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You're Invited to Celebrate with Red Lake Chemical Health Programs and the Red Lake Tribal College for a night of entertainment and healing. Presenting: Jon Roberts, Ojibwe Outlaw and Tom Barrett presenting "The Anti-Opioid Video." Friday, September 28, 2018, 6:00 to 8:00 pm, with Feast at 7:30 pm at the Red Lake Nation College Cafeteria Drawings will be held throughout the event. Contact: Reyna Lussier 679-1547 or Karen Barrett 679-3392 Sponsored by: M.A.R.S Program...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A major law enforcement operation targeting drug trafficking in and around Indian Country in North Carolina has resulted in the arrest of more than 75 individuals on federal, state and tribal charges, announced U.S. Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke and Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Additionally, the months-long operation yielded more than 248 pounds of illegal substances including heroin, methamphetamine, and hundreds of opioid pills with an estimated street value of $2 million. O...
It is a big question without an easy answer: Are New York’s students improving in reading, writing and math? Last spring, 950,000 third- through eighth-graders across New York State took standardized English and math exams. Across the state, they seem to have done better. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/nyregion/test-scores-new-york.html...
For Liat Tamam, the daily, tearful battles over homework started soon after her daughter entered kindergarten. “It just became this huge drama,” the Bushwick-based mother of two tells The Post of the heated fights between her and her 6-year-old daughter, Rosa. “It was very challenging for me personally to get her to sit down and do homework,” she says, “but I also didn’t want her to be behind her class.” https://nypost.com/2018/09/26/more-schools-are-nixing-homework-because-parents-say-its-annoying/...
WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Construction will start next spring on apartment-style housing for West Virginia public school teachers in McDowell County. Reconnecting McDowell says the public-private group's board has approved a plan of the $7 million Welch building that will have two floors of apartments and two floors of commercial space. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/west-virginia/articles/2018-09-26/groundbreaking-set-for-teacher-housing-in-west-virginia...
As the Trump administration continues its crackdown on undocumented immigrants, school officials across the country report that the heightened enforcement has caused widespread turbulence. Students express fear that schools are cooperating with immigration authorities, and educators have noted an increase in emotional and behavioral problems. A recent survey of K-12 educators conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles, highlighted the phenomenon with harrowing examples. In California, a high school teacher observed a girl who...
Movie & Pizza Night - Saturday, October 6, 2018 - Ages 10-17 First come, first serve - Limit 20 kids - 2 per household No adults - Chaperones provided Sign u with Jessica, Jr. or Sara at Indian Free Program - 679-3321...
LINCOLN, Neb.—The developer of the Keystone XL oil pipeline plans to start construction next year, after a U.S. State Department review ordered by a federal judge concluded that major environmental damage from a leak is unlikely and could quickly be mitigated, a company spokesman said Sept. 25. TransCanada spokesman Matthew John said the company remains committed to moving ahead with the project following years of reviews from federal and state regulators. The company has already started preparing pipe yards, transporting pipe and mowing p...
Two Nebraska state senators who have teamed on other Native issues and projects will introduce a bill in January to investigate missing Native women and cases of violence against them. Sens. Tom Brewer of Gordon and Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln will model the bill after one passed in Washington state this year that directed its state patrol to study how to increase resources toward reporting and identifying missing Native women. http://www.hastingstribune.com/news/state/nebraska/senators-want-to-step-up-investigations-of-...
BUNCOMBE COUNTY, NC (WYFF) - A joint undercover operation has shut down a major drug distribution network on Native American land in Western North Carolina, according to news release from the Department of Justice. The investigation by the Department of Interior’s Opioid Reduction Task Force, in coordination with the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Cherokee Indian Police Department and multiple federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, began in March 2018 in and around the Qualla Boundary. http://www.wistv.com/...
Scores of consumers swindled by former race car driver Scott Tucker’s illegal payday loan businesses will receive refund checks worth a combined $505 million from federal agencies who investigated the disgraced Leawood businessman. The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department announced Thursday that it is mailing out more than 1 million checks to consumers of Tucker’s businesses from 2008 to 2013. Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article219141220.html#storylink=cpy...
A Fox News contributor lost his gig at the network after attacking the women who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Kevin Jackson went on a Twitter tirade Thursday during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, attacking Christine Blasey Ford and the two other women who have gone public with claims about the Supreme Court justice nominee. https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2018/09/27/fox-news-contributor-fired-after-calling-brett-kavanaughs-accusers-lying-skanks/23544291/...
LAURINBURG — Scotland County sheriff’s investigators are looking for a Laurel Hill man who is wanted on 36 felony sex crimes against a minor child. According to a “Wanted Person Advisory” Facebook post on Wednesday, the Detective Division of the Scotland County Sheriff’s Office is searching for Waymon Ray Bartley, 40, whose address is listed as Peeles Chapel Road in Laurel Hill but reportedly also is associated with an address in Maxton. https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/18553/wanted-on-36-sex-charges...
