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WASHINGTON – Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today announced awards totaling over $20 million to 106 state, city, tribal and municipal law enforcement agencies to establish and enhance law enforcement body-worn camera programs across the United States. The awards, funded under the Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA) Fiscal Year 2016 Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program, will help law enforcement organizations implement body-worn camera policies, practices and evaluation methods to make a posit...
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced more than $107 million in grants to American Indian and Alaska Native communities to improve public safety help victims and strengthen tribal institutions. The announcement was made at the Eighth Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference, taking place today and tomorrow. This amount includes 236 grants under the department’s Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS), totaling more than $102 million, to 131 American Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, tribal consortia and tri...
BEMIDJI—Bemidji Area Schools' plans to build a new elementary school took another step forward Monday. The Beltrami County Planning Commission voted to approve a conditional use permit and variance for the school district's plans to build Gene Dillon Elementary near the intersection of Division Street and Becida Road. The permit details the conditions the school district must meet to have the county's blessing for the project. Brent Rud, the county's director of environmental services, said most of the stipulations were common to any new c...
BEMIDJI—A Bemidji man will spend 10 years on probation after receiving a stayed sentence of four years and nine months in prison for criminal vehicular homicide Monday in Itasca County Court. Christopher Glenn Smith, 30, pleaded guilty last month to one count of felony criminal vehicular homicide. The stayed prison sentence means that he will not go to prison unless he violates the conditions of his probation, which include a 12-month jail sentence and a $1,085 fine. According to a criminal complaint, Smith was traveling south on state H...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Monday, Sept. 26, avoided direct mention of a pipeline that has provoked high-profile protests from Native Americans but urged tribal leaders to use the spotlight to continue pushing for recognition even after he leaves office. Obama spoke at his eighth and final Tribal Nations Conference, which he created during his first year in office. Leaders of more than 560 Native American tribes gathered for the Washington event as one of the largest Native American protests in decades continues in North Dakota....
BEMIDJI—An omnibus hearing for a Bemidji man charged with two counts of second-degree manslaughter in connection with the drowning death of his 2-year-old foster child has been pushed to October. Nathan Daniel Jackson's original omnibus hearing was scheduled for Aug. 15, but was pushed to Monday. Jackson appeared briefly in court Monday, where his attorney told the court his case was still being investigated, and asked Judge John Melbye to again push back the hearing. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4123419-hearing-bemidj...
ST. PAUL—A new Minnesota presidential poll continues to show a closer contest than is common in the state, with Hillary Clinton up by 7 points. However, if Minnesota voters are like Americans in general, half were waiting for debates to begin to make up their minds. A just-released SurveyUSA poll from the Twin Cities' KSTP-TV indicates that if the election were held before the Monday, Sept. 26, opening presidential debate that 46 percent would vote for Democrat Clinton while 39 percent were behind Republican Trump. http://ww...
ST. PAUL—Minnesotans must be eager to vote in the Nov. 8 election. Nearly 47,000 registered to vote online last week, with about 27,000 on Friday, Sept. 23, alone, smashing the one-day record of 7,602. Secretary of State Steve Simon announced the figures on Monday, Sept. 26. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/4123497-minnesota-smashes-one-day-record-voter-registration...
Joey Lynn May October 9, 1979 ~ September 25, 2016 (age 36) Obituary and service details are currently pending and will be published soon by the Dennis Funeral Home....
Elizabeth Clements Born: Mon., Apr. 11, 1932 Died: Thu., Sep. 22, 2016 Visitation 1:00 PM Mon., Sep. 26, 2016 Location: S. Lake Fire and Community Center Funeral Service 4:00 PM Tue., Sep. 27, 2016 Location: S. Lake Fire and Community Center Elizabeth Clements, "Mabaanookwe" which means "Lady Who Is Going", age 84, of Saint Paul, Minnesota went home on September 22, 2016 from Regions Hospital in Saint Paul, MN. She was born on April 11, 1932 in Alvwood Township, Itasca County, MN, the daughter o...
DENVER, Colo. - The U.S. Department of Commerce's Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) honored Meda (Metropolitan Economic Development Association) as the top performing MBDA Business Center in the nation. The award was given to Meda last week during the annual MBDA National Training Conference in Denver, Colorado. "We all should be celebrating Meda's recognition as the top performer out of the 44 MBDA centers located throughout the United States," Gary L. Cunningham, Meda President & CEO, remarked, "This is a testament to the tenacity...
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – In a relentlessly antagonistic debate, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed over trade, the Iraq war, his refusal to release his tax returns and her use of a private e-mail server, with Trump frequently showing impatience and political inexperience as Clinton pushed him to defend his past denigration of women and President Obama. Trump repeatedly interrupted Clinton and at times talked over her throughout the 90-minute debate, making attacks that surely pleased his Republican base but may have been off-putting to women a...
A man died following an officer-involved shooting Monday night in Burnsville. A reportedly suicidal man left an apartment complex on the 1600 block of Cliff Road, and he had a gun, according to Burnsville police, who responded to a call at 8:25 p.m. When officers were told the man had left the building and was armed, they began searching for him. A State Patrol helicopter was called in to help with the search. At about 9:30 p.m., heat sensors from the helicopter detected someone in a tree line near the apartment complex. When officers approach...
At least 5,300 Wells Fargo employees have been fired for ethics violations like setting up illicit accounts without customers’ knowledge to meet sales targets. Now there is another group of aggrieved Wells Fargo workers: people who say they were fired or demoted for staying honest and falling short of sales goals they say were unrealistic. That second group of workers, who claim that they played by the rules and were punished for it, are starting to coalesce around two lawsuits that were just filed and that seek class-action status. The first w...
The gunman forced his way into the car, snatched Brittany Rock’s cellphone from her hand and smashed his weapon across the right side of her face. Rock’s vision went black, but all she could think about was saving her little sister, Samantha Burnette, who was asleep in the back seat. Rock jumped out of the car and groped for the handle to her sister’s door. That’s when her vision returned. What she saw next haunts her: The gunman shot her 16-year-old sister in the head as she woke up and tried to flee. http://www.startribune...
BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota state inspection of an oil pipeline site has found no sign of the Native American artifacts or human remains that an American Indian Tribe says are present, the state's chief archaeologist said in a draft memo. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had cited the potential for burial grounds and other artifacts as a major reason to lead protests that have stymied completion of the project. Chief Archaeologist Paul Picha said in the memo first published Monday by conservative blogger Rob Port that seven state a...
The Obama administration has settled lawsuits with 17 American Indian tribes who accused the federal government of long mismanaging their funds and natural resources. With these settlements, the administration will have resolved the majority of outstanding claims, some that date back a century, with more than 100 tribes and totaling more than $3.3 billion, according to the Justice and Interior departments. “This is an important achievement that will end, honorably and fairly, decades of contention that not only sapped valuable resources, but a...
As their strike against Allina Health enters week four, hospital nurses have found unexpected ways to pay their bills — discovering that their people skills, arm strength and endurance are useful in all kinds of professions. “We lift 400-pound patients. We wrestle patients who are going through detox,” said Lisa Kielas, who has cobbled together income by helping the local stagehands’ union take down exhibits at the Minneapolis Convention Center, then did some food testing for FPI Testers, then starting giving plasma twice a week at $50 per vis...
I don’t envy Lester Holt. No matter what he does in the first presidential debate, he’ll be denounced. But this certainty should be liberating. If you know the brickbats will come one way or the other, you might as well do the right thing. But is there a “right thing” that doesn’t coincide with someone’s political agenda? That is precisely the wrong question, since ANY choice he makes will be interpreted as favoring one candidate over the other. What should matter are the obligations of journalists in a democratic society. For debate mode...
OAK HARBOR, Wash. — The 20-year-old man suspected of killing five people with a rifle at a Macy's makeup counter had a string of run-ins with the law in recent years, including charges he assaulted his stepfather, and was described by a neighbor as so "creepy, rude and obnoxious" that she kept a Taser by her front door. As investigators tried to piece together information on Arcan Cetin, who was arrested Saturday evening after a nearly 24-hour manhunt, a picture emerged of a troubled young man. Court records show more than a half-dozen c...
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – The first presidential debate more than lived up to expectations, a noisy clash between two determined adversaries that produced electric moments and substantive difference. In the early stages, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump seemed evenly matched, but the longer it went on, the more she was able to score against him. History has shown that presidential debates, for all their hype, ultimately produce few changes in the trajectory of an election. That could be the case again this year, but there’s little doubt that what too...
The Métis toddler at the centre of a custody dispute remains in limbo — somewhere in B.C. — while all sides fight over where she will grow up. She was scheduled to be flown to her new family Sept. 23, but that has been delayed, while a renewed battle over her future ensues. This weekend the B.C. Métis Federation demanded Justice Minister Suzanne Anton return the child to the foster family where the girl – known only as S.S.— has lived since birth. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/m%C3%A9tis-foster-care-s-s-remo...
Phoenix could soon join a collection of cities that hold alternative celebrations on Columbus Day to commemorate the history and contributions of Native American cultures. City leaders are considering whether to establish Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October. Supporters say the event would promote a more accurate understanding of history and celebrate the city's large, vibrant Native American population. Native American activists have fought for decades to rename the federal Columbus Day holiday. They say it perpetuates a...
A private firm that conducted the environmental review for the highly contentious Dakota Access Pipeline was simultaneously working for Energy Transfer, the company behind the project, on a connecting pipeline. A DeSmog investigation also found that during the review period, the firm -- Perennial Environmental Services LLC ("Perennial") -- advocated for opening new regions for oil and gas drilling. In 2014, Energy Transfer hired Perennial, a Houston-based environmental consultancy, to perform the Environmental Assessment (EA) for its...
The clock is ticking for the embattled Dakota Access Pipeline as its developer, Energy Transfer, faces a battle in federal court that could easily take another year. It also is looking at a possible injunction that the company says would cost irreparable financial harm of $1.4 billion and is holding a construction permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that is only valid for another six months. While the company, which had scheduled to have revenue and oil flowing by the end of the year, has indicated it’s committed to getting the $3.8 b...
