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Minnesota employers cut 5,700 jobs last month, but the state’s jobless rate fell to a seasonally adjusted 3.8 percent, down from the 4 percent level where it hovered in July and August. The losses are marginal in a state where there are 3 million jobs, but they are another sign of slowing performance by one of the strongest employment markets in the country. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-lost-5-700-jobs-in-september-but-jobless-rate-also-fell/333057501/...
WASHINGTON — Older Americans got a double dose of bad news Thursday: There will be no cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits next year, and Medicare bills are set to soar for many. It's just the third time in 40 years that Social Security payments will remain flat. All three times have come since 2010. The annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, by law is based on a government measure of inflation that was released Thursday. Low gas prices — a boon to all Americans — are driving down consumer prices. Currently the average price...
Federal prosecutors said a woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than half a million dollars from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Exact details of how the embezzlement unfolded were not immediately released. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma said Carma Lynn Elliott, 45, of Durant, pled guilty to a charge of embezzlement from Indian tribal organizations. http://www.mcalesternews.com/news/woman-pleads-guilty-to-embezzling-from-choctaw-nation/article_79bf769c-7381-11e5-97f5-97701f28b0b...
Haskell Students are working to make Indigenous Peoples Day an annual day of celebration. Monday was proclaimed Indigenous Peoples Day by the city of Lawrence, but it was just for this year. Now, students are petitioning to make the second Monday of every October, forever onward as Indigenous Peoples Day. "I believe that it's very vital,” said Barbara Wolfin, senior American Indian Studies major. “It's vital to my existence and its also vital to the existence to my, not only my future Haskell students, but hopefully for the next gen...
MONTEREY, Calif. - Investigators are looking for the vandals who decapitated a statue of Saint Junipero Serra at Monterey’s Lower Presidio Park. This comes just weeks after vandals hit another Serra statue at the Carmel Mission. "I was saddened, greatly saddened,” said Dennis Copeland, a historian for the City of Monterey. Copeland said it’s a devastating blow to the city’s historic art collection. The granite sculpture has been at the park since 1891. http://www.kionrightnow.com/news/local-news/junipero-serra-statue-decapit...
Shaun Gindi brought a duffel bag stuffed with a thousand $20 bills to open a checking account at his local Chase branch. The bank closed his account after a week. As the owner of two marijuana shops and a weed warehouse in Colorado, where the drug is legal, Gindi is a pariah to banks, which face expensive compliance hurdles and uncertain legal consequences because the marijuana business still violates federal law. Of the more than 7,600 banks and credit unions in the U.S., only about 220 accept cannabis cash, according to the Department of the...
PINE RIDGE, SD - Tribal leaders on the Pine Ridge Reservation have been searching for solutions to tragic bursts of suicides that have included children. Thursday they brought the problem and the need for help to South Dakota Sen. John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem. The two Republican members of South Dakota’s three-person congressional delegation went to the Pine Ridge Reservation Thursday to talk about suicide rates, criminal justice needs and problems with budget shortfalls there and in other areas. http://www.keloland.com/n...
More than half of Manitoba's 63 First Nations communities have been under at least one drinking water advisory since 2004, a CBC News analysis of Health Canada data has found. As bad as that may seem, Manitoba's rate of First Nations water advisories is the lowest in Canada. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/iteam/drinking-water-advisories-hit-more-than-half-of-manitoba-first-nations-1.3271226...
HELENA — A judge has signed an arrest warrant for a woman who is accused of hitting a Montana daycare owner with a shovel. District Judge James Manley issued the warrant Wednesday for the arrest of Tashiana Schlensker, who is still at large. Lake County officials say Ronan daycare owner Martha McClure was caring for three young children belonging to Schlensker's boyfriend, Francis Joseph Jackson, on Oct. 7. http://billingsgazette.com/news/crime/warrant-issued-for-woman-accused-of-attacking-daycare-owner/article_b9df2087-bbea...
In the eighth grade, Isabella Cornell's history teacher taught students that Native Americans are "violent, vicious vermin" and connected their culture to cannibalism. Fellow students immediately started bullying Cornell -- who is Choctaw -- and asked if she ate other human beings. "This is direct bullying, but nothing can be done about it because that’s what the teacher said," Cornell told government officials in November 2014. "So my sister, mother, and I came into the school and presented on the actual history of Columbus. We shouldn’t hav...
A small community in B.C.'s Interior is reeling after a young man allegedly attacked almost a dozen people in a band office, leaving the suspect dead and 11 people injured. "Everyone's still in shock," said Xwisten (Bridge River Band) Chief Susan James. "We're a large family here. These people have worked together for years." James said she felt "overwhelmed" with support from fellow band members and from across the province. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/attack-band-lillooet-1.3271168...
As Saul Terry’s younger sister, Sharon, lies in hospital recovering from a hammer blow to the head, the 73-year-old former chief of the tiny Bridge River Indian Band said any number of systemic problems could have triggered the fatal outburst of violence that has horrified his small community. His soft-spoken sister, a long-time administrator with the band, suffered a fractured skull Wednesday morning when a young man who lived across the street walked into the office and began attacking people with a hammer, he said. http:/...
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - A former pharmacist at the Rocky Boy Health Clinic has pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns in an agreement that calls for him to spend nine months in prison and pay $163,000 in fines and restitution. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 43-year-old Darin Lee Miller of Havre entered his plea Tuesday during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls. Miller was taken into custody and his sentencing was set for Jan. 21. If Morris rejects the plea agreement, Miller could choose to face trial...
