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RED LAKE - The #1 seeded Red Lake Lady Warriors hosted their first ever Section 8A East opening round against the #8 seeded Blackduck Draves on Thursday, March 1, 2018, coming out strong and pressing and taking a 49-18 half-time lead to their 82-43 victory. The Lady Warriors were also playing without their too scorer, star Alexis Desjarlait, who was suspended for one game because of a controversial technical foul called on her last Saturday in the Northwoods Championship game at Clearbrook High...
From KKCQ Sports Northwoods Conference Championship Game – Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 64 vs. Red Lake 70 The Red Lake Warriors won the first ever Northwoods Conference championship game over Walker-Hackensack-Akeley at Clearbrook-Gonvick High School on Saturday afternoon. The two teams met once during the regular season with Red Lake winning at home on December 7th 67-40. The game on Saturday was much closer with Walker-Hackensack-Akeley leading at halftime 32-30. The Warriors started the s...
WASHINGTON — An operative for a political committee that supports Democrats has been charged with assault following a confrontation with a staffer for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke outside a congressional hearing. Capitol Police charged Wilfred M. Stark, 49, of Falls Church, Virginia, with simple assault following a confrontation with Heather Swift, a spokeswoman for Zinke. Stark works for American Bridge 21st Century, a group that supports Democratic candidates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/democratic-...
On Monday morning, when Humboldt County Planning and Building Director John Ford presented the Board of Supervisors with a comprehensive new set of proposed weed regulations, he called it “literally a gift,” one that came “with a bow wrapped around it.” It almost sounded like he was telling the board they didn’t need to do anything but vote up or down on the policy measures that had already been developed by the Humboldt County Planning Commission. He told the board that the commission had done “some very heavy lifting” over the course of 13...
United States Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke addresses the opioid crisis with members of Phoenix-area tribal community. At an afternoon press conference Monday at the Salt River Indian Community, the secretary reiterated President Donald Trump’s plan to go after those individuals responsible for supplying illegal opioids. http://www.12news.com/article/news/politics/interior-secretary-zinke-tribes-will-define-own-opioid-case-sentencings/75-529965358...
President Trump’s call for the death penalty for drug dealers could extend to tribal communities, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said during an Arizona visit on Monday. In a press conference at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Zinke described how the Trump administration’s plan to crack down on drug traffickers could be carried out with federal law enforcement along with Native American tribal authorities. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/ryan-zinke-meets-arizona-tribal-leaders-talks-opioids-10248570...
Native Americans and Alaska Natives saw a fivefold increase in overdose deaths between 1999 and 2015, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The increase in that period was higher for Native Americans than any other group, jumping to roughly 22 deaths for every 100,000 people in metropolitan areas and nearly 20 for every 100,000 people in rural areas. http://kjzz.org/content/623431/overdose-deaths-native-american-communities-skyrocket...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is rejecting a challenge to Arizona's death penalty law. The justices on Monday let stand the convictions and death sentences of Abel Daniel Hidalgo. He's in a federal prison in Arizona serving life sentences for two other killings committed on an Indian reservation in Idaho. http://azdailysun.com/news/local/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-arizona-death-penalty-law/article_a10f6ba9-7181-560d-b628-84894b891e9b.html...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- More Native American women are becoming victims of sex trafficking, according to tribal officials. They say the problem looks different in Native communities than in non-Native areas. A summit in Albuquerque hopes to find ways to solve this problem. http://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/tribal-leaders-end-sex-trafficking-native-american-summit/4833174/...
Police have released pictures of a GMC pick-up truck suspected to have been involved in a hit-and-run death that has left a New Brunswick First Nation grieving and seeking justice. RCMP Cpl. Jullie Rogers-Marsh says the investigation continues into a hit-and-run in Saint-Charles that took the life of 22-year-old Brady Francis of the Elsipogtog reserve. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-police-release-photos-of-suspected-truck-in-hit-and-run-death-of/...
Another installment in “why tournament time is the best time”: At the South Dakota Boys Class A Basketball Tournament in Rapid City, S.D., on Friday night, Steven Wilson had the honor of singing the National Anthem. And those in attendance had the honor of hearing it. https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2018/03/at-basketball-tournament-the-national-anthem-means-more-in-lakota/...
March 20 is National Native HIV & AIDS Awareness Day, when we recognize the impact that the HIV and AIDS epidemic has had on Indigenous communities throughout our country. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Native community had the fifth highest rate of HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2015 -- higher than both Asian and white communities. Furthermore, gay and bisexual men accounted for 79 percent of HIV diagnoses among Native individuals. As with most communities affected by HIV, stigma, substance abuse and limited...
