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...

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...