Candles cause large fire consuming 8 condos in Uptown building

Unattended candles caused a massive blaze that destroyed a century-old apartment building in the heart of Minneapolis' Uptown neighborhood Friday morning, leaving nearly two dozen people homeless. The fire in the three-story, eight-unit condominium with four distinctive columns broke out in a first-floor unit at 8:10 a.m. and snarled Uptown traffic for hours. Mammoth clouds of smoke still were billowing from...