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Ejay Smith September 10, 1955 ~ August 15, 2020 (age 64) Ejay Smith, age 63, journeyed to the spirit world from his home in Bemidji, Minnesota, on Saturday, August 15, 2020. Ejay was born in Red Lake, Minnesota, on September 10, 1955, to Herbert and Delores (Pierre) Smith. He graduated from Red Lake High School and spent much of his life in Minneapolis and in traveling. His travels to North and South Dakota led him to spend time with some Dakota people who helped him to travel a road that led...
Charles "Chuck" David Lajeunesse August 17, 1967 ~ August 13, 2020 (age 52) Charles "Chuck" David Lajeunesse, age 52, of Moorhead, Minnesota began his journey to the spirit world from his home on Thursday, August 13th, 2020. Chuck was born in Red Lake, MN on August 17th, 1967 to Ramona Lajeunesse and Joseph Adams, Sr. and attended Red Lake Schools. After high school, Chuck travelled around living in Minneapolis, Red Lake, Bemidji, Cass Lake and finally settled down in Moorhead, MN. He worked as...
Sarah Marie Auginaush January 14, 1985 - August 15, 2020 Sarah Marie Auginaush, 35, of NayTaWaush/Rice Lake, Minnesota died on Saturday, August 15, 2020 near Zerkel, MN. Funeral services will be held on Friday, August 21, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. at the St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Rice Lake, Minnesota. Visitation will be held on Thursday, August 20, 2020 starting at 4:00 p.m. at the Church. Interment will be held at Samuel Memorial Episcopal Cemetery in NayTaWaush, MN. Due to COVID-19 masks are...
Julius V. Rainbow Jr. December 16, 1963 - August 15, 2020 Julius V. Rainbow Jr., "Owasin Kodaypi" (Everyone's Friend), 56 of Grand Forks formerly of the Spirit Lake Nation ND began his journey to the Spirit World on Saturday, August 15, 2020. Visitation will be held at Seven Dolors Catholic Church, Fort Totten on Friday, August 21, 2020 from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. with a Rosary and Prayer Service at 7:00 p.m. The procession to Fort Totten will leave at 4:00 p.m. on Friday from City Plaza,...
PONEMAH, MN - At shortly after 3 PM on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, runners from the Red Lake Boys & Girls Club and other volunteers, completed their run from the Red Lake Pow Wow Grounds, having left about 10 AM. It was about a 30 mile run, with runners each traveling about 3/10s of a mile in relay style to the Chanelle Rosebear Basketball Court in Ponemah. Cheyenne River Sioux artist Leland Bryan had just finished the mural he was doing, which was a special dedication memorial piece for Chanelle...
WILMINGTON, Del. - Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden as their presidential candidate Tuesday night, with party elders, a new generation of politicians and voters in every state joining together in an extraordinary, pandemic-cramped virtual convention to send him into the general election campaign to oust President Donald Trump. For someone who has spent more than three decades eyeing the presidency, the moment was the realization of a long-sought goal. But it played out in a way that the...
Death rates for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 have decreased in Minnesota since the start of the pandemic, as doctors have gained new drugs and understanding of how to treat the infectious disease. A COVID-Net report provided this week by the Minnesota Department of Health examined outcomes of 4,356 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 through July and found that 12% had died, compared with an earlier report in May showing that 15% had died. Among those requiring intubation or the use of...
WASHINGTON - The Trump campaign's interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a "grave" counterintelligence threat, a Senate panel concluded Tuesday as it detailed how associates of Donald Trump had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin's help. The nearly 1,000-page report, the fifth and final one from the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation, details how Russia launched an...
First, Kenta Maeda lost his no-hit bid. Then the Twins bullpen lost the lead. But they didn't lose the game. It took a while, but the Twins eventually shook off blowing a 3-0 lead to beat Milwaukee 4-3 in 12 innings when Byron Buxton raced home from third to score on Jorge Polanco's soft grounder to second. https://www.startribune.com/maeda-loses-no-hitter-in-9th-but-twins-prevail-over-brewers-in-12-innings/572156512/...
An 18-year-old woman rescued younger relatives from treacherous river waters below a dam in northwestern Minnesota only to lose her own life after being pulled under, authorities in Clearwater County said Tuesday. The heroics of Raina Lynn Neeland, of nearby rural Bagley, occurred Monday afternoon at the Clearwater Dam in Sinclair Township, where water from Clearwater Lake flows over the 14-foot-high dam into a river with the same name, according to the Sheriff's Office. That's where Neeland...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - This year's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally drew more than 460,000 vehicles during the 10-day event, according to a count South Dakota transportation officials released Tuesday. The count represents a decrease of nearly 8% from last year but showed that many were undeterred by the coronavirus pandemic. Sturgis officials said they expected fewer people to show up this year, estimating they would see between 250,000 and 300,000 people during the 10-day event. Most people didn't take...
A 21-year-old Fairmont, Minn., man has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for producing child pornography and engaging in “sextortion.” Dylan Matthew Deling used social media and chat platforms to threaten teenage girls unless they sent him explicit images and videos of themselves. U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright sentenced him Monday. “Deling sextorted more than 40 minor girls whom he knew to be or believed were between 11 and 17 years old,” the U.S. Attorney’s office of Minnesota, said in a statement. https://w...
The Minnesota Department of Commerce will appeal the approval of Enbridge's controversial new oil pipeline across the northern part of the state. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved Line 3 for a second time in February, and Wednesday is the deadline to challenge the decision before the Minnesota Court of Appeals. The Commerce Department said late Tuesday it would appeal - as it did after the PUC first approved in June 2018 the pipeline, a replacement for the deteriorating...
ST. PAUL - With the Democratic National Convention in full swing, delegates and lawmakers from the Upper Midwest and throughout the country on Tuesday, Aug. 18, discussed what November's General Election could mean for Indian Country and how to increase Native voter turnout. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who endorsed the Biden-Harris Democratic presidential ticket last week, made an appearance at the party's Native American Caucus virtual meeting Tuesday afternoon. She reiterated her...
According to a press release today from Bemidji Chief of Police Mike Mastin: "On August 17th, 2020 at 11:20p.m. Bemidji Police Officers and Beltrami County Sheriff's Deputies responded to the area of 2830 Ridgeway Avenue NW on a report of numerous gun shots among a group of individuals who were standing outside the Ridgeway Apartment Complex. Upon arrival, officers observed numerous individuals in the area and that the west entrance glass doors were shattered. Officers located bullet holes in...
The Bemidji Area School Board has voted unanimously to send students in grades K-5 back to school for in-person learning. Those in grades 6-12 will be taught through the hybrid model. The board meeting went on for over three hours, where board members tossed around different scenarios and issues that come with all three scenarios. Families do have the option to opt into a distance learning model at any time if they decided to participate in the hybrid method at first. The board also entertained...
Cass Lake, MN – On Thursday, August 13, 2020, the Leech Lake Tribal Council issued the following recommendation to area schools as they consider how to begin the 2020-2021 school year this fall. Full Statement: COVID-19 has impacted almost all facets of life for our people. As the governing body of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, the Leech Lake Reservation Business Committee has taken the threat of this novel coronavirus very seriously from day one, early on declaring a public health e...
ST. PAUL -- Yesterday, as President Trump visited Minneapolis and Mankato, statewide and local leaders denounced his record of divisiveness and hailed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the leaders who can bring Minnesotans together and unite the country. Read more below: As Trump landed in Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan criticized his "in ability to confront" crises and need to "stoke fear and division": Governor Tim Walz: "When President Trump lands in Mankato today,...
August 18, 2020 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that Minnesota has joined a coalition of 14 states that has will file a federal lawsuit later today challenging drastic operational changes at the U.S. Postal Service that threaten critical mail delivery and could undermine the state and national election in November. The changes include eliminating staff overtime, altering operations at state distribution centers, decommissioning and removing critical mail sorting equipment, removing mailboxes, and other c...
St. Paul – Today, the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) announced three winners in a virtual pitch competition for foreign-owned Medical Technology (MedTech) companies interested in establishing or expanding a U.S. presence. The virtual pitch took place on August 17 and was held in partnership with SelectUSA, Medical Alley Association, and Launch Minnesota. The three winners were selected by an impartial panel of judges following a virtual pitch from each of the five finalists from four different countries. This v...
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, said Tuesday he doesn’t see the U.S. mandating a COVID-19 vaccine. “I don't think you'll ever see a mandating of vaccine particularly for the general public,” Fauci said during a livestreamed interview with Healthline. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, noted that some workplaces, particularly those in health care fields, might prevent employees from coming to work or interacting with patients if they haven’t been vaccinated for the flu....
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released its long-awaited Russia interference report detailing significant contacts between the Trump campaign and Moscow during the 2016 election. The fifth and final volume, just shy of 1,000 pages, lays out the counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities that were exposed through Russian contacts and a willingness by some members of the Trump campaign to accept foreign assistance. Its release comes more than a year after former special counsel Robert Mueller wrapped up his 22-month...
The Minnesota Department of Commerce (Department) will file Wednesday an appeal of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (Commission) order denying reconsideration, which made final and effective the Commission’s May 1, 2020 order granting a certificate of need for to Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 project. This appeal is consistent with previous Department actions and with the approval process laid out in Minnesota law. The Department’s appeal will be based on 1) the Commission committed legal error because Enbridge didn’t introduce, and so...
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has announced he will suspend the controversial changes he instituted to the U.S. Postal Service until after the November election. "To avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail, I am suspending these initiatives until after the election is concluded," DeJoy said in a statement. He said that between now and Election Day, retail hours at post offices will not change, no mail processing facilities will be closed, mail processing equipment and collection boxes will remain in place, and overtime for...
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had deep ties to a Russian intelligence officer and secretly shared campaign information, according to a sweeping Senate Intelligence Committee report released Tuesday. The nearly 1,000-page report offers a detailed portrait of Manafort's connection to Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the Senate panel identifies as a Russian intelligence officer with potential ties to the hack of Democratic emails during the 2016 election. "On numerous occasions over the course of his time on the Trump Campaign, Manafort...
