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Matthew C Morrison July 17, 1992 ~ December 5, 2023 (age 31) Matthew C. Morrison, age 31, of Ponemah began his journey to the Spirit World on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Matthew is the son of Lyle and Williamette (Hardy) Morrison. Matthew loved basketball, he was a hard worker. He was a contractor and a roofer and he worked at the Border Patrol. He loved to sing and make his own music. He was so good at basketball that the Coaches played against him! He quit school and...
Charles "Punkin" Hanks Jr. February 1, 1940 - December 4, 2023 Charles "Punkin" Hanks Jr., age 83, of White Earth, MN, died on Monday, December 4, 2023, at Moorhead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, Moorhead, MN. Charles Louis Jr. was born February 1, 1940, in White Earth, MN, the son of Charles Louis Sr. and Margaret (Ahbedaush) Hanks. He grew up in the White Earth area where he attended school. Following high school, Punkin entered the workforce and began as a lumberjack in Grand Portage....
William "Billy" Ivan Pierce February 16, 1966 ~ December 3, 2023 (age 57) William "Billy" Ivan Pierce, age 57, of Walker, MN, passed away peacefully surrounded by family at Mayo Clinic Hospital St. Mary's Campus in Rochester, MN, on Sunday, December 3rd, 2023. He was born on February 16, 1966, in Bay St. Louis, MS, the son of Betty Lou (Peters) and William Adrian Pierce. Billy graduated from Laporte High School in 1985. He traveled around some before landing back in the area. Billy loved being...
At least 34 schools and Jewish facilities in Minnesota received fake bombing and shooting threats in what the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Wednesday appears to be coordinated swatting incidents. Local law enforcement responded and found that "none of the threats have turned out to be legitimate," the BCA said in its statement released on X, formerly known as Twitter. The language used in the messages is "almost identical" in each one, the BCA said. Twenty-five public schools and nine Jewish facilities reported receiving messages as of...
The cougar spotted roaming the Lowry Hill neighborhood in Minneapolis this week was struck by a motorist and killed early Wednesday as it crossed a freeway. Nathan Kmetz, 53, was driving west on Interstate 394 near Theodore Wirth Parkway at 2:15 a.m. when the cat appeared out of nowhere. He said he had no chance to stop. "I never saw it," Kmetz said Wednesday in an interview. "There was a thump, my car went into the median. It happened so fast." https://www.startribune.com/co...
ix Twin Cities nonprofits are the latest local organizations to be surprised by unexpected gifts from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. Scott, an author and the ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced Wednesday that she's donating $26.1 million to six metro area organizations - part of some $2.2 billion in grants she has given to 360 organizations nationwide this year. "I about fell out of my chair," said Ann Cazaban, executive director of Southside Community Health Services, of...
The University of Minnesota wants an additional $60 million to $80 million in annual state funding as the first step in a long-term plan to improve and expand academic health training programs, medical research and care provided at hospitals and clinics. While specific priorities for the money would be set in conjunction with lawmakers, the funding might be used to recruit and retain more world-class doctors and researchers, the U says, while also expanding patient services and health professionals' training at the university's primary care...
LAS VEGAS - Three people were shot to death and a fourth critically wounded Wednesday in an attack at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that sent shock waves through a city still scarred by the deaths of 60 people in a 2017 shooting only a few miles away on the famous Strip. The suspected shooter also was found dead. The attack at about 11:45 a.m. sent police swarming onto the campus while students and professors barricaded themselves inside classrooms and dorm rooms. Authorities gave the...
Minnesota won't tax the rebate checks that were sent to households this fall, but the federal government will. The IRS recently determined the checks will be considered federally taxable income, despite a push from state officials to get the rebates treated the same as untaxed pandemic-era relief payments in other states. "Minnesota is being treated unfairly on this. They picked an arbitrary date to end the emergency," said Gov. Tim Walz, who added that he's been pushing the IRS to reverse the...
A former private prisoner transport officer accused by a St. Paul woman of raping her as he drove her from Texas to the Ramsey County jail has admitted to similar attacks involving three other female inmates. Marquet D. Johnson, 44, of West Memphis, Ark., pleaded guilty this week in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, N.M., to the assaults that occurred during long-distance transports over a four-month period in 2019. "Every person has a basic right to dignity and respect," U.S. Attorney Alexander Uballez said in a statement following...
MADISON, Wis. - In a legal settlement Wednesday, the 10 Republicans who signed official-looking paperwork falsely purporting Donald Trump won Wisconsin in 2020 have agreed to withdraw their inaccurate filings, acknowledge Joe Biden won the presidency and not serve as presidential electors in 2024 or in any election where Trump is on the ballot. Wednesday's civil settlement marks the first time pro-Trump electors have agreed to revoke their false filings and not repeat their actions in the next p...
General Mills announced on Wednesday it is shuffling several top leadership positions to better chase the company's fastest-growing markets. The changes also give existing executives experience in other areas of the Golden Valley-based food company and potentially prepare one to someday succeed Jeff Harmening as chair and chief executive of the company. "We are making these strategic changes to best position General Mills for today's dynamic landscape," Harmening said in a statement. "These...
BEMIDJI — Law enforcement has arrested one juvenile male from Bemidji for making credible threats against Bemidji Area Schools and confirmed there is no longer a threat to the district. Superintendent Jeremy Olson said in a release to parents that Bemidji police notified the district at approximately 9:45 p.m. on Tuesday night that an individual had made threats against a school in the district and that the threats were specific and credible. According to a release from Bemidji Police Captain David LaZella, during the evening of Dec. 5, the B...
WASHINGTON — Republican Kevin McCarthy, who won and lost the role of Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a tumultuous nine months this year, said in a Wall Street Journal column on Wednesday that he will leave Congress, bringing an end to his congressional career. "I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways," McCarthy, 58, wrote. The departure of the former party leader and campaign fundraising juggernaut, who helped Republicans take control of the House in 2022, could hamper party h...
BEMIDJI — A Bemidji man has been charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct after allegedly engaging in sexual conduct with a 15-year-old girl he met on a dating app. According to the criminal complaint, in early October the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office received a report from a family member of a 15-year-old girl who reported that the girl's phone contained information that she was "engaged in sexual acts with adult men for money and/or items." Law enforcement met with the girl, who acknowledged having sexual relations with m...
WASHINGTON — In opening remarks at the 2023 White House Tribal Nations Summit today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that the White House Council on Native American Affairs (WHCNAA) is taking critical steps to improve access to capital across Indian Country, including through the launch of an online clearinghouse that will serve as a searchable repository for an up-to-date list of all federal funding opportunities, including grants and loans, available to Tribal Nations and Native businesses. The Biden-Harris administration h...
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery Good afternoon, Chairman Schatz, Vice Chairman Murkowski and Members of the Committee. My name is Vanessa Waldref. I am the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the devasting effects that the nationwide fentanyl crisis continues to have in Indian country across the United States and its impact on public safety. The Department of Justice is committed to working in collaboration with Tribal, federal, state, and local partners across Indian country to respon...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Redby man was sentenced to 144 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a murder that took place in August 2019 on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, on August 12, 2019, Daniel Charles Barrett, 32, together with codefendants Mia Faye Sumner, 22, Alexia Gah Gi Gay Mary Cutbank, 22, and armed with at least one handgun, entered the garage of a residence where Daniel Alan Johnson was known to reside. Once inside,...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2023 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced ways the Biden-Harris Administration is fulfilling long-standing Tribal requests for USDA to support and better partner with Tribal Nations in empowering Tribal food sovereignty and co-stewardship of federal lands and waters. Secretary Vilsack announced the first grant recipients under the Indigenous Animals Harvesting and Meat Processing Grant Program, as well as advances in Forest Service co-stewardship with Tribes, including 120 new a...
ST. PAUL — The Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the man who died Nov. 30 during a standoff with Rochester police. William Lee Carter, 34, of Rochester, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the medical examiner. Carter made several phone calls early in the day Nov. 30 threatening to hurt himself and others, according to the preliminary investigation by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Police located Carter in his vehicle parked out...
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced new steps to strengthen the nation-to-nation relationship with Tribal Nations, including new efforts to increase Tribal co-stewardship of lands and waters, incorporate Indigenous Knowledge into the Department’s work, and preserve and protect sacred sites around the country. “Since time immemorial, the Earth’s lands and waters have been central to the social, cultural, spiritual, mental, and physical wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. It is essential that we do everything we can to ensu...
WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs today announced a final rule to update the federal regulations governing fee-to-trust, or land-into-trust, acquisitions that transfer land title to the United States to be held in trust for the benefit of a Tribe or individual Tribal citizen. Consistent with President Biden’s commitment to make it easier for Tribes to place land into trust, this final rule will make this process simpler, more efficient, and less expensive. “Placing land into tr...
WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today announced a final rule to revise regulations that implement the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). These regulations provide systematic processes for returning Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony to lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian Organizations (NHOs). The revised regulations streamline requirements for museums and federal agencies to inventory and identify Native American human r...
WASHINGTON – Ahead of the 2023 White House Tribal Nations Summit, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland announced that the Department of the Interior is transferring more than $300,000 to the National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education, a federally chartered charitable nonprofit corporation established by Congress to further educational opportunities for American Indian students attending schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Education. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the renewal of the Fund, which...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced that the National Park Service will collaborate with Tribes across the nation on a new theme study that will focus on the Indian Reorganization Period to help broaden the understanding of an important chapter in American history. A theme study provides a national historic context for specific topics in American history or prehistory, as well as evaluation guidance and a list of properties for study as possible future National Historic Landmarks. This theme study builds on the F...
