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Recent events have produced sharp contrasts in how school resource officers — cops in the schools — are viewed locally, and their use in St. Paul and Minneapolis is now up for debate. In May, St. Paul School District leaders honored Vernon Simmons, a longtime school resource officer, or SRO, known for his calming presence at Johnson High, then saw Central High students protest a white officer’s forceful arrest of a black teen for trespassing a week later. http://www.startribune.com/use-of-cops-in-schools-under-scrutiny-in-st...
The cases were different, but the medium was the same. In one, the man's harassing messages poured in — even after his ex-girlfriend fled Texas for the Twin Cities. In another, a woman messaged the father of her children moments after she violently attacked him in the apartment they shared, swearing that she would kill him soon. http://www.startribune.com/in-electronic-era-stalkers-abusers-can-be-hard-to-track/382278371/...
Minnesota will have the nation’s best-funded tractor safety plan now that Gov. Mark Dayton has signed off on legislation that creates the state’s first program to help farmers add rollover protection to aging machines. But that is just a first step toward reducing farm accidents in Minnesota. In response to a Star Tribune series on farm safety, state lawmakers also approved legislation that requires the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to study farm safety programs in other states and report back by Feb. 1, 2017 on ideas that could be imp...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Until recently, Julio Noguera worked at a bakery. Now he spends his evenings searching through the garbage for food. "I come here looking for food because if I didn't, I'd starve to death," Noguera said as he sorted through a pile of moldy potatoes. "With things like they are, no one helps anyone and no one gives away meals." http://www.startribune.com/venezuelans-pick-through-trash-for-food-to-eat-or-sell/382186511/...
NEW YORK — For two weeks in February, Hillary Clinton's campaign appeared on the brink of falling into an all-too-familiar pattern. Her razor-thin win in Iowa and crushing defeat in New Hampshire to Bernie Sanders sparked questions about her weaknesses as a candidate and second-guessing about her operation. A flood of "helpers" — the derisive term some aides use to describe the legion of Clinton friends and allies outside the campaign— wanted to offer advice. Press reports began popping up about an internal shakeup. http://w...
With Gov. Mark Dayton and GOP leaders at the Capitol deadlocked over prospects for a special legislative session, the DFL governor is traveling the state touting unfinished projects likely to receive state funding if he and lawmakers can agree how to finish the job. Dayton on Wednesday spoke at Rochester Community and Technical College and South Central College in North Mankato. Dayton is scheduled to visit Moorhead and Worthington on Thursday. http://www.startribune.com/dayton-pitches-special-session-priorities-in-rochester...
Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) could lose his Senate seat over his ties to fellow Republican Donald Trump for president. Last July, McCain was on the losing end of one of Trump's bitter insults. "I like people who weren’t captured," the real estate mogul said of the decorated military veteran who was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/06/07/sen-mccain-in-tough-reelection-fight-ove.asp...
The widow of a former Vice Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians may be out of a home if Tribal Council decides to slash the portion of a will that left her the house. “I was raised on that home place, no one else was,” Katina Price, whose father Bill Ledford wrote the will in question, told Tribal Council last month. “That was supposed to be mine. It was originally in the paperwork that I have.” http://www.smokymountainnews.com/news/item/17796-cherokee-council-considers-revoking-part-of-former-vice-chief-s-will...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A new federal rule will require judges in every state to ask whether a child is a Native American during foster-care and adoption proceedings. Under the rule announced Wednesday by the Interior Department, judges also must ask about a child's status as a tribal member during hearings to determine whether or not a mother or father's parental rights will be terminated. http://www.blackhillsfox.com/content/news/Judges-must-ask-382304261.html...
The Prairie Island Indian Community, one of Minnesota's federally recognized Native American tribes, has bought a big parcel of land in the East Metro. Now the tribe has applied to put that land, 112 acres in Washington County, into federal trust. A Minnesota law that allowed increased storage of nuclear waste at the Prairie Island nuclear power plant also allows the Prairie Island Indian Community to purchase up to 1,500 acres of land within a 50-mile radius of the reservation. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/06/08/prairi...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)– Four time PGA Tour winner and golf analyst Notah Begay III continues to assist in the fight against Native American childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes through his NB3 Foundation. He is hoping to raise more funds to help with that fight in the Inagural New Mexico Grande Slam Charity Golf Tournament. “Three years ago we haven’t made much investment in this health issue,” said Begay III. “Right now we’ve made over 2.3 million dollars of investment in over 50 communities across the country, a lot of that here in New...
A new national survey found 48 per cent of non-Aboriginal Canadians see the residential school system as at least partly responsible for the current challenges Aboriginal people face. That's up from 31 per cent in 2008. The Environics Institute survey found that two-thirds of non-Aboriginal Canadians had heard or read about the residential school system, compared to 51 per cent eight years ago. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/national-survey-indigenous-attitudes-1.3620705...
Ten people live in Whiteclay, but nearly 10 percent of calls to the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office during the month of April came from the tiny village that is home to four beer stores. Activists fighting for change there showed the sheriff’s log to members of the state Liquor Control Commission in Lincoln Tuesday. They say the state has failed to enforce liquor laws, and they want the stores closed. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/communities/chadron/activists-decry-crime-calls-to-whiteclay-demand-beer-stores-be/ar...
Pascua Yaqui Tribal Council chairman Peter Yucupicio and six other incumbents won re-election in this week's council election, tribal officials annlounced Tuesday. Four incumbents lost their seats to challengers among the 50 total candidates listed on the ballot fdor 11 council seats. Voters could choose 11 candidates on the ballot, and that spread voting thin among the candidates. Yucupicio was the highest vote getter with 4.5 percent of the votes. https://news.azpm.org/p/arizona-news/2016/6/8/89555-pascua-yaquis-re-elect-7...
All of a sudden, Brock Turner is the most famous rapist in America. The 20-year-old former Stanford swimmer was sentenced last week to just six months in jail for sexually assaulting a passed-out woman behind a dumpster; the light punishment drew outrage, as did a letter from Turner's father saying that his son's life had still been ruined more than "20 minutes worth of action" and a letter from a childhood friend of Turner's blaming the whole thing on political correctness. Nearly a week after the sentencing, the media and public is still...
If you were plucked out of society right now, what would be there when you come back? This was just one of the questions posed at a meeting hosted by the U.S. Department of Justice on the Flathead Reservation on Tuesday. Federal attorneys met with tribal public defenders and officials from the state prison system to talk about re-entry: helping former inmates successfully reintegrate into their communities when they get out of jail or prison. http://mtpr.org/post/flathead-tribal-program-stands-out-keeping-inmates-out-prison#...
Leah Yellowbird wants you to touch her paintings. In fact, she isn’t sure how you could look at them and not. “I want you to touch the squirrel,” she said during a recent visit to American Indian Community Housing, where much of her work hangs, dangles, pokes and, oddly enough, stands humanlike. The squirrel was made from a series of brush-point dots. Its eyeballs are layers upon layers of acrylic paint, three-dimensional, like glassy beads. It took Yellowbird four or five days to create the aesthetic, she said, just a small part of a paint...
Emerald Downs and the Muckleshoot Tribe host many of the best Indian Relay teams in the country on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Muckleshoot Gold Cup. Tribes from Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington will be represented in the three-day event which, including travel allowances and other team benefits, features a total cash payout of more than $70,000. The championship team will receive belt buckles, jackets, the Muckleshoot Gold Cup and $10,000 cash. http://www.auburn-reporter.com/sports/381998011.html...
