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Two women have been arrested and charged in a 2019 murder and assault on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. According to court documents, on August 12, 2019, Alexia Gah Gi Gay Mary Cutbank, 20, and Mia Faye Sumner, 20, while aided and abetted by others, murdered one victim. Additionally, Cutbank and Sumner shot and injured another victim. Neither victim was named in the court documents. Cutbank and Sumner are charged in federal court with one count of second-degree murder, one count of assault with a deadly weapon, and one count of assault...
No matter the season, Minnesotans are always looking to take advantage of one of the many lakes this state has to offer. As people trade their swim trunks for snow pants, and their flip flops for snow boots, the fishing gear stays out. But the DNR is encouraging everyone to understand how dangerous ice conditions can be at this time of the year. The DNR also encourages people to look at the forecast. Even if it's not a warm day out, the sun beating down on the ice can make it unstable....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Unvaccinated Minnesotans are 15 times more likely to require hospitalization for COVID-19 and 30 times more likely to die from the disease than vaccinated residents, Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said Wednesday. The commissioner gave those figures as the Minnesota Department of Health added new data to its weekly report on vaccine breakthrough cases, which normally comes out on Mondays. The department added a new graph and chart Wednesday to clarify its data on breakthrough cases. “This really does just show, again, the...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota judge has rejected a request by concerned parents to force a statewide mask mandate in all schools. Ramsey County District Judge Thomas Gilligan said the court was “gravely concerned” about the risks of COVID-19 for Minnesota children, but said in his ruling late Tuesday that the court lacks the legal authority to order Gov. Tim Walz to issue the directive that the parents sought. The longshot legal challenge was unique in that it sought to force the governor to declare a peacetime state of emergency and f...
On July 26, a 48-hour cease-and-desist order was given to Enbridge Energy, the company constructing the new Line 3 pipeline, by the White Earth Reservation. The order asks Enbridge to stop all construction within a 10-mile buffer of Coffee Pot Landing near La Salle Lake for 48 hours so members of the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe may participate in a healing ceremony along the Mississippi River. Today, many showed up at Coffee Pot Landing to show their opposition to the Line...
The Red Lake Tribal Council announced that a Red Lake Nation police officer was shot and killed while on duty. A family member identified the officer to the Star Tribune as Ryan Bialke, originally from Buffalo, Minnesota, who joined the Red Lake force in 2014. The Minneapolis FBI posted the following on Twitter: "FBI agents from our office are investigating a shooting that occurred early [Tuesday] morning on the Red Lake Reservation. RLDP officers were responding to a call at a residence when a...
