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Rural transportation safety experts at the University of Minnesota have launched a national mapping service, SafeRoadMaps.org, to help drivers identify the most dangerous portions of upcoming trips.

Star shortstop Dan Olinger of the Great Falls Stallions has signed an NCAA Division I national letter-of-intent to accept a baseball scholarship from the University of Minnesota, the school announced Wednesday.

Mayor Coleman appoints Kit Hadley as City's New Library Director Mayor Chris Coleman today named Katherine "Kit" Hadley as director of Saint Paul Public Library.

A Somali-born photographer traces his people's emigration in a sensitive new show.

University of Minnesota Medical School researcher Michael Mauer, M.D., has found a treatment that significantly slows the progression of eye injury in people with type 1 diabetes, a common complication caused by this disease.

"As a practicing medical oncologist, I meet with patients and families every day to help manage their course through this disease called cancer.

Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris planned and executed the shootings at Columbine High School, in which the ultimately killed themselves.

Norm Coleman spoke to the media standing next to his daughter Sarah in his backyard in St.

Results from a new trial have dashed hopes that early use of two blood pressure drugs could slow the loss of kidney function caused by type 1 diabetes.

Would require the most money to implement it. Minnesota has historically had a healthy, nearly fully insured citizenry.

Experts at the University of Minnesota want to make July 4th vacations safer for drivers with an updated map of fatal traffic crashes on rural roads in the past five years.

A sizable minority of adolescents believe they are likely to die at a young age, and this perception is a powerful predictor of involvement in high risk behaviors and poor health outcomes, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics.

ST. PAUL a ' Mike Kilgore says the green Minnesotans pay in a higher tax beginning Wednesday will mean a greener Minnesota in a year.

Jun 30, 2009 1:10 pm US/Central Univ. Of Minnesota Study Polled 20,000 In Grades 7-12; 15 Percent See An Early Demise Thanks To Risky Lifestyle WANTAGH, N.Y. Living fast and dying young - a new study finds a significant number of teens believe they could die before their 35th birthday.

Jun 29, 2009 7:51 pm US/Central Reporting Dennis Douda MINNEAPOLIS 1 of 1 Borowsky said she is hoping the findings will encourage adults who have daily contact with youth to help young people build hope for a more positive future.

Iowa offensive lineman Kyle Calloway has been arrested and charged with operating a mo-ped while intoxicated.

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Challenging the notion that risky behavior reflects a youthful sense of immortality, a new study has found almost 15 percent of American teens believe they will die before age 35 -- a perspective strongly linked to risky behavior.

They used to say that teenagers think they're immortal, and that's why they do such dangerous things.

Twenty students from North Africa will study at the University of Minnesota this fall under a State Department program to promote understanding of the United States and develop future leaders.