The Waseca Correctional Facility âÄì a low-security federal prison âÄì has attracted several notable individuals since it was opened in 1996 as an all-menâÄôs prison. Former president...

With a weekend box office total of $23.1 million, the new Steven Soderbergh film Contagion, led all movies at the box office this weekend after opening nationwide on Friday.  The film, with a star-studded...

A British television news station recently featured the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, naming Minneapolis as a breeding ground for home-grown terrorists within the U.S. The largest domestic terrorism investigation...

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a compliant Wednesday morning in a federal court in Washington D.C. asking for a court order to prevent a blockbuster merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, according...

President Barack Obama's visit to Minneapolis Tuesday will be to address the members of the American Legion at their national convention. This is the second visit to the state in less than two weeks. Obama...

Just the other day, a close friend from high school sent me an e-mail from Missouri. The message was from a seemingly distressed stay-at-home mom whom my friend had interviewed for a local magazine several...

As a Chinese-born, naturalized American citizen who grew up in Ames, Iowa, Chinese traditions were as elusive to me as getting a full-ride scholarship to play football. I was the son of a Chinese international...

Standing taller than a person, white candy-cane shaped metal pipes form an intricate centerpiece in the heart of a series of apartment complexes on the west bank of the Mississippi called Riverside Plaza. The...

Whenever I meet alumni of the University of Minnesota and we compare and contrast our experiences here, the air of our conversation always tilts toward the drastic changes ahead. I fill them in on the...

ItâÄôs a running joke here at the Minnesota Daily that the cumulative grade point average of the newsroom is lower than that of the football team. I wouldnâÄôt be shocked if this were true....

If BattleBots is World Wrestling Entertainment in mechanical form, the University of MinnesotaâÄôs GO FIRST robotics team is robo-football, head robot designer and University student Danny Blau...

Eddie Morra didn’t immediately recognize the man in the chic suit. With the audacity of a rich man helping the poor, the man in the suit, who Morra soon recognizes as his ex-brother-in-law, forces a...

The fate of the University of Minnesota Science Park âÄî a 32-acre site for research labs and offices âÄî remains in limbo as organizers look to the University to take the lead as they...

Where else can you find the Miracle Ab Roller for only $6 online? Dealnews.com is one of many websites that scan the Internet daily for the best bargins of the day. Today's hottest deal: national roundtrip...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved the .xxx domain for adult websites, Friday. The top-level domain, the technical term for .com and .xxx portion of a URL, will be distributed...

The Soudan Underground Laboratory, operated by the University of Minnesota, is currently being threatened by a fire in a mine shaft above the actual lab. The fire, determined by the Department of Natural...

There will be no St. Cloud State University Homecoming next fall, school officials said this week. Citing a lack of school spirit and involvement from the universityâÄôs alumni base, the school...

After residents dug out of a snow storm that left more than a foot of snow across the metro, residents could again be digging out of another storm system with the potential of up to another six inches...

A closely guarded secret, Google's mathematical formula that orders websites according to their content quality, has changed, according to a Google blog post Thursday. This is in response to recent criticism...

While no goats we know of were harmed in this alleged operation, Lt. Col. Michael Holmes, the leader of the U.S. Army's psy-op "information operations" unit, told Rolling Stone that Lt. Gen. William Caldwell,...

A man arrested in Stadium View Apartments for trespassing Sunday afternoon became violent in a squad car and threatened Minneapolis police officers. The 20-year-old, identified as Anthony Fockler of Sioux...

The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission approved an $18.3 million roof replacement for the Metrodome on Thursday. The roof will be completed by the beginning of August âÄî only weeks before...

Activision Blizzard announced that they will be discontinuing the “Guitar Hero” series of video games. The company said they will be focusing more of their attention on battle games such as “Call...

 The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission will hear an evaluation from engineers about the condition of the Metrodome's collapsed roof on Thursday.  According to the Star Tribune, the engineers...

A physicist from the University of Southern Queensland believes the Earth will experience multiple days of constant daylight due to a dying star — even as soon as 2012. Is this a sign of the apocalypse? No,...

Social networking dinosaur, Myspace, announced Tuesday that they will be laying off 500 employees – close to half the company’s workforce. “Today’s tough but necessary changes were taken in order...

Only slightly bigger than a half-dollar, the Zomm fits conveniently on my keychain, which makes me wish my cell phone could do the same.  The Zomm, an “invisible” leash for your phone, will drop...

The revenue stream from a blockbuster patent is quickly expiring, and the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Minnesota is scrambling to find new ways to stay on solid footing. OTC...

The University Of Minnesota Board Of Regents Thursday unanimously approved a 15 percent service fee for technologies licensed through the Office of Technology Commercialization. Originally, these costs...

Sitting in the cafeteria in CERN particle physics laboratory, Jeremiah Mans was just thinking about how smoothly everything leading up to the first scheduled run of the Large Hadron Collider had gone when...

Christopher Allen Trautman faces 14 criminal charges, including three counts of criminal vehicular homicide, after being involved in a fatal hit-and-run over the weekend that left one University of Minnesota...

A University of Minnesota student was injured in one of two fatal hit-and-run incidents in Rochester over the weekend. Chemical engineering senior Chris Glenski of Rochester is in critical condition and...

Black Friday is over, but shoppers will soon scour the Internet for deals during the burgeoning Cyber Monday tradition. This year, nine out of 10 retailers will have deals online for Cyber Monday âÄî...

One of the most significant discoveries of the 20th century is quickly becoming obsolete. Antibiotics, which are among the most prescribed medications, are losing their value due to drug-resistant bacteria,...

A University of Minnesota professor is looking for buyers for his route evacuation planning software. The evacuation route planning and large event transportation software, funded by a National Science...

A University of Minnesota researcher is leading an international team that has shed new light on one of the most studied topics in history âÄî superconductivity. The research could potentially...