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BROWNSVILLE, Tex. - President Biden and former president Donald Trump visited separate Texas border towns 300 miles apart on Thursday, blaming each other for a surge in illegal immigration and seeking to take the offensive on an issue that is shaping up to be a critical and volatile factor in this year's presidential contest. Biden used his visit to Brownsville, a Democratic stronghold, to blame Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, for killing a bipartisan border bill that would...
JERUSALEM - More than 100 people were killed Thursday, Gazan health officials said, after a crowd converged on a rare humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza City, triggering a chaotic incident that Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses blamed on Israeli gunfire and Israeli officials blamed on a stampede. More than 700 Palestinians were wounded, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as the death toll in the enclave surged past 30,000. Though many details of the incident were still unclear -...
Congress passed legislation Thursday to prevent a looming partial government shutdown, extending funding for federal agencies later into March - and teeing up another mad scramble over policy and spending negotiations with another shutdown deadline only about a week away. The stopgap spending bill - known as a continuing resolution, or CR - cleared the Senate by a 77-13 vote Thursday evening after winning House approval by a 320-99 margin in the afternoon. The legislation pushes the funding...
Minnesota lawmakers will have more money available this year than previously expected as officials on Thursday projected a $3.7 billion state budget surplus. That's an increase of $1.3 billion from projections in December, driven by higher-than-anticipated tax collections over the past few months as spending estimates remained mostly unchanged. Minnesota also has about $2.9 billion in its rainy day fund. "Our economy is humming along," DFL Gov. Tim Walz said Thursday, touting the Legislature's...
A blaze leveled the large Camp Nenookaasi homeless encampment Thursday, sending billowing smoke over south Minneapolis as residents were forced to evacuate. Camp leader Nicole Mason said she was at the site when she noticed a yurt was on fire. Several neighbors said they heard explosions amid the flames. "I went to get an extinguisher and saw the fire was spreading from yurt to yurt, so I thought the first thing was to get everyone out," Mason said. https://www.startribune.co...
Minnesota state troopers uncovered a more-than-170-pound drug cache that included fentanyl powder, methamphetamine and cocaine when they stopped a man on his drive back from Mexico, according to new federal charges unsealed this week. A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted Rito Gaxiola Jr., on one count of possession with intent to distribute those controlled substances - which also included more than 39,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills suspected to contain fentanyl. Gaxiola, 40, a Minnesota...
INDIANAPOLIS – Less than a year after they gave him a two-year, $7 million deal that made him their top running back, the Vikings informed Alexander Mattison they plan to release him. The team delivered the news to the running back on Thursday, putting an end to Mattison's five-year career in Minnesota after a disappointing 2023 season. The deal the Vikings gave Mattison last March effectively spelled the end of Dalvin Cook's time in Minnesota; Mattison, the former third-round pick who had backe...
One person is dead following a late afternoon shooting Thursday in north Minneapolis. Witnesses and law enforcement sources confirmed the shooting, believed to be a drive-by which occurred at 4:30 p.m. at the intersection of 39th and Sheridan avenues N., one block north of Dowling Avenue. The victim's body remained on the scene surrounded by witnesses and distraught family members. Police were expected to release more details Thursday night. https://www.startribune.com/one-dead-in-north-minneapolis-shooting/600347277/...
A teenager wounded this week during a spray of gunfire in Uptown has been charged with unleashing rapid-fire gunshots last summer in south Minneapolis that hit nine people outside a corner store. Jaden T. Butcher, 18, of Minneapolis, was charged Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of fleeing police in connection with a mass shooting in August outside the Minneapolis Market, near the intersection of E. Franklin and S....
The daughter of late Native American activist and marathon runner Emmett Eastman Sr. is serving jail time after pleading guilty to depriving Eastman of medical care before his death. But several family members say the sentence was far too light. Two days before Eastman died in 2021, police performed a welfare check at Anne White Eastman's house in New Prague, and found squalid conditions. It had "bugs everywhere," Eastman was in a "skeletal" state on a bed and the house smelled of rotten food...
While Best Buy executives see the consumer electronics market beginning to stabilize after two years of sliding sales, it won't be soon enough to avoid more pain, including layoffs in the coming months. After reporting its ninth consecutive quarterly sales decline, the Richfield-based retailer said Thursday it has launched a "restructuring initiative" that will include an undisclosed number of staff cuts, mostly in the first half of this year. "These actions are never easy," CEO Corie Barry...
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday to fulfill Moscow's goals in Ukraine and sternly warned the West against deeper involvement in the fighting, saying that such a move is fraught with the risk of a global nuclear conflict. Putin's blunt warning came in a state-of-the-nation address ahead of next month's election he's all but certain to win, underlining his readiness to raise the stakes in the tug-of-war with the West to protect the Russian gains in Ukraine. In an apparent...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - A court employee and a police officer were fatally shot Thursday after the court process server tried to serve an eviction notice at a home in Missouri, authorities said. A second officer was critically injured, but is expected to survive, police said. Independence Police Chief Adam Dustman said Thursday afternoon at a news conference outside Centerpoint Medical Center that two of his police officers were met with gunfire while coming to the aid of Drexel Mack, the man who...
WASHINGTON - The IRS plans to go after 125,000 high-income earners who did not file tax returns going back to 2017 - and the agency says hundreds of millions of dollars of unpaid taxes are involved in these cases. Beginning this week, the IRS will start sending out noncompliance letters to more than 25,000 people who earn more than $1 million per year and 100,000 people with incomes between $400,000 and $1 million who failed to pay their taxes between 2017 and 2021. The campaign announced...
MINNEAPOLIS – A Red Lake man has been sentenced to 83 months in prison followed by seven years of supervised release for sexually abusing a minor on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, on August 27, 2022, Ronald Royce Pearson, 63, was visiting a residence on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. While there, Pearson engaged in a sexual act with a minor. On September 6, 2023, Pearson pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one c...
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota produce farmers who improve their on-farm food safety systems may be eligible to reimburse those expenses through the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) 2024 Produce Safety Mini-Grant, which is now accepting applications. The Produce Safety Mini-Grant will distribute a total of approximately $33,600. Awardees will receive up to $800 per farm. No matching funds are required. To be eligible, applicants must be produce growers farming in Minnesota, who grow and sell one or more of the following crops: leafy g...
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has found that moving forward with a new, freestanding rehabilitation hospital in Roseville is not in the public interest based on a required review by the agency’s Health Economics Program of statutory criteria and other requirements. MDH’s analysis of the project found that the proposed 60-bed rehabilitation hospital would establish unneeded, costly capacity and may destabilize the existing rehabilitation care delivery system in the Twin Cities metropolitan service area where the facility is int...
BEMIDJI, Minn. – The Community Review Panel (CRP) for the Walker Corridor Study had its third meeting on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at the Walker Area Community Center. The CRP includes representatives from the City of Walker, Cass County, and various local community and business interests. The group met to review possible design options for each segment of the Highway 371 corridor, including downtown, Michigan Avenue to the causeway, causeway to Highway 200, and Highway 34 south of Highway 371. The meeting was well attended and concluded w...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Transportation will end winter load increases and start spring load restrictions in the North-Central frost zone Wednesday, March 6, at 12:01 a.m. Spring load restrictions have already begun in the South, Southeast and Metro zones. As already announced, winter load increases end and spring load restrictions will begin in the Central zone on March 1. Seasonal load limit zones and restricted routes can be found on the MnDOT load limits map. Start and end dates and other load limit information are s...
In a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives passed a bill today that will strengthen support for Native American entrepreneurs. The Native American Entrepreneurial Opportunity Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS) and Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), would pave the way for more funding and expanded services for the Office of Native American Affairs (ONAA) at the Small Business Administration. If passed into law, the legislation would codify the ONAA under federal law and...
The Fort Belknap Indian Community’s short-term lending companies will have to cease operations in Minnesota, according to a settlement two officials of the companies’ parent company reached with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office. A federal judge in Minnesota signed off on the agreement Tuesday, kicking off a timeline by which Island Mountain Development Group officials will have to provide the Attorney General’s Office with any information about existing loans given to Minnesotans, stop collecting any extra interest, and cease operati...
Red Lake Youth Sports Varsity boys get the win tonight over the Gators 122-54. Gerald Kingbird, Jr surpassed his Dad in the first half on the warriors all time scoring list, then his sister Gerika early in the second half and finished with 42 points on the night. JB connects from downtown 11 times tonight and finished with 36. Dudley, Jr with a 13 piece and numerous boards, and senior Gordon Thompson, Jr got his first action battling back from ligament injuries and got a bucket, along with Amad...
Red Lake Tribal Chairman Darrell G. Seki Sr. State of the Band remarks: Good morning Red Lake Nation Members, Tribal Council, Chiefs, all Tribal and Gaming Employees and visitors. It's a great day as we are going through an unbelievable winter, climate change. I would like to start out by informing the members, that there will be a financial summit in April to answer any financial questions anyone may have. Treasurer Lussier will give an update on that event. EAST BOUNDARY AND OTHER TRIBAL...
Lady Warriors Struggle on Offense in 69-25 loss to Blackduck on Parent Night in Red Lake Red Lake's JV loses 36-24 in early game...
Red Lake Youth Sports: Varsity boys get the win 94-70 behind some big games by Kingbird, Jr. who went for 45, earning WRLN player of the game. Dudley, Jr. played his game, came up huge for his team with 26 points and may have got close to a triple double with all his rebounds and assists. Cello brought his energy to the game in his first varsity start and played some nice defense on the Drakes and took good care of the ball. Shoutout to the Drakes for battling hard the whole game and never...
