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BENSON.Minn. -- A Benson English teacher accused of pocketing nearly $800 from the school's 2014 and 2015 yearbook funds pleaded guilty Monday in Swift County District Court to a gross misdemeanor theft charge. Mary Alice Hoffman, 53, had originally been charged in January with felony embezzlement of public funds. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/4029534-benson-teacher-pleads-guilty-theft-yearbook-funds...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday — a victory that will do little to slow the former secretary of state's steady march toward the Democratic presidential nomination. Meanwhile, Republican Donald Trump also won there and in Nebraska, a week after he cleared the field of his remaining rivals. They were not victories likely to heal the party's wounds, as some GOP leaders continue to hold off offering their endorsement of the...
At Cub’s newly opened store in Oakdale, directly across the street from Hy-Vee, shoppers found both the good and the ready: a larger produce selection that includes more organics and an expanded section of grab-and-go foods. In what is now the largest of its 69 stores in the Twin Cities, the newest Cub also has a sushi bar, indoor-outdoor patio seating, a drive-up pharmacy and beefed-up selections of pet foods, flowers and baby products. http://www.startribune.com/cub-foods-fires-back-at-hy-vee-with-bigger-better-store/37864...
Governments often take on the job of killing problem wolves that attack livestock in order to increase public tolerance for the predators and, in theory, to reduce poaching by frustrated citizens. Turns out, it could be having the opposite effect. In what is likely to be a controversial finding, researchers from Wisconsin and Sweden have found that poaching appears to increase when governments are allowed to kill wolves. http://www.startribune.com/government-culling-of-minnesota-s-wolves-could-place-them-in-greater-danger/37...
WASHINGTON — After two years of improvement, America's honeybees had another tough and deadly winter, probably because of mites, according to a new federal survey released Tuesday. The annual survey of beekeepers showed the winter colony loss rate was 28 percent, up from 22 percent. That's about average over the past decade but higher than the 17 percent that beekeepers call acceptable. http://www.startribune.com/this-stings-winter-death-rate-for-america-s-honeybees-jumps/378819141/...
HONG KONG – A U.S. warship sailed on Tuesday within 12 miles of an artificial island built by China in the South China Sea, an operation intended to show that the United States opposes China’s efforts to restrict navigation in the strategic waterway, the Pentagon said. The warship, the William P. Lawrence, a guided missile destroyer, ventured into the vicinity of Fiery Cross Reef, a 700-acre artificial island China constructed in the past 18 months on top of two small rocks. The operation Tuesday, known as a freedom-of-navigation patrol, cam...
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation’s president has reacted to concerns raised by the abduction and death of an 11-year-old girl by setting a 60-day goal for establishing a new tribal alert system to provide notifications of abductions and other emergencies. Tribal President Russell Begaye announced Monday he has created a task force headed by the tribe’s telecommunication director and the director of the Department of Public Safety. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/navajo-nation-create-new-tribal-alert-...
Easter Sunday, 2016 should forever resonate as a day of infamy in Winslow, Arizona. On that date a young Navajo mother, 27 year old Loreal Tsingine, was mercilessly and brutally gunned down by Winslow Police Officer Austin Shipley. The young woman was shot five times by the officer, allegedly for resisting arrest by brandishing a pair of scissors. Loreal was petite- five feet tall and weighing less than 100 pounds- and Officer Shipley is six feet tall, a white male and weighs over 200 pounds. One eyewitness, who arrived at the grisly scene...
On April 12, Bloomberg published a report that described how Philadelphia payday-lending pioneer Charles Hallinan had become an investor in financial-technology companies. The report surfaced weeks after Hallinan was brought up on federal racketeering charges in connection to his predatory-lending empire. Hallinan, Bloomberg reported, was an investor in Everest Business Funding, a new generation of lender that extends credit to consumers who can’t get loans from banks. http://www.pitch.com/news/article/20631130/as-paydaylend...
PINE RIDGE – “We have a great opportunity here," said Paul Iron Cloud, executive director of Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing. "Last year in 2015, Congress authorized a pilot project for Veterans Affairs Support Housing (VASH) in Indian Country,” said Iron Cloud. “We designated five of our Title VI houses to be the first five VASH houses, located at Fraggle Rock in south Pine Ridge. We’re having a grand opening on Friday, May 13 at 11:30am.” Veterans Affairs has committed 20 vouchers to Pine Ridge -- the first five will pay the rent on the five Ti...
A $50-million settlement has been reached for hundreds of residential school survivors in Newfoundland and Labrador who have been involved in a lengthy class action with the federal government. Former students also will receive an undetermined amount of money for reconciliation and healing. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/residential-school-case-update-1.3574080...
A member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation has a date in Southampton Village Justice Court next week, where she will fight for rights she believes have been in place since before European settlers arrived in the 1600s. On Tuesday, May 17, Dyani Brown will appear in court to dispute a parking ticket she received at Coopers Beach in the village on August 9, 2014. She argues that, as a member of the Nation who lives on the reservation just outside the village boundaries, she should be allowed to park at village beaches for free, as village...
The spirit of community and sharing was on full display at the Shinnecock Reservation on Saturday afternoon. For the first time in Southampton school history, a Mariners varsity team played a home game on the reservation, with the boys lacrosse team hosting Mercy. The event was a collaboration between lacrosse coaches Matt Babb and Brian Tenety and Shinnecock Tribal Councilman Charlie Smith as part of an effort to bring the reservation and the larger Southampton community closer together through a sport with deep ties to the Native American...
There is an expanding appetite for commercial lending on tribal trust lands, though potent barriers remain, according to the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. OCC, in its February 2016 Community Development Insights newsletter, said Indian country has been experiencing higher economic growth since the 1970s, with gains (while varying from region to region) in real per capita income, median household income, employment, infrastructure, and education. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016...
The case of Samantha Niemann vs. the Getty Foundation has generated all manner of headlines and Internet jabs after the white university student claimed she had been deterred from applying for an internship program geared toward underrepresented minorities. Boing Boing responded with a tearful emoji under the headline "White woman wants minority internship, sues Getty Foundation." The arts website Hyperallergic illustrated its piece with an image of a crying figure taken from a 15th century painting by the Flemish master Rogier van der Weyden....
My father raised me off the rez in my mother’s white, European immigrant America. He didn’t want me trapped (mentally or physically) in a place that the country had abandoned. He wanted to be one of those dudes who watches NFL and Clint Eastwood westerns, buys Ford pick ups, and chases their dreams. He wanted his boy to be an American. When I was small, my father and his brother would take me and my cousins into the Olympic mountains to hunt deer and elk. I can still taste the morning mist on my tongue. If I close my eyes, I can still sme...
The father of Azraya Kokopenace wants an inquest into her death, saying there are too many unanswered questions about why his daughter, with a history of suicidal behaviour, was left alone in Kenora, Ont. The 14-year-old from Grassy Narrows First Nation disappeared on April 15 after provincial police dropped her off at the hospital in Kenora, Ont. Police will not say why they picked her up. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/azraya-kokopenace-father-inquest-1.3573740...
Scientists have been warning for decades that climate change is a threat to the immense tracts of forest that ring the Northern Hemisphere, with rising temperatures, drying trees and earlier melting of snow contributing to a growing number of wildfires. The near-destruction of a Canadian city last week by a fire that sent almost 90,000 people fleeing for their lives is grim proof that the threat to these vast stands of spruce and other resinous trees, collectively known as the boreal forest, is real. And scientists say a large-scale loss of...
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - A man accused of killing one man and critically injuring another on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation has pleaded not guilty in federal court to murder and assault charges. Dallas Thundershield entered his pleas Monday and was scheduled for a two-week trial beginning July 5, though court documents indicate his attorney will ask for a delay due to a scheduling conflict. http://kfgo.com/news/articles/2016/may/11/spirit-lake-reservation-slaying-suspect-pleads-not-guilty/...
A Winnipeg mother of three wants to know how her husband died after being in custody at the Winnipeg Remand Centre. On May 1, Rochelle Pranteau was speaking over the phone with her 26-year-old husband, Bradley Errol Green, when he went into an epileptic seizure and later died. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-remand-centre-death-bradley-errol-green-1.3574434...
Law enforcement officers from throughout Southeast Idaho are conducting an intense manhunt for a suspect accused of fatally shooting an individual Monday evening on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. The Bannock County Sheriff's Office reported at 8:30 p.m. Monday that the suspect in the killing is Demitrius Gomez, 29, of Fort Hall. http://idahostatejournal.com/news/local/homicide-southeast-idaho-law-enforcement-conducting-manhunt-for-suspect-accused/article_0dd11823-9608-5233-a4a0-10543a8f40a1.html...