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Tereasa Lyn Maxwell May 14, 1987 - April 8, 2024 Tereasa Lyn Maxwell, age 36 of Minneapolis, Minnesota passed away at her home on Monday, April 8th, 2024. Tereasa was born in Bemidji, Minnesota on May 14, 1987 the daughter of Greg and Gloria Maxwel On April 8, 2024 Tereasa passed away unexpectedly in North Minneapolis. She was tons of fun to be around, always putting a smile on everyone’s face. She leaves behind her two precious daughters whom she loved dearly, Ellessandie Maxwell and A...
The U.S. government said Thursday that Russian government hackers who recently stole Microsoft corporate emails had obtained passwords and other secret material that might allow them to breach multiple U.S. agencies. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, on Tuesday issued a rare binding directive to an undisclosed number of agencies requiring them to change any log-ins that were taken and investigate what else might be at risk. The...
Biden's efforts to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward Asia have been interrupted repeatedly as his administration has mobilized to respond first to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and more recently to Hamas's attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's visit to Washington this week returns the spotlight to one of Biden's top foreign policy priorities: building alliances in Asia to help counter China's influence. Kishida will address a joint session of...
Nearly 30 years later, O.J. Simpson's arrest and murder trial in Los Angeles still evokes strong memories. There was the glove. The Bronco chase. The minute-by-minute national television coverage. And, for many Americans, Simpson's case will also be remembered for how it exposed the deep divisions between Black and White Americans. The nation's view of his 1995 acquittal for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a friend, Ronald Goldman, largely cleaved along racial lines, though...
A Vietnamese court sentenced a business executive to death Thursday in a multibillion-dollar fraud case as the country's ruling Communist Party seeks to crack down on corruption. A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced Truong My Lan, a 67-year-old real estate tycoon, to death on mass-scale embezzlement charges, state media reported. She received additional 20-year sentences for bribery and violating lending regulations and was ordered to pay nearly $27 million in compensatory damages. Lan,...
Federal prosecutors charged Ippei Mizuhara, longtime interpreter and close friend of Shohei Ohtani, with bank fraud Thursday, saying he stole more than $16 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers star to pay off gambling debts. The indictment appeared to vindicate Ohtani in the scandal that has dominated headlines since the beginning of the baseball season, when the Los Angeles Times and ESPN broke the news that Ohtani's name was on millions of dollars in wire transfers to a suspected illegal...
Gasps and sobs filled the St. Croix County, Wis., courtroom on Thursday as a jury convicted Nicolae Miu of first-degree reckless homicide for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Isaac Schuman during a 2022 confrontation at the Apple River in western Wisconsin. Miu, 54, and his attorneys lowered their heads as Judge Michael Waterman read the verdicts from the jury of six men and six women. In addition to the homicide conviction, Miu, of Prior Lake, was found guilty of four counts of reckless...
The man who exchanged gunfire with Hennepin County deputies Wednesday during a firefight that left him dead and two deputies injured was not the subject of the arrest warrant officers were there to carry out. Clint Hoyhtya, 28, was identified as the man who died during the shootout shortly before 11:30 a.m. when deputies arrived with the warrant at his home in the 13400 block of E. Crestwood Drive. But emergency dispatch audio and a law enforcement source confirm he was not named in the...
Police recovered the body of a person Thursday from a pond in Maple Grove that might be of an 18-year-old man who hasn't been seen for nearly three weeks. Officers responded around 2:20 p.m. after receiving a report of "something suspicious" in a pond near 80th Avenue N. and Lakeview Drive, according to a news release from Maple Grove police. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office water patrol recovered the body, believed to be linked to the disappearance of 18-year-old Maple Grove man Winston...
Hormel Foods will pay more than $11 million to settle class-action lawsuits alleging the company worked with other pork producers to illegally fix prices and overcharge customers, according to court records. The proposed settlements, filed in federal court in Minneapolis last week, will see the Austin, Minn.-based food company end the litigation without admitting fault. Hormel will pay $2.4 million to institutional customers like restaurants and delis; $4.8 million to wholesalers and other...
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden said Thursday that U.S. defense commitment to Pacific allies was ''ironclad'' as he gathered Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House in the midst of growing concern about provocative Chinese military action in the Indo-Pacific. The U.S. and the Philippines have had a mutual treaty in place for more than 70 years. Biden's forceful reinforcement of the American commitment comes in the midst of...
Minnesota legislators have several items left on their to-do list and little more than a month remaining to check them off. They're still debating measures to legalize sports betting and fine-tune the state's recreational marijuana law. Legislators also want to make some modest budget adjustments, pass a bill that funds construction projects across the state and find a solution that prevents Uber and Lyft from leaving Minneapolis. Here's a look at some of the most prominent issues still being...
The strong comeback of lake sturgeon in Minnesota is celebrated year after year with a two-staged, statewide catch-and-release fishing season implemented in 2015. The species' survival and recovery story has been decades in the making, enabled by the Clean Water Act of 1972 and further coaxed by state and federal conservation efforts that ended commercial fishing, removed dams, stocked baby sturgeons and restored spawning areas. In the Rainy River and portions of Lake of the Woods, for example,...
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an in-depth antitrust investigation into Nippon Steel's $14.1 billion takeover of U.S. Steel, Politico reported on Wednesday citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The DOJ declined to comment, while the companies did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. The deal has faced the scrutiny of U.S. lawmakers over national security concerns, with President Joe Biden saying last month U.S. Steel must "remain an American steel company that is domestically owned and...
BEMIDJI - After being snowed out last year, Bemidji State University brought back its annual Student Achievement Conference on Wednesday. With the event kicking off in the Beaux Arts Ballroom, an opening ceremony laid the groundwork for the rest of the day as themes of creativity, innovation and inspiration permeated the campus. Such themes displayed themselves as students put together more than 160 presentations - 21 oral presentations, 44 posters and 96 online posters via virtual platform,...
ST. PAUL — Interim Col. Christina Bogojevic will be the Minnesota State Patrol’s next colonel, Department of Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson announced. Bogojevic has been with the State Patrol for more than 20 years and has served as second in command since December 2022. “Interim Col. Bogojevic brings a wealth of knowledge, leadership and dedication, not only to the organization, but to law enforcement as a whole,” Jacobson said. “She embodies the State Patrol’s core values and cares deeply for the people with whom she works with...
MINNEAPOLIS – An Eden Prairie woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1 million from her employer, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, Monica Svobodny, 51, worked as the Supply Chain and Engineering Manager at a furniture manufacturing company located in Edina, Minnesota. Svobodny used her managerial position to embezzle funds and convert them to her own use and benefit. Svobodny regularly used company credit cards for unauthorized personal expenses s...
DULUTH, Minn. – A federal jury found a Wisconsin woman guilty of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. Following a three-day trial before Judge John R. Tunheim, Shue Moua, 35, was convicted yesterday on one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date. According to the evidence presented at trial, a deputy with the Carlton County Sheriff's Office executed a t...
MINNEAPOLIS – A Burnsville woman has pleaded guilty to her role in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, Hoda Ali Abdi, 53, was the owner of Alif Halal LLC ("Alif Halal"), a grocery store located in Burnsville, which she enrolled as a food vendor in the Federal Child Nutrition Program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future and S...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (April 11, 2024) – The Underground Railroad, Rosie the Riveter, and the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald all represent turning points in history, and they are among hundreds of topics that will be presented in this year’s state History Day competition. Students from around Minnesota participated in regional competitions and advanced to the state competition at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Saturday, April 20. The theme of National History Day’s 50th Anniversary is “Turning Points in History.” Students in grades 6-12 created e...
The remains of 11 Native American children who died more than a century ago at a government-run Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania will be going home to their closest living relatives this September, the U.S. Office of Army Cemeteries announced in a federal notice on April 9. Those former students include William Norkok from the Eastern Shoshone Tribe; Almeda Heavy Hair, Bishop L. Shield, and John Bull from the Gros Ventre Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community; Fanny Chargingshield,...
Fourteen tribal nations, tribal schools and colleges, and state organizations will initiate community projects to capture, preserve, and educate about the impact of the Federal Indian Boarding School era, thanks to $411,000 in funding announced by the National Endowment for the Humanities on April 10. From the early 1800s through the 1960s, federal policy supported the mass removal of hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children from their homes by supporting the operation of more than 500 India...
With no supporting information, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-South Dakota) claimed tribal leaders in her state are "personally benefiting" from the presence of drug cartels. And while campaigning for re-election, Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-Oklahoma) warned about tribes setting up "abortion-on-demand" clinics to subvert the state's new abortion laws. No Oklahoma tribe expressed any intention of setting up clinics. Join Native America Calling to examine the fallout from such unfounded claims by high-ranking...
Numerous studies over the years point out the overrepresentation of Native American women in U.S. prisons. The Sentencing Project found a 525% increase over more than 20 years in the incarceration of women and girls. Juvenile Native American girls had the highest rate, at more than four times that of their white counterparts. Join Native America Calling to talk about the factors driving a growing trend and what advocates are doing to turn the numbers around. https://indianz.c...
TAHOLAH, Wash. – From the steps of the Quinault Indian Nation Tribal Court, you can feel the warmth of the sun on your skin and hear the Pacific ocean waves reach out to touch the shoreline just a short walk away. Each person that walks into tribal court is greeted with genuine smiles. Case managers joke amongst each other and catch up with their clients. Quinault Tribal Court Chief Judge Leona Colegrove sits at a desk in plain clothes, her back to the raised bench where judges typically sit. "...
