LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) -- U.S. nuclear weapons production and storage centers are vulnerable to earthquakes, tornadoes, floods and other natural disasters, government scientists warn. In worst-case scenarios,...

Here we were, believing the debacle surrounding Dr. John Najarian's storied career at the University of Minnesota had come to an end. But thanks to Gov. Arne Carlson and his ever active imagination, we...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Fans are snatching up anything with Kirby Puckett on it -- collectors' cards, baseballs, posters, jerseys and other memorabilia. Ripley Peterson, manager of Field of Dreams in the Mall...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- Medical cost-cutting imposed by managed care organizations is choking off a vital source of money for medical research, a scientist says. Health maintenance organizations and similar...

Albert Alexander-Fryc, chairman of the technology committee for the Disabled Students Cultural Center, is legally blind. But that doesn't stop him from using the Internet to keep in touch with others...

In the United States, the automobile is God, and driving is its sacrament. Everyday some 190 million cars fill our roads. Trips by private motor vehicles account for more than 85 percent of the traffic...

The two recipients of the first successful bowel transplants in Minnesota history were released Friday from University Hospital Dr. Rainer Gruessner, the surgeon in both transplants, said Carl Knutson,...

A select number of incoming University students may be guaranteed graduation in four years under a new program starting this fall. Administrators unveiled the program to the Board of Regents on Friday...

There was no champagne or party favors, and the Board of Regents didn't have to wait until midnight for their new year to begin. The regent meetings last week marked the beginning of the University's...

University officials plan to ask the Legislature to pay half of the University's operating costs under a proposal presented to the Board of Regents on Friday. Although the 1998-99 biennial budget request...