University of Minnesota

Wide receiver Eric Decker has particular interest in the halftime show at the Denver Broncos' game against the New York Jets on Thursday night.

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A security guard accused of knocking down, tripping and pushing fans at the Minnesota Gophers' stadium has been fired.

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The University of Minnesota's new President Eric Kaler is spending the day today (Tuesday) in St. Cloud. Kaler will be speaking to the St. Cloud Rotary Club, and will also visit St. Cloud Hospital, the U's Residency Clinic, and Extension office.

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The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is asking the public to submit ideas for naming a new pink rose. The shrub rose, known as "Rosa 66," is slated to make its marketplace debut in 2012. The rose was developed at the University of Minnesota and is exclusive to the arboretum.

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Cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys and sheep will be visiting the heart of an urban college campus. Tuesday marks the second annual Agriculture Awareness Day on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota.

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Minneapolis police say a driver going the wrong way on a street near the University of Minnesota campus struck and injured three pedestrians walking on a sidewalk early Friday.

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Minnesota farmers made more money last year, compared to the year before. The median net farm income was nearly $120,000 among about 2,500 Minnesota farms in 2010 -- that's up from just over $33,000 the year before when net incomes were depressed by low profits in the livestock industry.

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The football coach who led the Minnesota Gophers to a national championship and two back-to-back Rose Bowls has died at age 98. The University of Minnesota, on its Web site, says Murray Warmath died Wednesday in Bloomington of natural causes.

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A jury says a north Minneapolis blogger must pay $60,000 in damages to a community leader who was fired from the University of Minnesota after a blog post. The Hennepin County civil jury found that an "Adventures of Johnny Northside" blog post in June 2009 resulted in Jerry Moore's firing from the university.

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A suspicious package that forced the evacuation of Morrill Hall at the University of Minnesota turned out to be a cell phone inside a box. A postal worker discovered the package just before noon Thursday.

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