hype surrounding the No. 4 Gophers men's basketball team got a little bit crazier Wednesday night after it beat Penn State 85-70 at Williams Arena. Not because the Gophers earned its 20th win of the...

For Glen Mason, this recruiting season was the equivalent of trying to squeeze the entire "Godfather" trilogy into one evening. Mason was not hired as the Gophers head football coach until Dec. 14. With...

Next week's faculty union election, in my opinion, will mark a major turning point in the evolution of the University. If the faculty members in the Twin Cities Instructional Unit vote for no union on...

The procedure for selecting regents to the University's 12-member governing board might be radically altered if the Legislature adopts recommendations offered by a citizens' committee last month. The...

Elmo just got off the phone with his good buddy Ronny Sassbottom. Elmo needed some ideas to make weather predicting more sassy. It was really quite simple for Sassbottom: "You need girls, Elmo, girls."...

Prosecutors wanted to rest their case Wednesday against Louis Cardona "Butch" Buggs, the man accused of killing University student Kami Talley. But an objection by the defense stretched their case out...