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A Nordstrom shopper at the Mall of America, with the help of a clerk, was allowed to bust through her credit card limit and make off with more than $143,000 in high-end goods that she didn’t have to pay for, authorities said Thursday. Police in Bloomington caught onto the scheme and arrested the clerk, a 29-year-old man from Savage, and the shopper, a 32-year-old Minneapolis woman who owns a clothing boutique in Savage. They have been jailed and then released pending charges. Motivating the clerk to participate in the plot, which ran from in l...
PATNA, India — Around 600 high school students in eastern India have been expelled for cheating on pressure-packed 10th grade examinations this week, education authorities said Friday. The incident has gotten widespread attention after Indian television footage showed parents and friends of students scaling the outer walls of school buildings to pass cheat sheets to students inside taking exams. More than 1.4 million 10th graders are sitting for the test at more than 1,200 high schools across the state. They face tremendous pressure because t...
The amount Target Corp. will pay to settle claims from consumers damaged by a 2013 data breach is big relative to similar cases, but only a small percentage of the tens of millions of people whose information was exposed will likely receive a piece of it, legal experts said Thursday. A federal judge in St. Paul on Thursday gave preliminary approval to the $10 million settlement reached by Target and plaintiffs’ attorneys in a class-action lawsuit. The payout is a small sliver of the $252 million in expenses the Minneapolis-based retailer has s...
Minnesota's ban on Sunday sales of alcohol would remain in place under a liquor reform bill headed to the House floor. The omnibus bill, passed late Wednesday in the Commerce and Regulatory Reform Committee, includes allowing Sunday growler sales from Minnesota craft beer taprooms, and the so-called “Bloody Mary bill,” a measure that would allow some restaurants, hotels and other clubs to serve alcohol at 8 a.m. on Sundays—two hours earlier than current law. Other measures would make it easier for craft brewers to sell their product at the M...
Members of the House Health and Human Services Reform Committee received quite an education in body modification Wednesday night while discussing a measure to clarify licensing requirements for Minnesota’s professional piercers. Carol Tepley, president of Almost Famous Body Piercing, pushed for the bill in the wake of Minnesota’s relatively new body art licensing law enacted in 2010. The measure, which strengthens requirements for licensing, and clarifies identification requirements for minors to receive a piercing, also prohibits certain pie...
His hands laced in front of him and his head cocked to the side, former St. Paul schools custodian Walter J. Happel answered questions listlessly at a court hearing Thursday where he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing his nephew. “Yeah,” he bellowed several times during the fact-finding portion of the hearing. At one point, Happel’s lackadaisical demeanor prompted Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Andrew R.K. Johnson to interrupt his line of questioning. http://www.startribune.com/local/east/296868791.html...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ordered the federal government on Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half over the next decade, driving his climate change agenda forward despite percolating challenges from Republican-led states. By curtailing pollution within the U.S. government, Obama sought to increase political pressure on other nations to deal seriously with climate change. The U.S. and other nations will soon announce how much they're willing to cut their national emissions as part of a global climate treaty to b...
TAHLEQUAH — A Cherokee Nation executive is urging Congress to reauthorize funding for Native American housing. Gary Cooper, representing the National American Indian Housing Council, said Thursday the funding has given the Cherokees flexibility to restart a dormant housing program that has since built 120 homes for its citizens since 2012. The Tahlequah-based tribe also says 220 homes are under construction. Congress approved the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act in 1996, giving control over housing decisions to t...
The federal Aboriginal Affairs department shared information with Canada’s spies and other federal law enforcement agencies to bolster surveillance of the Idle No More movement, internal government documents show. The documents, obtained under the Access to Information Act, also reveal how easily Canadian authorities assume the possibility of violence when it comes to monitoring First Nation demonstrations. The Harper government’s proposed anti-terror bill, Bill C-51, would make it easier for federal departments and agencies to share inf...
Because the landowner pool on American Indian reservations has grown diluted through the years, tribes are attempting to buy back swaths of property in an effort to enhance development opportunities. Michelle LeBeau of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe stopped in Aberdeen and other towns around the state on Tuesday to answer questions about the effort. She’s a representative of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations. There could be opportunities for people who own land on the Standing Rock Reservation to sell property back to the tribe, s...
Native American reservations have long topped the list of the poorest communities in the United States, with one in four Native Americans living in poverty and little potential for new businesses or growth. But a Native American tribe in Maine said this week it is considering commercial-scale production of marijuana, joining hundreds of other tribes looking at the industry as a potential goldmine for economic opportunity. “We are looking from a health perspective as well as an economic perspective into the potential,” Rep. Henry John Bear, who...
Some Native American tribes have done very well for themselves in the casino business. But for tribes whose lands are far off the beaten track, that business won't work. Finding new economic opportunities can be difficult. Many are being encouraged to look for jobs in the energy sector or develop e-commerce ventures, but some are being told they could make millions of dollars using wide open spaces on reservation land growing a very lucrative crop: marijuana. https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/native-tribes-debate-entering-le...
Red Willow Offshore was the dark horse for the March sale with $59 million in high bids on eight lease tracts. The Southern Ute Indian Tribe founded Red Willow Production Co., based in Ignacio, Colorado, in 1992 to control and operate its oil and gas resources in Colorado. The company has since expanded to operate wells in New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana as well as the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Red Willow submitted bids with several partners, including Houston Energy, an independent exploration and production company. The two companies bid...
WINNIPEG–Manitoba RCMP refused to comment Wednesday on a report investigators have obtained DNA samples and subjected at least two people to lie detector tests as part of an ongoing investigation into the murder of a 15 year-old Cree girl from God’s Lake Narrows First Nation. Manitoba RCMP spokesperson Tara Seel said she could not confirm or deny a CBC News report which said investigators interviewed Leah Anderson’s boyfriend and his cousin, putting both men through a lie detector test as part of the murder probe. http://apt...
LAS VEGAS (CN) - Three men accused of helping tribal payday lenders defraud consumers settled federal charges Tuesday by agreeing to permanent injunctions and fines. The settlements are part of a continuing federal effort to crack down on payday lenders that claim they are not bound by FTC regulations because they have affiliations with Native American tribes. U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro permanently enjoining Don E. Brady, attorney Troy L. LittleAxe Jr., and Robert D. Campbell from engaging in lending fraud. All three men's cases...
SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that state prosecutors can charge a member of an Indian tribe who is living on another tribe’s land. The high court’s ruling came in the case of a Yakama Nation man who was living on the Quinault Indian Nation’s reservation. When Howard John Evans Shale failed to register as a sex offender while living on the Quinault reservation, a Jefferson County prosecutor filed charges against him. Shale moved to dismiss the charges, arguing the county had no jurisdiction over a tribal member...
Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) -- A new online show, Indigenous with Stacey Thunder, aiming to bridge culture gaps between Native Americans and society premiered on YouTube earlier this year. The show is an entertainment and educational series that shares contemporary stories about Native peoples in order to educate and entertain viewers and empower Natives. The series seeks to shatter stereotypes and misconceptions. It aims to promote positivity and show the world who Natives really are, according to...
A former tribal judge was arrested Tuesday on several complaints involving illegal drugs and sexual crimes against a child. Former Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Judge Lehman Coyote, 62, of El Reno, was arrested on 11 criminal complaints, including one count of rape of a child, seven counts of lewd acts against children, one count of child neglect, one count of possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute and one count of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the Canadian County sheriff’s office. h...
Law360, New York (March 19, 2015, 8:25 PM ET) -- Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee Wednesday that the Obama administration’s 2016 federal budget proposal would beef up Native American programs and help create a hub for tribes to access federal funds. During a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs, Washburn said the budget request would put a total of $2.9 billion toward BIA programs, an increase of $323.5 million over the 2015 enact...
Law360, New York (March 19, 2015, 6:10 PM ET) -- New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Thursday announced a deal with developer KG Urban Enterprises LLC and Foxwoods Resorts for a $650 million waterfront casino that would include a $50 million environmental cleanup. The city said the deal will allow KG to pursue a “Region C License” with the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to build the project, which would feature a casino, hotel and conference center. The agreement provides a $4.5 million upfront payment to New Bedford as well as $12.5 million in...
KENOSHA, WI (WTAQ) - A former Kenosha couple is facing federal charges, for allegedly avoiding sales taxes in a scheme that involved the buying and exporting of luxury cars. Mao Peng and his wife Min Ai were both arrested March 10th by the Secret Service at a restaurant in Los Angeles. Both are 25. They were expected to return to Wisconsin to face wire fraud charges. http://whbl.com/news/articles/2015/mar/19/ex-kenosha-couple-arrested-charged-with-running-sales-tax-scheme/...
The Puyallup Tribe has announced that plans are underway for a new 8,200 square foot cancer center housed in the tribal-owned Trans Pacific building. The center will be the first of its kind in Indian Country and the United States, providing care which integrates traditional healing with modern science. “It is with full honor and dignity of our Tribal Council, tribal members, reservation, and ancestors, that I announce the opening of Salish Integrative Oncology Care Center (SIOCC),” said Bill Sterud, Tribal Chairman. Tribal members cur...
From hunting grounds to athletic fields to trading floors, men moving together in packs, and sometimes alone, are typically engaged in what anthropologists term "male status competition." And their levels of testosterone--the hallmark hormone of maleness--tend to rise accordingly. But a new study explores the nurturing, familial side of men who engage in such primal activities, often to support, feed or bring honor to their families. It finds that that side, too, is expressed hormonally, when a man arrives home to his family bearing dinner (or...
A wild street brawl at the center of Big Sandy's small commercial district ended Monday with only minor injuries, but left many in the quiet farming town shocked by the sudden melee — which included a chain saw-wielding would-be assailant, a knife fight and ended with a stolen car racing out of town. "You could hear the chain saw and you could hear people screaming at each other," said Drew Page, who was working at a downtown business when the fight broke out. "It pulled everybody out of their businesses. People were looking up and down the s...
BILLINGS, Mont. — A former Bureau of Land Management employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he abandoned his post in Virginia but continued drawing a federal salary after going to work for the Chippewa Cree Tribe in Montana. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris accepted the plea from Larry Ray Denny, of Box Elder, on charges of wire fraud, false claims, theft of government property and falsely representing outside income. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/former-blm-employee-set-to-plead-guilty-in-fraud-case/2015...
