A new phase of the $5.5 million Wilson Library construction project will begin Monday and result in decreased access to the facility for about a month. The project, which began in March and will last a...

College students often talk about getting involved in politics, but one University student is doing more than just talking. He is running against a politically prominent incumbent for a seat in the Minnesota...

STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) -- Washington County Sheriff Jim Frank has seen plenty of the sorts of injuries that prompted Minnesota's ban on fireworks. "In my years as a police officer, there have been a number...

Two men assaulted a University student Saturday while he worked as a bouncer at a bar near campus. The University junior in the College of Natural Resources sustained bruises, a swollen face and scratches...

Billy Dee Cockerham, another football player involved in the incident with Joe Justice, appeared before the judge Tuesday. Former Gophers football player Joseph Justice failed to appear before a Ramsey...

We are indeed becoming a nation of victims. A Louisiana woman, Patsy Byers, filed a lawsuit last month that states movie director Oliver Stone and his film "Natural Born Killers" are to blame for influencing...

The warm June sun beat down on the Augsburg College football field, where a makeshift end zone has been created at the 50-yard line for the Minnesota Fighting Pike's practice. Former Gophers Rickey Foggie,...

Several long jumps for the British Virgin Islands, one giant step for Keita Cline. Cline, a former University track All-American and a dual citizen of the United States and the British Virgin Islands,...

NASA unveiled the design for America's first new spaceship in a generation Tuesday, a reusable, wedge-shaped craft called VentureStar that would take off and land almost as easily as an airplane and open...

Colleges are not known to have high voter turnout, but the League of Women Voters hopes to change that. The league, a nonpartisan organization, started a chapter at the University a year ago and hopes...