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BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji man who was arrested for posting an ad on Craigslist looking for a young girl to pose for pictures was sentenced last week for possessing child pornography, charges he faced when the online ad was posted. See more at: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/bemidji-man-sentenced-child-porn-charges-0#sthash.YRfIDRCZ.dpuf...
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Automatic federal budget cuts ordered this spring were problematic in parts of Minnesota. On the White Earth reservation, they were devastating. More than half of the White Earth tribal government budget, about $30 million, is federal funding. Reservation leaders are planning for a 5 percent budget cut this year and expecting a 9 percent cut next year if the cuts continue, Tribal Chairwoman Erma Vizenor said. "It is devastating to us and it's not going to be for one or two y...
Worried about the health of students and teachers in stifling classrooms, Minneapolis school officials canceled classes Thursday and Friday in its 27 buildings without air conditioning....
BILLINGS, Mont. — A Montana judge on Wednesday stood by his decision to send a former teacher to prison for 30 days for raping a 14-year-old girl who later killed herself, but said he "deserved to be chastised" for his comments about the young victim....
In preparing for a September legislative session to pay the state's share of repairing the damage left behind by June storms, lawmakers let their frustration fly....
NEW YORK – Fast-food customers in search of burgers and fries on Thursday might run into striking workers instead....
Society Earns Award to Study Energy-Efficient Solutions for Storage of Cultural Heritage Collection The Minnesota Historical Society is pleased to announce a major grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a proposal to research energy-efficient ways to protect the audio-visual material in the collections. The grant of $40,000 will help the Society study ways to improve performance (help the items last longer) while decreasing energy use in the cold storage area where...
SEATTLE– August 28, 2013 – Airbiquity, Inc., a global leader in connected vehicle services, today announced it has been recognized by Inc. Magazine in its seventh annual Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing U.S. companies. Airbiquity’s three year sales growth rate of 221% earned the company a top 35% ranking nationally, #43 in the state of Washington and #38 in the Seattle metro. The Inc. 5000 list represents the most important segment of the nation’s economy - Independent entrepreneurs and their high growth businesses. “Our team works har...
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (August 28, 2013) – In addition to manning the picket lines at Cretex’ Shakopee, Minn. facility, striking union workers are at the Minnesota State Fair educating the public about their fight to keep their earned retirement funds. The workers, members of Laborers Local 563, will be at the Minnesota AFL-CIO both at the corner of Dan Patch and Cooper Avenues at the fairgrounds until the Great Minnesota Get Together ends on Labor Day. While at the fair, the striking workers will ask the public to make direct contact with Medtroni...
MEXICO CITY — This sprawling metropolis of honking cars and 22 million harried people has been brought to its knees, not by an earthquake or its ominous smoking volcanoes, but rather a small contingent of angry school teachers....
For 27 years, Sarah Breidenbach had a foolproof way of knowing when her blood sugar level was dangerously low....
WAYNE, N.J. — Four New Jersey college football players are being rewarded for their honesty....
Theresa Spence is putting new revenue-sharing deals with the federal and provincial governments, as well as mining companies, on the top of her agenda after being re-elected as chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation in Tuesday’s election....
Canada's shameful colonial history as it relates to Indigenous peoples and women specifically is not well known by the public at large. The most horrific of Canada's abuses against Indigenous peoples are not taught in schools. Even public discussion around issues like genocide have been censored by successive federal governments, and most notably by Harper's Conservatives. Recently, the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights refused to use the term "genocide" to describe Canada's laws, policies and actions towards Indigenous peoples which led to...
Both the states and the federal government have jurisdiction when it comes to policing the payday loan industry, to ensure consumers are protected against predatory lending practices....
There are certain constants in my trips to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Days start with no less than three cups of coffee. KILI Radio, 90.1 FM, plays in the background of most scenes. Paved Bureau of Indian Affairs highways turn off onto gravel roads, and in the town of Kyle, one of those roads leads to the home of Delores Takes War Bonnett....
Families from Oglala to Pine Ridge walked together on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in an effort to make a stand against the recent vote to legalize alcohol....
FARGO — The American Red Cross here announced Wednesday it sent 4,300 bottles of water to the Spirit Lake Nation where 300 homes were “without potable water....
A security guard testified Wednesday that nurses thought he was joking when he told them that a man had died during a 34-hour wait in a hospital emergency room....
A small First Nation in Saskatchewan is grieving after a six year-old boy was found badly beaten last week....
