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VIRGINIA, Minn. — A Hibbing girl admitted Wednesday that she witnessed the killing of her 20-year-old roommate and helped transport his body to an old mine pit in Mountain Iron, where the killer set fire to his remains. Julianna Christine Sala, 17, pleaded guilty in juvenile court to aiding an offender in intentional second-degree murder. Sala testified under oath that she was in her bedroom when she heard a commotion and emerged to find 19-year-old Dylan Bernard Gilbertson brutally assaulting their roommate, Jaysen Greenwood. h...
ST. PAUL -- Prosecutors have enough evidence to charge the St. Anthony police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile with manslaughter and the suggestion by his defense that Castile somehow caused his own death through negligence is for a jury to decide. That’s the argument laid out by Ramsey County attorneys in a 14-page legal memo filed Wednesday afternoon in Ramsey County District Court. The memo came in response to a motion filed in December by officer Jeronimo Yanez’s defense team that argued the case should be dismissed because Cas...
A law enforcement officer and a suspect were fatally shot after a car chase in northern North Dakota Wednesday night, according to several media reports of the incident. The Fargo ABC affiliate TV station said about 6:30 p.m. a male suspect in a stolen pickup lead four officers on a 15-minute police chase through the Devils Lake area. http://www.startribune.com/north-dakota-deputy-fatally-shot-during-shootout-suspect-dead/411160515/...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Al Franken said late Wednesday that he was going to vote against Betsy DeVos, president-elect Trump's pick for Education Secretary. Franken was critical of DeVos on Tuesday during her confirmation hearings, saying it was unacceptable that she couldn't adequately talk about whether she preferred proficiency or growth models when measuring student success. http://www.startribune.com/sen-franken-to-vote-against-education-secretary-nominee/411147535/...
Firefighter Sandy Perala will watch President-elect Donald Trump take office hoping that he capitalizes on the promise to shake up Washington that won her vote. Trump, said the 43-year-old woman from the northern Twin Cities suburb of Oak Grove, “is going to make some changes because he can relate to people. I think he’s really going to keep it real.” http://www.startribune.com/republican-women-see-chance-for-change-under-trump/411110865/...
MILAN — Rescue workers were met with an eerie silence Thursday when they reached a four-star spa hotel struck by an avalanche in a mountainous earthquake-stricken region of central Italy. At least 30 people were missing, including at least two children, authorities said. Guests at the three-story Hotel Rigopiano in the central Abruzzo region alerted emergency workers of the disaster on Wednesday, following a series of quakes in the region. http://www.startribune.com/avalanche-buries-hotel-in-central-italy-reports-of-dead/411...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama stepped behind the White House podium for the last time Wednesday, fielding questions from the crush of journalists crammed in for the occasion and offering assurances to Americans watching on TV. But at times, his answers seemed aimed at an audience of one: the man who will replace him at noon Friday. http://www.startribune.com/obama-expected-to-defend-manning-decision-at-news-conference/411071945/...
A Republican legislative aide in Maryland who was behind a fake news site that accused Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of election-rigging was fired on Wednesday. Del. David Vogt, R-Frederick, said he terminated Cameron Harris “on the spot” after learning he was the mastermind behind ChristianTimesNewspaper.com and its fabricated Sept. 30 article, which claimed there were tens of thousands of “fraudulent Clinton votes found” in an Ohio warehouse. http://www.startribune.com/aide-to-maryland-lawmaker-fired-afte...
BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal judge said Wednesday he won't keep the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from launching a full environmental study of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline's disputed crossing under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg denied Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners' request to stop the Corps from proceeding until he rules on whether the company already has the necessary permission to lay pipe under Lake Oahe, the water source for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. ht...
DENVER — Denver started work Wednesday on becoming the first city in the U.S. to allow marijuana clubs and public pot use in places such as coffee shops, yoga studios and art galleries. Voters narrowly approved the "social use" measure last November. But the ballot proposal didn't spell out many rules for how the marijuana could be consumed, beyond saying that the drug can't be smoked inside and that patrons must be over 21. http://www.startribune.com/denver-starts-work-on-allowing-pot-in-public-a-first-in-us/411039005/...
CANNON BALL — With the deepest winter snow piled up in years, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is doubling down on its message that it’s high time for the anti-Dakota Access Pipeline campers to go home or move off the Cannonball River floodplain. A tribal and camp meeting Tuesday at the Fort Yates administration building ended with a cleanup and evacuation plan that aims to take advantage of a break in the weather and get "water protectors" and protesters either out or on their way by Sunday. http://bismarcktribune.com/news/sta...
Oil is already going into the Dakota Access Pipeline even though the final portion of the controversial project remains in limbo. In a sworn declaration filed in federal court, a top Dakota Access executive did not detail exactly where the oil has been placed. But vice president Joey Mahmoud said it was near Lake Oahe in North Dakota. "Crude oil has been placed in a portion of the pipeline leading up to Lake Oahe in anticipation of completing the pipeline and commencing full operation," Mahmoud said. http://www.indianz.com/N...
It's official -- the Department of the Army has opened a new environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The wealthy backers of the controversial project made a last-minute attempt to block a critical notice from appearing in the Federal Register. But after a judge declined to take action late Tuesday afternoon, the document was officially published on Wednesday. http://www.indianz.com/News/2017/01/18/department-of-the-army-takes-the-lead-on.asp...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is responding quickly to the latest legal threat from the wealthy backers of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Ahead of a conference call in federal court, the tribe defended the formal publication of an important notice on Wednesday. The document initiates the process for a long-awaited environmental impact statement, or EIS, of the final portion of the controversial pipeline. "Dakota Access is clearly concerned that an EIS will seriously jeopardize their proposed project," the tribe said in a statement on Tuesday....
The North Dakota Army National Guard has deployed two surface-to-air missile-launchers near a critical work site for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL. Protestors spotted one of the Avenger missile systems on Jan. 16 and posted photos and videos on Facebook. “Anti-drone missile system confirmed on top of a hill guarding the DAPL drill pad,” Jon Ziegler, a self-described “citizen journalist,” wrote on Facebook. North Dakota Guard spokesman William Prokopyk told The Daily Beast that the Avenger’s missile tubes aren’t loaded. “Th...
All five open seats on the ballot for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council Election, held February 12, will be contested. Deadlines for submitting papers ended last week. Aaron Tobey Jr., vice chairman of the council from 2009 to 2013, will seek to bump incumbent Cedric Cromwell from his seat as chairman of the tribe. http://www.capenews.net/mashpee/news/tribal-council-election-field-takes-shape/article_09dcd952-a6db-531d-bb27-9783be1dd9b0.html...
One good storm in Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah, can cut this small Navajo Nation community off from the outside world. Here, in the shadow of one of the most iconic landscapes in the world, residents live on dirt roads that can become impassable any time of year. The roads—turned muddy with rain or snow—cut ever deeper into the earth with the combined effects of weather, traffic and maintenance. https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/education/native-education/navajo-nation-bus-routes-dangerous/...
A man accused of fatally shooting an acquaintance outside her home on the Pala Indian Reservation early Monday was arrested in Temecula Tuesday, a sheriff’s official said. Milton Trujillo, 34, was booked into jail on suspicion of murdering 43-year-old Carolyn Cagey, a Pala Band of Mission Indians member, sheriff’s homicide Lt. Kenn Nelson said. Investigators allege Trujillo shot Cagey multiple times while she was sitting in a parked vehicle outside her residence on West Pala Mission Road near Chutnicutt Road about 3 a.m. htt...
January 18, 2017 08:51 am News Staff – In a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)(www.cdc.gov) posted Jan. 10 as an MMWR Early Release in concert with a CDC Vital Signs report,(www.cdc.gov) the agency highlighted federal data that showed diabetes-related end-stage renal disease (ESRD-D) among Native American adults (American Indians and Alaska Natives) decreased 54 percent from 1996 to 2013. This substantial reduction came after the Indian Health Service (IHS) implemented population-based approaches to diabetes management and i...
Culture and friendly competition will collide this weekend in the annual Peninsula Winter Games Native Youth Olympics Invitational, during which kids from all over Southcentral Alaska take part in traditional Native games. A tradition that began in the 1970s, the youth olympics take place in several communities around Alaska. On the Kenai Peninsula, they are hosted by the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s Yaghanen Youth Programs. Teams of kids from the first through twelfth grades will converge on Mountain View Elementary School gymnasium this Friday t...
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The father of a slain 11-year-old Navajo girl is suing the tribe for failing to have an emergency notification system in place that he claims would have saved his daughter's life. Ashlynne Mike's father, Gary Mike, has filed a civil complaint against the tribe and its Division of Public Safety and Department of Law Enforcement. The complaint does not include a request for compensation, and it demands a jury trial. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/01/17/ashlynne-mike-father-suing-navajo-...
Though his sneakers make a large squeak on the hardwood, Ron Baker (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) has quietly become Indian country’s newest athlete to reach the NBA. The New York Knicks have reportedly decided to guarantee a one-year deal and will retain Baker for the 2016-17 season. The 23-year-old, 6-foot-3, 218-pound point guard was undrafted free agent who made the Knicks roster this season. Baker’s used to going up against the odds: he was a walk-on at Wichita State who became a Wooden Award finalist as one of the top players in the cou...
