This morning, Elmo's car key twisted off in the door's frozen lock. A jagged metal chunk stuck out of the hole like a fractured bone; Elmo dolefully examined the remainder of the truncated key in his hand....

As Ian Fleming once said, "Prohibition is the trigger of crime." Politicians seem to forget this on the campaign trail, where candidates cry, "I'm tough on crime" and "I'm tough on drugs." As in the time...

Cross country isn't supposed to be a contact sport. Try telling that to the Gophers women's coach Gary Wilson. Two Minnesota runners got pushed to the turf Saturday morning during the NCAA District IV...

Steve DeBus said he has no idea who Wally Pipp is. And Gophers hockey coach Doug Woog said that DeBus, the team's starting goalie, does not need to worry about why Pipp's name is important in the context...

Michigan Tech coach Tim Watters said he saw a marked improvement in his team's play from Saturday's game against Minnesota to Sunday's game. Watters thought Sunday's effort -- a 3-0 loss in which the...

The Gophers women's basketball team, down to eight scholarship players, has the most notable labor shortage of any University athletic team. But it doesn't have the only one. The volleyball team started...

University researchers are designing a $50 million facility in northern Minnesota to answer one of the most vexing questions in physics -- whether neutrinos have mass. The neutrino is sometimes called...

Some University Hospital workers are expected to file suit against the University in federal court today demanding that the school live up to a contract it signed with union employees. The suit, which...

The strength of any union is its power to strike. At three of the campuses at the University of California next week, graduate student instructors intend to test their strength by marching out of class...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States wants warring factions in Zaire to promise a cease-fire before U.S. and allied troops agree to move in and assure the delivery of relief aid to a million refugees,...