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A car struck and killed a pedestrian at a busy Minnetonka intersection shortly before dawn Wednesday, authorities said. The crash occurred about 6:15 a.m. on Hwy. 7 at County Road 101, according to the State Patrol. Westbound Hwy. 7 at County Road 101 remains closed with emergency responders on the scene, the Minnesota Department of Transportation said. http://www.startribune.com/pedestrian-hit-and-killed-near-minnetonka-hs-westbound-hwy-7-closed/394263071/...
ST. CLOUD – In a city torn by violence, hundreds of people came together Tuesday night in a show of unity. It’s been three days since 20-year-old Dahir Adan turned the Crossroads mall into a scene of bloodshed and terror. For the students who sat in class with him at St. Cloud State University, the terror and grief linger. “In recent nights, there have been nights when I wake up crying,” third-year student Barwaaqo Dirir told a crowd of hundreds gathered on campus. She knew Adan. Or thought she did. “My heart is heavy with a desperate...
Dig out your umbrellas, because Wednesday is going to be a wet one. Forecasters are predicting 2 to 4 inches of rain around the Twin Cities metro, with multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms sweeping southern Minnesota and continuing into Wednesday evening. A flash flood watch was in effect for 10 counties, including Sherburne, Isanti, Chisago, Wright, Hennepin, Anoka and Ramsey, from 10 p.m. Tuesday until 7 a.m. Thursday, said the National Weather Service in Chanhassen. Soil is already saturated from recent storms, and river levels are...
Half of Minnesotans are happy with the job President Obama is doing as he heads into his final months in office, according to a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. The poll found that 50 percent of Minnesotans approve of Obama’s job performance, and 44 percent do not approve. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Obama’s approval ratings in Minnesota mirror similar polls around the country, where the two-term Democrat has seen his approval ratings climb in recent months, signaling that he could finish his term as...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A black police officer shot an armed black man at a Charlotte, North Carolina, apartment complex Tuesday, authorities said, prompting angry street protests late into the night. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department tweeted that demonstrators were destroying marked police vehicles and that approximately 12 officers had been injured, including one who was hit in the face with a rock. Television coverage showed police firing tear gas to break up the crowd. The protests came just hours after another demonstration in T...
A White Bear Lake man is jailed for financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult after two bodies were discovered in the home he shared with his elderly mother and twin brother. Authorities say the bodies were discovered after a neighbor hadn’t seen the residents for some time and asked for a welfare check. The bodies “appeared to have been there for an extended period of time,” police said. “It is unclear, at this point, how or when the individuals died,” the police said in a news release. http://www.startribune.com/white-b...
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin knew exactly what to say Tuesday to impress the 18,000 Minnesota schoolchildren celebrating their volunteer and charity work for the fourth annual WE Day at Xcel Energy Center. “Did you know I took the first selfie in space?” Aldrin said. The already hyped crowd, glowing with smartphone screens, went wild. http://www.startribune.com/18-000-kids-celebrate-their-good-work-at-we-day-at-xcel-center/394207021/#1...
NEW YORK — Target's board has approved the repurchase of $5 billion of its shares. The retailer said that it will start purchasing shares under the new buyback once it completes its current $10 billion repurchase program, which is expected before fiscal 2016's end. Target Corp.'s board also declared a quarterly dividend of 60 cents per share. The dividend will be paid on Dec. 10 to shareholders of record on Nov. 16. http://www.startribune.com/target-board-approves-new-5-billion-buyback/394260591/...
WASHINGTON — Another month, another global heat record smashed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday said August's temperature of 61.74 degrees (16.52 Celsius) was .09 degrees (.05 Celsius) warmer than the old August record set last year, and was the 16th consecutive month of record-breaking heat. NOAA monitoring chief Deke Arndt said it was also the hottest summer, with 2016 on pace to smash last year's record for the hottest year. August 2016 was also 1.66 degrees (0.92 Celsius) warmer than the 20th-century a...
Minnesota House Republicans on Tuesday criticized Gov. Mark Dayton for authorizing a total of $79,000 in severance payments to three state agency heads during his time as governor. Receiving the payments were: former Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Mark Phillips, who got $27,097 upon leaving the post in November 2012. His successor Katie Clark Sieben, who left the job in April of this year, got $33,750. Sheila Wright, who departed as director of the Office of Higher Education in September 2011 after just eight...
LISTEN: Chairman Dave Archambault II addresses the United Nations Human Rights Council The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is bringing the #NoDAPL movement to the international stage. Chairman Dave Archambault II met with U.S. Ambassador Keith Harper in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday to talk about his tribe's resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/09/20/chairman-of-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-sp.asp...
BISMARCK – Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II on Tuesday, Sept. 20, brought the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline to Geneva, Switzerland, asking members of the United Nations Human Rights Commission to condemn “the deliberate destruction of our sacred places.” Archambault told the commission the 1,172-mile, $3.8 billion pipeline that would move 450,000 barrels of crude daily from the Bakken oil fields to a hub in Illinois “threatens our communities, the river and the earth.” The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has pause...
Sept. 19 — The fight over the Dakota Access pipeline is making things awkward for the junior senator from North Dakota. On the one hand, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, one of the most fossil-fuel-friendly Democrats in the Senate, is a staunch advocate of her state’s oil and gas industry. At the same time, Heitkamp, who serves on the Indian Affairs Committee, has vowed to support Native American tribes whose reliably Democratic votes helped deliver her 2012 election victory in a very red state. http://www.bna.com/heitkamp-caught-consti...
A federal judge on Friday dissolved a temporary restraining order against several leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe but had harsh words for some who are resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Chairman Dave Archambault II and seven other leaders of the North Dakota tribe were arrested on August 12 for allegedly interfering with construction of the controversial project. The Dakota Access partnership then secured a restraining order that prevented the defendants from going near any worksites. But Judge Daniel L. Hovland said the...
We recently had another example of the main problem with pipelines; they break. That’s part of the beast’s nature, whether the tubes carry water, oil, or gas. Even cracks result in waste. When the carried substance is water, leaks can be messy and costly in the loss of an important resource. The same is true for gas and oil pipeline breakage, in addition to real costs in damages to the environment and human health. Since 1996, according to a 20-year trend report from the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safet...
A joint task force led by the Morton County Sheriff's Department is investigating the clash between protesters and private security with dogs from Labor Day weekend. A news release from the department sent Tuesday said the probe will focus on the actions of the guards hired by Dakota Access and whether they were licensed to work in the state. It will also look into whether native artifacts were disturbed during construction that day and the actions of protesters. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said in a statement he is "using all tools...
Last week, the federal government temporarily blocked construction of the 1,134 miles Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) which was supposed to carry 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the Dakotas to Illinois. The Standing Rock Sioux and other tribal nations claimed, with the support of environmentalist groups, that the pipeline would damage their environment and cultural sites. This decision is the result of a new kind of environmental activism that treats energy pipelines as a chokepoint for activities that contribute to global warming, and...
Hundreds of people from Northwest tribes and others gathered in Seattle Friday to support the Standing Rock Sioux’s fight to block the Dakota Access Pipeline from encroaching onto land they consider sacred and potentially threatening the tribe’s water supply. Holding signs that said “Water is Life” and “#NoDAPL,” the demonstrators marched from Seattle City Hall to Westlake Park. Matt Remle, who is Lakota, led the march with dozens of other drummers and addressed the crowd. http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2016/09/19/northwest...
The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon are moving slowly when it comes to putting the descendants of a chief back on the rolls. The 86 descendants of Chief Tumulth won a major tribal court ruling more than a month ago. But the tribe has yet to restore them to membership and they've already missed an election as a result, The Salem Statesman Journal reports. "We are descendants of Chief Tumulth and he signed the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855. That's the original Grand Ronde document," descendant Debi Anderson told the tribal...
The Hopi Tribe has been split on whether tourism is a good idea. With half the tribe unemployed many have said it’s their best chance at economic development. But some worry inviting tourists to their villages has left them vulnerable to thieves. Many travelers visiting the Southwest have driven more than a hundred miles from the Grand Canyon to Hopi, the isolated reservation in northeastern Arizona. A sign on First Mesa read: “All visitors must be accompanied by a tour guide from this point.” But many have ignored the sign. On a recent visit...
The federal government has agreed to postpone final approval of a multi-million-dollar settlement with Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge, Inc., a move that will allow time for a Native American tribe from the northeast shore of Lake Michigan to protest terms of the agreement. In the wake of objections to the settlement by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and a pledge by the Obama administration to be more sensitive to Native American concerns, the U.S. Department of Justice has extended the deadline for comments on the...
AZTEC — The Navajo Nation will take over management of three fire stations currently operated by San Juan County on Oct. 4. The tribe was initially scheduled to take over the stations on Oct. 1, but the San Juan County Commission today unanimously approved transferring the Shiprock, Newcomb and Ojo Amarillo fire stations to the Navajo Nation after the conclusion of the Northern Navajo Nation Fair in Shiprock. "My thoughts are to give them the extra week because they need that extra protection," Commissioner Jack Fortner said during the m...
FARMINGTON — Charley Joe Jr. was arraigned this morning, accused of murder in the death of his 66-year-old brother, Jonathan Joe, a farmer and rancher who was found dead Friday morning of ax wounds at his residence near Mesa Farm Road in Shiprock. Charley Joe Jr. appeared in Farmington Municipal Court in shackles and an orange jumpsuit, and requested a court-appointed attorney. The Joe family attended the hearing. Charley Joe Jr. declined to comment about the murder. http://www.daily-times.com/story/news/crime/2016/09/20/bro...
Texas leaders apparently figured they could get away with ignoring federal court rulings about their voting procedures. Ignoring as in violating. For a couple of months now, they’ve been publicizing false claims about the state’s voter ID requirements for the November election. On Tuesday Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos slapped them down hard. She’s indicated anger in previous rulings on voting procedures, but as Ian Millhiser at Think Progress notes, this time “she’s pissed.” Consequently, she dished out some specific instructions about what...
Forty-five years ago, mercury pollution from a pulp and paper mill poisoned hundreds of kilometres of waterways in northwestern Ontario. Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation, also known as Grassy Narrows, often makes headlines for its fight against the mercury poisoning. But few have heard of a tiny community called Wabaseemoong, also called Whitedog, just downstream. Located approximately 100 kilometres northeast of Kenora, the community still grapples with the lingering effects of the methylmercury poisoning — a condition known as Minamata d...
