Almost 50 years after it was originally written, Stephen King’s horror-thriller “The Long Walk” will make its film debut on Sept. 12, with Minnesota local actor Ben Wang playing a pivotal role in the ...

Even though the current Gophers basketball team is enjoying one of its best seasons in recent history, Clem Haskins’s crew will always be compared to another Gophers squad that might have been the ...

There’s a section of ragged concrete outside the 400 Bar at the intersection of Riverside and Cedar avenues where the original red brick street peeks through. At least 100 years old, it’s emblematic ...

Switzerland’s notoriously discreet banking establishment has kept its World War II secrets for a long time. A series of investigations over the last few months, however, shines an international ...

After 44 years of teaching at the University, geology professor Robert Sloan will deliver his last lecture today. “Some people talk about dinosaurs; some people are dinosaurs,” said Sloan, who has ...

Richard Ivan Pervo, a former University professor, pleaded guilty Wednesday to posessing more than 4,200 images depicting children in sexual acts. He received eight years probation and one year in a ...

Jimmy Leonard, a British bouncer and truck driver, won the British Dwarf-Throwing Championships by tossing “Lenny the Giant,” a 4-foot-4-inch, 98-pound British dwarf, a distance of 11 feet 5 inches at ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Little Mermaid statue, beloved symbol of fairy tale innocence, fell victim Tuesday to cynicism — decapitated by vandals who apparently called a cameraman to ...

Joe Senser’s Bar and Grill in Bloomington provided a warm refuge from Minnesota’s first snowfall to a packed house of men of all ages Monday night. The attraction: former University students Nicole, ...

Alena Neumann endured years of constant bullying growing up in the Anoka-Hennepin School District. The University of Minnesota psychology student, who identifies as transgender, said she has been ...

Poet Robert Bly of Minneapolis was named Minnesota’s first poet laureate last week by Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The 81-year-old poet is the author of more than 30 books of poetry. Bly is best known for his ...

A 45-year-old Minneapolis man died at about 7:45 p.m. on Thursday when he jumped from the 10th Avenue Bridge just south of University Avenue. The man hit the gravel ground near several sets of train ...