The Minnesota Daily

Dozens ‘lie down’ at Capitol for Columbine event

Published April 20, 2009

Dozens of people participated in a "lie-down" at Colorado's state Capitol Monday to demand stricter gun control and mark the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings.

Mystery at Fla. polo match: 21 horses die

Published April 20, 2009

State veterinarians were still performing necropsies but suspect the horses died from heart failure brought on by some sort of toxic reaction in their bodies.

UCLA able to pull ahead of Minnesota rowers in California

Published April 20, 2009

The Minnesota rowing team was edged by UCLA on Sunday in the final day of competition at the Lake Natoma Invitational in California. Despite finishing ahead of UCLA in two out of three events on Sunday,...

Flood-threatened town urges residents: Stay out

Published April 20, 2009

Valley City Mayor Mary Lee Nielson told businesses to stay closed for at least this week, unless they are absolutely needed.

FBI workers accused of spying on dressing room

Published April 20, 2009

Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall.

For its trouble, downtrodden Detroit gets Pulitzer

Published April 20, 2009

The award for local reporting is the ninth Pulitzer for the Free Press, and the two reporters were elated to have been a part of it.

4 people found dead in hotel north of Baltimore

Published April 20, 2009

Investigators began the task Monday evening of identifying four bodies found inside a hotel guest room earlier in the day in suburban Baltimore, as well as figuring out how the people died.

Sea hostage’s hometown rolls out the welcome mat

Published April 17, 2009

Richard Phillips, who was freed from his ordeal with Somali pirates on Easter Sunday, was expected to arrive on a chartered jet before being whisked to his home, where the white picket fence in front was festooned with homemade signs, ribbons and bows.

Owner: Nephew left Fla. home just before plane hit

Published April 17, 2009

A South Florida man whose home was sliced in two by a small plane says his nephew left the home only shortly before the crash.

Citigroup, GE earnings lift hopes for economy

Published April 17, 2009

Facing conflicting evidence, analysts are wrestling with whether the economy is making a fitful climb back up — or whether the crisis will get worse before it gets better.