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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...