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Come prepared, don’t tote as much carry-on baggage and consider spending the time and money to enroll in the fast-lane program. That’s the advice of Transportation Security Administration officials, who after revamping security checkpoints at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are now confronting wait times twice as long as before. With no budget to hire additional personnel, even as airport traffic continues to rise, the TSA is calling on fliers to help ease the crunch. http://www.startribune.com/airport-officials-a...
In the end, it was Cole Streich's three-pointer at the fourth overtime buzzer that sent Waseca into next week's boys' basketball Class 3A tournament. It was the final bucket of a wild 103-100 Section 2 title game win against Marshall that had social media humming well before that top-of-the-key shot. For good reason, too. Streich's shot came after Marshall hit a three at the regulation buzzer to force overtime, pulled off a steal-and-shoot play in the second overtime then thought it had things wrapped up ahead by three with just one tick left...
TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians would appreciate it if Americans paid more attention to what's going on around the globe. Trudeau said in a 60 Minutes interview to be aired Sunday that "it might be nice if they paid a little more attention to the world." Trudeau, elected in October, made the remarks after being asked what Canadians don't like about the U.S. http://www.startribune.com/trudeau-say-americans-should-pay-more-attention-to-the-world/370996591/...
SALT LAKE CITY — In an extraordinary display of Republican chaos, the party's most recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, lambasted current front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him unfit for office and a danger for the nation and the GOP. "His is not the temperament of a stable, thoughtful leader," Romney declared. He called Trump "a phony" who is "playing the American public for suckers," a man whose "imagination must not be married to real power." The vicious feud marked a near-unprecedented scenario pitting t...
CLEVELAND – One hundred fifty miles northwest of here, the residents of Flint, Mich., are still reeling from the drinking water debacle that more than doubled the share of children with elevated levels of lead in their blood — to a peak, in mid-2014, of 7 percent of all children tested. Clevelanders can only sympathize. The comparable number here is 14.2 percent. The poisoning of Flint’s children outraged the nation. But too much lead in children’s blood has long been an everyday fact in Cleveland and scores of other cities — not because o...
SANTA FE, N.M. — A New Mexico medical cannabis producer this week announced a joint venture with the Las Vegas Paiute tribe to build a large growing facility and two dispensaries on tribal land in Nevada. Duke Rodriguez, founder of Ultra Health LLC, said the $5 million project could serve as a model for a similar deal in coming months with a pueblo in New Mexico. One of the two planned Nevada dispensaries will be located on a 31-acre parcel of Paiute land in downtown Las Vegas, where the tribe now operates a cigarette retail business and m...
“Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation. They are squeamishly incurious about the past and numbly certain about the future to this grisly extent: they suspect that they, too, will kill themselves.” -Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. My father's suicide is never far from my mind. I go outside at night and I look at the stars and I think about him. He committed suicide when I was 4 years old. Our fam...
Colon Cancer is the number two cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Doctors have found that encouraging routine screenings can make a huge difference. Colon cancer usually affects individuals aged fifty years and older and frequently there are no symptoms. Doctors recommend individuals start getting a colonoscopy at age fifty. Doctors suggest individual’s to get screened every ten years. http://www.lptv.org/doctors-are-encouraging-patients-get-screened-for-colon-cancer/...
The willingness of our people to stand on top of our sovereign rights has cleared the pathway for many other Indigenous peoples in America to capitalize and improve the status of assert their own nations. One of these watershed moments may be approaching as the Oglala Sioux Tribal council will soon decide if they want to poll the Oglala on their interest in marijuana legalization. As a journalist who has focused a significant amount of both personal and professional time gaining an understanding of the Drug War, I have come to realize that the...
So what’s an elderly Navajo man or woman to do, if they live an hour or more from Monticello? That’s the dilemma facing many Navajos who want to vote, but who are restricted by the distance to their county seat in San Juan County, Utah. County officials took it upon themselves to close rural polling places in the county, opting instead for mail-in ballots. But the mail-in ballots are in English, and some of these Navajo people don’t know the language. That’s why the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission has filed a lawsuit against San Juan Co...
RIVERTON, Wyoming — Authorities have identified two Wind River Indian Reservation residents who died after falling about 40 feet from a bridge at a Wyoming dam. The Ranger reports (http://bit.ly/1L6gP7r ) that 17-year-old Tab Noline and 46-year-old Virginia Perry-Noline died Friday. Their obituaries say they were mother and son. Fremont County Coroner Mark Stratmoen has ordered toxicology tests for both victims, but no autopsies have been scheduled. http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/099cd3f37d5e417d9edd2d65a725f430/WY--...
Opiate abuse is on the rise throughout the U.S., and local health officials say that now includes some of Wisconsin's indigenous communities. Opiates are highly-addictive drugs include illegal narcotics, such as heroin and prescription painkillers such as Vicodin. Data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that approximately 44 people die daily in the U.S. from overdosing on painkillers; and in 2013, nearly two million people had abused prescription narcotics. In Wisconsin, the Department of Health Services...
One of the greatest successes of President Obama in Indian country is his concerted efforts to restore lands to the tribal nations who have lost so much. To date, the Obama Administration has restored nearly 2 million acres to tribal ownership in a variety of different ways. This is not only about justice. A tremendous challenge in Indian country is economic development. President Obama has unlocked the value of Indian lands and restored tribal control so lands can be put to good use. For Indian tribes, the land problem took a century to...
Another tribe won approval to develop its own water quality standards on Wednesday as the Obama administration works to help Indian Country exercise more sovereignty over their natural resources. The Walker River Paiute Tribe of Nevada will be treated in a manner similar to a state under the Clean Water Act. The designation marks the 51st approval of its kind from the Environmental Protection Agency. But Administrator Gina McCarthy said that's not enough because it covers just a small percentage of eligible reservations. She wants more tribes...
WASHINGTON D.C.— With an apparently unanimous voice vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR-812, the Indian Trust Asset Reform Act, Feb. 24, following several supporting statements from both Republican and Democratic representatives from across the country. “This word trust has two pretty distinct meanings,” said Denny Heck, D-Washington. “It can be the belief that someone or something is trustworthy. The belief you can take them at their word. On the other hand, trust can also be a financial or property arrangement.” http://ww...
In May, one of the bands in the Navajo metal scene could get their big break. Navajo Times | Adron Gardner "I Don't Konform" band member and lead vocal Kyle Felter strums away on his electric guitar during a practice session in Window Rock Friday. Band manager Jerald Cecil, 28, of Fort Defiance, said the local band “I Dont Konform” will travel to Denmark in March, but why take a Navajo band so far away from the Navajo Nation and their fans? “It’s a proven technique that a lot of people use,” Cecil said. “Jimmy Hendrix used it. He was a guita...
LAWRENCE, KANSAS – The No. 20 nationally ranked Haskell Indian Nations University women’s basketball team (23-6), coming off their first ever Association of Independent Institutions Conference Championship, learned who their opponent will be for the 2016 NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball National Championship that will be held at the Tyson Events Center from March 9 – 15 located in Sioux City, Iowa. The NAIA Division II selection show released the tournament bracket and the Haskell Lady Indians, who were seeded No. 6 in the Liston Bracket...
BELCOURT, N.D.—Eighteen people were arrested Tuesday as part of Operation Northern Lights at the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. Tribal lands "are often viewed as a safe haven by individuals" wanted on federal, state or local warrants because state authorities can only arrest non-enrolled members on a reservation, and not all tribal governments have extradition laws in place. This is the second operation the U.S. Marshals Service's High Plains Fugitive Task Force and the Bureau of Indian Affairs conducted to "(improve) public safety w...
Four people have pleaded not guilty in the case of an alleged love-fueled killing that led to the discovery of a possible human trafficking ring on a Southern California Indian reservation. Christalina Indish, 35, was stabbed to death Friday at a home on the 36300 block of Tusil Road. Her mother sat in court Wednesday to see her daughter’s accused killers. "I forgive them, though," Elizabeth Indish told NBC 7 San Diego. "With my heart, I forgive them for what they did. My daughter was a loving girl, a very loving girl." Read more: h...
Saskatoon, like Winnipeg, has a river running through it. But unlike Winnipeg, Saskatoon doesn’t have groups like the Bear Clan Patrol, people who walk the streets or Drag the Red, people who literally drag the Red River looking for bodies of missing people. One family in Saskatoon wishes there was something like that – right now. Maybe they could help them find Justin Kishayinew, 22, who was last seen leaving his home in the early morning hours Feb. 10. Since then only a handful of people, and mostly close relatives, have been trying to fin...
