Kelli Hopkins has been battling her weight since childhood. Two days ago, at Fairview University Hospital, the 28-year old received a surgery that might help her do what diets and exercise couldn't. Sayeed...

Hispanics, Minnesota's fastest growing minority population, receive less health care than any other ethnic group in Minnesota, according to a report released Tuesday by the University's School of Public...

The University is requesting $3.9 million, as part of a state anti-terrorism bill, to tighten security of toxic chemicals, biological agents and radioactive toxins located on campus. The Board of Regents...

Ten years ago, University bio-physicist Michael Garwood's wife Lynne felt a lump in her breast. It turned out to be benign, but the worry and emotional strain the two went through got Garwood thinking...

University researchers have found a way to stimulate the production of a clotting agent in blood cells that might someday help hemophiliacs produce the protein they need but don't have. Hemophiliacs are...

The University's Stem Cell Institute has successfully turned bone marrow stem cells into blood vessels, a finding that could help treat cancer and other diseases, researchers said in a paper published...

Thursday night, at the stroke of midnight, Bon Appetit, a Dinkytown music venue, will become merely a restaurant. Its owner closed the sale of the business this week, saying the decision was partially...

Two recent breaches of confidential information at the University Medical School have reinforced concern among school officials regarding the security of clinical records. The most recent breach occurred...

If the possible sale of Bon Appetit goes through, the Dinkytown music venue and restaurant could take on a daytime atmosphere well into the night. A potential buyer who said he would end live music and...

An investigation into the duplication of a University professor's stem cell research data led to the Dec. 6 seizure of a fellow researcher's hard drive and Zip disks by University police. University stem...

University President Mark Yudof said Thursday his proposal requiring students to attend classes full-time would also include many exemptions for students with extenuating circumstances. Yudof told the...

Local law enforcement officials under direction of the U.S. attorney's Office began interviewing more than 90 male immigrants in the Twin Cities area last week, authorities said. They are some of approximately...

A man who claimed to have a gun in his jacket attempted to rob a restaurant on Washington Avenue S.E. Wednesday night, and police think the same suspect robbed a nearby restaurant in an identical fashion...

A University senior was charged Thursday with third-degree assault after he allegedly punched another student in the mouth during a basketball game at the University rec center last May. According to the...

A University student said a man has been peeping into her house since this summer, sometimes pressing his face against a window. Police arrested the suspect Friday. "At first it seemed like just a peeping...

The former field captain of the University of Minnesota-Duluth men's rugby team pleaded guilty Tuesday to providing alcohol to minors at an April party attended by a freshman teammate who was found dead...

A 21-year-old man was charged Tuesday with second-degree assault after allegedly shooting at two men early Sunday morning near Como and 18th avenues Southeast. Police arrested Yonrico Calloway less than...

A sophomore was charged with third-degree sexual assault Friday after he allegedly assaulted a 19-year-old woman at a prominent Sixth Street Southeast apartment complex Oct. 10. Jason Richard Klug was...

University police have responded to at least nine reports of suspicious powders, envelopes or packages since Monday - 16 in all since Sept. 11. The Minneapolis bomb squad responded to suspicious packages...

University police said officers arrested a man Thursday who allegedly swindled a University freshman out of $400 and then drove him around Minneapolis demanding more money. Police said they've identified...

Officer Josh Betts said his new assignment will help dispel the public's perception of police as bogeymen who only show up when something bad happens or to bust someone. Betts is a community investigator,...

A researcher at the Mayo Memorial Building who worked on Saturday - an off day - found a man asleep at her desk. Dr. Catherine Bendel said the man, 35-year-old Jimmy James Hitchcock, stole and consumed...

Two men who allegedly beat, robbed and burned a homeless man last week appeared in court Tuesday on charges of second-degree attempted murder, authorities said. Doctors at Hennepin County Medical Center...

The Minneapolis police bomb squad was called to the Carlson School of Management on Sunday after a professor became suspicious of a package he received, said University police Sgt. Brad Herberg. Professor...

Janey Hsu, 18, was walking to her car near Middlebrook Hall two Saturdays ago when a man convinced her to give him $200 to retrieve his car from the Minneapolis impound lot. He promised to call her and...

The St. Paul Police Department doesn't pull over and search blacks at the same disproportionate rates it did months before, according to data presented to the St. Paul City Council on Wednesday. St. Paul...

Bruce Edward Willis, 48, who was charged in July with sexually assaulting two women - one in south Minneapolis and one near the University - pleaded innocent Thursday in Hennepin County District Court. According...

University police cited more than 75 people for alcohol-related violations between last Thursday and Monday, 55 of them for minor consumption of alcohol. Most of these tickets were written Thursday through...

A 19-year-old man was charged with third-degree assault Friday for hitting a University junior in the jaw at Delta Tau Delta fraternity on University Avenue. According to the criminal complaint, Michael...

During the next two weekends, Thursday through Saturday, five extra state troopers and University police officers will seek alcohol-related infringements on campus as part of a program called Operation...

Editor's note: This profile is part of The Minnesota Daily's continuing coverage of Minneapolis' mayoral candidates. Ask Steven Houdek why he wants to be mayor of Minneapolis and he'll ask you, "Why not?" A...

DFL mayoral candidate R.T. Rybak accused independent candidate Mark Stenglein on Tuesday of having campaigners pose as pollsters, call voters and defame Rybak's candidacy. Laura Sether, Rybak's co-campaign...

Along with a 13.8 percent tuition increase and one of the lowest rental-vacancy rates in the country, rent increases of more than 20 percent could take a toll on University students' pocketbooks. Spectrum...

Rendezview Video on Como and 15th avenues will close its doors for good after being robbed Sunday at knifepoint for the fourth time in six months. "I promised myself that if something else happened, I...

The city attorney's office charged a woman with fifth degree misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct Tuesday after she allegedly attacked two professors at Ferguson Hall. Kaarina Khayya Mindaly, 43,...

Minneapolis police arrested a Creighton University chapter member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity July 14 for the alleged sexual assault of a 19-year-old woman near the University campus. Charges have...

Editor's note: This is the fourth of The Minnesota Daily's profiles on each of Minneapolis' mayoral candidates. Mayoral candidate R.T. Rybak, 45, paints himself as a political newcomer who knows how the...

Maybe it's his powers of deduction or the elegance of the Victorian era. Julie McKuras, a longtime Sherlockian, can't explain the appeal of Sherlock Holmes. McKuras volunteers at Anderson Library and helps...

Minneapolis police released their policy Thursday on opposing racial profiling in their ranks. Wednesday night, Minneapolis police officers received a letter from Chief Robert Olson explaining they are...

Three senior members of the University of Minnesota Duluth men's rugby team were charged Tuesday with furnishing alcohol to a minor at a party attended by a 19-year-old rugby player who was found dead...

Yibeltal Mebratu, the West Bank liquor store owner accused of selling alcohol to Jonathan Thielen and three other University students, was found not guilty of furnishing liquor to a minor Tuesday. The...

Mark Anderson, 55, cruised around the cobblestone streets near St. Anthony Main on Saturday and Sunday in his custom golf cart equipped with a horn that whistles a cat call, an adjusted governor and purple...

With the expense of tuition, books, and the taxes of a student lifestyle, some students sell sperm, plasma, CDs and books when strapped for cash. At Cryogenic Laboratories in Roseville, men can sell sperm...

Every week students, faculty and visitors report thefts of laptops, wallets, purses and bikes to the University police department. Capt. Steve Johnson said students can be so preoccupied with class and...

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 state...

Few signs remain of the small community the University began replacing in the late 1950s and nearly wiped out in the 1970s to build its West Bank campus. Only a 70-year-old man and his house are left from...

St. Paul Police Chief William Finney said Thursday that data collected between Apr. 15, 2000, and Dec. 15, 2000, confirms his department has a problem with racial profiling. "We know there are issues of...

For the second year, more than 2,000 students are cramming an average of three credits into three-week May session courses. In a College of Continuing Education survey of students who took May session...