Gophers women's basketball player Lynda Hass is out of the lineup indefinitely after undergoing an emergency appendectomy Wednesday morning. Hass, a sophomore, is a reserve forward on the team who averaged...

Usually bumper stickers, no matter how hard they try, don't move me to contemplate their meanings or take action for the causes they promote. Visualize world peace? Yeah, OK, now what? Think globally,...

The coaching careers of Mike Hebert and Chuck Erbe have always had a unique symmetry -- meeting each other in similar ways and always successful. Both coaches served as assistants for one another at some...

Applause for the opinions pieces about drugs, "Is drug legalization the answer?" in the Nov. 18 issue of the Daily. I'm a University student currently on exchange to Hunter College in New York City where...

You put the troops in, you pull the troops out ... so goes Bill Clinton's foreign policy hokeypokey in Central Africa. Clinton announced last week the deployment of 4,000 U.S. troops to Zaire as part of...

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- Pair a cash-poor young farmer with a successful landowner ready to retire from dairying and you could have the formula for revitalizing the nation's milk industry. It's called sharemilking. The...

CALAIS, France (AP) -- Vomiting, choking and praying, a group of truckers and train workers could only lie down and wait for the rescuers who saved them from the English Channel tunnel's worst accident...

Ralph Nader said faculty members and regents at universities across the country are stifling student public interest groups by opposing students' request for a group. The Minnesota Public Interest Research...

As soon as weevils hatch, they find breakfast. These tiny beetles with big appetites lay eggs on the tips of Eurasian watermilfoil, an exotic plant that forms dense mats of vegetation in lakes. Soon after...

Lou Holtz confirmed Tuesday what most people already assumed -- the former Gophers coach will not be returning to Dinkytown next season. Holtz, who resigned after 11 seasons as Notre Dame's head coach,...