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MINNEAPOLIS -- Bringing a divided United States -- and divided Republican Party -- together was at the core of presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s speech during his Tuesday campaign stop ahead of next week’s caucus in Minnesota. The senator from Florida played up his ability to bring together the party as the Republican’s best chance as an “electable” candidate to the crowd of about 1,500 in the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Minneapolis. “We can’t win if we’re divided against each other,” he said. “If we’re still fighting against each...
ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed a jury decision in a lawsuit over stray voltage that awarded Pine River dairy farmers $6.3 million in damages. The appeal was filed by lawyers for the Brainerd electrical cooperative Crow Wing Power, which was found negligent in October 2014 in its response to stray voltage concerns raised by Randy and Peggy Norman of Pine River. "We have been quite hopeful of a different outcome," said Char Kinzer, public relations manager for Crow Wing Power, by phone Monday. "We're disappointed...
ROCHESTER — A Rochester police officer is under investigation after images carrying anti-Muslim and anti-black sentiments surfaced on his Facebook page. Officer Ben Schlag was placed on paid administrative leave Friday, Rochester Police Chief Roger Peterson said. Peterson said Schlag’s suspension is based off of posts the officer allegedly made on Facebook in 2015. On Nov. 17, a post on Schlag’s account shows a drawing of people being run over by a vehicle with the words “Nobody cares about your protest.” The post came two days after the fatal...
WASHINGTON — Cuts proposed by the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund will touch retirees and workers in every corner of Minnesota, a document just released by the Pension Rights Center reveals. A state-by-state analysis that carries the Central States fund logo details the expenditures driving the giant union retirement fund’s request to slash retirement benefits under a new pension law passed in 2014. Trustees insist it’s the only way to save the fund from insolvency. The deep cuts will resonate in every Minnesota congressional distr...
An aide at a Hopkins senior home has been arrested and charged with two counts of assault after videos from a hidden camera showed her repeatedly hitting an elderly patient in the head. Cecilia Chebii Soi, 55, was arrested Feb. 7 after video footage showed her assaulting the patient on at least two occasions at the Glenn Hopkins senior home. Videos showed Soi striking the patient several times in the head and back with her hand, elbow and even a hair brush. Footage also showed Soi roughly pulling the patient up from the floor by her hair,...
KENNER, La. — Tornadoes and severe weather ripped through the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, mangling trailers at an RV park, ripping off roofs from buildings and killing at least three people in Louisiana and Mississippi, authorities said. One of the most hard-hit areas appeared to be a recreational vehicle park in the town of Convent, in southern Louisiana. Two people were killed there, said St. James Parish Sheriff Willy Martin, speaking on local television. Authorities were still looking for people possibly trapped under the debris, Martin said. h...
A popular summer celebration in Shakopee has been called off for 2016 after police opened an investigation into the finances of the organization that runs Derby Days, city officials said. The Derby Days board of directors confirmed that the annual party usually held in early August in Huber Park won’t go on this year, but they hope to bring the festival back in 2017. “We are taking time to implement new policies and procedures that include new internal controls,” the group said in a posting on Facebook. http://www.startribun...
NEW YORK — Bill Gates is supportive of investigators' efforts to force Apple to help them crack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, saying a balance needs to be struck between government access and the need to preserve data security. While clarifying he doesn't support untrammeled government access to personal data, the Microsoft co-founder's position runs contrary to those of many tech executives who have backed Apple Inc. The heads of Facebook, Twitter and Google have all sided with Apple on the grounds that c...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. and China showed no sign of quelling tension in the disputed South China Sea as their top diplomats met in Washington on Tuesday. A leading U.S. military officer told Congress that China was seeking to control East Asia. But there was progress on another front. Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said they were close to agreement on a U.N. resolution to punish North Korea after its recent nuclear test and rocket launch. China has been reluctant to impose the kind of tough sanctions on its n...
SALT LAKE CITY — A longshot proposal for conservative Utah to join 19 states and the District of Columbia in abolishing the death penalty cleared its first test at the state Legislature on Tuesday evening. A bipartisan group of senators on a judiciary committee voted 5-2 to advance the measure to Utah's Senate for debate, but one Republican voting for the measure said he was conflicted and may not support it later. That debate could happen as soon as this week. Steve Urquhart, the Republican senator running the proposal, acknowledges that t...
It’s one of the most controversial issues in Indian country, the issue of the Freedmen. Cherokee Freedmen were former slaves adopted into the Cherokee tribe after the Trail of Tears. Today, descendants of the Freedmen say they've been denied citizenship and other rights owed to them. A federal judge is expected to rule on this issue sometime this year. In the first of a series of Invisible Nations reports, Allison Herrera interviews Will Chavez. He's the interim editor of the Cherokee Phoenix and has covered this issue for more than a d...
The 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge cost taxpayers at least $3.3 million to cover the massive police response, a week of shuttered schools and a long list of supplies ranging from food to flashlight batteries, according to an Oregonian/OregonLive analysis of public and tribal budgets. The total will certainly grow. The amount doesn't include any figures from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, which operates the 187,700-acre bird sanctuary seized Jan. 2 by armed militants. http://www.oregonlive.com/or...
Ontario will spend $100 million over the next three years on a long-term strategy to end violence against indigenous women, most of it on support for families. Indigenous women are three times more likely to experience violence and to be murdered than other women in Ontario, Premier Kathleen Wynne said Tuesday. "This is devastating families and entire communities, and it's a problem our entire province needs to face," Wynne said. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/ontario-pledges-100million-to-help-end-violence-against-indige...
It’s clear that Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton now own the inside lanes to their party’s nominations. We are at the point where the campaign is all about collecting delegates and both Trump and Clinton are starting to rack up leads. Of course either could still be beat, but for that to happen, there would have to be a sudden and dramatic shift in the primary elections ahead. Let’s dig into the numbers. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/020463.asp...
NEW YORK — A race car driver pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges stemming from what U.S. prosecutors called his role in a $2 billion online payday lending enterprise that exploited 4.5 million cash-strapped consumers. Scott Tucker, who competes on U.S. and European racing circuits, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to charges including conspiracy to collect unlawful debts in violation of federal racketeering laws. Timothy Muir, a lawyer who prosecutors said worked with Tucker’s Overland Park, Kan.-based company, AMG Ser...
Rep. David Scott of Georgia may have pulled back the curtain a bit last week on the impact of campaign contributions. During a House hearing entitled “Short-term, Small Dollar Lending: The CFPB’s Assault on Access to Credit and Trampling of State and Tribal Sovereignty,” Scott, a Democrat, joined with Republicans in criticizing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is in the early stages of drafting rules to regulate some of the practices of the payday loan industry. And with his attack — lifted a little too literally from text writte...
There's a new recreation option for Tulalip youth as the Debra Barto Memorial Skate Park was opened on Feb. 19. The park opened just next the Don Hatch Youth Center at 6700 Totem Beach Road. The skate park has been a project Tulalip officials have been considering building for a long time. http://www.northcountyoutlook.com/story/2016/02/24/news/tulalip-tribes-open-memorial-skate-park/9231.html...
Tribal leaders and advocates gathered in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to brief Congress on implementation of a provision in the 2013 Violence Against Women Act, which affirmed tribes’ ability to exercise special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction over non-Natives who commit domestic assault, or engage in dating violence, on tribal lands. Recognizing that the Department of Justice’s 2014 decision to grant special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction under VAWA was a “historic” step toward upholding tribal sovereignty, advocates and tribal...
Aboriginal women with a university degree post slightly better employment rates and make more money than non-aboriginal women with the same level of education, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. First Nations, Metis and Inuit women with a post-secondary certificate, diploma, or degree were employed 81.8 per cent compared to 79.5 per cent of their non-aboriginal counterparts in 2011, according to the analysis of the 2011 National Household Survey and other sources. The findings include on-reserve First Nations populations and Inuit populations...
BILLINGS — A long-running political dispute between two American Indian tribes forced more than a century ago to live together on a Wyoming reservation has spilled into the courtroom, with one accusing the other of violating its sovereignty. More than 10,000 Northern Arapaho and 4,000 Eastern Shoshone live on the Wind River Reservation, in a rural basin ringed by mountains. The two tribes — historic adversaries made to live side-by-side in the 1860s — for decades maintained separate governments, but have met regularly through a joint counc...
State officials are considering a plan to relocate two paintings inside the Minnesota Capitol because of complaints about their depiction of American Indians. The large paintings –- Father Hennepin at the Falls of St. Anthony and The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux — are longtime fixtures in the Governor’s Reception Room, along with four other paintings that depict Civil War battles. Tribal leaders and others have said the two American-Indian-themed painting are historically inaccurate and insensitive to native people. http://b...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — State officials may remove several paintings that some say depict Native Americans unfairly from a prominent spot in the Capitol. That’s the recommendation from a panel of lawmakers and experts examining the Capitol’s massive artwork collection. The four paintings in question include a few images showing Native Americans in stereotypical clothing and another with a bare-chested woman. Those paintings would be removed from the governor’s reception room and placed elsewhere in the Capitol. It’s a small but controver...
Cloquet, MN (NNCNOW.com) -- In its annual State of the Tribe Address, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa said it is looking to tackle a growing opioid problem by expanding its healthcare. Fond du Lac leaders say their reservations average life expectancy is just 66 years old and 1 2 years below the U.S. average. http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/Fond-du-Lac-fights-againts--369914361.html...
Attorneys for a Wyoming teenager charged in a double slaying on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation are fighting attempts by federal prosecutors to have the suspect examined to see if he's competent to stand trial. Jesus Deniz Mendoza could face the death sentence if convicted in the shooting of a couple who stopped to help him along a roadway near Pryor. His attorneys say Mendoza, 18, has a significant mental illness. But there has been no indication he's incompetent to understand the charges against him and assist in his own defense....
Robert Pickton sat in a Vancouver jail cell and lamented that his quest to kill 50 women had come up just short. "I made my own grave by being sloppy. Doesn't that just kick you in the ass now," Pickton told his cellmate, adding that authorities were planning on charging him with murdering 49 women. "I was just gonna [expletive] do one more, make it even." That 2002 confession was captured on video (his cellmate was actually an undercover cop), and it would play a role in Pickton's conviction for killing six women, for which he was sentenced...
