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BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji man charged with six counts of possession of child pornography pleaded guilty to all counts in Beltrami County District Court. Richard Henry, 49, was arrested in May after law enforcement served a search warrant April 9 at his residence on the 2600 block of Delton Avenue Northwest in Bemidji. Henry was found to be in possession of a smartphone with images of children in pornographic and sexual situations. The phone was seized and Henry left the residence. He was later located and arrested on May 1. http:...
Donna M. Roy (Died August 30, 2015) Donna Roy, age 33, of Mahnomen, MN, passed away on Sunday, August 30, 2015 in Ulen, MN with her family by her side. Donna Marie Roy, the daughter of Wendy Martin and John Roy, was born on June 5, 1982 in Detroit Lakes, MN. She spent her childhood in the Detroit Lakes area and attended school there. Donna was lovingly blessed with five precious children: Ashley (13), Gauge (12), Nindonnis “Sunshine” (11), Peanut (4) and David (7 mos). She was always willing to help those in need and was a primary car...
The president of the St. Paul police union has sharply criticized some protesters at Saturday’s Black Lives Matter march to the Minnesota State Fair for what he calls a “disgusting” chant promoting violence against officers. Hundreds of protesters, led by the Black Lives Matter St. Paul organization, marched north along Snelling Avenue to the gates of the fairgrounds Saturday to protest racial inequities in St. Paul and elsewhere. Some demonstrators shouted chants criticizing police as they were being escorted by officers who cleared the way f...
Bob Rich was in his 20s when he won an $850,000 settlement from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis — compensation for years of sexual abuse at the hands of the Rev. Robert Michael Thurner. Rich and his family were hopeful the lawsuit, settled in 1992, would bring closure. But within four years, the money was gone. Some Rich gave away. Some went to a California beach house and a Porsche. Some he used to fuel a cocaine habit — an effort, he said, to ease the pain. More than 20 years later, hundreds of survivors of clergy sexual abu...
WASHINGTON – Amid a significant downsizing of the money-strapped U.S. Postal Service, the number of letters arriving late has jumped by nearly 50 percent since the start of the year. And that’s as measured against the agency’s own newly relaxed standards. The delays have become so serious that the Postal Service’s watchdog issued an urgent alert earlier this month recommending that postal officials put all further closures of mail-sorting plants on hold until service stabilizes. http://www.startribune.com/as-postal-service-c...
WASHINGTON — As many as nine out of 10 of the world's seabirds likely have pieces of plastic in their guts, a new study estimates. Previously, scientists figured about 29 percent of seabirds had swallowed plastic, based on older studies. An Australian team of scientists who have studied birds and marine debris for decades used computer models to update those figures, calculating that far more seabirds are affected, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http:...
The high U.S. dollar smothered any chance for export growth during the second quarter for Minnesota companies — especially with Canada, the state’s largest trade partner. Exports to Canada fell 21 percent to $1.13 billion in the quarter. “Wow, 21 percent. That’s a big chunk,” said Bob Kill, CEO of the manufacturing consulting firm Enterprise Minnesota. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-exports-drop-nearly-4-percent-in-second-quarter/323522731/...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – President Obama on Monday issued a global call for urgent action to address climate change, declaring that the United States was partly to blame for what he called the defining challenge of the century and would rally the world to counter it. “Climate change is no longer some far-off problem; it is happening here, it is happening now,” Obama said at an international conference on the Arctic. “We’re not acting fast enough. I have come here today, as the leader of the world’s largest economy and its second-largest emitter, to...
I was born and raised in Kansas and didn’t even know if Kansas had a state fair until I looked it up online earlier today. It turns out there is one, but I never went. I did go to the Missouri State Fair once and everyone wore cowboy hats and I bought a handmade leather wallet but I can’t remember if there were rides or animals or food. Clearly, the state fairs of my youth did not have the same power and pull as The Great Minnesota Get-Together. There is something about the Minnesota State Fair that seems to tap into the collective unc...
Now that the LDS Church has decided to stick with the Boy Scouts of America, Utah mother Jo Overton would like Mormons to consider another issue: the Scouts' appropriation of Native American symbols and rituals. "Feathers, colors, headdresses, regalia, drums, Native dance, names, body painting, and eagles are all sacred to most of Native America," Overton, a member of the Sicangu Lakota tribe, writes on the Femwoc (Feminist Mormon Women of Color) blog. "They are a direct connection to our history and our culture of today. The fact they even...
LETHBRIDGE – It’s a number that caught some off-guard: over $2 million in salaries and expenses. That’s the total received by the Blood Tribe Chief and twelve Councillors in the last fiscal year. The numbers were released as part of Canada’s First Nations Financial Transparency Act. For the fiscal year ending March 31st, every Councillor received a base salary of $91,989, while Chief Charles Weasel Head earned $101,168 to govern a tribe with 12,000 members. http://globalnews.ca/news/2195581/questions-surround-blood-tribe-cou...
Kickapoo Tribe Brings Action in Tribal Court Against Former Chairman and Treasurer Kickapoo Tribal Chair Lester Randall announced earlier this week the Tribal Council amended its suit brought against former Tribal Chairman Clifford “Steve” Cadue and Tribal Council Treasurer Bobbi Darnell for violating tribal procedures in adoption of a budget and related financial transgressions in violation of tribal law. In the petition, Cadue was charged with violating tribal procedures for preparing, enacting and administering an annual tribal budget ord...
An RCMP database for missing persons and unidentified remains is still incomplete and is far over budget, five years after the Harper government touted the database as "concrete action" on missing and murdered indigenous women. It likely won't be ready until late 2016, stoking frustration among victims' families in Manitoba. "It's a disappointment, really. The RCMP were promising us that they would help us find justice for murdered ones or bring missing ones home. Nothing has been done, nothing at all," said Crystal Bruyere, whose cousin...
Advocates for indigenous women are outraged by what they call Amnesty International’s betrayal of those caught in the murky world of sex trafficking. During its recent decision-making forum in Dublin, Amnesty International voted to create a policy decriminalizing all aspects of consensual sex work, and call on states to ensure that sex workers enjoy full and equal legal protection from exploitation, trafficking and violence. “I am deeply disappointed in Amnesty International’s new proposal,” says Lisa Brunner, program director with the Nationa...
The N.C. Business Court has blocked online lender Western Sky Financial L.L.C. and several of its affiliates from doing business in the state, saying that allowing them to continuing issuing and collecting loans would be “adverse to the public interest.” The state sued Western Sky Financial, CashCall Inc. WS Funding Inc., Delbert Services Corp. and CashCall founder John Paul Reddam in 2013, alleging the companies collaborated in a scheme to issue loans to N.C. consumers while charging exceptionally high interest rates in violation of state law...
Marquis Ford, 34, was convicted on Tuesday, Aug. 18 in the Cherokee Court for Special Domestic Violence for Assault on a Female, Simple Assault, and three counts of Violating a Domestic Violence Protective Order, pursuant to the newly enacted Cherokee Code Section 14-40.1(c)(2). He was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment, suspended for 36 months and was given a split sentence of 90 days active confinement, after which, he will be placed on Supervised Probation and ordered to pay a fine of $250, a special domestic violence fine of $1,000, and...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources cited Ojibwe tribal members Friday on two northern Minnesota lakes on the second day of their efforts to challenge their land use rights under an 1855 treaty. Members of the 1855 Treaty Authority had planned to harvest wild rice on the lake in Nisswa on Thursday without state licenses to try to assert rights they contend they hold under an 1855 treaty. http://www.dispatchtimes.com/chippewa-protest-leaders-plan-to-test-treaty-rights-again/71365/...
It’s hard to believe a treaty settled in 1855 would be back in the news in 2015. Yet 160 years later, several members of the 1855 Treaty Authority challenged the limits of the treaty last week by paddling their canoes out to harvest wild rice at Hole-In-The-Day Lake in east-central Minnesota. The 1855 treaty covers fishing, hunting and gathering rights within lands deeded to American Indian bands in the state. However, the treaty doesn’t cover the rights of the bands in off-reservation areas. http://www.sctimes.com/story/opi...
Within his first year in office, President Obama promised Native Americans that “you will not be forgotten as long as I’m in this White House.” More so than many previous presidents, he’s actually followed through on that pledge. The latest reminder came Monday when Obama issued an executive order to restore the name of the United States’ tallest mountain to Denali, which was widely seen as a sign of respect to Native Americans. A handful of other Presidents have made notable gestures to improve Native American relations and atone for the U...
On Sunday, President Obama announced that he would restore the name of the nation’s tallest mountain, currently called Mount McKinley, to Denali. The move, which comes in advance of the President’s trip to Alaska, was described as a show of respect to Native Americans and the original name they gave to the peak. The name of the mountain was officially changed from Denali to Mount McKinley in 1917, at the suggestion of a gold prospector. William McKinley, who never visited Alaska, was America’s 25th president. Naming the mountain after McKin...
TORONTO, Sept 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coercive sterilisation of indigenous women in Canadian health centres during the 1970s was more widespread than previously believed, with impoverished communities in the north disproportionately targeted, a researcher has found. The Canadian government was often aware of the problem, but did not act to stop it, said Karen Stote, a women's studies professor at Waterloo, Ontario-based Wilfrid Laurier University who conducted archival research for a recently released study. htt...
Rapid City, SD The Rosebud Sioux Tribe's general election season wrapped up last week and the unofficial results are in. In the race for president, William Kindle beats contender Richard Lunderman by more than double the votes with 1,665. Lunderman received 685 votes. Scott Herman garners 1,482 votes in the race for Vice President - beating Leonard Wright with 849. http://www.blackhillsfox.com/home/headlines/Rosebud-Sioux-Tribe-unofficial-general-election-votes-are-in---323535441.html...
MISSOULA, Mont. - Some relief for residents of Heart Butte, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation -- an evacuation order triggered by the Spotted Eagle Fire has been partially lifted. Butte partially lifted. The fire is burning south of Mount Baldy, on the boundary between the Flathead and Lewis and Clark national forests. Officials lifted the evacuation order for all residents living east of Route 1. They were allowed to return to their homes Monday evening. http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/evacuations-in-heart-butte-partially-...
Idaho’s largest fire this year burned 279,144 acres in the southwest corner of the state. That figure is from a list released over the weekend that details the Soda Fire’s impacts. The list has numbers on nearly 30 items, including 592 miles of fences burned and 68 golden eagle nests destroyed. It also says 16 cultural sites eligible for the National Register of Historic Places were burned. M.J. Byrne with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) won’t be specific about the historic sites damaged by the Soda Fire due to fears of looting. She says...
