Elmo woke up on the floor next to the bed. Not a good way to start the morning. After hauling himself through the usual morning routine, he paused as he turned the deadbolt on the door. He looked up and...

University Internet users couldn't connect to sites outside the state Monday after a connection between the Twin Cities and Chicago failed at about 4 p.m. Tom Barron, supervisor of the University's Networking...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Energy Department said Monday it will import about 20 tons of nuclear waste from research reactors in 41 countries to prevent the weapons-grade material from being used for bombs. "The...

With the end of his life in sight, a cancer-stricken Minnesota teen-ager hoped for the opportunity to write a fitting conclusion to his all-too-short life story. The Minnesota chapter of the Make-A-Wish...

The Gophers baseball team ended its season Monday with a crescendo, winning 3-2 at Siebert Field against Iowa. Minnesota (15-12 in the Big Ten, 30-26 overall) won its last three games to finish the conference...

Last Friday night, a crowd of more than 60,000 men descended on the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The vast majority of them were middle class, clean-cut and casually dressed. It was obvious from their...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., is asking Republicans to stop running a television ad that invokes his name while attacking Sen. Paul Wellstone, a fellow Minnesota Democrat. The ad, which...

Several people were surprised to find tickets on their cars last week after parking in an area behind a campus building that was not marked as a no-parking zone. College of Liberal Arts senior Shawn Eliason...

Doctors performed a bowel transplant at the University on Sunday for the first time in nearly 30 years. Rainer Gruessner, who performed the nine-hour surgery, said the patient was listed in critical but...

The Gophers softball team was still flying high Monday from its NCAA regional bid, and its players sounded supremely confident of their chances in Lafayette, La., this weekend. "Now that we have a chance...