Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

Articles from the December 21, 2023 edition


Sorted by date  Results 1 - 25 of 35

  • Amber Marlene Barrett

    Dec 21, 2023

    Amber Marlene Barrett March 28, 1987 ~ December 13, 2023 (age 36) Amber Marlene Barrett, age 36, of Moorhead, Minnesota, began his journey to the Spirit World on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at her residence. Amber was born on March 28, 1987 to Julian Benais and Darlene Barrett. Amber is survived by her son Jeremiah Barrett; daughters Melissa Barrett, Jessica Barrett and Angel Barrett; brothers Tyrone Barrett and Robert Barrett; sisters Kita Marie Barrett and Trisha Barrett. She was preceded in...

  • Minneapolis in midst of surge in late-year homicides; 5 in recent dayslong span

    Dec 21, 2023

    Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara is lamenting what he's calling a troubling past few months of gun violence that has contributed to a surge in homicides since November unlike anything seen in the first nine months of the year. There have been 21 homicides - 10 in November and 11 so far in December - in the city since Nov. 6, with five of the killings coming in a four-day span from Saturday to Tuesday, according to a Star Tribune database. The closest any one month came to cracking double...

  • Consumers punishing General Mills for high prices after pandemic-era boost in sales

    Dec 21, 2023

    Distress signals went up in Golden Valley on Wednesday morning: People are buying fewer General Mills products. People may continue to buy fewer General Mills products. CEO Jeff Harmening chalked up the setback to "stronger-than-anticipated value-seeking behaviors" and "a return toward historical price elasticities." In other words, consumers are punishing the maker of Chex Mix and Old El Paso for high prices. https://www.startribune.com/general-mills-price-hikes-backfire-con...

  • Minnesota program to provide free school meals for all kids is costing the state more than expected

    Dec 21, 2023

    Minnesota's program to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to all students regardless of income is costing the state more than expected because of a jump in demand. When Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed the legislation last spring, advocates said the free meals would ease stresses on parents and help reduce childhood poverty while lifting the stigma on kids who rely on them. Thousands of schoolchildren who didn't previously qualify have been getting the free meals since Minnesota this...

  • Trump's lawyers tell Supreme Court to stay out of immunity dispute in 2020 election case for now

    Dec 21, 2023

    WASHINGTON — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to stand down from a dispute over whether he can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results. Special counsel Jack Smith's team last week urged the nation's high court to take up and quickly consider Trump's claims that he enjoys immunity from prosecution as a former president. The unusual request for a speedy ruling seemed designed to prevent any delays that could postpone the trial of the 2024 Republican p...

  • Man charged in killing of estranged girlfriend at Linden Hills apartment

    Dec 21, 2023

    Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with murder in the fatal shooting of a 43-year-old mother and small business owner at a Linden Hills apartment Sunday night. Johnny Leroy Brown, 50, is accused of killing Kesha Latrice Moore, resident of the Cove at Linden Hills apartments in the 4200 block of Sheridan Avenue S. She had asked Brown to move out of her place after several months of living together, according to a search warrant. Moore lived there for a year, and the warrant said their...

  • Bloomington police looking for driver who caused collision, leaving Uber passenger gravely injured

    Dec 21, 2023

    Police are looking for the car and the driver who caused a high-speed hit-and-run crash in Bloomington that left an Uber passenger in the other vehicle with little chance of surviving his injuries. The collision occurred about 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 13 at the intersection of E. 94th Street and S. 12th Avenue, according to police. Based on vehicle parts left behind at the crash scene, police in a filing Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court described the vehicle they are trying to find as a dark...

  • Minneapolis schools bet millions on career education. Now they need students.

    Dec 21, 2023

    Snapping a portrait of classmates in a sprawling photography studio. Designing a three-bedroom home from a classroom computer. Taking a patient's vitals in a replica ambulance parked at the end of a hall. Those are a few assignments that Minneapolis students have embraced at the new Career and Technical Education Center at North High School, which opened this fall as a hub for engineering, media arts, computer science and emergency medicine programming. Similar centers are planned for Edison and Roosevelt high schools to centralize programming...

  • Rochester charter schools serving Somali children declare bankruptcy, leaving future in doubt

    Dec 21, 2023

    A Rochester charter school organization filed for bankruptcy earlier this month after years of legal tussles over its debt, prompting concerns for its future. The Rochester STEM Academy and Rochester Math and Science Academy, which serve kindergarten through 12th grades in one building, filed for Chapter 11 reorganization on Dec. 6. The move was in response to pressure from Kansas City-based UMB Bank, which holds more than $15 million in debt the school borrowed in 2018. The southwest Rochester...

  • US, Venezuela swap prisoners: Maduro ally for 10 Americans, plus fugitive contractor 'Fat Leonard'

    Dec 21, 2023

    MIAMI - The United States freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the return of a fugitive defense contractor known as ''Fat Leonard'' who is at the center of a massive Pentagon bribery scandal, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. The American detainees were back on U.S. soil late Wednesday, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. Six of them arrived at Kelly...

  • New York sues SiriusXM, accusing company of making it deliberately hard to cancel subscriptions

    Dec 21, 2023

    NEW YORK - New York's attorney general filed suit Wednesday against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio and streaming service of making it intentionally difficult for its customers to cancel their subscriptions. Attorney General Letitia James' office said an investigation into complaints from customers found that SiriusXM forced subscribers to wait in an automated system before often lengthy interactions with agents who were trained in ways to avoid accepting a request to cancel service....

  • Native American translations are being added to more US road signs to promote language and awareness

    Dec 21, 2023

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language. Carbone, a citizen of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island, thought back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has lived for much of her life. She never saw any street signs honoring Native Americans, nor any featuring Indigenous languages. She submitted to city officials the idea of adding Native American translations to city street s...

  • Verizon delivers expanded wireless service to Minnesota

    Dec 21, 2023

    CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA - Residents in Chanhassen, Esko, Red Wing and Silver Corners just got a big boost to their mobile service as Verizon has turned on new cell sites to offer expanded 4G and 5G coverage in these communities, offering “more bars” along with faster speeds and better network performance. That means they can connect with friends and family while on the move, connect their smart homes through Verizon Home Internet, or use Verizon service for small business or enterprise applications. In the Minneapolis suburb Chanhassen, the new s...

  • State's 2022 fatal work-injuries similar to 2021

    Dec 21, 2023

    A total of 81 fatal work-injuries were recorded in Minnesota in 2022 during the annual Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), up one from the 80 fatal work-injuries in 2021. Minnesota's 2022 fatal-injury rate is 2.8 fatalities per 100,000 full-time-equivalent workers, which remained unchanged from the 2021 rate. These and other workplace fatality statistics come from the CFOI, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), U.S. Department of Labor. Nationally, there were 5,486 fatally injured workers in 2022, up 5.7% from the 2021 co...

  • Dispose of Holiday Greens and Christmas Trees Correctly to Protect Minnesota's Trees and Forests

    Dec 21, 2023

    St. Paul, MN: Holiday greenery and Christmas trees bring joy throughout the season, but they can also hide dangerous pests. Diseases and invasive species can make their way into our landscapes on trees and boughs brought into Minnesota from other states. To protect our environment, the State of Minnesota is asking residents to take these steps to properly dispose of greenery and trees after the holiday season: • The best option is to use a curbside tree collection or bring trees to a designated drop-off site. Check with your waste hauler, c...

  • BCA identifies people involved in Marshall incident

    Dec 21, 2023

    ST. PAUL — The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the man and woman who died Sunday as the result of a domestic violence and officer use-of-force incident in Marshall. According to the medical examiner, Jamel C. Hill Moore, 41, of Marshall died from gunshot wounds. The medical examiner also determined that Meredith Martell, 35, of Marshall died from multiple sharp-force injuries. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) has identified the Marshall police officer who shot Moore dur...

  • Attorney General Ellison bans Florida-based charity Kids Wish Network, Inc. from soliciting donations from Minnesotans for five years

    Dec 21, 2023

    December 20, 2023 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison today announced that he has filed an Assurance of Discontinuance that bans the Florida-based charity Kids Wish Network, Inc. (“Kids Wish”), from soliciting contributions in Minnesota for 5 years. Kids Wish advertises itself as a charity that grants wishes for seriously ill children, but Kids Wish is regularly identified as one of the worst charities in America because the vast majority of the funds it raises go to its fundraising efforts rather than to charitable progr...

  • NAMES RELEASED IN PLANE INCIDENT

    Dec 21, 2023

    Upper Red Lake, Beltrami County, MN – A Cessna 172 Sky Hawk landed on Upper Red Lake and broke through the ice. All occupants were able to self-evacuate from the airplane and were assisted by other anglers on the ice. At approximately 9:20AM on December 19, 2023 the Beltrami County Emergency Communications Center received the report and a Beltrami County Boat and Water Deputy was near the scene. The deputy was able to use binoculars from shore to confirm the two occupants had made it out of the plane and were being assisted to shore. On D...

  • North Dakota Defends DAPL, Standing Rock Fears For Its Water

    Dec 21, 2023

    North Dakota officials filed more than 200 pages arguing to keep the Dakota Access Pipeline operating just as a public comment period for the controversial project closed Wednesday. This article was originally published in South Dakota Searchlight. The state argues in comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that shutting down the pipeline would cause "irreparable harm" to North Dakota, including a loss of oil revenue and a shift of oil transportation to rail. "These submitted comments...

  • Trial set for North Dakota's pursuit of pipeline policing costs

    Dec 21, 2023

    BISMARCK, N.D. — A court fight over whether the federal government should cover North Dakota’s $38 million in costs of responding to the lengthy protests of the Dakota Access oil pipeline years ago near its controversial river crossing will continue as a judge said the case is “ripe and ready for trial.” The state filed the lawsuit in 2019, seeking $38 million. The lawsuit’s bench trial was scheduled earlier this month to begin Feb. 15, 2024, in Bismarck before U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor, estimated to last 12-13 days. Traynor o...

  • Nevis' Offense and Defense too much for Lady Warriors in 72-20 loss at home - P2

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Dec 21, 2023

    Nevis' Offense and Defense too much for Lady Warriors in 72-20 loss at home on Tuesday, December 19, 2023. Red Lake's Junior Varsity also take a loss 39-13 in the early game. The Lady Warriors won't see action again until January 11, 2024 when they host Pine River, travel to FDL on January 13th and travel to Mahnomen on January 15th. Red Lake Lady Warriors Basketball 2023-2024 Schedule: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2023/12/11/sports/red-lake-lady-warriors-basketbal...

  • Red Lake Holiday Celebration held on Saturday, December 16, 2023 - P4

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Dec 21, 2023

    Red Lake Holiday Celebration held on Saturday, December 16, 2023...

  • Warriors back on track with win over FDL on Saturday 93-48 - P4

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Dec 21, 2023

    After losing their first game of the season in Cass Lake on Friday night, the Red Lake Warriors came on strong on Saturday, December 16th to get back on track with their 93-48 win over Fond du Lac. The Warriors led 51-27 at the half. Gerald Kingbird Jr. had 25 of his 38 total points in the first half. Kingbird led all scorers with 38 points, Tyrone Beaulieu had 18 and Jack Brown added 9 points. Jordell Brown netted 12 for FDL and Richard Hearle had 11 points. Red Lake travels to Nevis on...

  • Lady Warriors win over FDL on Saturday, December 16th 75-35 - P4

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Dec 21, 2023

    Lady Warriors win over FDL on Saturday, December 16th 75-35 Red Lake travels to BGMR on December 18th, hosts Nevis on December 19th and travels to Pine River on January 11, 2024. Red Lake Lady Warriors Basketball 2023-2024 Schedule: https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2023/12/11/sports/red-lake-lady-warriors-basketball-2023-2024-schedule/117594.html...

  • U. S. Attorney's Office delivers gifts to St. Mary's Mission School Students - P4

    SMMS|Dec 21, 2023

    The U. S. Attorney's Office delivered gifts to St. Mary's Mission School Students on Friday, December 15, 2023....

Page Down

Rendered 04/24/2024 15:11