The University will receive nearly $2 million in grants from the Bush Foundation to fund projects to train elementary and secondary school educators and strengthen academic programs at the University. The...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A federal appeals court stepped in at the last minute on June 5 and upheld an order that was about to start costing the NCAA and its lawyers thousands of dollars a day, attorneys...

When Congress raises the minimum wage, as many as 400,000 of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged work force members will lose their jobs and an unknown number of marginally profitable businesses will...

Children statewide are learning how to have it made in the shade when it comes to sun safety. The SunSmart program, which began as a research project by University Design, Housing and Apparel faculty...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Top AIDS officials cautioned Sunday that overly optimistic reports of breakthroughs in AIDS treatment will raise impossibly high hopes among AIDS sufferers around the...

Although Minnesota has a history rich with many cultures, presenting ethnic and cultural groups for an event like the Minnesota Heritage Festival can be a difficult task. The festival, which took place...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- University of Miami special teams player Tremain Mack, who has a long rap sheet, faces a July 12 arraignment in Texas on a bad-check charge, The Miami Herald reported Wednesday. Mack...

Former Gophers football player Joseph Justice appeared before a Ramsey County judge Wednesday to face charges of credit card fraud and theft. Justice, 21, was charged with three felony counts in connection...

A crowd standing on a booth-lined lawn Wednesday evening in front of Minnesota's Capitol heard the verses of rock group Eric Burdon and War's music not once, but twice. The music traveled from the main...

Before Maurice Spiegel's invention, people held their hair in place with shellac. But Spiegel solved the sticky problem with the first water-soluble hair spray, "Style," which he invented in 1952. With...