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Three people are in critical condition after an air ambulance helicopter crashed near the Alexandria airport early Saturday. A North Memorial Health Care helicopter crashed en route to the Alexandria airport at 2:07 a.m., according to a statement from North Memorial. Three North Memorial crew members were injured. After being taken to Douglas County Hospital the crew members were transferred to North Memorial in the Twin Cities. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/4117596-medical-helicopter-crashes-near-alexandria-inju...
Tom Goldtooth, a Native American environmental leader from Bemidji, received the Sierra Club’s 2016 John Muir Award on Sept. 10 at a ceremony in Oakland, Calif. Goldtooth is known “nationally for his efforts to defend Indigenous rights to a healthy environment and his dedicated work against fossil fuel projects like the Keystone XL pipeline,” a release said. Goldtooth has spent more than 40 years helping Native American and indigenous communities worldwide address issues such as environmental protection, climate change, energy, biodiversity, en...
Armory Square's floor reverberated to the lively, expert footsteps of Larry Yazzie as he danced traditional Native American styles. Adorned with vibrant ribbons, feathers and beads, the two-time World Champion fancy dancer enchanted the crowd. "I'm so proud of who we are. I'm so proud that we are here on this beautiful evening," Yazzie said. "What we are going to share is sacred to our hearts." http://www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/news/4117836-dance-troupe-shares-spirit-beauty-indigenous-people...
According to a recent report from the Department of Education, one out every eight students in America missed three weeks or more of school during the 2013–14 academic year. (The number among older students is even more dramatic, as 20 percent of all high school students missed three weeks or more.) The results indicate that chronic absenteeism — which is defined as missing 10 percent of a school year for any reason — affects students across the entire country, among all races, and has an equal impact on boys and girls. https...
Each fall, groggy teenagers resign themselves to another year of fighting their body clocks so they can get to class on time. It’s well known that teens who don’t get at least eight hours of sleep a night face a slew of problems. That’s why both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control recommend shifting middle- and high-school start times to 8:30 a.m. or later. Yet during the 2011-12 school year — the most recent statistics available — only 17.7 % of the nation’s public middle, high and combined schools met...
School seclusion rooms — little known to most parents — usually are used as intended, to keep agitated students from harming themselves or others. Elementary students were put into seclusion rooms for behaviors that included kicking, biting, hitting and throwing chairs, books and computers, according to The Gazette’s review of more than 125 reports covering the first month of the 2015-16 school year in the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City districts. http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/violence-usually-triggers-use-of-school-sec...
Election time is getting closer. Join us for our next PEC meeting on Monday (tomorrow) September 19 at 11:00 at Government Center. Pass the word and bring a friend. A high Red Lake voter turn out could make the difference in County Board and State Representative Elections this year. Help us make that happen. Celebrating 20 years, 1996-2016. Miigwech bizindawiyeg, Michael Meuers, Secretary 218-766-6588 RL PEC Mission Statement: The Red Lake Political Education Committee (RLPEC) was formed in 1996 to educate and register Red Lake voters, and then...
ST. CLOUD – In a few bloody minutes, a man rampaged through a St. Cloud shopping mall Saturday evening, stabbing nine people before being fatally shot by an off-duty police officer. The violence is being investigated as terrorism, federal authorities said. None of the nine victims, seven men and two women who ranged in age from 15 to 53, was killed in the attack. In a media briefing after midnight Sunday, St. Cloud Police Chief William Anderson said an off-duty officer from another jurisdiction confronted and shot the suspect Saturday night i...
Minnesota voters believe Democrat Hillary Clinton would do a better job of improving the economy, handling foreign policy and tackling terrorism than Republican Donald Trump, according a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. The poll, which showed Clinton leading overall with 44 percent of the vote to Trump’s 38 percent, also asked voters to pick which of the two leading candidates they thought was best equipped to tackle specific issues — and which candidate best understands the needs of the average American. Statewide, Clinton came out on top on e...
The city of Edina and the Nine Mile Creek Watershed District have detected high microcystin toxin levels in Lake Cornelia and are urging residents to stay away from the water due to public health concerns. High blue-green algae levels were measured in recent samples by the Nine Mile Creek Watershed District. High microcystin levels are typical with excess growth of blue-green algae. Follow-up toxicity monitoring was done to evaluate public health risk. The latest data indicates microcystin levels are at a level that presents a public health...
Three people remain hospitalized as federal agencies investigate the cause of the helicopter crash that injured them, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. About 2 a.m. Saturday, a North Memorial Medical Center helicopter went down on the east side of Lake Winona en route to the airport in Alexandria, Minn. On board were pilot Joshua Jones, 47, flight nurse Scott Scepaniak, 44, and flight paramedic Miles Weske, 34. All three are hospitalized at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, according to the sheriff’s office. The...
NEW YORK — Authorities are looking for a naturalized citizen from Afghanistan for questioning in a weekend explosion in a Manhattan neighborhood that injured 29 people as the governor conceded Monday that investigators could no longer rule out international terrorism. The man sought for questioning was identified as 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami. Mayor Bill de Blasio said he could be armed and dangerous. "We need to get this guy in right away," de Blasio said on CNN. "My experience is one the FBI zeroes in on someone, they will get them." h...
Last month the Minnesota Department of Transportation told us that congestion on metro area highways increased by 2 percent last year and grimly predicted that drivers will encounter clogged roads a lot more often as the population grows and pushes the freeway system closer to capacity. A good reason for the rush-hour gridlock is that more than 3 out of 4 of us going to and from our jobs drive there by ourselves. This Thursday, MnDOT and the city of Minneapolis will join cities across the world in marking World Car Free Day, when solo...
If you’re a baby boomer looking for housing, head west: From 55-plus communities and co-ops to nursing homes and memory care units, senior housing is booming in the west metro suburbs. Hennepin County, the state’s most populous, has more nursing homes and assisted-living facilities than anywhere in Minnesota, according to Health Department data. And new construction isn’t slowing down. But with limited land, developers are increasingly wedging senior housing into residential rather than commercial zones, leading to clashes with residents of si...
WASHINGTON — The for-profit college boom has gone bust. Closures of high-profile schools such as ITT Technical Institute have left thousands of students in limbo while raising questions about the future of an industry that provides much of the training for vocational, technical and other mid-level skilled jobs. For-profit schools are facing major challenges on several fronts after a period of meteoric growth. http://www.startribune.com/after-for-profit-schools-go-bust-students-left-in-limbo/393787561/...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian forest fires that choked a swath of Southeast Asia with a smoky haze for weeks last year may have caused more than 100,000 deaths, according to new research that will add to pressure on Indonesia's government to tackle the annual crisis. The study by scientists from Harvard University and Columbia University to be published in the journal Environmental Research Letters is being welcomed by other researchers and Indonesia's medical profession as an advance in quantifying the suspected serious public health e...
NEW YORK — A bomb that injured 29 people Saturday in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, and another that failed to detonate, were filled with shrapnel and made with pressure cookers, flip phones and Christmas lights that set off a powerful explosive compound, law enforcement officials said Sunday. Both bombs appeared designed to create maximum chaos and fatalities — they also provided a trove of clues even as any suspects remained unnervingly at large. A top law enforcement official said pressure cookers were filled with “fr...
Columbus Day is under assault as never before. Once unabashedly celebrated throughout the land, it was hailed initially by President Harrison in 1892, designated a national holiday by President Roosevelt in 1934, and pegged to the second Monday in October by President Nixon in 1972. A couple of halcyon decades followed during which schools, banks and governmental agencies across the country closed each year in honor of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea. The hero of the day is particularly cherished by Italian Americans, who have celebrated his...
That opened the door for two other candidates, and possibly gives the Democrats a more realistic chance of taking back the governorship for the first time since 2005. In one corner is Indiana Lieutenant Governor Eric Holcomb, Pence’s right-hand man who was selected by the Indiana State Republican Committee to be their nominee following the governor’s withdrawal. In the other corner is former Indiana State Representative John Gregg. In 2012, Gregg lost to Pence in the gubernatorial election by just three percent. https://www....
The body of Deanna Desjarlais, a young Cree woman who went missing nearly five months ago, was found this week in a wooded area in Surrey, B.C. Desjarlais, 27, was originally from Saskatoon. She had travelled to Vernon, B.C., in late April, and that's the last time her family heard from her. Family friend Dana Morenstein says Desjarlais's relatives are absolutely devastated. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/27-year-old-cree-woman-body-found-wooded-area-bc-1.3766872...
Some member of an Alberta community demand their chief step down. Chief Kurt Burnstick of Alexander First Nation faces charges of sexual assault. Burnstick says he has no intention of quitting. But one group of women held a march calling for him to do just that. Warning, this story has strong language. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/09/16/alexander-first-nation-chief-refutes-calls-to-step-down-over-sex-assault-charges/...
Attack dogs and waves of arrests by police in riot gear could look like isolated incidents of overreaction to the activism stemming from the Standing Rock reservation. But for the Lakota Sioux who live in these marginalized hillsides, the escalated militarization behind their battle against the Dakota Access pipeline is a situation decades in the making. North Dakota is not the whitest state in America, but it’s arguably the most segregated. More than 60 percent of its largest minority population, Native Americans, lives on or near r...
Tribal flags, horses, tents, hand-built shelters and teepees dominate one of the biggest, newest communities in North Dakota, built in a valley on federal land near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers. It's a semi-permanent, sprawling gathering with a new school for dozens of children and an increasingly organized system to deliver water and meals to the hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from tribes across North America who've joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their legal fight against the Dakota Access oil pipeline to...
The pounding of drums felt like a heartbeat — each thump on the leather sent a visible pulse through the crowd, igniting babies' coos and peoples' yawps. That sound lent a constant rhythm to the rally of 300 people at the state Capitol on Saturday, each of whom came with their own perspectives but also the desire to stand together under a shared message. "Their struggle is our struggle," said Moroni Benally, who identified himself as an indigenous scholar. http://www.sltrib.com/home/4361783-155/its-not-criminal-to-protect-o...
MANKATO — A "true man of peace and dignity," is how Ray Owen describes Bud Lawrence, the man who founded the Mahkato Wacipi, or powwow. A humble, conscientious leader, said Owen, who is a spiritual leader of the Dakota. Lawrence, who is battling cancer that has spread throughout his body, may not see another powwow, said Dave Brave Heart, chair of the powwow. No one wants to dwell too much on that. http://www.mankatofreepress.com/news/local_news/documentary-to-feature-bud-lawrence-s-legacy-in-thriving-powwow/article_53d37174...
