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...

FOXBORO, Mass. (AP) -- The New England Patriots drafted wide receiver Terry Glenn for his speed on a football field. Last Saturday, he lost control of his car and struck a tree after driving about 60 mph...

Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, likes to compare her political career to her zeal for marathons. "I treat issues just like I treat marathons," Kahn said. "I have a lot of tenacity and I keep on working...

Dr. Michael Till, a professor in the Department of Preventive Sciences, will assume the interim deanship of the School of Dentistry today. Till, a faculty member at the University for 25 years, takes...

Coralea Brown-Cline dreamed of going to the Olympics for her native Canada throughout her childhood. But after a number of setbacks, the former Gophers standout in the high jump stored her ambitions until...

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...