SELBY, S.D. (AP) -- Nicholas A. Scherr of Mobridge pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reduced charge of first-degree manslaughter for slaying Candace Rough Surface, a young Standing Rock Sioux Indian woman, nearly...

NORTHFIELD, Minn. (AP) -- Hundreds of law enforcement officers from Minnesota and surrounding states joined community members Tuesday to mourn the death of Rice County Deputy Sheriff John Liebenstein. Bagpipes...

On the night of April 13, psychology senior Andrea Nelson was the only parking attendant working at the Church Street Garage. With an event occurring that evening at Northrop Memorial Auditorium, she...

ST. PAUL (AP) -- The ninth-grader told a counselor she was thinking about killing herself. Three months later, she wrote an English class essay about killing herself. Another month after that, she wrote...

Members of the media have become entirely too close to the politicians they are supposed to be covering, a former U.S. congressman said Wednesday. "The first dilemma at the national level is the incestuous...

Sarah Cecka played for the first time as a member of the Gophers women's basketball team on Nov. 26, 1994. Less than 15 months later, she is preparing to play her last game on Minnesota's home floor. The...

Employees at the Amoco station on University and 10th avenues -- in the heart of construction territory -- sat on their hands all day Thursday. Business was dead. "Usually, we get about 15 or 20 cars...

After weighing issues concerning academic freedom, autonomy and money, state legislators relaxed conditions placed on funding for the Academic Health Center. A bill that passed the House Education Committee...

When Wisconsin hosts the Gophers hockey team this weekend, the seniors from each team will be playing in their final WCHA regular-season series. And following tradition, both teams have looked to those...

Tom Chicoine made only one mistake on his recruiting visit to Minnesota last year, and it was a big one. A student host took the prospective tennis player to the Minnesota-Wisconsin hockey game at Mariucci...