Sheila Wellstone never had any interest in public speaking. "I never would have thought I would be able to stand up and talk in front of people. I remember when Paul was running I would be asked to introduce...

Saturday's pathetic Homecoming loss to Michigan State was the last straw. The 27-9 trouncing was the football team's 10th-straight Big Ten loss and virtually seals the Gophers fate of yet another losing...

Our feet have been fighting a war against mass-produced shoes since the 1700s, and a new method developed by a University researcher may help us even the odds. Susan Sokolowski, a doctoral candidate in...

The unexpected resurgence of the Gophers volleyball team has started to draw the attention of local fans. The Sports Pavilion housed two crowds of over 2,000 Friday and Saturday nights in matches against...

Gone was the wise-cracking, jovial Doug Woog whose good humor permeates most post-game press conferences. In his place was a somber, toned-down Woog who apologized several times for letting his team,...

ST. PAUL (AP) -- Voting by mail has been popular in Ramsey County, with more than 20,000 people asking for vote-by-mail ballots for the upcoming elections. The county's success might help efforts to expand...

Minnesota Student Association members will vote on a resolution today requesting the removal of a portrait of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from Wilson Library. The authors of the resolution,...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Deepening a sense of crisis in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Palestinian negotiators unexpectedly walked out of talks in Jerusalem Monday night. The walkout came hours after U.S. mediator...

University sociology professor William Brustein remembers how his aunt burst into tears when he bought a Volkswagen -- a German-manufactured car -- at age 16. His aunt, one of nine children born to a...

The men's golf team finished its fall season with a seventh-place tie Monday at the Duke Invitational in Durham, N.C. The Gophers final round dropped them from a sixth-place finish to a seventh-place tie...