His face, name and history have been everywhere in the last week. Security guard Richard Jewell, 33, was hailed as a hero after spotting a suspicious backpack that ultimately exploded early July 27 in...

Starting today, University commuters will have to cope with yet another detour. The area between Jones Hall and Fourth Street Southeast, Pleasant Street and 15th Avenue Southeast will be closed. It will...

Here's a trivia question for you. Who said, "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut...

Milt Schoen, a Hennepin County Veterans Service Officer, remembers a homeless veteran who found a job using the employment service at Minnesota StandDown in 1993. A year later, the man was able to give...

After months of speculation about his various physical ailments, University Medical School graduate Bob Kempainen ran to a disappointing 31st place Sunday morning in the men's Olympic marathon. He appeared...

Both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed a minimum wage increase Friday that will raise the wage by 90 cents over the next year, from $4.25 to $5.15 an hour. President Clinton is expected...

Former Gophers men's track star Keita Cline ran a great second leg for the British Virgin Islands' Olympic 400-meter relay team Friday. Unfortunately, the team did not qualify for the second round. Cline...

ATLANTA (AP) -- No last-place finisher in a marathon ever has been greeted more royally. And no one likely has finished quite so last. The band played a fanfare as A. Baser Wasiqi of Afghanistan entered...

President Clinton said Wednesday he plans to sign the first meaningful piece of welfare reform legislation since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s. Clinton's approval of the bill will affect...

The University's Academic Health Center and HealthPartners, one of Minnesota's largest managed care organizations, signed a five-year educational affiliation contract Wednesday. Under the agreement, HealthPartners...