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Endonnis Jean (Headbird) Baird Born: Thu., Feb. 4, 1971 Died: Sun., Sep. 13, 2015 Visitation 3:00 PM Wed., Sep. 16, 2015 Location: Veterans Memorial Building Funeral Service 12:00 PM Fri., Sep. 18, 2015 Location: Veterans Memorial Building Endonnis Jean Baird, age 44, began her journey on September 13, 2015 in Bemidji, Minnesota. Endonnis was born to Patricia (Jones) Wilson and Randolph Headbird on February 4, 1971 in Cass Lake, Minnesota. Endonnis took care of many people in her life and she...
A family-owned vegetable farm in Foley, Minn., is at the center of an alleged conspiracy to bring in workers with false papers from the Dominican Republic, force them to pay illegal fees and threaten them to keep them quiet. The workers lived in a dormitory on the nearly 500-acre farm, cultivating sweet corn, berries and a wide range of vegetables about 20 miles northeast of St. Cloud. But they told federal authorities that the penalty for complaining about their pay was getting sent back to their homes near Puerto Plata on the Dominican...
Its expansion to the Twin Cities hasn’t exactly been a well-kept secret, but grocery delivery service Instacart confirmed this morning that not only is it coming to the region but that it’s open for business starting today. And in a special twist, the Minneapolis region will be a test market for a new retail partner for Instacart — hometown retailer Target Corp. http://www.startribune.com/home-delivery-of-target-groceries-household-items-begins-with-instacart/327652271/...
The list of stolen goods was impressive in its breadth and diversity: Over the years, city investigators say, he had stolen jewelry, designer luggage, baseball cards and a replica Stradivarius viola worth thousands of dollars. The suspect, a 34-year-old Minneapolis man whose thefts numbered in the hundreds of items and spanned at least four years, has not yet been charged in the case, police said. His arrest Sunday came on the heels of the discovery by police of a cache of stolen items at the suspect’s North Side home, detectives said. h...
A Golden Valley woman is asking the courts to allow her to smoke marijuana for religious reasons — because she belongs to the First Church of Cannabis. Through her lawyer, 31-year-old Ashley Firnschild is arguing to the Hennepin County District Court that the weed’s illegality places an “undue burden” on her “sincerely held” religious beliefs as a member of the Indiana-based church established earlier this year. The case is coming before the court because Firnschild is alleged to have smoked the weed in violation of a condition of her probati...
WASHINGTON — A government task force says a daily low-dose aspirin could help certain people in their 50s and 60s prevent a first heart attack or stroke — and they might get some protection against colon cancer at the same time. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued draft guidelines Monday recommending aspirin only if people meet a strict list of criteria — including a high risk of heart disease and a low risk of bleeding side effects. http://www.startribune.com/panel-backs-low-dose-aspirin-for-certain-people-in-50s...
Target Corp. is ending a trademark giving program through which it has sent hundreds of millions of dollars to schools over nearly two decades. The Minneapolis-based retailer began notifying schools on Monday that it will discontinue its “Take Charge of Education” program, through which the company donates 1 percent of Redcard holders’ purchase total to a school of their choice. http://www.startribune.com/target-will-end-school-charity-program-shift-giving-focus-to-wellness/327423181/...
VARICK — In the words of Seneca County’s undersheriff, the dispute between factions of the Cayuga Nation has reached a new level of violence. The sheriff’s department made two arrests Saturday morning and is continuing to investigate a shooting at a Nation-owned home on County Road 124 in Varick Thursday evening. Two people staying in the house suffered gunshot wounds that were not considered life threatening. http://www.fltimes.com/news/article_5f99108e-59be-11e5-a34c-9387f4e3d900.html...
SHAWNEE — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has completed an inquiry into an allegation of bribery within the Shawnee City Commission. Pottawatomie County District Attorney Richard Smothermon on Monday confirmed the OSBI gave him a report Friday. He said he has not reviewed it yet because he is focused on a trial. http://newsok.com/article/5446865...
The Suquamish Tribe signed the nation’s first state-tribal marijuana agreement Monday, a pact with state regulators governing how the tribe’s planned retail store in Kitsap County will operate under rules similar to those that regulate existing legal pot merchants. The historic deal comes almost a year after the Obama administration said it would treat tribes the same as state governments when it comes to marijuana. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/marijuana/deal-to-let-suquamish-tribe-open-kitsap-county-pot-store/...
The summer of 1970, I was back from college for vacation. To earn summer money, I signed on with the Pala Fire Crew attached to Cleveland National Forest, spending much of the summer with a Pulaski in hand cutting line at big fires. On the fire line, I quickly learned about the rigors of physical labor. I remember nights with a government-issue flashlight connected to my helmet, swinging a brush hook at resistant manzanita. There were red and yellow flames licking the sky from a nearby ridge. With sweat rolling from my brow, even though it was...
An Oklahoma federal judge has dismissed a civil-rights-violation lawsuit from a tribe and its tribal chief against Connecticut bank regulators, citing jurisdiction issues. The Connecticut Department of Banking confirmed Monday that the suit filed in March by the Otoe-Missouria Tribe and its tribal Chairman John R. Shotton was dismissed. Court records show the dismissal occurred on Aug. 28. http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/20150914/NEWS01/150919978...
TULALIP – Both the federal judge and U.S. attorney came down hard Sept. 11 on a Tulalip man who pleaded guilty to clubbing two bald eagles to death. “The destruction of these eagles is disturbing because they are a symbol of our country and because they are sacred to the tribes of our community," Chief U.S. District Judge Marsha J. Pechman said in Seattle. U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes added: “The bald eagle is sacred to our Northwest Tribes and a symbol revered across our country. The wanton clubbing of two of these majestic creatures is wr...
KALISPELL (AP) — Suspected drug dealers are no longer welcome on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council has voted to banish accused drug dealers or "undesirables" from the reservation, saying federal prosecutors aren't doing enough to pursue cases against them. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2015/09/14/blackfeet-tribe-decides-banish-drug-dealers/72259884/...
Attorneys who specialize in tribal law say an effort by the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to banish accused drug dealers may raise legal questions, but it also highlights a growing law enforcement concern in Indian Country. On Sept. 3, government officials on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation announced they had passed a motion to begin banishing accused drug dealers, or “undesirables.” Native American tribes have used banishment as a punishment for centuries, but only recently have they revived the practice to deal with growing drug pro...
Robert L'Hirondelle speaks openly about his past problems: leukemia, alcohol, homelessness, an assault conviction. But these days, he's sober, stays out of trouble and can often be spotted performing in downtown Edmonton. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/police-street-checks-valuable-investigative-tool-or-racial-profiling-1.3226705...
Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey will not file criminal charges against a police officer who in July shot and killed a mentally ill man wielding a knife in a mobile home park. The shooting by Officer Michael Traudt was justifiable, Morrissey wrote in a decision released Monday. The victim, Paul Castaway, was violent, potentially suicidal and had an "astounding combination" of alcohol and drugs in his system, the letter said. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28811750/denver-da-will-not-charge-officer-who-shot...
Two aboriginal inmates at the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women had their babies apprehended hours after they gave birth this past summer. Prison advocates are decrying those apprehensions, saying they took place even though the Maple Ridge centre has a newly renovated mother-child facility and despite a 2013 B.C. Supreme Court decision. That ruling found that the government acted unconstitutionally when it cancelled a mother-baby program at the correctional centre in 2008, and gave the province six months to restore the program....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A man accused of stabbing the Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent in the back on South Dakota's Crow Creek Indian Reservation was sentenced Monday to 18 years in federal prison. Brian Iron Boulder, 51, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, pleaded guilty in June to attempted murder after authorities said he stabbed Patrick F. Duffy in the back with a knife on March 25, penetrating Duffy's chest wall. Duffy underwent two surgeries at a Sioux Falls hospital and returned to work about two months after being s...
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi college professor was shot and killed in his campus office on Monday, and police said a fellow Delta State University teacher was "a person of interest" in the shooting. Authorities said they were searching for geography and social science instructor Shannon Lamb in connection with the killing of Ethan Schmidt, an assistant professor of American history. http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/crime/3838728-professor-shot-killed-mississippi-university...
Household income for blacks in Minnesota plummeted in the past year, according to survey data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. From 2013 to 2014, the median income for black households in the state fell 14 percent. In constant dollars, that was a decline from about $31,500 to $27,000 — or $4,500 in a single year. http://www.startribune.com/black-household-income-plunges-in-minnesota/327978161/...
Minneapolis officials say they’ve come up against a new kind of challenge in their fight against late-night crime downtown: people unafraid to fire guns even on blocks packed with bar patrons and dotted with dozens of police officers. Wednesday, in a meeting of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, council members quizzed Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and the top cop from the city’s downtown police precinct on the Sept. 12 shooting that injured six people. Two men have been arrested in the shooting, which littered the stree...
Minnesota school bus companies are offering a signing bonus of up to $1,000 and $16-an-hour starting salaries as they face one of the worst driver shortages in recent years. Companies are poaching drivers from one another and peppering the Internet with classified advertisements and still remain woefully understaffed in the beginning weeks of the school year. At Beacon Academy Charter School in Maple Grove, buses were two hours late and parents had to organize a carpool to get students home. To ease the problem, the bus company’s staffers w...
Kate Jorgenson has played volleyball and basketball and swum competitively without her left arm, which she lost above the elbow in an ATV accident two years ago. But then there are tasks such as eating a Dairy Queen Blizzard. To dig out the thick, cookie dough ice cream, the 13-year-old from Westbrook, Minn., had to steady the cold cup between her knees, sometimes making a mess in the process. http://www.startribune.com/minnesotan-teen-world-s-youngest-recipient-of-bionic-arm/327975451/...
New policy adjustments from a regional college accreditation group could unnecessarily limit the opportunity for Minnesota high school students to take college courses. Earlier this year, the Higher Learning Commission, an agency that accredits colleges and universities in 19 states, approved rules that require high school educators to have master’s degrees or graduate-level credits in the college-level subjects they teach. Many high school teachers don’t have those credentials. That prevents them from teaching College in the Schools cou...
