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Law enforcement officers have found a 3-year-old boy who was reported to be abducted, and have arrested a 36-year-old woman in connection with the case, canceling an Amber Alert issued at 9 p.m. Friday. Officials reported that Ethan Stately was found safe in Red Lake, Minn., where he had gone missing. They took into custody Jennifer Stately, whose relation to the boy was unclear. According to a series of statements issued by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Jennifer Stately had been last seen driving an SUV earlier Friday in Red...
RED LAKE - For the first time in several years, Red Lake Public Schools is fully staffed. Among the district's typical recruitment efforts, a lot of hiring decisions come about through word of mouth as well as in-person and virtual job fairs. With some positions remaining vacant for years on end, however, a different recruitment approach would be necessary for the 2023-2024 school year. "We were starting to run short on luck in terms of finding people to apply for our positions," Director of...
Lawrence "Rerun" Howard Gotchie Jr. March 12, 1956 ~ March 13, 2024 (age 68) Lawrence "Rerun" Howard Gotchie Jr 68 Passed March 13th 2024 at Deer River Essentia Born March 12th 1956 at Cass Lake MN Survived by Brothers and Sisters; Donald "Ducko" Gotchie (Sheila), Steven Gotchie (Becky), Mary Jo Gotchie, Rosie Gotchie, Donna Gotchie, Robert "Bobby Jo" Gotchie. Children; Rhiiaunna Gotchie, Marvin Rogers, Jessie Gotchie (Jessica), Steven Gotchie (Sarah), Corey White, Justin Perrington, Larry...
Gordon "Dee-Dee" Lee Dunn, Sr. April 30, 1978 ~ March 12, 2024 (age 45) Gordon "Dee-Dee" Lee Dunn, Sr., "Adikdokadikawag" of the Bear Clan and Bena, MN, age 45, unexpectedly journeyed to the spirit world on Tuesday, March 12th, 2024, from Bena. He was born on April 30th, 1978, in Cass Lake, the son of Beatrice Dunn and Gordon Wayne Harrison. Dee-Dee enjoyed being outside in nature, walking in the woods, ricing, bough picking, and riding around. He liked tattooing, wood burning, beading,...
A dispute over border security funding threatens to force a shutdown of vast swaths of the federal government in less than a week, as Congress and the White House struggled Sunday to reach a deal on long-term spending legislation. Funding for roughly 70 percent of the federal government - including the departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security as well as the IRS and Transportation Security Administration - will at 12:01 a.m. Saturday unless Congress acts before then. A prolonged...
MOSCOW - On the final day of a presidential election with only one possible result, Russians protested Vladimir Putin's authoritarian hold on power by forming long lines to vote against him at noon Sunday - answering the call of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and undercutting preliminary results Sunday night that led Putin to claim a landslide victory. Russia's Central Election Commission, which routinely bars any real challengers from running, reported late Sunday that Putin had...
This story contains a graphic image of dead bodies. Gangs have long wielded power in Haiti. But since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, they've filled a power vacuum, taking control of roughly 80 percent of the capital and displacing more than 300,000 people with a campaign of kidnappings for ransom, rapes and killings. The violence has worsened a devastating humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean nation of 11 million. Almost half of the population suffers from acute hunger....
President Biden notched record fundraising receipts in February with donations from nearly half a million people, overcoming poor polling to end the month with $155 million in the bank. The strong results bolstered the Biden campaign's argument that grass-roots energy will swell as the November election approaches and voters come to terms with the choice between Biden and Donald Trump. Biden and Trump - who both became their party's presumptive nominees last week - are locked in a rematch of...
After sitting through hours of jokes about his age at Saturday's Gridiron Club and Foundation dinner, President Biden turned the tables on the journalists putting on the skits. "The big news this week is, two candidates clinched their parties' nomination for president. One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president," Biden said. "The other is me." Of all the president's jokes, that one landed best here at the Independence Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt downtown. It's the annual...
Jenna Bunker chose Gustavus Adolphus College because "something clicked" and she received a grant to help cut down the private school costs. But she's keenly aware that the state is about to roll out a new free tuition program that might incentivize others to choose public schools instead. So Bunker and dozens of other private college students have been popping by Minnesota lawmakers' offices this session, urging them to provide more scholarship money for people like them, arguing that a...
A man was shot in Minneapolis on Friday, in front of his two young children, according to law enforcement. A statement from the Minneapolis Police Department said officers found the man on the 3700 block of Chicago Avenue in his car. He had been shot four blocks away, and a woman drove the vehicle four blocks before police found him. The toddlers were in the back of the car, and "thankfully, the children were not injured," Police Chief Brian O'Hara said in the emailed statement. Police were...
The body of a missing 34-year-old Rochester woman was found Thursday inside a culvert, police say. The remains of Alice Dobmeier, last seen March 3, were found along with personal belongings about 80 yards inside a culvert near a retention pond off Broadway Avenue S., according to the Rochester police. There were no signs of trauma and no indication of foul play, police said Saturday, but no cause of death was released. https://www.startribune.com/body-of-missing-rochester-woman-found-in-culvert/600351779/...
LEVITTOWN, Pa. - A man faces murder charges in Pennsylvania and carjacking and weapons charges in New Jersey after allegedly killing three family members, carjacking vehicles in both states and evading law enforcement for hours as police mobilized in two states, authorities said Sunday. Andre Gordon Jr., 26, is charged in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with three counts of first- and second-degree murder, aggravated assault, robbery and other charges, according to court documents. In New Jersey,...
UPPER SIOUX COMMUNITY - Before a word was said or a document was signed, boxes of tissues were laid out, at the ready. It was an emotional day at the Upper Sioux Community, Pezihutazizi Oyate, in far western Minnesota, as the state officially returned Upper Sioux Agency State Park to the Dakota people. The park, several people noted at Friday's ceremony, was originally created on the 100-year anniversary of the starvation of Dakota people on the land. The ensuing 1862 U.S.-Dakota War ended with...
DETROIT LAKES - The White Earth Nation wants to take over administration of the White Earth State Forest to preserve it far into the future. White Earth Tribal Chairman Michael Fairbanks said the 160,000-acre state forest used to be much larger than it is now but has dwindled down to its current size as land was sold off over the years. "The White Earth Forest used to be huge at one time," Fairbanks said in an interview. "Now it's half of what it used to be - the DNR sold it off."...
WILLMAR - The Willmar business owner arrested last weekend in an alleged assault at her massage business has been charged with inducing a woman into prostitution. Ying He, 55, made her first court appearance Tuesday, March 12 in Kandiyohi County District Court on charges of inducing a a female employee to engage in prostitution at her massage parlor in Willmar, a felony offense. A gross misdemeanor charge of running a disorderly house and a misdemeanor fifth-degree assault charge also were...
BEMIDJI - A juvenile male has been arrested after the Bemidji Police Department reached out for public assistance in locating and identifying a person who allegedly displayed a firearm and robbed a Holiday gas station in Bemidji early Thursday morning. According to an update from Bemidji Police Captain David LaZella, at approximately 11:30 a.m., Bemidji detectives identified a juvenile male who matched the initial reported description and corroborated this information with several tips from the...
THIEF RIVER FALLS – The Red Lake boys basketball team wasn't going down without a fight in the Section 8A championship game on Friday night in Thief River Falls. The Warriors faced long odds for a comeback against Fertile-Beltrami, trailing 46-27 at halftime and 55-30 just minutes into the second half. Then Jack Brown made his presence felt. Red Lake's senior guard splashed back-to-back deep 3-pointers from the wing, giving the Warriors a surge of energy that they used to cut the deficit to 6...
MINNEAPOLIS – A Sauk Centre man has pleaded guilty to coercing minors to produce sexually explicit images, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, Shawn Norbert Kulzer, 32, began chatting with a minor victim on Snapchat on or about January 2, 2023. During the course of their conversation, Kulzer learned that the minor victim was under the age of 18, yet still pressured them to send nude photographs. In his plea agreement, Kulzer also admitted that he u...
ST. PAUL - A Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe member with 25 years of experience serving Tribal nations and Indigenous communities is the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's (DPS) new Tribal Affairs director. Irene Folstrom will help guide DPS' efforts to learn from and connect with the 11 Tribal nations in Minnesota. "Irene is a dynamic and influential leader who brings 25 years of experience serving Tribal nations and Indigenous communities to our department," DPS Commissioner Bob Jacobson said....
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced final guidance for Tribal communities on how to apply for $55 million in grant funding and direct assistance available under President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to clean up orphaned oil and gas wells across Indian Country. Funding through the program may be utilized to plug, remediate or reclaim orphaned wells on Tribal lands, restore soil and habitat in degraded areas, decommission or remove associated infrastructure, identify and characterize additional undocumented wells o...
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced that more than $120 million from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda will fund 146 projects to help Tribal communities plan for and implement projects to tackle severe climate-related environmental threats to their homelands. This investment from the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and annual appropriations will help Tribes proactively plan for and adapt to these threats and safely relocate critical community infrastructure, where necessary. It is the...
ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) has identified the Oakdale police officer who used force March 11 while responding to a domestic incident. • Andrew Dickman fired his department handgun. He has three years of law enforcement experience and is on standard administrative leave. The man involved in the incident, Devione Malone, 25, of Oakdale was not hurt and now faces multiple charges out of Washington County District Court. According to the preliminary investigation, Oakdale police res...
March 15, 2024 (SAINT PAUL) — Today, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced he has reached a settlement with HavenBrook Homes and six other defendants to resolve his 2022 lawsuit alleging that the companies under-maintained over 600 single-family rental homes and falsely promised maintenance services for years. Under the terms of the settlement, HavenBrook Homes will put $2.2 million into a restitution fund held by the Attorney General’s Office for the benefit of current and former tenants who experienced delayed repairs, who had a...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Two men have been sentenced to prison for possession of fentanyl and cocaine with intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to the defendants' plea agreements and court documents, beginning at least as early as January 2023, Cortez Ananias Williams, 24, was involved in trafficking controlled substances between California and Minnesota with his co-defendant and cousin Savontray Orlando Dwayne Collins, 23. On February 13, 2024, law enforcement i...
