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  • WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY

    Feb 15, 2023

    Winter Weather Advisory URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Grand Forks ND 514 PM CST Tue Feb 14 2023 Lake Of The Woods-North Beltrami-North Clearwater-South Beltrami-South Clearwater-Hubbard-Wadena-Including the cities of Baudette, Red Lake, Redby, Ponemah, Bagley, Clearbrook, Bemidji, Alida, Ebro, Lake Itasca, Long Lost Lake, Lower Rice Lake, Roy Lake, Upper Rice Lake, Park Rapids, Wadena, and Menahga 514 PM CST Tue Feb 14 2023 WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNT...

  • Warriors win in Laporte 99-50

    Red Lake Youth Sports|Feb 15, 2023

    Varsity boys win 99-50, led by Cade Beaulieu's 23, Ken Fox with another solid game and 21 points, Justin Brown with a nice game in the post 16, Gerald Kingbird Jr got a nice two handed flush and created lots of turnovers with 14, and Jack Brown was big on the boards and 10 points. The Ogichidaag head to Blackduck on Thursday night for another key conference game! They are currently #9 of #16 in section 8AA as they approach their final 4 games of the regular season The JV Boys got the big win,...

  • Edward William Gotchie

    Feb 15, 2023

    Edward William Gotchie November 29, 1960 ~ February 13, 2023 (age 62) Edward was born November 28, 1960 to Lawrence & Nellie Gotchie. Ed Graduated from Deer River High school, after graduation Ed enlisted in the US Marine Corp, with an honorable discharge Eddie served his country well above anyone's standards. Edwards Gaming employment for the Leech Lake Band started at the Palace as a bingo, he moved on to Northern Lights as a slot attendant for a long period of his gaming employment. Edward...

  • Leaders push for more funding to find missing and murdered Indigenous Minnesotans

    Feb 15, 2023

    The push to solve hundreds of cases of missing and murdered Indigenous Minnesotans hit a milestone last year with the opening of a first-in-the-nation office charged with systemically trying to fix the problem. Now, Native American legislators and community leaders are trying to make sure the office has the resources it needs to tackle the task ahead - one that's been complicated by decades of inconsistent data and a lack of mainstream attention. "The work is never going to be done," state Sen....

  • 16-year-old charged with fatally stabbing a fellow St. Paul Harding student after fight

    Feb 15, 2023
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    A 16-year-old boy was charged Tuesday with murder on allegations that he stabbed a fellow student last week in St. Paul Harding High following a hallway fight during a break between classes, while administrators and police reexamine security at the district's largest schools. Nosakhere K. Holmes was charged in Ramsey County District Court with second-degree unintentional murder in connection with the killing shortly before noon Friday of 15-year-old Devin Denelle Edward Scott, who was attending...

  • Star Tribune names economic development commissioner Steve Grove, a former Google exec, as publisher

    Feb 15, 2023

    A former Google executive - and Minnesota's current economic development commissioner - will be the Star Tribune's next publisher and CEO. Steve Grove, a Northfield native who has led the state's Department of Employment and Economic Development since 2019, was named Tuesday to the media company's top post. Grove, 45, will take over for Mike Klingensmith, who has led the company since 2010 and recently announced his retirement. https://www.startribune.com/star-tribune-names-s...

  • Inflation cooling off faster in the Twin Cities than U.S. as a whole

    Feb 15, 2023

    Price increases continued to moderate faster in the Twin Cities last month compared with the U.S. as a whole. The consumer price index, an often-used measure of inflation, eased to 5.1% in January on a year-over-year basis for the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, according to data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is down from 5.3% in November. By comparison, the price index for the U.S. rose by 6.4% over the year. That was down from 6.5% in December and from 7.1% in...

  • Longtime educator Willie Jett takes over as Minnesota's new education commissioner

    Feb 15, 2023

    Willie Jett's reputation precedes him. The newly named Minnesota Department of Education commissioner had agency staff buzzing when he took the reins in January. He's the first Black man to hold the title and second Black Minnesotan behind Brenda Cassellius. Jett's years as an educator in districts of various sizes and localities - as a teacher, coach, principal and superintendent - had his direct reports impressed. https://www.startribune.com/new-minnesota-department-of-educ...

  • US arrests 4 tied to assassination of Haitian president

    Feb 15, 2023

    IAMI - U.S. authorities have arrested four more people in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, including the owner of a Miami-area security company that hired ex-Colombian soldiers for the mission, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The squad of former Colombian soldiers are among dozens of suspects who carried out the July 2021 attack that authorities say originally was envisioned to be a coup rather than an assassination. The plotters had hoped to reap lucrative contracts under a new...

  • Post-Roe, Native Americans face even more abortion hurdles

    Feb 15, 2023

    A few months after South Dakota banned abortion last year, April Matson drove more than nine hours to take a friend to a Colorado clinic to get the procedure. The trip brought back difficult memories of Matson's own abortion at the same clinic in 2016. The former grocery store worker and parent of two couldn't afford a hotel and slept in a tent near a horse pasture - bleeding and in pain. Getting an abortion has long been extremely difficult for Native Americans like Matson. It has become even...

  • Rescuers pull seven survivors from ruins eight days after Turkey quake

    Feb 15, 2023

    ISTANBUL, Feb 14 (Reuters) - At least seven survivors were rescued on Tuesday from the rubble of earthquake-hit areas of Turkey, local media reported, eight days after worst quake in the country's modern history. It included a woman pulled out from ruins of a building in the southern Turkish province of Hatay by Ukrainian rescue workers, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. Earlier on Tuesday, an 18-year-old named Muhammed Cafer was rescued from the rubble of a building in southern Turkey some 198...

  • USDA Announces $133 Million in Grant Funding Available, including American Rescue Plan funds, through the Local Agriculture Market Program to Expand Local Food Systems

    Feb 15, 2023

    WASHINGTON, February XX, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it is now accepting applications for this year’s Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP), with a total of $133 million available in competitive grant funds to expand and strengthen local and regional food systems and increase the availability of locally grown agricultural products. The funding available for this year’s program includes $65 million in supplemental funding authorized by the American Rescue Plan, carry over funding from last year’s program an...

  • St. Paul Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl and Firearm Possession

    Feb 15, 2023

    MINNEAPOLIS – A St. Paul man has pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, on January 21, 2022, officers with the Minneapolis Police Department arrested Eric Leon Wilbert, 43, and conducted a subsequent search of his vehicle. As a result of the search, officers recovered a Ruger 57 5.7 x 28 caliber semi-automatic pistol under the driver’s seat and, in the center console, officers found app...

  • Minnesota House of Public Safety Committee considers Rep. Hollins's legislation on grants for service providers that work with crime victims

    Feb 15, 2023

    SAINT PAUL, Minn. - Today, the Minnesota House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee held a public hearing for HF 1437, chief-authored by Representative Athena Hollins (DFL-Saint Paul). HF 1437 establishes grants for organizations that deliver direct services to crime victims. “We need to prioritize families when they are in crisis,” said Rep. Hollins. “More often than not, these shelters and service providers are working around the clock to ensure families in crisis are not permeated by toxic stress and trauma. Parents have to compa...

  • Attorney General's Office secures conviction in Cottonwood County murder case

    Feb 15, 2023

    February 14, 2023 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today that a Cottonwood County jury has returned a verdict of guilty against Ralph Apmann on the single count of second-degree unintentional murder during the course of a felony assault in the August 26, 2021 death of Juan Morales Rivera in Windom. Apmann was convicted at the conclusion of a week-long trial. Ralph Apmann had been drinking in a bar in Windom on August 25, 2021, where Juan Morales Rivera was also present and drinking. Apmann eventually asked M...

  • Attorney General Ellison shuts down fraudulent student-loan debt-settlement company

    Feb 15, 2023

    February 14, 2023 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today that his office has obtained a settlement that requires a California student-loan debt-relief company that illegally collected fees from customers and misrepresented its services to consumers to cease operating in Minnesota and provide full refunds to its Minnesota consumers. Among other things, Direct Account Management — a company based in Laguna Niguel, California — is alleged to have falsely promised consumers student-loan forgiveness, when only the f...

  • Attorney General Ellison names Jessica Whitney as Deputy Attorney General

    Feb 15, 2023

    February 14, 2023 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today that he has named Jessica Whitney as Deputy Attorney General in the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General. Ms. Whitney is an 18-year veteran of the Office of former Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. She will serve as one of four deputy attorneys general in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office and will co-lead the Office’s consumer-protection work with current Deputy Attorney General James Canaday when she starts on March 1. The Office of the Minne...

  • Department of Labor and Industry announces 2023 Youth Skills Training grant recipients

    Feb 15, 2023

    Twelve partnerships across Minnesota will receive funding to develop and expand programs to offer meaningful career exposure and paid work experience for students 16 years of age and older. The grants are part of the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry’s (DLI’s) Youth Skills Training (YST) program that was signed into law in 2017 with bipartisan support to create and provide employment training for student learners ages 16 and older in high-growth, high-demand occupations. “We are thrilled to continue supporting the development of stron...

  • How do you say 'I Love You' in Your Indigenous Language?

    Feb 15, 2023

    A decade ago, the Native American sketch comedy group 1491s went online and asked their fans and supporters a simple question: "How do you say, 'I Love You' in your Indigenous language?" People from all over Indian Country and around the world answered with short videos that feature them showing their love and speaking it in their Native tongues, including Lakota, Mohawk, Haida, Native Hawaiian, Maori, Karuk, Yupik, Cherokee and dozens of other languages. The 1491s stitched those clips together...

  • Right To Safety Denied

    Feb 15, 2023

    EAGAN, Minnesota - On February 2, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in their ruling of "United States v. Rahimi" declared that the ban on access to firearms as it relates to domestic violence is unconstitutional because the statute 922(g)(8) (1994) restriction of the Second Amendment right [does not] fit within our Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. Further, that unless and until a crime has been committed and convicted - said perpetrator is a law abiding...

  • Montana Senate votes against Indigenous Peoples Day holiday

    Feb 15, 2023

    The Montana state Senate voted Tuesday afternoon against discussing a bill that would have established Indigenous Peoples Day in the state Tuesday afternoon following debate over how the new holiday would replace Columbus Day. However, at least one member of the Montana American Indian Caucus plans to introduce another bill that would move the state-recognized American Indian Heritage Day to October, the same month as Columbus Day. Sen. Susan Webber, a Democrat from Browning and a Montana American Indian Caucus member, who introduced...

  • New Bill in State Legislature Would Guarantee $6 Million in New Funding for Minnesota Tribal Colleges

    Feb 15, 2023

    ST PAUL- A new bill has been introduced in the Minnesota legislative session that would provide $6 million in funding for the next two years to Tribal Colleges in the state. The bill, HF-750, is being carried by Representatives Keeler, Becker-Finn, Kozlowski, Frazier, Gomez, Curran, Hanson, and Hollins. If passed, the bill would require the state to designate money for grants to fund the Leech Lake Tribal College, White Earth Tribal College, and Red Lake Nation Tribal College during the 2024...

  • Lady Warriors unable to slow down Panthers in 90-64 loss to Cass Lake - P2

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Feb 15, 2023

    At home, Lady Warriors unable to slow down Panthers in 90-64 loss to Cass Lake Red Lake Jr. High also take a loss in earlier game...

  • Nevis tops Red Lake 76-61: Tiger's JV also winners in early game 78-29 - P3

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Feb 15, 2023

    Nevis tops Red Lake 76-61: Tiger's JV also winners in early game 78-29...

  • Fox scores 35 and hits the 1000-point milestone in Red Lake's 91-70 win over Walker-Hackensack-Akley - P6

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Feb 15, 2023

    Ken Fox III scores 35 and hits the 1000-point milestone in Red Lake's 91-70 win over Walker-Hackensack-Akley on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 Red Lake's JV takes down WHA 67-46 in the early game...

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