Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The last 16 plaintiffs in a 19-year-old lawsuit against the state police are scheduled to go to trial today over a 1997 Indian protest over state taxes. They'll act as their own lawyers. The rest of the original 98 plaintiffs settled with the state this year for $2.7 million. The protesters claimed troopers used excessive force in breaking up a peaceful demonstration alongside Interstate-81 on May 18, 1997, then covered up their wrongdoing. http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/09/nearly_20_years_old...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is meeting with American Indian tribal leaders from an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction. Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohris is scheduled Tuesday to talk with representatives and police chiefs from the eight northern New Mexico Native American Pueblos as part of a push to combat heroin-related deaths. For years, the northern New Mexico city of Espanola has had one of the nation's highest heroin-related death rates. http://www.santafen...
A group of doctors in Saskatchewan are calling on the provincial government to declare a public health state of emergency regarding HIV and AIDS. "We are seeing an increase in the number of cases," said Saskatoon Dr. Ryan Meili, one of the doctors with the group who works directly with HIV-positive patients. "For example, there were 114 new cases in 2014, 158 in 2015. In the last 10 years, we've seen over 1,500 people infected with HIV in the province." When it comes to new cases of HIV, the province has rates two times higher than the...
RCMP allege more than $1.2 million in public money was fraudulently obtained by a former co-manager for the Kashechewan First Nation in northwestern Ontario between 2007 and 2012. Giuseppe (Joe) Crupi, 50, from Thunder Bay, Ont., has been charged with fraud following an investigation. The money came from a program that was meant to provide breakfasts for about 400 elementary school children on the First Nation. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/kash-rcmp-fraud-1.3771405...
PINON, AZ (KPHO/KTVK) - Two Arizona brothers learned their punishment for kidnapping and assaulting two women and one girl. Milfred James and his brother Delfred Lee, both from Pinon, were sentenced during the week. James received 72 months in prison while Lee was sentenced to 81 months plus an additional three months he previously served in tribal custody for the same offenses, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. On Dec. 1, 2015, the brothers held the three victims at gunpoint in a Pinon house on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation. All parties...
Here comes Round 4. Nikko Jenkins has been declared competent to face a death penalty hearing in the August 2013 murders of Juan Uribe- Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger. Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon set Jenkins’ death penalty hearing for Nov. 14. http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/judge-declares-nikko-jenkins-competent-for-death-penalty-hearing/article_462857cc-7f7e-11e6-b89a-4f7e3f14befb.html...
