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Volkswagen shares plunged more than 20 percent on Monday, their biggest ever one-day fall, after news that the German carmaker had rigged U.S. emissions tests, and Germany said it would investigate whether data had been falsified in Europe too. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday that the world's biggest carmaker used software for diesel VW and Audi branded cars that deceived regulators measuring toxic emissions and could face penalties of up to $18 billion. http://www.startribune.com/volkswagen-sha...
ALBANY, Ga. — A former peanut company executive was sentenced Monday to 28 years in prison for his role in a deadly salmonella outbreak, the stiffest punishment ever handed out to a producer in a foodborne illness case. The outbreak in 2008 and 2009 was blamed for nine deaths and sickened hundreds more, and triggered one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history. http://www.startribune.com/boy-testifies-at-sentencing-in-salmonella-peanut-butter-case/328535911/...
FARGO – In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, as the poem goes. Any official city recognition of the holiday that commemorates the famed explorer may also sail away if Fargo’s Native American Commission gets its way. The commission will vote tonight on a recommendation urging the Fargo City Commission to replace the Columbus Day holiday on city calendars with a holiday called “Indigenous Peoples' Day,” said Fargo cultural planner Willard Yellow Bird Jr. http://bismarcktribune.com/fargo-native-commission-aims-t...
The Suquamish Tribe and the State of Washington recently signed and entered into the nation’s first marijuana compact to allow a Native American Tribe to cultivate, process, and sell marijuana within a state’s highly regulated marijuana system. I previously blogged about how Washington was the first state to adopt a compacting system for tribes and regulated marijuana, but this signed compact reveals more about what tribes can expect when they “partner” with Washington State on cannabis. Other states are also looking at enacting their own com...
Fond du Lac Reservation (NNCNOW.COM ) --- Enbridge is prepping for an important test of one of its pipelines. Line 2B will eventually carry oil from Canada's tar sands, through the Northland, ending in Superior. http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/Fond-du-Lac-tribal-members-concerned-over-Enbridge-pipeline-328587351.html...
DENVER -- Oasis Petroleum has been assessed a $72,438 fine for failing to make royalty payments on oil production on the Fort Berthold Reservation, the Department of Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue announced Monday. The civil penalty was for failing to make royalty payments on production from an American Indian lease between February 2013 and June 2014, the Office of Natural Resources Revenue said. The company eventually paid the royalties in July 2014....
The family of a Winnipeg woman missing for more than four years is calling on police to hold a news conference to drum up clues in her disappearance. Tanya Nepinak, 31, went missing from downtown Winnipeg in September 2011. Convicted killer Shawn Lamb was charged in her death in June 2012, but the charges were later stayed. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/tanya-nepinak-s-family-wants-police-to-renew-calls-for-information-on-case-1.3237041...
TULALIP — Detectives are asking anyone who may have witnessed a man’s death in police custody on Friday to come forward, along with anyone else with potential information. Cecil D. Lacy, 50, of the Marysville-Tulalip area, died after a struggle with officers. Police on Monday wouldn’t specify what kinds of force officers employed before the death. His cause and manner of death remain under investigation by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150921/NEWS01/150929796...
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. government cannot dismiss claims over their handling of tribal trust accounts, a federal judge ruled, advancing a lawsuit by the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation and nine other federally recognized American Indian tribes. "The federal government has held funds and assets in trust for American Indian tribe beneficiaries for well over a century," U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan wrote. "Unfortunately, the federal government has failed to discharge its fiduciary duties in its role as trustee for t...
Native American tribes are pushing back against a provision of Obamacare mandating that tribal governments provide health insurance to their employees. Tribal leaders say it’s a “misinterpretation” of the law that will cost millions of dollars. When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2009, lawmakers exempted Native Americans from the individual mandate, shielding them from having to pay a fine for not having insurance. Native Americans could, however, purchase health insurance on the federal exchange, HealthCare.gov, and have acces...
WASHINGTON – On Friday, September 18, 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final guidance regarding per capita distributions made to members of Indian tribes from funds held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior. Developed in response to requests from tribal nations, the guidance concludes that per capita payments to tribal members from such trust accounts generally are not subject to taxation. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/treasury-department-tribal-members-trust-per...
Two Southern Arizona tribal communities will receive U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants to help beat back mold in homes. The Tohono O’odham Nation and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe will receive $800,000 each to renovate homes. The Tohono O'odham will match its grant with $650,000 in tribal funds. The money will pay for 10 1970s-era homes to be stripped to their foundations and exterior walls, and remodeled. Evaporative cooling systems will be replaced with central air conditioning and the homes' plumbing will be redone. The T...
Police say a 5-year-old girl is recovering in hospital in London, Ont., after an alleged assault on the Kasabonika Lake First Nation on September 16. "We are currently investigating an incident in Kasabonika where a young child was found to have suffered injuries from an assault involving other youth," says Sgt. Jackie George, speaking from the Nishnawbi-Aski Police Service's Thunder Bay detachment. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/young-girl-recovering-after-alleged-attack-on-northern-ontario-first-nation-1.3237513...
HAVRE, Mont. - A Havre businessman charged in a corruption investigation at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation will be sentenced in December after he pleaded guilty to failing to file currency transaction reports. Shad Huston pleaded guilty on Thursday to not reporting financial transactions when his money service business cashed checks of more than $10,000. Those 19 checks included money for the family members of Chippewa Cree tribal leaders who have been convicted in the corruption probe. http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/sentenc...
Flagstaff, Ariz. • Calling the punishment too lenient, a judge has rejected a plea deal that called for a 10-year sentence in a homicide case on tribal land in which the victim was stabbed and his body dismembered and burned. Mario Chagolla Jr. is now scheduled to go on trial in federal court later this year in the gruesome 2013 killing of Dwayne Beauty during a card game on the Yavapai-Apache reservation about 90 miles north of Phoenix. http://www.sltrib.com/home/2976589-155/judge-rejects-plea-in-homicide-saying...
