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  • Lakeisha Beaulieu

    Jun 28, 2023

    Lakeisha Beaulieu May 19, 1989 ~ June 24, 2023 (age 34) Lakeisha Jane Beaulieu, age 34 of Red Lake, Minnesota journeyed on to the spirit world on June 24, 2023 at Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Keisha was born on May 19, 1989 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Maureen Beaulieu and Luis Martinez. Keisha worked as a personal care assistant (PCA), she worked at Anderson Fabrics and most recently worked at the U.S. Bank Stadium. She graduated from Red Lake High School in 2007. She was beauti...

  • Mary Viola Morrison

    Jun 28, 2023

    Mary Viola Morrison October 31, 1944 - June 15, 2023 Mary Viola Morrison, age 78 of Columbia Heights, Minnesota passed away on Thursday, June 15, 2023 at Crest View on 42 in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. She was born on October 31, 1941 the daughter of Alan Morrison Sr. and Sophie Rain. She loved her daughter, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She was a strong, sharing, caring, and loving person. She was proud of her native heritage and had an active, good, strong spirit. She...

  • Arlen James Stately, Jr.

    Jun 28, 2023

    Arlen James Stately, Jr. October 25, 1971 ~ June 23, 2023 (age 51) Arlen James Stately, Jr., "Ozaawaanakwad" meaning "Yellow Cloud" age 51, of the Bear Clan and Red Lake, MN journeyed to the spirit world on Friday, June 23, 2023, from Fargo, ND. He was born October 25, 1971, in Red Lake, MN, the son of Camille (Beaulieu) and Arlen Stately, Sr. Arlen grew up in Red Lake and liked being outdoors. He loved cars, motorcycles, and spending time with his kids. Arlen liked going to the casino, pow...

  • Health experts explain how to keep Minnesota kids safe outside when air quality dips

    Jun 28, 2023

    Hazy, smoke-filled skies prompted yet another red alert for air quality Tuesday, pushing a St. Paul Public Schools' outdoor program indoors, and sparking conversations among officials about canceling a Wednesday morning canoe trip. It's at least the second such programming pivot the school district has taken this summer as the Twin Cities experience a protracted period of poor air quality from Canadian wildfire smoke and ozone pollution. Experts say it's likely to last all summer as thousands...

  • Report raises more questions about Minneapolis Black Expo funds

    Jun 28, 2023

    Minneapolis' first Black Expo was troubled from the start, according to a city-funded report released Tuesday. The event, held earlier this year, had no detailed plan or budget, directed more public money out-of-state than to the local Black community for which it was intended, and contained numerous "contracting anomalies" that have raised the eyebrows of forensic accountants. The report, prepared for the City Auditor's Office by consultant Baker Tilly, marks the first step in a multistage...

  • In an audio recording Donald Trump discusses a 'highly confidential' document with an interviewer

    Jun 28, 2023

    WASHINGTON - An audio recording from a meeting in which former President Donald Trump discusses a ''highly confidential'' document with an interviewer appears to undermine his later claim that he didn't have such documents, only magazine and newspaper clippings. The recording, from a July 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort for people working on the memoir of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith's...

  • Court date postponed for Trump's valet Walt Nauta in the classified documents case

    Jun 28, 2023

    MIAMI - A court appearance was postponed Tuesday for a Donald Trump valet who's charged with helping the former president hide classified documents that the Justice Department wanted back. A lawyer for the valet, Walt Nauta, told a judge that Nauta had been unable to find a Florida-based attorney. He also said that Nauta was stuck in Newark, New Jersey, after his scheduled flight down to Florida for the arraignment sat on the tarmac for hours and then was canceled. The lawyer, Stanley Woodward,...

  • Former Mille Lacs Band police chief convicted of sexually assaulting a child

    Jun 28, 2023

    A former Mille Lacs Band police chief was convicted last week of sexually assaulting a child from about 2009 to 2015 and is accused of abusing a different child in the early 1990s. Russell J. Bankey of Garrison was charged in January 2022 with one felony count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The charges came after a woman told investigators she was sexually assaulted by Bankey, now 75, for a handful of years beginning in 2009 when she was 6 or 7. According to court documents, the woman recorded a phone call with Bankey in August 2021...

  • Mall of America evicts long-running tenant Dairy Queen for unpaid rent

    Jun 28, 2023

    The Dairy Queen at the Mall of America has closed, marking the end of an era for the soft-serve ice cream chain at the mall following a lawsuit about unpaid rent. The Mall of America's website lists the store - located in suite E282 - as temporarily closed. A spokeswoman for the mall confirmed that the store closed June 4. In May, the mall filed a complaint against the mall's Dairy Queen franchisee, Non-Typical Cos., seeking the store's eviction after it failed to pay nearly $75,000 of back...

  • MSP airport worker spent months secretly video recording other employees in bathroom stalls, charges say

    Jun 28, 2023

    A man who worked at the Twin Cities airport surreptitiously video recorded other men more than 140 times in employee-only bathroom stalls, according to charges filed Tuesday. Michael Lamar Maceda-Tapia, 36, was charged in Hennepin County District Court with 11 gross-misdemeanor counts of interference with privacy in connection with the incidents at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport that spanned many months until mid-February. Maceda-Tapia, of St. Paul, was charged by summons and is...

  • Federal jury returns $43M judgment against Precision Lens for illegal kickbacks

    Jun 28, 2023

    A federal jury on Tuesday found a Bloomington-based distributor of lenses used in cataract surgeries and its majority owner liable for tens of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks used to induce surgeons into using its products. After determining that Paul Ehlen and his Cameron-Ehlen Group Inc., which does business as Precision Lens, violated the federal anti-kickback statute and False Claims Act, the jury returned a $43 million judgment against the defendants to cap a six-week trial before U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright in St....

  • UnitedHealth buying home health care provider in $3.3B deal

    Jun 28, 2023

    UnitedHealth Group has struck a deal to acquire home health care provider Amedisys Inc. for $3.3 billion in an all-cash deal. UnitedHealth's Optum unit made the unsolicited bid earlier this month for Amedisys, which at the time had already agreed to a $2.8 billion merger with Illinois-based Option Care Health. A UnitedHealth spokeswoman on Tuesday declined to comment. https://www.startribune.com/unitedhealth-group-optum-3-billion-deal-for-home-health-care-provider-amedisys-lo...

  • Supreme Court makes it more difficult to convict someone of making a threat

    Jun 28, 2023

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to make it more difficult to convict a person of making a violent threat, including against the president or other elected officials. The Biden administration had warned that the internet and social media have expanded the number and kinds of threats in recent years, including online harassment, intimidation and stalking. And they warned the case could affect the ability to prosecute threats against public officials, which have increased in recent years. The high court was ruling in a case that i...

  • Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani interviewed in Jan. 6 investigation, AP source says

    Jun 28, 2023

    WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani, who as a member of Donald Trump's legal team sought to overturn 2020 presidential election results in battleground states, was interviewed recently by investigators with the Justice Department special counsel's office, according to a person familiar with the matter. The interview was conducted voluntarily and was not done before a grand jury, said the person, who insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The person would not say what questions...

  • 3 charged with aiding and abetting after fatal stabbing in Bemidji

    Jun 28, 2023

    BEMIDJI — Three men have been charged with second-degree aiding and abetting following the fatal stabbing of a man on early Saturday morning in Bemidji. According to the criminal complaint, at 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 24, Bemidji police officers responded to a report of a physical altercation between several people at 1804 Minnesota Court NW, near J.W. Smith Elementary. Upon arrival, officers observed a man laying on the ground face up next to a vehicle. The victim, later identified as 18-year-old Andrew Lee Fisher, of Bemidji, was b...

  • Supreme Court rejects bid to give lawmakers unchecked power over elections

    Jun 28, 2023

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to give politicians at the state level more power over federal elections by limiting the ability of state courts to review their actions, handing a defeat to Republican lawmakers in North Carolina. The 6-3 decision, authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld a 2022 ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court against the Republican legislators. In doing so, the high court declined to embrace a once-marginal legal theory now favored by many conservatives that would remove any role of...

  • Adam Thielen returns to Detroit Lakes to hold youth camp

    Jun 28, 2023

    DETROIT LAKES — On a rainy Saturday morning, hordes of kids between first and eighth grade packed Lakeshirts Fieldhouse to participate in the Adam Thielen Youth Camp hosted by the Thielen Foundation. The legendary Laker Adam Thielen welcomed youth for a couple of hours of fun and football for a chance to learn from someone who competes at the highest level. “It always feels good to be back and get back here,” Thielen said. “I always love coming back here and seeing family. Then, heading back to the high school and training here for a couple...

  • ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS ANNOUNCES 9TH ANNUAL REPATRIATION CONFERENCE

    Jun 28, 2023

    Native Country, U.S.A., June 27, 2023 – The Association on American Indian Affairs (the Association) is proud to announce that registration is open for its 9th Annual Repatriation Conference, themed "Building a New Fire." The theme invites participants to come together to build a new fire that will support new laws and regulations as well as more collaborative methods for undertaking the return of Ancestors, their burial belongings, and sensitive cultural heritage. The Association expects 700 a...

  • Court upholds entirety of Attorney General Ellison's lawsuit against Fleet Farm

    Jun 28, 2023

    June 27, 2023 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison hailed the decision issued today by U.S. District Court Judge John R. Tunheim rejecting Fleet Farm’s motion to dismiss the State’s lawsuit against Fleet Farm. Judge Tunheim found that all of the State’s claims were properly pled and were not barred by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (“PLCAA”) — a federal law granting the firearms industry widespread protection from litigation. “The Court’s decision that the State’s lawsuit against Fleet Farm should proceed is a...

  • DNC Statement on Supreme Court's Ruling in Moore v. Harper

    Jun 28, 2023

    DNC Chair Jaime Harrison released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Moore v. Harper: “After ruling against an extreme racial gerrymander in Alabama, the Supreme Court preserved the role of state courts in our democracy and rejected the radical independent state legislature theory, which could have upended our elections by giving partisan state lawmakers a free pass to create unfair electoral maps and appoint presidential electors. “A central tenet of our democracy is that voters pick their elected repre...

  • FEMA Launches First Virtual Internship Program

    Jun 28, 2023

    CHICAGO – The application period is now open for the FEMA Region 5 Virtual Internship Program, an opportunity for students living in or attending colleges or universities in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin to get hands-on training in the growing field of emergency management. These unpaid positions will offer students the chance to learn about FEMA programs and services and gain real-world experience with the potential for future full-time employment at FEMA or another federal agency. “FEMA is best positioned to hel...

  • Maine House, Senate Pass Landmark Legislation to Include Wabanaki in Federal Indian Laws

    Jun 28, 2023

    The Maine House and Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday evening to pass legislation to allow the Wabanaki to access past and future federal laws meant to benefit Indigenous nations, a monumental step forward for a campaign to reinforce tribal sovereignty that came despite staunch opposition from Gov. Janet Mills. This article was originally published in the Maine Beacon. The House passed LD 2004, sponsored by House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland), by a 100-47 vote that featured a...

  • Osage Nation Holds Narcan Drive on June 30 Ahead of 'High Risk' 4th of July Weekend

    Jun 28, 2023

    The Osage Nation is hosting a free harm reduction event on Friday, June 30, in Hominy, Okla., to distribute the life-saving overdose reversal drug Naloxone into the community. At the event, held by the Osage Nation Counseling Center (ONCC) and funded by a grant from the Indian Health Service (IHS) Community Opioid Intervention pilot project, attendees will receive free doses of Naloxone - more commonly known by the brand name Narcan - and training on how to use it. It's the second such event...

  • Red Lake Warriors Football Program participating in Adam Thielen Football Camp in Detroit Lakes - P3

    Chris Jourdain|Jun 28, 2023

    Red Lake Warriors Football Program participating in Adam Thielen Football Camp in Detroit Lakes on Saturday, June 24, 2023. Thielen Foundation: https://www.thielenfoundation.org/programs/football-camps/...

  • 2023 Annual Spring Fling held in Redby on Saturday - P23

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Jun 28, 2023

    The 2023 Annual Spring Fling held in Redby on Saturday, June 10, 2023....

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