This past summer, Apple Valley resident Phyllis Nickels watched as her two daughters walked down the aisle at their double wedding. One of them married a man. The other tied the knot with another woman. Nickels...

MADISON, Wis. -- With only 36 seconds remaining Saturday, the Gophers' defeat was almost complete. Wisconsin led by 17 points, and the Badgers had just recovered a Minnesota fumble. But the raucous fans...

It doesn't seem to matter who the women's swimming and diving team puts in the pool -- they all seem to come in first. Despite holding out several of their top swimmers Friday night in Ames, Iowa, the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Gophers women's soccer coach Sue Montagne fixed her eyes on the scoreboard, almost as if she was trying to ingrain the image in her mind. Her team had just lost 2-1 to Northwestern in...

Anyone clamoring for the University to fire Gophers football coach Jim Wacker before the end of the season can relax for the time being. It's not going to happen. Men's athletics director Mark Dienhart...

Shame on anyone who thinks a mother would fly across the Atlantic Ocean just to watch her daughter break a record. It was perfect timing and a wish to spend time with her daughter that will allow Gerda...

GISENYI, Rwanda (AP) -- On bare feet already torn from walking on volcanic rock, a tiny band of Hutu refugees managed to make it back to its homeland Thursday. Dozens of their compatriots died of thirst...

In their attempt to expedite a resolution to the impasse over tenure reform, the Board of Regents yesterday exploited a technicality to pass a revised tenure code for the Law School. The new code, referred...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- As celebratory marijuana smoke curled from pipes and joints at the headquarters of Proposition 215, uncertainty swirled around the future of California's newly approved medical marijuana...

On the surface, Jason Blake's story looks typical -- just another local boy does good for the home team type of thing. Blake, a sophomore on the North Dakota hockey team, lived in Grand Forks, N.D., the...