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Sandra Lou (Roberts) Elvir November 3, 1971 ~ November 5, 2023 (age 52) Sandra 'Lulu' Lou (Roberts) Elvir, age 52, traveled onto the Spirit World on Sunday, November 5, 2023 surrounded by family. Sandra was born in Red Lake MN to Allen 'Slugger' Roberts and Doborah 'Debbie' (Rainey) Roberts. Sandra loved to cook - she could make some "bomb-ass" frybread, do scratch-offs, word finds and hang out with close cousins and friends. She took good care of her nieces and nephews, like they were her own....
Kade Michael Ferris, Giniw Wiidokaage (Eagle Helps Him), age 54, began his journey on the Strawberry Road on November 4th, 2023 after a valiant battle with cancer. Kade was born on January 25th, 1969 in San Antonio, Texas to Albert Lee Ferris and Kristeen (Evenmoe) Ferris. He moved with his parents and older brother to Moorhead, Minnesota a few years later. Kade was raised and educated in Moorhead and made frequent trips to Belcourt, ND to visit family throughout his childhood. A gifted...
The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected a request Wednesday to bar former President Donald Trump from the 2024 primary ballot under the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause - but it said the petitioners could refile the challenge for the general election. The court's four-page order didn't address the constitutional issues, but it said no Minnesota law prohibits a major political party from placing on the ballot or nominating "a candidate who is ineligible to hold office." Writing for the...
Saying that thousands in southeastern Minnesota are drinking unhealthy water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told the state to alert residents of the hazards and clean up the farm pollution that has contaminated wells in the region for years. The water supplies for more than 9,200 people in southeastern Minnesota are likely contaminated with dangerous levels of nitrate, according to a November letter the EPA sent to the heads of the three state agencies responsible for ensuring clean drinking water. The EPA asked the agencies to...
A Minneapolis police lieutenant placed on a yearlong paid leave for forwarding a racist email over a decade ago has been appointed as the new head of the department's homicide unit. Lt. Aimee Linson, a 25-year veteran of the force, returned to duty and was issued a written reprimand in April following an investigation into whether she violated the agency's ethics and communications policy, which prohibits officers from intentionally "transmitting, accessing or storing" material that's...
MIAMI - In their first debate since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, the Republican presidential candidates all declared hawkish support for Israel but squabbled over China and Ukraine as they faced growing pressure to try to catch Donald Trump - who was again absent. At center stage were Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, who has appeared competitive with DeSantis' second place position in some national polls. Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, declared...
A man described as holding "a high position in the drug distribution hierarchy" has received a term topping 12 years stemming from two law enforcement raids in the Twin Cities area that yielded more than 17,000 pills of suspected fentanyl and $45,000 in cash. Thomas A. Gentry Jr., 35, of St. Cloud was sentenced Tuesday in Anoka County District Court after pleading guilty to first-degree aggravated drug crime in connection with the seizures late last year at a rented storage unit in Maple Grove and a home in Coon Rapids. At the time Gentry was...
When St. Paul's new City Council is sworn in early next year, it may be the city's youngest, most racially diverse - and its first made up entirely of women. Voters on Tuesday re-elected incumbents Rebecca Noecker, Mitra Jalali and Nelsie Yang, and elected first-time candidates Saura Jost and Hwa Jeong Kim. The two remaining races, in the First and Seventh wards, won't have declared winners until at least Friday due to the city's ranked-choice voting system. But women of color are leading in...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip - Palestinians living in the heart of Gaza's largest city said Wednesday they could see and hear Israeli ground forces closing in from multiple directions, accelerating the exodus of thousands of civilians as food and water become scarce and urban fighting between Israel and Hamas heats up. The Israeli army has not given specifics on troop movements as it presses its ground assault, vowing to crush Hamas after its deadly Oct. 7 assault inside Israel. But residents said...
MEXICO CITY - About 3,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti on Wednesday blocked traffic on one of Mexico's main southern highways to demand transit or exit visas to reach the U.S. border. The caravan of migrants set out on foot from the city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, on Oct. 30, walking north toward the U.S. The contingent, including many women and children, later stopped walking at Huixtla, another town in the southern state of Chiapas, where they tried...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The owners of a Colorado funeral home were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that apparently had been languishing there for four years. Investigators entered the Return to Nature Funeral Home building in the Rocky Mountain town of Penrose in early October to find ''abhorrent'' conditions with dozens of stacked bodies, according to a federal affidavit that's under...
BEMIDJI — Voters in Beltrami County took to the polls on Tuesday to voice their opinion on how the county's new jail should be funded, with a huge majority supporting a local option sales tax over increased property taxes. After polls had closed, results indicated that 8,802 voters, or 96.84%, supported the sales tax by voting “yes” on the referendum, compared to a mere 287, or 3.16%, who voted “no.” On Wednesday morning, Beltrami County Sheriff Jason Riggs shared that he was surprised by the wide margin. https://www.bemidji...
MINNEAPOLIS – A Red Lake man has pleaded guilty to violently assaulting another individual as a habitual offender, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, in the late evening of April 9, 2023, Shawn Rene Lussier, 55, physically assaulted another individual in a hotel room at the Seven Clans Casino on the Red Lake Indian Reservation by repeatedly punching and kicking the individual. The assault caused serious bodily injury to the victim, including a bloody lip, a one-inch laceration to the scalp that required s...
MINNEAPOLIS – A Red Lake man has been sentenced to 64 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for involuntary manslaughter resulting from a drunk-driving crash that resulted in the death of his passenger, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, on the early morning of November 6, 2021, Gerald Wayne Johnson, 27, was driving his vehicle while intoxicated with a passenger in the front seat. Johnson was driving well over 90 miles per hour on a public road within the Red Lake Indian Reservation w...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Waseca man has been sentenced to 27 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for assaulting an enrolled member of the Bois Forte Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, on August 9, 2021, David Alvarez, Jr., 33, assaulted his domestic partner at their residence on the Bois Forte Indian Reservation. At the time of the assault, Alvarez had two prior domestic assault convictions in Steele County. Alvarez pleaded guilty on July 25, 2023, to one count of d...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Superior, Wisconsin, man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for producing images depicting his sexual abuse of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, George Francis Deppa, 50, sexually abused a 15-year-old minor and produced visual depictions of the sexual abuse. Deppa was federally charged in May of 2022 and entered a guilty plea on June 28, 2023, to one count of production of child pornography. Pursuant to the federal plea a...
November 13-17, 2023 is Minnesota Winter Hazard Awareness Week. Beltrami County Emergency Management is joining public safety partners across the state to promote safety and well-being this winter season. Each day of the week will have a topic to remind residents of the hazards they face during the coldest months of the year. Monday’s topic is Winter Storms: The National Weather Services issues a number of watches, warnings and advisories for winter weather impacts. Advisories are issued for impactful winter weather that doesn’t meet the thr...
November 8, 2023 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today that his office has obtained a settlement with Network 46, a California student-loan debt-relief company that illegally collected fees from customers and misrepresented its services to consumers. The settlement requires Network 46 to cease operating in Minnesota and provide full refunds to its Minnesota consumers. As a result of the Attorney General’s investigation, Network 46 has ceased operating nationwide. The Attorney General alleges that Network 46...
Virginia Democrats have gained full control of the state's General Assembly, dealing a major blow to Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's agenda in a race seen as an indicator of Democrats' strength heading into 2024. • Democrat wins Pennsylvania Supreme Court race • Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves wins reelection, beat Elvis' 2nd Cousin but was competitive • Ohio puts Reproductive Rights in the Constitution, and will be doing joints soon as well • Democrat flips deep-red New Jersey Assembly seat in...
The United States Census Bureau has released a Facts for Features which presents key statistics for the American Indian and Alaska Native population in honor of Native American Heritage Month for November. In 1990, President George H. Bush signed into law a joint resolution designating the month of November as the first National American Indian Heritage Month. That year's U.S Census identified 1.96 million people classified as American Indian and Alaska Native. Moving forward to 2023, we now...
The Indian Health Service (IHS) will replace an outdated computer system that is 40-years-old. This work supports the Biden-Harris Administration's Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in the Government as well as the Administration's ongoing efforts to advance health equity and support tribal communities. On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, the IHS announced that General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. was chosen to build,...
Prior Lake, Minn. – The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community today announced that it has made an additional $5 million investment in Minnesota-based Niron Magnetics. The company is the developer of the world’s first high-performance, rare earth-free permanent magnets, named one of the best inventions of 2023 by TIME Magazine. In 2016, the tribe was among the first investors in the new technology developed at the University of Minnesota. The tribe’s investment is part of $33 million in additional funding in Niron being announced today. Other...
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Tribal Council has approved the 2023 Tax Rebate amount of $500.00 that will be distributed to all enrolled Leech Lake Band Members Rapid Paycards on December 7th, 2023. The recipient needs to be enrolled as of October 25th, 2023, and 18 years of age as of December 6th, 2023. Those 18 years of age as of or after December 7th, 2023, will have their funds deposited into Minor's Trust. For those who are newly enrolled or have turned 18 since the 2022 Tax Rebate, a...
AICHO Galleries State-wide media showed up to the Gordon Coons and Steven StandingCloud art reception including MPR News, WDSE-TV and Line Break Media. Our Cultural Arts Program funder McKnight Foundation is producing video features on a few programs that they support. AICHO was selected. So a film crew came up early on Saturday to interview AICHO Executive Director LeAnn Littlewolf (Leech Lake Nation tribal citizen) and Artist Gordon Coons (Lac Courte Oreilles Nation tribal. citizen). Then...
