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A riotous crowd filled Dinkytown for the second time in three days Saturday, following the Gophers’ loss in the NCAA Frozen Four final.

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By: Nicholas Studenski

Police arrested a suspect in an apparent homicide in the Southeast Como neighborhood Saturday morning, according to a Minneapolis police press release.

Police responded to a call around 12:45 a.m. at a rental duplex on the 1100 block of 13th Avenue Southeast, the release said. Officers found a man with apparent stab wounds and immediately took the suspect, who was still in the residence, into custody.

According to the release, officers also found a knife at the scene.

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By: Roy Aker

About 50 community members brought their concerns to a town hall meeting hosted by Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis in Minneapolis’ Como neighborhood Saturday.

With the start of the 2014 legislative session Tuesday, Kahn’s constituents brought up issues like the proposed minimum wage increase, TCE pollution in Como and other environmental concerns.

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By: Fernando Nuñez

Bangladeshi garment worker leaders visited the University of Minnesota Friday to speak out against unsafe working conditions in Bangladeshi factories, some of which produce official University garments.

The event featured Kalpona Akter of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity and Reba Sikder, a survivor of April’s Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed more than 1,100 people.

The national organization United Students Against Sweatshops organized the event, which was part of the national “End Deathtraps” tour.

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By: Meghan Holden

The University of Minnesota's Coffman Union was closed briefly on Saturday afternoon after students said they smelled gas in the building.

The building was evacuated at 3 p.m. and was reopened a half hour later after police and firefighters inspected the building, according to students and employees who were in the building at the time.

By: Emma Nelson

A man inappropriately touched a University of Minnesota student Thursday afternoon as she was walking near the intersection of Essex Street and Huron Boulevard, University police said.

According to a crime alert sent to the University community Friday, the student was walking on the west side of Huron Boulevard, about three blocks from the Superblock, when an unknown man grabbed her shoulder. When she stopped, he grabbed her genital area over her clothing but walked away after she confronted him.

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By: Bryna Godar

Four vehicles were damaged in a fire Tuesday around 12:15 p.m. in the upper level of the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview Patient/Visitor parking ramp. No injuries were reported.

The ramp was closed for about an hour due to the amount of smoke. Some people waited outside for about a half hour in the cold.

The fire started in the engine of a sedan on the ramp's sixth floor, according to a Minneapolis Fire Department official at the scene. The fire then spread to a van and another car on the left and melted the side of a car to the right.

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By: Nicolas Hallett

This summer, Dinkytown will serve as the test site for the first-ever mini Target store, dubbed TargetExpress.

The store will be about one-sixth the size of Minneapolis-based Target’s smallest branch stores and will allow the company to open more locations in dense urban locations, Target spokeswoman Sarah Van Nevel said.

The company plans to open the store, which is located fewer than 10 minutes from Target headquarters in downtown Minneapolis, on July 27.

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By: Nicolas Hallett

Mesa Pizza  will open a second University of Minnesota location in Stadium Village  this spring.

The news comes just days after Doran Companies requested demolition of three Dinkytown properties , including the building housing Mesa’s original location.

Mesa owner David Hathaway   told the Minnesota Daily on Friday that the new store is an expansion location and not a replacement for the Dinkytown store.

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By: Rebecca Harrington

The theft of a University of Minnesota professor’s laptop, portable scanner and external hard drive last February  resulted in a data breach of the personal information of 119  victims and witnesses of violent crimes.

Law professor Barry Feld  and several  law students were researching interrogation techniques in violent crimes prosecuted in Hennepin  and Ramsey County  District Courts during January and February 2005 .

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