It's a big step down from the days of roaring crowds, charter flights to games and scholarships, but for a handful of former Gophers football players, the gridiron continues to call in the form of the...

Going away to college is a big step for high school graduates, but 82 high school students decided to give it a trial run this summer in the University Summer Honors College. The program allows 11th-...

The public health pariahs at the Daily are at it again -- this time they criticize Bill Clinton, who criticized Bob Dole for not criticizing Big Tobacco in his most recent campaign swing through the South...

Women living with cancer of the cervix, vagina or ovaries might have less energy and experience more pain than their doctor's estimate, according to a study conducted at the University's Women's Cancer...

When the Food and Drug Administration approved the blood clot-dissolving drug Activase for the emergency treatment of stroke victims earlier this month, new hope was offered to the nearly 400,000 Americans...

More than 60 canoeists paddled down the Mississippi River on Saturday to protest increased use of motorized vehicles in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Voyageurs National Park. Jennifer...

ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary William J. Perry acknowledged Sunday that the terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia would have been less deadly if Saudi authorities had granted a...

Ever since Bill Clinton made his notorious 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it," Democrats and Republicans alike have found it politically profitable to scapegoat poor women and children,...

BOSTON (AP) -- Spills, skids and face plants -- not exactly a promising start for the men's Olympic gymnastics team. But former Gophers standout John Roethlisberger scored a 9.375 in the vault, his final...

Ask any Twin Cities area water enthusiast what the biggest nuisance this summer is and they won't say mosquitoes -- they'll say milfoil. University professors and graduate students are researching environmentally...