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ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Department of Public Safety wants to warn Minnesotans about the dangers of a drug called marijuana wax. Authorities are planning to discuss the drug at a news conference Wednesday. Marijuana wax has been showing up in Minnesota, and has led to recent overdoses of two teens in Duluth. In addition, authorities say an elderly woman in St. Cloud recently died after a marijuana wax manufacturing operation exploded. The DPS says marijuana wax is dangerous. It is a concentrate of marijuana, and the Drug Enforcement A...
Katelyn Faith Pauling, who helped change Minnesota’s marijuana laws, died Friday, just months before the drug that might have eased her seizure disorder becomes legal. She was 8 years old. “She did a lot while she was here,” said her father, Jeremy Pauling, who spent much of last year traveling from the family home in Montevideo, Minn., to St. Paul, where he and his wife lobbied lawmakers to legalize medical marijuana, with Katelyn beside them in her wheelchair. http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/297392201.html...
It was a rather routine call to Eden Prairie police: a domestic dispute at a house with a mentally ill, intoxicated man. But the response by officers over the next half-hour was anything but routine. Instead of confronting the man, an officer who had just completed training on defusing tense encounters calmly asked him questions and listened to his concerns. It helped. The man cooperated, and no one was hurt. http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/297470321.html...
Drivers in some parts of Minneapolis will soon be able to plug their parking meters with a few swipes on their smartphones. In May, the city plans to begin offering the service at about 500 of its 7,500 meters. More spots will be added to the pay-by-phone system in August and September and the entire city could be linked in by late fall. The new technology is operated by a Georgia company called Parkmobile, but the fees will be collected by the city. Drivers who opt to use their phones will pay a convenience fee, with a cheaper option for...
A strong dollar is good for American tourists in Europe, but it may turn into a problem for Minnesota businesses selling abroad. The U.S. dollar is now stronger against other world currencies than at any time since 2003, which means more buying power when Americans travel overseas. But across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, the strong dollar also has led some manufacturers and other companies with overseas sales to cut revenue forecasts. When the dollar is strong, people in other countries pay more with their currency to buy U.S. goods, a...
The temperature dipped to minus-7 earlier this month in the Twin Cities. Three days later, it soared to 44 degrees, and spring-drunk Minnesotans were out raking still-frozen lawns. Give us credit for enthusiasm. But at this time of year, it’s best to restrain yourself: You can do more harm than good by doing too much too soon. http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/homegarden/297439261.html...
Despite igniting some of the most heated politics Minnesota ever has experienced over an environmental rule, wild rice won a victory of sorts on Tuesday. But it will be a long time in coming. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency revealed its proposed plan for protecting the state’s official grain from pollution that comes off the Iron Range and from about 200 industrial plants statewide. In an unusual approach, it calls for detailed scientific testing of the muck in each of the known 1,300 lakes, streams and wetlands that grow or have g...
WASHINGTON — Responding to pressure from Congress and veterans groups, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Tuesday it is relaxing a rule that makes it hard for some veterans in rural areas to prove they live at least 40 miles from a VA health site. The change comes amid complaints from lawmakers and advocates who said the VA's current policy has prevented thousands of veterans from taking advantage of a new law intended to allow veterans in remote areas to gain access to federally paid medical care from local doctors. The VA said it will n...
La Center municipal officials have banned recreational marijuana, but the prohibition won't apply to their newest neighbor, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. The tribe recently secured a reservation near La Center, where it plans to build a casino on 152 acres. It would also have the ability to operate a marijuana business there, should it choose to do so. In states that have legalized marijuana, tribes have been given implicit authorization from the U.S. Department of Justice to enter the marijuana market, if they follow certain guidelines....
FALMOUTH, Massachusetts — Three people allegedly involved in brawls at the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's annual ball last weekend have been released on personal recognizance after pleading not guilty. Charges against a fourth person were dismissed. The Cape Cod Times reports that 24-four year-old Matthew Lopes, of Mashpee, and 33-year-old Crystal Lynn Costa, of Falmouth, were each arraigned on one count of disorderly conduct, while 24-year-old Felicia Medina, of Fall River, pleaded not guilty to the same charge and to mayhem and assault and b...
Former PGA professional Notah Begay III is in Minneapolis Tuesday to help launch an initiative to improve the eating habits of American Indian children and families. He will take part in an announcement at the University of Minnesota with the Shakopee Mdewankanton Sioux Community. Begay is a four-time winner on the PGA Tour. He is an American Indian from New Mexico who serves as a golf analyst for NBC Sports and The Golf Channel. http://kstp.com/article/stories/s3744680.shtml...
PINE RIDGE –– On Feb. 24, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council passed Resolution 15-30. This resolution supported Pass Creek District’s request for all businesses on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to stop selling the Rapid City Journal (RCJ) and to put a halt to business with Attorney Patrick Duffy. Duffy is an attorney and a writer for RCJ and will represent Trace O’Connell in his court proceedings. O’Connell is the person being charged with Disorderly Conduct for the Rush Hockey Game incident involving the American Horse students and staff on...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The editor of the Rapid City Journal says it apologized on the front page for a headline that prompted the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council to ban sales of the newspaper on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The headline questioned whether some Native American students stood for the Pledge of Allegiance at a hockey game before they were reportedly called racist names and had beer sprayed on them. Editor Bart Pfankuch (FAN'-kook) says the story under the headline clearly indicated the students did stand for the anthem. And h...
After months of negotiations with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community for the extension of Stemmer Ridge Road to County Road 82 and for a tribal trust land application, Prior Lake City Council members still couldn't come to a consensus on Monday. Council members spent two hours on Monday trying to come to an acceptable motion for the proposed agreement, which includes two parts: cooperation with the tribe on the road extension and utility project, which would have the tribe develop housing on land it owns and give the city right-of-way...
TULALIP — Former Tulalip Tribes chairman Mel Sheldon Jr. will return to that role when he is sworn in at the tribes' board meeting April 4. He was returned to the tribal board of directors after annual elections Saturday. Sheldon, who was also elected chairman in a separate vote, returns a year after being ousted. “I have had a year to reflect and a year to learn from mistakes,” Sheldon said. He said he will continue working to increase communication and transparency with tribal membership. Also, board member Marlin Fryberg Jr. won re-el...
The home was a squat, gray prefab ranch. Its windows were covered with the plastic wrap that's supposed to lower your heating bills—a futile effort here in St. Michael, North Dakota, where, on a sunny, seven-degree day in early January everyone was remarking on how nice it was. The teenage boy who answered the door looked Sunday-afternoon tired and wary. He had reason to be: Here were two men on the doorstep, asking whether this was the house where it had happened. "Yeah, this is the house," he told us. The violent deaths of Travis DuBois J...
The defence in suspended senator Patrick Brazeau's assault and sexual assault case attacked the credibility of the main witness today in a Gatineau, Que., courtroom. A publication ban prevents the identification of the alleged victim, who testified yesterday that Brazeau struck her, grabbed her by the throat, pushed her down a flight of stairs and smashed her head against a wall. She also alleges Brazeau pulled down her pants and touched her inappropriately. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/patrick-brazeau-s-lawyer-attacks-cr...
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on Tuesday said it will protect the state's wild rice from sulfate pollution by using a new, lake-by-lake, river-by-river approach rather than a statewide sulfate limit. In a long-awaited statement on the wild-rice sulfate standard, PCA officials said the agency is planning to drop the current statewide 10-parts-per-million regulation of sulfate pollution in waters where wild rice exists and instead adopt a flexible plan that will depend on the water chemistry of each lake and river that hold rice beds....
BARTLESVILLE — Another area tribe is upping its minimum wage. The Delaware Tribe of Indians’ Tribal Council passed legislation last week to increase the minimum hourly wage for the tribe’s employees. At the recommendation of the council’s personnel committee, all Delaware employees will now make $1.25 per hour more than the federal minimum effective immediately. “If the federal rate increases, our rate will automatically increase,” Assistant Chief Bonnie Jo Griffith said. “We will always pay at a higher rate than the federal government....
After feeling her 3-year-old stepson’s cold body and giving him CPR, Analiz Osceola covered him in two garbage bags and stuck him in a box in the laundry room, papers filed in Broward County family court claim. The documents, first obtained by Miami Herald news partner CBS 4, also show Osceola kept the boy’s condition a secret from his father and grandmother, a nurse, and that family members notified police of a missing child four hours later. The family initially told police the father had last seen his son, Ahizya Osceola, before he went to...
An Ojibwe woman and independent journalist Mary Annette Pember recently visited Alaska for a series of stories on historical trauma and Native American mental health practices. Pember says the troubled lives of Native Americans reflect their troubled history. http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/03/24/investigating-historical-trauma-endured-by-native-americans-alaska-natives/...
TAHOLAH, Wash. — Leaders of the Quinault Indian Nation are seeking federal money to relocate some homes and facilities on its reservation to higher ground because of flooding and other threats. The tribe’s president Fawn Sharp is scheduled to testify before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. She says the tribe wants help relocating a senior housing center, a tribal school, emergency services and other facilities to a safer area. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/quinault-tr...
