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The Newsstand is the Daily’s newsroom blog. The purpose of this blog is to increase transparency of our coverage and give reporters an opportunity to blog news that doesn’t make it into print.
Fri, 5/24, 4:10pm (17 hours ago)
The Minneapolis City Council approved a large settlement in a police misconduct lawsuit Friday, news sources reported.
David Smith was killed during a struggle with police officers at the Minneapolis YMCA in 2010. The city will pay Smith's family $1.1 million and an additional $1.9 million to their attorneys, the Star…
Fri, 5/24, 3:54pm (18 hours ago)
The Minneapolis City Council passed a new resolution Friday declaring June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender pride month for Minneapolis, according to city council meeting agenda.
"Minneapolis has a thriving LGBT community," the resolution said. "Sustaining and sustained by so many welcoming organizations, places of worship, businesses, neighborhoods, schools, events and more."
The resolution…
Tue, 5/21, 6:20pm (4 days ago)
Raymond Duvall will take over James Parente's post as College of Liberal Arts Dean beginning July 1.
Duvall is currently the chair of the political science department and will serve as CLA Dean until a replacement is found. He has been at the University of Minnesota since 1976.
A 20-member search committee…
Tue, 5/21, 5:20pm (4 days ago)
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Wed, 5/15, 8:08pm (1 week ago)
Jodi Arias is eligible for the death penalty, jurors in her case ruled Wednesday, according to news sources.
Arias, 32, was convicted last week of the premeditated murder of her ex-boyfriend, BBC News reported. She stabbed Travis Alexander, a motivational speaker, multiple times and shot him in June 2008.
After initially denying…
Wed, 5/15, 1:21pm (1 week ago)
A Ramsey County judge rescheduled Jeffery Trevino's trial for late July, news sources reported Wednesday.
Trevino, 39, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Kira Steger - who was commonly known as Kira Trevino. Prosecutors asked to delay the trial so they could have…
Mon, 5/13, 5:35pm (2 weeks ago)
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Sun, 5/12, 1:00pm (2 weeks ago)
A chase through south Minneapolis for a burglary suspect came to a violent end Friday, news sources reported.
The chase, which left two dead and three hospitalized, began when a neighborhood resident tipped off police after seeing the man he believed had burglarized his home, Minnesota Public Radio reported.
Two officers were…
Wed, 5/8, 4:14pm (2 weeks ago)
A jury reached a guilty verdict Wednesday in the trial of of Jodi Arias, the woman accused of murdering her one-time boyfriend in Arizona, CNN reported.
The 32-year-old is charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 death of Travis Alexander.
The four-woman, eight-man panel, which heard four months of testimony and final arguments,…
Mon, 5/6, 6:35pm (3 weeks ago)
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Mon, 5/6, 12:35pm (3 weeks ago)
The FBI announced Monday that they, along with local authorities, prevented a suspected terror attack by a Monevideo, Minn. Man, according to a press release.
Buford Rogers, 24, was arrested Friday and charged with being a felon in posession of a firearm, according to the Associated Press.
Federal authorities searched Rogers' western…
Mon, 5/6, 12:16am (3 weeks ago)
On Friday, Minnesotans will attempt to break the world’s tree-hugging record — and on University of Minnesota soil.
To celebrate National Public Gardens Day, an annual celebration of botanical gardens and arboreta’s role in environmental education, the University Landscape Arboretum is holding a “tree hug” from noon to 1 p.m. in…
Sun, 5/5, 10:00pm (3 weeks ago)
The Department of Homeland Security will implement a stricter check system for foreign students entering the U.S. after a foreign student was arrested for obstructing justice in the Boston bombing investigations.
Azamat Tazhayakov, a friend of one of the Boston bombing suspects, was arrested for hiding evidence that the suspect was…
Fri, 5/3, 12:39pm (3 weeks ago)
Rhode Island’s governor signed two same-sex marriage bills into law Thursday, news sources reported.
The bills make Rhode Island the 10th state to allow same-sex marriage, according to the Providence Journal. They allow same-sex couples to marry as of August 1, and couples with civil unions to convert those unions into…
Fri, 5/3, 12:14pm (3 weeks ago)
The Dow Jones industrial average rallied past 15,000 points for the first time in history Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
During midday trading the Dow was up 152 points, or one percent of 14,984. According to NBC News, the government said job growth was stronger than expected last month and…
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