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BEMIDJI—The Beltrami County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday voted to add staff to the Beltrami County Jail, and heard an update on planned renovations to the building. In March, the board voted to partially suspend the project in light of additional state staffing requirements for the facility, going forward with only the first phase of planned renovations. County officials felt the payroll burden of additional staff made the renovations unfeasible. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/3716993-county-board-votes-add-jail-s...
BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji woman has received probation for her part in a methamphetamine distribution operation exposed by the Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force in June in the Puposky area. One co-conspirator was sentenced to 16 years in prison while two others await sentencing in federal court. Tamara Halverson, 45, pleaded guilty to felony drug sale in February in Beltrami County District Court. She was convicted of third-degree drug sale on March 30 and sentenced to 10 years supervised probation. Halverson pleaded not guilty in August to one count of...
ST. PAUL -- Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton this morning announced he is pursuing a public works funding bill with $842 million in projects, something that Republicans who control the House earlier declared dead on arrival. The proposal, to be funded by the state selling bonds, would pay for a wide variety of projects, ranging from $48 million to complete southwest Minnesota's Lewis and Clark Water System to $65 million to build four railroad overpasses or underpasses in Willmar, Prairie Island Indian Community, Moorhead and Coon Rapids....
St. John, Terry L. age 44 of Minneapolis "Southside" on April 5, 2015. Internationally known Native American Musician, Artist and Teacher. Preceded in death by brother, Danen St. John; grandparents, Willard Yellow Bird Sr., Edward and Celeste St. John; grandaughter, Gianna White Cloud-Yellow Bird; and several aunts and uncles. Survived by mother, Cheryl Yellow Bird; father, Philip St. John Sr.; brothers, Philip Jr., Tonche and sisters, Tamara, Danielle and Shelley. All night wake was held at the Minneapolis Native American Center on Monday,...
Bernadine Louise Garbow December 8, 1958 - Monday, April 6, 2015 Service Information Mille Lacs Lake Community Center Saturday, April 11, 2015 12 Noon Visitation Information All Nations Church in Minneapolis, MN Wednesday, April 8, 2015 beginning at 6:00 P.M. Further visitation will be held on Friday, April 10th beginning at 7:00 P.M. at The Mille Lacs Lake Community Center. Bernadine Louise Garbow, age 56, of Minneapolis Journeyed to the Spirit World on Monday, April 6, 2015 at her residence....
A commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission wants mandatory education about residential schools for students across Canada. Marie Wilson was in Saskatoon last week to speak about the legacy the commission will leave behind when it wraps up with closing events in Ottawa at the end of May. Wilson says she hopes the commission will inspire jurisdictions across Canada to include residential school history as a required course to graduate high school. http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/commissioner-wants-all-students-to-lea...
WILLMAR — The highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has struck a second flock in Kandiyohi County. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Tuesday confirmed the infection by the H5N2 avian influenza in a commercial flock of 30,000 turkeys. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/3717283-eighth-minnesota-turkey-flock-tests-positive-avian-influenza...
LUTSEN — The body of a Thunder Bay, Ont., woman was found Monday morning on a trail at the Lutsen Mountains Ski Resort, police said. The Cook County Sheriff's Office reported a search began at daybreak Monday for Andrea Matyuska, 32, after it was reported that she hadn't returned from snowboarding on Sunday. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/3717280-canadian-woman-found-dead-minnesota-ski-resort...
Are we alone in the universe? Top NASA scientists say the answer is almost certainly “no.” “I believe we are going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidence in the next 10 to 20 years,” Ellen Stofan, chief scientist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said at a public panel Tuesday in Washington. “We know where to look, we know how to look, and in most cases we have the technology,” she said. http://www.startribune.com/nation/298983381.html...
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A white South Carolina police officer was charged with murder Tuesday, hours after law enforcement officials viewed a dramatic video that appears to show him shooting a fleeing black man several times in the back. North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey announced the charges at a hastily called news conference in which he said City Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager made "a bad decision." http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/298970241.html...
Fare-snubbing scofflaws riding the Twin Cities’ light-rail lines could cost Metro Transit up to $1.5 million annually in lost revenue, according to an audit released Tuesday by the Metropolitan Council. The 20-page report prepared by the regional planning agency found that “fare evasion” is worse on the nearly year-old Green Line, which connects the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul. All told, the audit showed losses on the Blue Line of $4,600 to $6,400 a week while those on the Green Line ranged from $11,100 to $21,800 a week. If...
Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday called for $842 million in state borrowing to fund dozens of public construction projects all over Minnesota, saying the cost of the debt would be worth the economic jolt it would deliver. “My proposal would put thousands of Minnesotans to work throughout our state,” Dayton said at a Capitol news conference, laying out a hefty wish list of bonding projects that includes more than $200 million for construction projects on public college campuses, $32 million to renovate the 10th Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis,...
In hopes of curbing escalating street violence in south Minneapolis, police say they have assigned additional officers to boost daily patrols in several neighborhoods. Under the plan, officers — drawn from all five precincts, in addition to several of the department’s specialty units, including the Community Emergency Response Teams — will focus on several neighborhoods, such as Phillips and Powderhorn, which have seen most of the recent incidents, police officials said. http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/298...
Sarah Super closed her eyes, tilted her head and reached over her shoulder as a student in her trauma-sensitive yoga class mirrored her movements. “You choose how much pressure,” she said, gently massaging her shoulder during a session at a St. Paul crisis center. “It’s your hand on your shoulder.” Providing choices is paramount to Super, who allows her students to engage in less demanding exercise or to simply get up and leave the room if they wish. It’s a key tenet of trauma-sensitive yoga, and a frame of mind the 26-year-old...
CenturyLink was slapped with a $16 million fine this week for a 911 failure in Minnesota and other states a year ago. For more than six hours in April 2014, 11 million CenturyLink, Intrado Communications and Verizon customers in seven states could not reach emergency call centers, according to the Federal Communications Commission, which recently concluded an investigation of the event. Intrado was fined $1.4 million and Verizon was fined $3.4 million last month. http://www.startribune.com/business/298961651.html...
While you’re working out to get that buff body, don’t forget to exercise your mind. Like a muscle, your brain can grow stronger with the right nourishment and training. Advances in technology have enabled scientists to explore the brain as never before — and they’re making bold discoveries. The new thinking is that our brains are malleable and capable of building new connections between nerve cells, even as we grow older. http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/298804741.html...
NEW YORK — Drivers will see the lowest summer gasoline prices in about 6 years, according to the Energy Department. The national average price is forecast to fall 32 percent from a year ago to $2.45 a gallon between April and September, the period when Americans do most of their driving. That would mark the lowest seasonal average since 2009. For the year, the department's Energy Information Administration expects gasoline to average $2.40 a gallon, down from $3.36 in 2014. http://www.startribune.com/business/298916011.htm...
SANTIAGO, Chile — A Chilean municipality harvested legal medical marijuana Tuesday as part of a government-approved pilot project aimed at helping ease pain in cancer patients. The harvest comes after Chile's first planting of pot for medical uses in October 2014. It is the work of a municipality in the capital of Santiago and the Daya Foundation, a nonprofit group that sponsors pain-relieving therapies. "We're laying the foundations for what will be the national production of medical cannabis," Daya's president, Ana Maria Gazmuri, said...
On October 20, 2011, just hours after taking the oath of office, new Chief Bill John Baker brought in several long-serving Cherokee Nation employees. He had them escorted from the building by law enforcement and placed on leave. Many of these employees were later let go by the Cherokee Nation, not for any wrongdoing but by hastily constructed ‘reorganizations and layoffs’ that somehow managed to target only those employees who supported Baker’s opponent in the 2011 election. The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court has ruled that those firings...
LAME DEER, Mont. –– In the wake of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval of what could become the largest military training airspace over the continental United States, the Northern Cheyenne Nation still hopes to block the proposal, tribal Development Director Steve Small told the Native Sun News on March 27. The FAA approved the four-fold expansion of the U.S. Air Force Powder River Training Complex on March 24, to allow large-force exercises with B-1 and B-52 bombers in an area half the size of the state of South Dakota,...
As states across the country pass laws allowing same-sex marriages, the nation’s two largest Native American tribes — as well as a handful of smaller tribes — have laws on the books banning it. A report by the Associated Press found that the Navajo and the Cherokee have reaffirmed or strengthened their decades-old tribal laws banning gay marriage in recent years. Those two tribes have a collective 600,000 members. The Navajo are clustered in the Southwest, where Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico come together. The Cherokee mostly...
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - The Health, Education, and Human Services Committee considered legislation last week, which would reaffirm the Navajo Nation's position against the legalization of marijuana production, use, or sale within Navajo land. Legislation sponsor Council Delegate Edmund Yazzie (Churchrock, Iyanbito, Mariano Lake, Pinedale, Smith Lake, Thoreau) informed HEHSC members that in December 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice released a policy statement which states that Indian nations now have the authority to "legalize the cultivation...
Lani Elliott was 21 years old when she survived a vicious attack by her husband, who beat her with a baseball bat and broke her leg. Elliott is now telling her story to First Nations and in schools, raising awareness of how often domestic abuse plays a role in the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. According to a report released by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police last year entitled "Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Review", 92 per cent of the women knew their attackers: http://www....
This week, CBC News has launched a nationwide special series that reveals the most intensive and updated look at Canada's missing and murdered indigenous girls and women. Among the communities that have been affected is Manitoba's Sayisi Dene First Nation. Members are still haunted by events from their not-so-distant past — events that saw their own women and girls murdered or go missing. But to this day, the tragedies in the community have gone almost unnoticed and ignored, except by the loved ones those women left behind. Here now, is...
SEATTLE (AP) — A flawed reporting system between tribes and outside authorities allowed a man to buy a handgun later used by his son to kill four classmates and himself in Washington state — a problem state and federal agencies have long known about but haven't fixed. A domestic violence protection order issued by the Tulalip Tribal Court should have prevented Raymond Lee Fryberg Jr. from buying firearms. But the order was never entered into any state or federal criminal databases, as it would be if it came from a Washington county court....