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Several wildfires sprouted around the state Monday as officials warned that strong winds, high temperatures, low humidity and dry vegetation would continue to conspire for dangerous fire conditions again Tuesday. Monday evening, firefighters were battling an estimated 400-acre blaze east of Red Lake in northern Minnesota, which they believe destroyed a couple of outbuildings, said Jean Goad, spokeswoman for the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center. They also were working Monday to douse small fires near Gonvick, Itasca State Park and Lac la Croix...
BAGLEY – Zach Thoma connected on 10 of his 13 passes for 152 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Flyers to a 44-12 victory at Cass Lake-Bena Friday. Bagley, 1-1, wasted no time getting into the end zone as Jesse Dukek scored on a 50-yard run in the opening quarter. Later in the period Thoma found Lucas Thompson with a 30-yard TD pass and in the second quarter Thoma teamed with tight end Jake Skansberg on a 15-yard touchdown play. At intermission Bagley enjoyed a 24-6 lead and the visitors would add 20 points in the second half, courtesy of a...
DULUTH, Minn. - Smokers have been banned from lighting up outside on the Lakewalk in Duluth....
Several wildfires sprouted around the state Monday as officials warned that strong winds, high temperatures, low humidity and dry vegetation would continue to conspire for dangerous fire conditions again Tuesday....
It looks like pot, it grows like pot. If you get caught with it, you will be prosecuted....
WASHINGTON - The massive teacher strike in Chicago offers a high-profile test for the nation's teacher unions, which have seen their political influence threatened as a growing reform movement seeks to expand charter schools, get private companies involved with failing schools and link teacher evaluations to student test scores....
Thirteen days remain on the legislative calendar between this week and Election Day, leaving Congress, which returned Monday, little time to complete action on several pressing issues, including the passage of a stopgap budget. Here's a look ahead:...
It's not an optical illusion. The newest wind turbines gracing the nation's countryside actually are turning more slowly than their older cousins....
Congress reconvened Monday with a host of issues likely to be loudly debated, from jobs to the environment to health care. Let's hope they raise their voices about violence, too. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), created to protect women from domestic and sexual violence, has flown through periodic reauthorizations in both houses with bi-partisan support since its creation in 1994. Sadly, not this year -- yet. Before recessing in August, and largely off the public's radar, the Republican-controlled House passed a watered-down version that...
WASHINGTON – Attempting to quash concerns that the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement is tainted by a conflict of interest and other ethical problems, the White House says that one of the high-profile lawyers representing the Indian plaintiffs and class members in the deal recused himself on issues related to the Cobell Indian trust case while he was working for the Obama administration’s transition team in late-2008. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/09/10/white-house-says-cobell-lawyer-recused-himself-on...
Congress returns to Washington today after being off for five weeks. Congress should be greeted with letters, emails and faxes by American Indians from across Indian country proclaiming our dismay that Congress has allowed several tax incentives designed to attract private development and jobs in Indian country to expire. Still others are slated to expire unless Congress acts....
WASHINGTON – Oglala Sioux tribal officials are alleging that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the U.S. Department of the Interior has withheld from the tribe an unmet needs assessment conducted by the agency over a year ago on the reservation that has major implications for improving tribal justice and safety programs. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/09/10/tribe-says-interior-department-withholding-crime-data-133540 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/09/10/tribe-says-interior-departm...
This week could decide the future governance of social services for the Spirit Lake Tribe as a deadline looms about who should run programs recently found to be riddled with deficiencies....
PIERRE — The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled Thursday that almost 20 former students who allege they were sexually abused decades ago at a Native American boarding school cannot continue their lawsuits against the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls and the religious organizations that ran the school....
PABLO - More than $75 million dollars will be distributed across the Flathead Indian Reservation on September 12th as part of the $1 billion settlement paid to more than 40 tribes across the country for mismanaged assets....
A group of Hoopa tribal members gathered today to protest against the Hoopa tribal council. Some members of the tribe feel that the 49 million dollar settlement given by the federal government should be divided up equally and voted on by the tribe....
GRAND RONDE — Newcomer Jon George and incumbents Cheryle Kennedy and Toby McClary were elected Saturday to serve three-year terms on the Grand Ronde Tribal Council....
The state Appellate Court says Michael J. Rost must leave the Schagticoke reservation in Kent because members of the divided tribe want him to go....
POPLAR — A man accused of running down and killing a father of six on Sept. 1 was charged in Fort Peck tribal court last week. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/man-accused-of-hit-and-run-death-charged-with-homicide/article_2834eed9-7a5c-501a-b0c8-6f9b47994e10.html#ixzz26ArBsYUS...
FARMINGTON — A woman was sentenced Monday to probation for embezzling nearly $39,000 from the Littlewater Chapter House....
MISSION — Umatilla Tribal Police say they have no details on the condition of the victim of a stabbing that landed two suspects in jail Friday....
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the U.S. population will reach 314,395,013 at noon today, which is the 225th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787, in Philadelphia. Sept. 17 is recognized as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day to commemorate the creation and signing of the supreme law of the land and to honor and celebrate the privileges and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship for both native-born and naturalized citizens. Federal law requires that all schools receiving federal funds hold an educational program...
THE 24 SEVEN – September 18, 2012 Ryan's House race could win Wisconsin's electoral votes Paul Ryan supporters in the final weeks before Election Day are... http://takeaction.wta001.com/wta/link.php?M=17702784&N=62216&L=24688&F=T ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sources in Libya contradict administration claims An intelligence source on the ground in Libya told Fox News tha... http://takeaction.wta001.com/wta/link.php?M=17702784&N=62216&L=24689&F=T --------------------------------------------...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Acting Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Donald “Del” Laverdure today announced that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has agreed to a request by the Spirit Lake Tribe of the Fort Totten Reservation in North Dakota to assume administrative responsibility for its social services program. The Tribe, by letter dated September 14, 2012, requested to voluntarily retrocede the social services program to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In their letter, the Tribe stated that it had concluded this retrocession “would be in the best in...
Denver, Colo.—September 18, 2012— The Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundation awarded $60,000 to the American Indian College Fund (the Fund) for the Achieving the Dream Scholarship Program. The program assists Native students who are single parents and/or in the first year of an associate’s degree program, attending Diné College, Navajo Technical College, Sisseton Wahpeton College, Sinte Gleska University, or Oglala Lakota College. Preference is given to past Achieving the Dream Scholars. Each scholar receives a $4,000 scholarship split...
