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ST. PAUL — A Red Lake man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to one count of involuntary manslaughter for striking a pedestrian with his vehicle while intoxicated in August of last year. Gordon Dean Johnson, 46, of Ponemah, admitted in his plea agreement that Kaishauna Thunder died after he struck her with his vehicle in a drunken driving accident, according to a release...

A northern Minnesota man with a history of drinking and driving has admitted to being intoxicated when he ran over and killed a 17-year-old girl on the Red Lake Indian Reservation last summer. Gordon D. Johnson, 46, of Ponemah, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Duluth to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kaishauna Sky Thunder of Redby, Minn., last Aug. 19 along...

The Region 2 Arts Council (R2AC) awarded $4,143 through the Anishinaabe Arts Initiative (AAI) Program. Monies awarded are for arts activities related to its mission of supporting, maintaining, and promoting traditional and contemporary Native American arts in North Central Minnesota. The Anishinaabe Arts Initiative grants program is supported by a grant from the McKnight...

BELTRAMI COUNTY ROAD REPORT April 30 2013 as of 7:30 PM ECKLES TOWNSHIP CAUTION Tranquility Ln NW – Fireside Dr NW plugged culvert/road washing off of Cardinal Rd NW CLOSED Coyote Rd NW between Radar Rd NW and Grange Rd NW CAUTION Nature Rd NW south of Ness Rd TURTLE LAKE TOWNSHIP CAUTION Puposky Rd NW north of Turgi Hill Rd NW CAUTION Puposky Rd NW north of Little Turtle Rd...

WASHINGTON – Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Director Michael Black will deliver the keynote address at the 22st Annual Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Service on Thursday, May 2, 2012. The Office of Justice Services hosts the event at the Bureau of Indian Affairs United States Indian Police Academy in Artesia, N.M. to honor and commemorate tribal, state, local...

Obtaining Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) can be a time-consuming and stressful experience. Two out of every three applicants initially are denied. Parkinson’s disease ended the career of emergency medical technician Bruce Zingler. After taking work that required manual labor, eventually those jobs also became impossible for Mr. Zingler to continue when back and...

WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services (OJS) will hold the second of three training sessions to improve the trial advocacy skills of tribal court judges and prosecutors in dealing with driving-while-intoxicated (DWI) cases. The session, which will provide advanced training in DWI cases, is being held May 1-3 in Flagstaff, Ariz. The training is...

WILLISTON, N.D. — The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday the Williston Basin has between 4.4 billion and 11.4 billion barrels of oil that is recoverable with today’s technology....

BEMIDJI — A Bemidji man was charged Tuesday for assaulting the mother of his child and forcing her into the trunk of his car over the weekend....

BEMIDJI — Emotions were raw in Beltrami District Judge Paul Benshoof’s courtroom as 24-year-old Karl John Sauer was convicted and sentenced Monday for molesting a 6-year-old girl in his care in the summer of 2010....

ST. PAUL – Phil Norgaard uttered words seldom heard in the meeting-filled Minnesota Capitol: “I can’t wait to get to some meetings.” The Fond du Lac American Indian Reservation human services director had just been named on Tuesday to the MNSure board, which will govern a new health insurance marketplace, and he wanted to get to work. Dr. Kathryn Duevel of Willmar also...

BEMIDJI — Monday afternoon’s grass fire in southeast Bemidji made one thing clear to the city’s fire chief Dave Hoefer. “I think that fire…kind of proved how dry things actually are,” Hoefer said. There, a permit-sanctioned wood pile fire ignited the surrounding grass. In the wake of that fire and high winds, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources cut off...