and Andrew TellijohnThe federal government made sure the holiday season was anything but jolly for University officials. On Dec. 19 the U.S. Department of Justice sued the University for fraud over its...

The goals of most male college students for winter break include, sleeping, watching sporting events on TV and eating a lot of turkey. Not the Gophers men's swimming and diving teams, though. "One of...

Soon after Jim Wacker announced his resignation as Gophers football coach, men's athletics director Mark Dienhart placed a call to Kansas in search of a replacement. He hoped to find an interested Glen...

LINCOLN, Calif. (AP) -- Helicopters plucked stranded farmers from rooftops and sunken pickup trucks Friday after five days of relentless rain sent 100,000 people fleeing their homes across the West. Helicopters...

Listening to Gophers hockey coach Doug Woog's controlled tirade after the Gophers' 4-3 overtime loss to St. Cloud State on Dec. 15 at Mariucci Arena, it was pretty clear that he saw a difference between...

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A multimillion-dollar federal program created to save the lives of wild horses is instead channeling them by the thousands to slaughterhouses where they are chopped into cuts of meat. Among...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- After throwing for 408 yards in a bowl game against Northwestern, Peyton Manning appears to have little left to prove at the college level. Well, maybe he does. Manning insists that...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Use the state's $1.4 billion budget surplus to lower property taxes instead of paying for a one-time income tax rebate as Gov. Carlson proposes, many legislators say in a new survey. Carlson...

Editor's note: This story, which covers recent developments in the University's presidential search, is being included apart from the urban legends format of this issue.and Joel SawyerFor the second...

The Great Depression was especially hard on Elmo. The era saw Elmo's usual weather service, Mother Nature, get bought out by Sysco Corp. amid financial troubles. The restaurant caterer was new to weather...