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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Gophers men's basketball team will face much better competition than the Lithuanian National team this season, but if Minnesota can have success in as many areas as it did Thursday night at Williams...

Despite a last-minute appeal by Jean Keffeler to hold off on tenure reform, the Board of Regents passed a new Law School tenure code Thursday. "I'm concerned about what such action might say about how...

The Gophers hockey team has faced North Dakota 241 times, dating back to the inaugural game between the teams on Jan. 21, 1930. Minnesota won that game, 6-1, giving birth to one of the oldest and fiercest...

Margaret Sanger was a racist. Her advocacy of eugenics, the science of eliminating "undesirable" racial and genetic characteristics, was abominable. However, Margaret Sanger was also a leader in women's...