After being robbed at gunpoint, a Como area business owner might close her store, she said. An unidentified suspect wielding a weapon that appeared to be a semi-automatic pistol robbed Captain's Lunchbox...

University police officers spent part of their Friday afternoon contacting some students parked in the Wildcat Lot at 420 25th Ave. S.E. to tell them their vehicles had been burglarized. An unknown suspect...

A 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-River Falls sophomore said he was sexually assaulted March 22 while on a date in Minneapolis. He joins an estimated one in seven men sexually assaulted in their lifetimes,...

Despite unseasonable snow, local law enforcement agencies targeted underage consumption of alcohol and driving while under the influence during last weekend's Spring Jam festivities. According to police...

Nearly three months after the shooting deaths of two men in a Hudson, Wis., funeral home, their tearful families announced a $100,000 reward Tuesday for anyone providing information that leads to an arrest. James...

An activist imprisoned a decade ago spoke to nearly 25 community members and University students Monday night at Blegen Hall about the importance of engaging people in the black power movement. Fred Hampton...

The Minnesota Daily filed a complaint Tuesday with the Minneapolis Police Department's Internal Affairs Division. The complaint claimed officers infringed on Daily journalists' First Amendment rights during...

As the spring semester winds down, many students look forward to selling back textbooks for extra cash. Two University students won't get that chance, because their textbooks were stolen last week from...

Every day, students and faculty on campus are deluged with unsolicited e-mails. Most of them are more annoying than harmful. But one popular scam, which has been draining bank accounts for more than 20...

The Hennepin County Attorney's Office charged a former University student and employee Monday with nine felony counts for using more than $16,000 of University funds for personal expenses and using her...

A University student was forced to defend herself after she refused to give beer to two men walking by her house April 13. Kirsten Collins, a women's studies senior, and three friends were at her apartment...

Over the next few weeks, University officials will grapple with how and when the student conduct code should be enforced. Last Monday, student life director Robert Jones said students arrested during the...

Jill Leighton ran away from a home of physical and sexual abuse when she was 14 years old. She quickly became desperate for food and shelter while living on the streets of Ohio. One day a man approached...

The Minnesota Daily's editor in chief met with high-ranking city officials Wednesday to discuss his allegations that police used unreasonable force against Daily staff covering the Sunday morning riot...

University police responded to a fight in progress Friday involving eight men on the corner of Fourth Street Southeast and 15th Avenue Southeast, according to the police report. Police detained seven of...

One Minneapolis woman has been arrested for prostitution 29 times and for loitering with the intent to commit prostitution 36 more. She is a case study in why police officers, attorneys and prostitution...

The Minneapolis City Attorney's Office charged three University students and one Minneapolis man for their alleged involvement in the Dinkytown melee following the Gophers' national hockey championship...

Nearly 10 years ago, Linda Kolkind found a murdered prostitute on the street by her home in Powderhorn Park. The prostitute was 40 years old and college educated. But she was unable to escape prostitution...

Minneapolis police Officer Matt Wente circled the blocks near Lake Street and Chicago Avenue South in mid-January searching for a prostitute at 10 a.m. Few women were out; temperatures had dipped below...

Unknown suspects stole four bicycles Thursday between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on the University's East Bank campus. In one incident, a person saw the theft occurring near Moos Tower and reported it to University...

Pledging to ensure equal access to Minneapolis dwellings, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak declared April Fair Housing Month in a kickoff celebration at City Hall on Monday. Rybak and housing agency representatives...

Harvard Market and Harvard Market East were robbed Thursday evening in a half-hour span, the stores' owner said. The stores are located two blocks from each other on Washington Avenue Southeast. Harvard...

Scott Beale, a 26-year-old former White House official, led nearly 30 University students Thursday evening in a millennial-age political discussion. "Scott is basically an expert on not only issues that...

The Hennepin County Attorney's Office charged a 29-year-old man March 19 with fifth-degree sexual assault and terroristic threats. According to the criminal complaint: Derick Lee Gallagher sexually assaulted...

More than six months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the University's emergency management plan is nearly revised, and plans for updated security have been finalized. University officials began meeting the...

College students will take anything that's free. That is what Academic and Distributed Computing Services was counting on when it purchased approximately $75,000 worth of Norton AntiVirus licenses for...

Two men stole their own cars the first weekend in March from the Cedar Towing lot located on the 3200 block of Como Avenue Southeast. A man whose 1999 BMW was towed from the Grandmarc at Seven Corners...

Each year, thousands of women are illegally smuggled into the United States and imprisoned in brothels and slave labor. That's what Sheila Wellstone, wife of Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., told approximately...

A University Dining Services employee reported a possible employee-related theft Feb. 27 from an office in the Comstock Hall dining area at 210 Delaware St. S.E. The theft occurred between 3:30 p.m. Feb....

When President George W. Bush visited Monday, he was warmly received by most local officials. But two of Minnesota's heaviest hitters were nowhere to be found at Bush's Eden Prairie High School appearance...

HUDSON, Wis. - Over lumps in their throats, members of the O'Connell family spoke Friday for the first time since University alumnus Daniel O'Connell's Feb. 5 death. O'Connell, 38, and James Ellison, a...

Hennepin County appeals court Judge Ronald Amundson was charged Tuesday with five felony counts of theft for allegedly stealing money from the trust fund of a mentally disabled woman. As trustee of the...

The man responsible for keeping nearly 14,000 fans safe at Gophers men's basketball games died Monday. Wally Caryl, 79, director of the University Emergency Management Department and a 35-year University...

Minneapolis police charged a 34-year-old man Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting a 31-year-old woman jogging in the St. Anthony Main area Feb. 18. Dennis Lee Whitley Jr. was charged with fourth-degree...

Two University fraternities reported burglaries to Minneapolis police this month. The Chi Psi fraternity, also known as "the lodge," located on the 1500 block of University Avenue Southeast, reported a...

A 46-year-old Minneapolis man was charged with second-degree assault Friday after allegedly stabbing another man Feb. 6 in front of Moos Tower. According to the criminal complaint: University police Sgt....

Hundreds gathered Monday in Barron, Wis., to celebrate the life of James Ellison, a University mortuary science senior shot and killed Feb. 5 Family and friends spilled out of the Barron Area Community...

Investigators found nothing missing from the O'Connell Family Funeral Home in Hudson, Wis., where two men were found shot and killed Tuesday. Police led employees through the building in search of clues...

Most of the University's 48 mortuary science students gathered Wednesday to grieve the death of classmate James Ellison, who was killed Tuesday. Ellison, a 22-year-old mortuary science senior, and Daniel...

HUDSON, Wis. - A University Medical School student was the victim of an apparent homicide late Tuesday at O'Connell Family Funeral Home in Hudson, Wis. James D. Ellison, a 21-year-old senior in the mortuary...

A 34-year-old St. Paul man was arrested Jan. 26 for burglarizing the apartment of two University students. Farris Ivan Turner allegedly broke into an apartment on University Avenue Southeast at approximately...

University police arrested a man carrying 15 allegedly stolen passports at Wilson Library on Jan. 21. Gideon Osei Boadu, 28, allegedly removed the picture from at least one of the passports and replaced...

A weekend blaze in the Crops Research Building on the St. Paul campus was caused by arson, University police confirmed Monday. The fire broke out at approximately 3:40 a.m. Saturday. It began in a construction...

Five men robbed a University student crossing the 10th Avenue bridge Monday at approximately 10:30 p.m. Justin Erickson, a senior finance major, who is also the Daily's business manager, was walking from...

Minneapolis police arrested Robert Leon Commodore, 33, after he allegedly threatened to kill employees of the Purple Onion Café and broke one of the Dinkytown café's windows Thursday. Police...

For the first time during their weeklong trial, the stoic facades of two University football players charged with first- and third-degree sexual assault crumbled when the jury acquitted the men of all...

An unknown suspect jumped on the hood of a University student's car Dec. 4 after the student prevented the woman from cutting in front of her. Rachel Lee Mann-Orosz, 20, said she was waiting to turn left...

Two University football players charged with an on-campus sexual assault will stand trial beginning Monday at the Hennepin County Courthouse. Steven Watson and Mackenzy Toussaint are both charged with...

An unknown man broke into three University students' lower-level apartment on the 1000 block of 12th Avenue S.E., the first of three break-ins in one week. "We're not aware if it's just because we are...

Despite a 10 percent decrease in theft in the 2nd Precinct, a string of motor vehicle break-ins hit the Como neighborhood last week. "Unfortunately there is not a lot folks can do," said Lt. Steve Kincaid...

A Minneapolis man filed a police report last week after an unknown individual withdrew approximately $1,300 within the last two months from his US Bank checking account. Mark Watson stopped using the account...

Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura unveiled his set of anti-terrorism initiatives Wednesday to help guide lawmakers in the next legislative session. The initiatives propose to limit terrorists' access to money,...

A University Buildings and Grounds worker notified police Monday that another University employee has been harassing him. On Oct. 17, an unidentified man intentionally bumped into Michael Gojjam and made...

As President George W. Bush encouraged the nation to not panic but remain vigilant Nov. 8, University and state officials discussed ways to prevent bioterrorism in the food industry. The University Center...

St. Cloud State University media won a small victory last week when SCSU Student Government rescinded a decision to restrict their use of American Indian nicknames and logos in publications and broadcasts. However,...

Organisms took millions of years to evolve into their current form, but one University researcher looks to speed up the evolutionary process. Assistant biochemistry professor Claudia Schmidt-Dannert's...

When Teri Agins grew up in the 1960s, fashion magazines flaunted the new, up-and-coming styles. Now, Parisian runways mean little to a nation whose tailors are Target and Wal-Mart. Today's shoppers frequent...

One student was suspended from work and litigation is pending after St. Cloud State University decided to crack down on the use of American Indian nicknames or logos in their publications or broadcasts. A...

University researchers think they've proven why biodiversity is so important to global ecosystems. Ecology professor David Tilman published his group's controversial findings in last week's edition of...

Minnesota Student Association Forum Speaker Matthew Abdel resigned Oct. 22 after clashing with the organization's leadership. Abdel said he resigned because of conflicts with MSA President Dan Kelly -...

Concerns that a proposed St. Paul chiller plant would harm an adjacent wetland restoration project have been addressed by a new University proposal. The centralized chiller plant will still be constructed...

Agriculture no longer consists only of planting corn and raising livestock. The College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences wants to reflect those changes through new initiatives announced...

Groundbreaking began last week for the first building of what will become an entire section of biotechnology buildings on the St. Paul campus. The Board of Regents approved last week construction of the...

Hundreds lined the red carpet to catch a glimpse of this year's Homecoming royalty and to cheer for the maroon and gold Friday on the St. Paul gymnasium field. The pepfest and bonfire concluded the weeklong...

Vincent Negret said he can still hardly believe he found a winemaking job in Minnesota. The political strife in his homeland of Colombia forced him to sell his family vineyard and pack his bags for the...

The University Center for Farm Financial Management is releasing three computer software programs this semester that aim to improve farm management and planning. More than one-half of farmers own computers,...

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recently awarded Richard Levins, University applied economics professor and extension agriculture economist, a two-year Food and Society Fellowship. "I see it as a great way...

It might not be a Tomahawk missile. But an anthrax-poisoned chicken can be a deadly weapon. That's why veterinary students need to learn how they can wage war on bioterrorism, University professors and...

If annual temperatures around the globe continue to rise, one native Minnesota plant might not be able to adapt to the climate changes. University researchers concluded the evolution of the partridge pea...

While the United States continues to launch missile attacks on Afghanistan military camps, U.S. citizens brace themselves for another attack. And Minnesotans continue to wonder if their state could be...

Some University students work with sterile surgical tools under glaring lights - and the distinct smell of disinfectant. They don't practice their craft in an emergency room. Rather, these students can't...

A young man and his pregnant wife stood amid the chaos in the New York City service workers' union headquarters. After barely making it out of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, he is thankful he will...

Anthony Jurek will never forget the harrowing nightmare he suffered 50 years ago. He served his country in the Korean War. But he ended up enduring 30 months of confinement as a prisoner of war. "The Chinese...

The word "oink" might not mean much to you. Maybe "epidemiology" doesn't either. But over the past 25 years, University faculty and students have combined hogs from the St. Paul campus and the study of...

Students eating at the St. Paul Student Center Terrace Cafe on Wednesday got a taste of more than just french fries and ice cream. They got lunchtime tunes from pianist Skott Freedman. "This right here...

Many stockholders watched in despair Monday as their investments plummeted. But local banks and investment firms didn't see a fleet of panicked customers rushing to withdraw their life savings. John Oakes,...

Either by creating their own Web page or utilizing the WebCT software supplied by the University, more and more professors require students to access the Internet on a regular basis. Junior biochemistry...

One day after the shocking East Coast terrorist attacks, the country is beginning to sort through the rubble and evidence to figure out what happened Tuesday morning. Once they figure out who is behind...

American Red Cross disaster relief volunteers Tuesday swarmed to the scenes of the terrorist attacks and provided assistance to victims and their families. The Minneapolis Red Cross packed 1,000 units...

University students and metro residents waited in lines Tuesday night to fill up their gas tanks at area filling stations after they heard rumors of rising gas prices. The rumors remain unfounded speculation...

Sales tax rebates have come and gone. But many students would rather have seen the $791.3 million surplus invested in education and other social programs. "I guess I was glad to get a check in the mail,...

Ahmed Siddiqui faced a tighter job market when he graduated last May from the Carlson School of Management than his classmates encountered the previous spring. Nationally, employers expect to hire 19.7...

The University appointed four representatives last week to the Commission on the University of Minnesota Excellence - a state-mandated committee designed to evaluate the University and ensure accountability. The...

William Nord, a scientist at the Soil Testing Laboratory on the St. Paul campus, died Aug. 13 while biking to work. A car struck him as he crossed Highway 280 on Broadway Avenue. He was 45. The State Patrol...

The widespread computer virus infestation this summer has had little effect on the University's computer network. During the summer there are 15,000 to 20,000 computers on the University's network, and...