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Articles from the September 19, 2018 edition


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  • Simon William King, Jr.

    Sep 19, 2018

    Simon William King, Jr. May 3, 1962 ~ September 14, 2018 (age 56) Simon William King, Jr., age 56, of Bemidji, Minnesota passed away at his home on Friday, September 14, 2018 with his family by his side. He was born in Red Lake, MN on May 3, 1962 to Connie (Kingbird) Beaulieu and Simon King, Sr. Simon had a good spirit who loved spending time with all his nieces and nephews. He was an excellent athlete in his high school days; playing both basketball and football, playing with his football team...

  • Redby Community will soon have a new water tower

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Sep 19, 2018

    REDBY - On Tuesday, September 18, 2018, the Redby Water Tower, located hear the old Saw Mill, was taken down in the nearby area where it has stood for many years. According to a news release from Jonathan Mountain, Director of Red Lake Sanitation, the demolition of the tower was done to make way for a new Redby water tower. Although the release did not state when the construction would begin, it did state it would begin soon, and that the old tower had to be disposed of. The old tower had been...

  • Lady Warriors edged out by Cass Lake 3-2 in Red Lake

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Sep 19, 2018

    RED LAKE - The Red Lake Lady Warriors hosted Cass Lake on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, winning the first and third set, but losing the second, fourth and fifth set. Prior to the varsity game, the Jr. High and Jr. Varsity defeated were both victorious in two games. Red Lake is now 1-2 on the season and will host host Fon du Lac on Thursday, September 20 and host Kelliher-Northome on September 27th. Cass Lake is now 3-5 on the seasion....

  • Minneapolis charter schools say: Don't relocate homeless camp next to us

    Sep 19, 2018

    Two Minneapolis charter school leaders don’t want homeless people relocated to a vacant lot next door, setting up a political showdown as city officials scramble to clear a growing encampment along Hiawatha and Cedar avenues. The leaders of Aurora Charter School and Lincoln International High School have written to Mayor Jacob Frey to say they’re concerned that relocating the camp residents to a city-owned property at 2600 Minnehaha Av. S. would expose students to drug use and crime. http://www.startribune.com/charter-school...

  • Kavanaugh's accuser wants FBI probe before she testifies

    Sep 19, 2018

    WASHINGTON — Christine Blasey Ford wants the FBI to investigate her allegation that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh before she testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next week, her lawyers said in a letter sent Tuesday to the panel. The lawyers wrote that Ford, who is now a college professor in California, wants to cooperate with the committee. But in the days since she publicly accused Kavanaugh of the assault when they were teens at a party 35 years ago, the lawyers said, she has been the t...

  • Minnesota Poll: Keith Ellison holds slim lead in attorney general's race

    Sep 19, 2018

    Democrat Keith Ellison holds a narrow lead over Republican Doug Wardlow in the Minnesota attorney general’s race with many voters still undecided, according to a new Star Tribune/MPR News Minnesota Poll. Across the state, 41 percent of voters said they would vote for Ellison, a U.S. congressman. Another 36 percent said they would pick Wardlow, a lawyer and former state representative. However, 18 percent of poll respondents had not yet decided how they would vote on Nov. 6. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-poll-keith-ell...

  • Tie game, new OT rule leave Vikings unsettled: 'What did I sacrifice all that for?'

    Sep 19, 2018

    Not that professional football needs another customer complaint, but … No more ties! http://www.startribune.com/tie-game-new-overtime-rule-leave-vikings-unsettled-what-did-i-sacrifice-all-that-for/493648921/...

  • State task force will examine failings in Minnesota sex crime investigations

    Sep 19, 2018

    A task force of law officers, public health officials and victim advocates vowed Tuesday to scrutinize the way sexual assaults are investigated in Minnesota, with the goal of recommending reforms to the Legislature before it convenes in January. Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson said the group will have a broad mandate, from reworking sex crime statutes, to proposing more funding for officers and training, to issuing best practices for police investigations. http://www.startribune.com/sexual-assault-task-force-meets-fo...

  • Target, consumers could be closer to feeling pain from tariffs

    Sep 19, 2018

    Washington – Target’s tariff troubles just got real. With his latest protective tariffs on Chinese imports, President Donald Trump hit dozens of products in the Minneapolis-based retailer’s inventory. Whether it is furniture, carpets, handbags, belts, sports gear, luggage or a host of other items Target buys in China, the price is about to go up 10 percent Sept. 24 with an additional 15 percent increase on Jan. 1, 2019. http://www.startribune.com/consumers-could-be-closer-to-feeling-pain-of-tariffs/493667181/...

  • Distracted driving 'epidemic' blamed for crash that killed teacher, daughter in S. Minn.

    Sep 19, 2018

    A 24-year-old motorist with a slew of driving infractions has admitted that his cellphone diverted his attention when he rammed his SUV into the back of a stopped car on a southern Minnesota highway, killing the other driver and her daughter, authorities said. Rachel Harberts, 43, of Dodge Center, Minn., was taken off life support at a Rochester hospital and died Saturday, eight days after the Sept. 7 crash on Hwy. 14 in Claremont killed her 8-year-old daughter, Emerson Harberts, and badly injured her 12-year-old son, Jaxon Harberts....

  • Kim agrees to dismantle main nuke site if US takes steps too

    Sep 19, 2018

    PYONGYANG, North Korea — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced a sweeping set of agreements after their second day of talks in Pyongyang on Wednesday that included a promise by Kim to permanently dismantle the North's main nuclear complex if the United States takes corresponding measures, the acceptance of international inspectors to monitor the closing of a key missile test site and launch pad and a vow to work together to host the Summer Olympics in 2032. Declaring they had made a major step t...

  • From addict to crusader: A new leader emerges in Minnesota's Indian community

    Sep 19, 2018

    James Cross feared the man was already dead when he found him unconscious and slumped against the doorway of a portable toilet inside a crowded homeless camp in south Minneapolis. After yelling for help, Cross frantically pumped the man’s chest and took turns breathing into his mouth, to no avail, before stabbing him six times in the thigh with syringes of Narcan, a drug that reverses the effects of heroin. When emergency workers arrived, the man had already come back to life and was cradling his head on Cross’ shoulders, according to peo...

  • Leech Lake Tribal Police Department executes search warrant in Cass Lake

    Sep 19, 2018

    On September 17, 2018 the Leech Lake Tribal Police Department and Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at 6845 162nd Street, Cass Lake. The warrant was executed on a travel trailer style camper at the residence. Law enforcement has been actively gathering information on the sales and distribution of methamphetamine from the camper in an ongoing investigation. Officers recently learned that methamphetamine and illegally possessed firearms were being stored inside the camper by...

  • BP: Three arrested during search in Cass Lake

    Sep 19, 2018

    CASS LAKE -- Three men were arrested Monday during the search of a residence that resulted in the seizure of more than 2.5 ounces of methamphetamine. During a search in the 6800 block of 162nd Street in Cass Lake, law enforcement officials retrieved 74 grams of methamphetamine, three illegally possessed firearms, as well as ammunition, according to a release from the Leech Lake Tribal Police Department. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/crime-and-courts/4501141-three-arrested-during-search-cass-lake...

  • BP: Line 3 protesters block Clearwater County roadwork

    Sep 19, 2018

    CLEARWATER COUNTY -- Roadwork that crosses the early stages of the Mississippi River was halted briefly on Tuesday morning by protesters who object to a plan to install an oil pipeline nearby and a similar plan in Louisiana, where the river drains into the Gulf of Mexico. About 15 people set up a tipi and performed a water ceremony where the Mississippi meets County Road 40, pausing a mill and overlay project across the bridge there. The protesters were about 100 yards away from the spot where the county road intersects with the proposed route...

  • BP: Man sentenced to 60 years for Spirit Lake gun assault, shooting ex-girlfriend in face

    Sep 19, 2018

    FARGO—A Spirit Lake man will spend 60 years behind bars related to a gun assault and for shooting his ex-girlfriend in the face. Dakota James Charboneau, 24, is also accused in a separate case of murdering a woman in 2016. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/crime-and-courts/4501159-man-sentenced-60-years-spirit-lake-gun-assault-shooting-ex-girlfriend...

  • BP: Tribal police, Mille Lacs County sheriff reach agreement

    Sep 19, 2018

    MILLE LACS COUNTY, Minn. — Mille Lacs County officials announced Tuesday, Sept. 18, they reached an agreement with the Mille Lacs Band on the terms of a new law enforcement mutual aid and cooperative agreement. The Band's Assembly approved the cooperative agreement Thursday, Sept. 14, and the Mille Lacs County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the agreement Tuesday at its meeting. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/crime-and-courts/4501203-tribal-police-mille-lacs-county-sheriff-reach-agreement...

  • BP: The court heads north: Minnesota Supreme Court – and its first American Indian justice – visit Red Lake

    Sep 19, 2018

    RED LAKE -- The gym quieted when Anne McKeig spoke. An associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court who grew up in Federal Dam and went on to be the state’s -- and almost certainly the nation’s -- first American Indian supreme court judge, she admonished the Red Lake students who chatted among themselves while Chief Justice Lorie Gildea told them about the state’s pardon board. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/education/4500626-court-heads-north-minnesota-supreme-court-%E2%80%93-and-its-first-american-indian...

  • 3rd Annual Food Summit held in Red Lake - P3

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Sep 19, 2018

    RED LAKE - The 3rd Annua Red Lake Nationl Food Summit was held in Red Lake on Friday and Saturday, September 14 and 15, 2018, at Red Lake Nation College. Hosted by the 4-Directions Development's Gitigaanike Foods Initiative, some of the topics included Decolonizing the Diet, Food is Medicine, Indigenous Ecological Sustainability, What a Successful Food System Looks Like, Food for the Future, and more. Saturday's morning session featured Outdoor Food Demonstrations and Food Samples, including...

  • Lady Warriors win home opener against Indus - P4

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Sep 19, 2018

    The Red Lake Lady Warriors hosted Indus on Thursday, September 13, 2018, winning the set in 3 games. Earlier, the JV defeated Indus in two games. Red Lake is now 1-1 on the season and will host Cass Lake on September 18, host Fon du Lac on September 20 and host Kelliher-Northome on September 27th....

  • Warriors fall to Walker-Hackensack-Akley in home opener 47-0 - P3

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Sep 19, 2018

    RED LAKE - The Red Lake Warrior Football team has their home opener on Friday, September 14, 2018, losing their third game of the season. The Warriors had to forfeit their first game on August 31 with Badger/Greenbush/Middle River because of a bus driver issue, and lost to Cass Lake-Bena on September 7, 38-14. They will travel to Red Lake County on September 21, host Warroad on October 5 and travel to Bagley on October 12. WHA is 2-2 on the season....

  • Students are back in School at Red Lake School District - P11

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Sep 19, 2018

    Red Lake School District students returned to school on Tuesday, September 4, 2018, along with others nearby in Clearbrook, Kelliher, Blackduck and Bemidji.. Red Lake High School Graduation is set for Saturday, June 1, 2019 and the last school day for District #38 is Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Pictures are some photographs taken early in the day. Photographs by members of the communities....

  • Ponemah Labor Day Pow Wow: Saturday Afternoon Session - P13

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Sep 19, 2018

    Ponemah Labor Day Pow Wow: Saturday Afternoon Session The new 2018-19 O-Bah-Shiing (Ponemah) Labor Day Royalty! Princess: Jade Cloud Brave: KaVern Kingbird Obashing Singing Contest 1st Place-Warpaint 2nd Place-High Noon 3rd Place-Southern Boyz 4th Place-Standing Horse 5th Place-Red Willow 6th Place-Pipestone...

  • Ponemah Labor Day Pow Wow: Friday Evening Session - P13

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Sep 19, 2018

    Ponemah Labor Day Pow Wow: Saturday Afternoon Session The new 2018-19 O-Bah-Shiing (Ponemah) Labor Day Royalty! Princess: Jade Cloud Brave: KaVern Kingbird Obashing Singing Contest 1st Place-Warpaint 2nd Place-High Noon 3rd Place-Southern Boyz 4th Place-Standing Horse 5th Place-Red Willow 6th Place-Pipestone...

  • Red Lake Fair and Pow Wow - Saturday Afternoon Session - P18

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Sep 19, 2018

    Red Lake Fair and Pow Wow - Saturday Afternoon Session...

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