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Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into city contracts awarded to private companies that operate the city’s massive yellow school bus system, sources said. The FBI served a subpoena recently on the contracts division in the Education Department’s Office of Pupil Transportation at its sprawling headquarters on Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City, Queens. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-metro-feds-probe-city-school-bus-corruption-20181112-story.html...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Chickasaw Nation warriors laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery Monday, Nov. 12, to honor veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice defending freedom. Four Chickasaw Vietnam War veterans represented their tribe at the national shrine. They included Ada, Oklahoma, resident Gene Jefferson, a Marine sergeant who served as a helicopter machine gun operator; Donald Yegge, a Loyalton, California, resident who served as a gunner's mate in the N...
TISHOMINGO, Okla. – Historically accurate craftsmanship of Native American weapons has made Chickasaw citizen Eric Smith recognized among Hollywood movie-makers. In December, he will add another accomplishment to his resumé – published author. "The Warriors tools: Plains Indian bows, arrows and quivers" will hit bookstores and retail businesses Dec. 4. It is published by Roadrunner Press. "I am very excited about it. Roadrunner Press is out of Oklahoma City and has published many Native Amer...
ST. PAUL – Graco, internationally recognized manufacturer of fluid handling equipment for industrial and commercial applications, plans to create 84 jobs and invest $73 million to expand its operations in Rogers at the David A. Koch Center. Graco said the project will add 480,000-square-feet to the existing 316,000-square-foot manufacturing, office and product development facility. The new jobs are expected to be created within four years and pay wages that average $21.16 an hour. The company will receive the funding after it meets i...
As California firefighters work to contain the largest wildfire in state history, they find themselves working their 24-hour shifts alongside a group of unlikely partners: 3,400 inmates from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The groups work in unison, but while salaried California firefighters earn an annual mean wage of $74,000 plus benefits, inmates earn just $2 per day with an additional $1 per hour when fighting an active fire. Inmates without histories of arson, sexual crimes, kidnapping, gang-affiliation,...
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture along with the Sustainable Farming Association and other partners are working together to bring Dave Pratt and his Ranching for Profit workshops to Minnesota in December. Pratt’s tool box full of simple but effective processes have earned him a reputation for getting to the heart of the problem and finding win-win solutions. Mr. Pratt’s workshop, “The Three Secrets for Increasing Profit” will teach producers to run their operation as a business instead of a low-paying, physically demanding job. He will...
James Armstrong, the man accused in the April 12, 2017, shooting death of his cousin Ralph Sebastian Sidberry, won't be going to trial any time soon and is expected to be confined to the state hospital for the criminally insane for the foreseeable future. The 31-year-old Eastern Pequot Tribal member continues to suffer from schizophrenia and personality disorders and is not competent to stand trial, according to a court document and testimony at a hearing Tuesday in New London Superior Court. A clinical team from the Whiting Forensic Hospital...
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed against the Nisqually tribe's jail by a man who says he was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting, spent 19 days in custody and suffered a stroke. The Olympian reports the civil rights lawsuit was filed Friday on behalf of Kevin Michael Bell. It seeks unspecified damages, although a previously-filed tort claim in federal court seeks $12 million. https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Nisqually-jail-sued-over-inmate-s-stroke-13391058.php...
Hate crimes against Native Americans increased a whopping 63 percent in the first year of Donald Trump's presidency, according to new data released by the FBI. Law enforcement agencies across the nation reported 251 hate crime incidents against American Indians and Alaska Natives in 2017. That represents a significant jump from the 154 incidents seen as the Barack Obama era came to a close. https://www.indianz.com/News/2018/11/13/antiindian-hate-crimes-rose-dramatically.asp...
Scientists behind a major study that claimed the Earth’s oceans are warming faster than previously thought now say their work contained inadvertent errors that made their conclusions seem more certain than they actually are. Two weeks after the high-profile study was published in the journal Nature, its authors have submitted corrections to the publication. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, home to several of the researchers involved, also noted the problems in the scientists' work and corrected a news release on its website, which p...
When people hear the word research, they usually imagine laboratories and crisp white coats. They picture academics armed with data sets, far-removed from the people or issues they’re studying. for one University of Oklahoma-Tulsa researcher and activist, research looks very different than the traditional model, and her commitment to collaboration and use of research as a means for social change is having a positive impact on Oklahoma and the country. Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan a George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Community Medicine, S...
Sheryl Sandberg was seething. Inside Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It was September 2017, more than a year after Facebook engineers discovered suspicious Russia-linked activity on its site, an early warning of the Kremlin campaign to disrupt the 2016 U.S. election. Congressional and federal investigators were closing in on evidence that would implicate the company. http://www.startribune.com/faced-with-crisis-faceb...
