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  • SURVEILLANCE OPERATOR - Seven Clans Casinos –Thief River Falls

    Mar 10, 2014

    **EXTERNAL POSITION OPENING** SURVEILLANCE OPERATOR RATE OF PAY: Depending upon experience LOCATION: Seven Clans Casinos –Thief River Falls, MN OPENS: March 6, 2014 CLOSES: March 20, 2014 POSITION OBJECTIVES: Under the general supervision of the Surveillance Manager, is responsible to oversee assigned shift to protect the security of operations for Seven Clans Casinos. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Operates cameras and taping devices to continuously monitor activities of employees and gue...

  • Government tries to curb waste by eliminating (real) trash cans

    Tom Steward, Watchdog Minnesota Bureau|Mar 10, 2014

    MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - One county government wants to eliminate waste, a noble - and necessary - goal. So, some 3,000 workers returned one morning to find their trash cans replaced with what amounts to glorified Big Gulp cups. The "cans" came with a logo stamped on the side: "This is all the GARBAGE I make!" "They removed the normal waste containers from all the offices and replaced them with these small garbage-can-shaped quart containers with lids," said Danny Nadeau, chief of staff to Hennepin...

  • 'Dang, I'm really going to college!'

    Joe Nathan, Hometown Source Com|Mar 10, 2014

    Taking college-level courses at his high school was “fantastic,” according to Khalique Rogers, a student at Gordon Parks High School in St. Paul. “Our research shows that in just one year, these courses produced more than $13 million in potential savings for students and families,” according to Mary Olson, director of communication and public relations in the Anoka-Hennepin School District. Olson reported that in the 2012-13 school year, approximately 79 percent of the district’s seniors “took at least one potential college credit earning cou...

  • 19th Annual Chippewa Triathlon Now Accepting Registrations Online Event Date: June 14, 2014

    CASS LAKE, MN, MARCH 6, 2014: The 19th Annual Chippewa Triathlon will be held in the beautiful Chippewa National Forest on June 14, with a start time of 7a.m., beginning at the MNDOT Rest Area, located on Highway 2, on the east edge of the city of Cass Lake. Registrations are being taken online at: chippewatriathlon.com Printed registration forms are also being mailed to all past triathlon participants. The fee is $45/per participant for registrations postmarked or completed by April 1st. The event is limited to 300 participants. A rising Fee...

  • Mar 10, 2014

    One of several young people fleeing the bust of a late-night underage drinking party in western Minnesota was found nearby a half-day later and brought to a hospital by ambulance, but the effort was too late to save his life....

  • Mar 10, 2014

    With just a few weeks remaining before the gate closes on Minnesotans’ ability to buy health insurance for 2014, a full-court press is underway to sign people up for coverage....

  • Mar 10, 2014

    The Vikings will re-sign another highly coveted unrestricted free agent before free agency begins on Tuesday. The team has agreed to terms with defensive end Everson Griffen on a five-year deal worth $42.5 million with $20 million guaranteed, according to three NFL sources. Griffen will make $27 million over the first three years of his deal....

  • Mar 10, 2014

    Violent attacks in three Minneapolis neighborhoods, including two fatal shootings, left three men dead over the weekend....

  • Mar 10, 2014

    The 82-year-old woman was walking her dog in the alley behind her Minneapolis home in November 1996 when a stranger raped and beat her. She died 12 years later, her assailant never having been caught....

  • Mar 10, 2014

    MUSKOGEE, OK -- A Pushmataha County man is arraigned on federal bribery charges, accused of misusing Choctaw Nation funds and accepting improper gifts....

  • Mar 10, 2014

    Recently, two seemingly unrelated things happened in the so-called “payday lending” world. First, Senator Elizabeth Warren began trumpeting a plan to offer short-term lending and banking services through the United States Postal Service. Then Native American Tribes sued New York's Superintendent of Financial Services for illegally cutting them off from offering their own online lending services. Since claiming the mantle of Native American, it’s not surprising that Warren hasn’t gone on record supporting Ben Lawsky’s persecution of the tribe...

  • Mar 10, 2014

    NEW TOWN, N.D. — Work and money are pouring into the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation like never before, reducing unemployment to new lows and creating business opportunities for tribal-owned businesses....

  • Mar 10, 2014

    SACATON, ARIZ. The tamarisk tree down the dirt road from Tyler Owens’s house is the one where the teenage girl who lived across the road hanged herself. Don’t climb it, don’t touch it, admonished Owens’s grandmother when Tyler, now 18, was younger....

  • Obama Proposes $33.6M for Indian Country in FY 2015 Budget

    Mar 10, 2014

    On Tuesday Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget request of copy1.9 billion dollars for the Department of the interior. The 2015 budget request represents an increase of 2.4 percent from 2014 or $33.6 million dollars to support Indian country initiatives such as land and water conservation, strengthening tribal nation relations, renewable energy development and expanding employment opportunities for Native youth. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/...

  • Mar 10, 2014

    LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Tribal police officers on the Nez Perce Reservation in northern Idaho starting April 1 will have the ability to ticket anyone violating federal law on the reservation....

  • Mar 10, 2014

    BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Authorities have filed a petition seeking to have a Montana man committed to a government psychiatric hospital after he was found incompetent to stand trial in a triple murder that roiled the Crow Indian Reservation....

  • Mar 10, 2014

    TULSA, Oklahoma - Close to 3,000 descendants of Cherokee Freedmen are counting down to a hearing before a federal judge in April. The group is fighting for the right to become Cherokee Nation citizens....