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LITCHFIELD, Minn. -- Two teenagers were found dead with gunshot wounds in a rural Meeker County home Monday. Meeker County Sheriff Brian Cruze said in a news release that David Lee Cunningham, 17, and Jessica Kay Cunningham, 15, lived in the residence in Harvey Township. They were found dead about 2:30 p.m. Monday. The news release said David Cunningham was a student at Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City High School. No other information was provided about Jessica Cunningham. The sheriff’s office said the investigation is ongoing, and that there is n...
ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Judicial Branch and the Minnesota Tribal Court State Court Forum will host an event highlighting how Dakota and Ojibwe treaties with the U.S. government impacted the lands and history of Minnesota and its people on March 18. The event runs noon to 1 p.m. in room 230 at Minnesota Judicial Center, 25 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in St. Paul. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature opening remarks from Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea. In addition, professor Colette...
Bonita (Goose) Bruce Born: Sun., Dec. 3, 1944 Died: Sat., Feb. 27, 2016 Visitation 3:00 PM Wed., Mar. 02, 2016 Location: Cass Lake Facility Center Funeral Service 10:00 AM Fri., Mar. 04, 2016 Location: The Church of Gichitwaa Kateri Bonita Bruce, 71, of Walker, passed away at her home on February 27th, 2016 with her family by her side. Bonita was born in White Earth, Minnesota on December 3rd, 1944 to Samuel Goose and Sophie Sitting. Bonita loved spending time with her family. One of her most...
Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Marco Rubio won Minnesota’s presidential caucuses Tuesday, as voters handed both a badly needed boost as they try to hold off the surging campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Heavy turnout marked both the DFL and GOP caucuses in Minnesota, on a Super Tuesday night that saw the presidential contest spread to wider swaths of the country. Hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans participated, and some caucusgoers met long lines, traffic backups and delays in obtaining ballots at voting sites. In the D...
The pavement of Minneapolis residential streets is declining quickly enough that if more money isn’t spent within 10 years, many roads will need expensive reconstruction rather than a much cheaper resurfacing, city public works officials said Tuesday. It would take a new investment of $30 million annually over the next 10 years to offset the deterioration of an aging network of residential streets largely built in the 1960s and 1970s, Public Works Director Steve Kotke told City Council members at a meeting Tuesday. But even a lesser sum w...
Minnesota child-care providers have overwhelmingly voted against unionizing, likely ending a debate that has been emotionally charged and politically divisive for a decade. The fight pitted some child-care workers against others and sharply divided legislators along party lines when they passed a law in 2013 that would allow the vote to unionize. By the time the votes were tallied Tuesday, the lopsided results dealt a decisive loss to labor: 1,014 "no" votes to 392 who favored unionization. Although there are about 10,000 licensed child-care...
PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota's governor vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have made the state the first in the U.S. to approve a law requiring transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their sex at birth. Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who initially reacted positively to the proposal but said he needed to research the issue, rejected the bill after groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Human Rights Campaign insisted it was discriminatory. In his veto message, Daugaard said the bill "does not a...
WASHINGTON — In a move that sparked outrage from consumer advocates and praise from the food industry, the Senate Agriculture Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would stop states from requiring food labels to note the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMO). Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar joined two other committee Democrats and 11 Republicans in supporting the measure. Klobuchar said she did not think the bill she voted for would pass the entire Senate without some pro-consumer amendments, but said she wanted to get the process s...
SALT LAKE CITY — After a fiery debate, the Utah State Senate defeated a bill that would have renamed Columbus Day as “Indigenous People’s Day.” “Our history did not start with Pioneer Day and the celebration we had there,” Senate Bill 170 sponsor Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, said. Dabakis wanted a paid, state holiday to honor Native Americans. He complained that his request for a set time to debate the bill, to allow tribal members to be present for the vote, was rejected by his colleagues. http://fox13now.com/2016/03/01/b...
The Las Vegas Paiute Tribe already runs a smoke shop downtown and a golf course in the northwest valley. Now a third business venture — in medical marijuana — is on the horizon. If construction goes as planned, the federally-recognized tribe will open two medical marijuana dispensaries and a cultivation and production facility by the end of the year, said Benny Tso, chairman of the Las Vegas Paiute Council. The tribe has partnered with Ultra Health, an Arizona medical marijuana company, to develop and manage the businesses, Tso said. A gro...
WINNIPEG – The provinces agreed Friday to co-operate with and support a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett called the commitment an important step forward, as she emerged from a two-day meeting involving federal and provincial ministers as well as aboriginal leaders and victims’ families. http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/provinces-commit-to-help-inquiry-into-missing-murdered-indigenous-women/...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Dozens of people gathered in a small Navajo Nation community Tuesday to encourage the tribe's education department to take over a school in financial ruin. Nearly one-third of the employees at Leupp Schools Inc. will lose their jobs Friday as part of a reorganization plan. Tribal officials say the school system has been financially unstable for years, paying out too much in salaries while enrollment declines, posting a deficit of almost $2 million last year, and garnering the attention of the Internal Revenue Service b...
Albany, NY—An investigation by the New York State Inspector General found that a lack of control procedures and adequate oversight of a state office that managed trust funds for native American children allowed a state employee to raid the funds. The investigation found the lack of controls by the State Office of Children and Family Services Native American Services Bureau allowed the then-director to steal nearly $20,000 from 14 trust funds between 2007 and 2014. The money was held in trust for children of the Cayuga Nation who do not live w...
CMS has issued a final notification to the IHS Rosebud Hospital that it is terminating the hospital’s provider agreement, effective March 16, 2016. Termination means that IHS can no longer bill Medicare for services, impacting Medicaid funding as well. In addition, third-party revenue available to IHS to fund services, maintenance projects and other necessary costs will likely be reduced. Providing access to quality medical care remains a top priority for IHS. The agency is committed to making improvements to ensure the safe delivery of care f...
Some indigenous activists in Winnipeg say the time for peaceful protest is over when it comes to standing up to the city's taxicab companies. On Friday, four members of the Urban Warrior Alliance entered the Unicity Taxi office on Hargrave Street in camouflage pants, jackets, bandanas and masks. "When we showed up that way, I think we threw a scare into them, which is why we wear our masks and our camo sometimes," said Calvin Clarke, a member of Urban Warrior Alliance. The small community activist group participates in blockades, vigils and...
The federal government recommends Native American children's courts dole out treatment, counseling and foster care instead of fines and detention, a change in tribal guidelines that reflects a national shift in juvenile justice reform. The Interior, Justice and Health and Human Services departments released their guidelines Monday, updating a three-decade-old juvenile justice code and suggesting detention should be a last resort for tribal youth, especially runaways and those who struggle with addiction or truancy. Young Native Americans made...
HELENA — Montana is putting more people in prison than it releases -- not necessarily because there are more criminals, but largely because the state keeps arresting the same people over and over. That’s according to a long-awaited report from the Council of State Governments Justice Center, a national nonprofit organization contracted by state legislators to help figure out how to reduce prison spending and jail crowding. The report, presented Tuesday to lawmakers and others appointed to Montana’s Commission on Sentencing, found a 12 perce...
Beltrami County authorities received four emergency calls in one day for heroin overdoses — one involving the death of a 39-year-old man — and they are trying to figure out whether the cases are somehow connected. Adrian R. Dunn, of Bemidji, overdosed before dawn Saturday at a Bemidji apartment and died at an area hospital, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Three other people were hospitalized, two on calls in and around Bemidji and the last on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, the Sheriff’s Office said. Their conditions were not reveale...
Three players from the Jets took a team of youngsters from two Manitoba First Nations through a few drills in Winnipeg Monday. Forwards Chris Thorburn, Adam Lowry and Mark Scheifele skated with a group of players from Sagkeeng First Nation and Swan Lake First Nation at the MTS Iceplex as part of an event sponsored by the NHL Players Association. Reinie Courchene, head coach of the team from Sagkeeng, said getting to lace up and play with NHLers will have a big impact on the young players. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manito...
