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The state board that investigates ethics complaints against Minnesota lawyers has filed a petition seeking to suspend or disbar Minneapolis lawyer Paul Hansmeier, who built a career suing thousands of people nationwide for downloading Internet porn, then turned to filing what some call “nuisance lawsuits” against small businesses that allegedly fail to comply with disability access laws. The 43-page petition by the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board, signed Oct. 28, was made public Monday, just days after the U.S. Ban...
NEW YORK — Delta won't let you check your pets as baggage next year. Starting in March, bigger animals will have to fly on Delta's cargo service. That's typically pricier than checking pets as baggage. It can also be less convenient since the pet may not be shipped with a customer's flight. United Airlines also doesn't allow pets to be checked in as baggage. http://www.startribune.com/delta-will-stop-letting-pets-fly-as-checked-baggage/350727851/...
MANILA, Philippines — Leaders from 21 countries and self-governing territories are gathering in Manila for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The meeting's official agenda is focused on trade, business and economic issues but terrorism, South China Sea disputes and climate change are also set to be in focus. (All times are local.) ___ 5:45 p.m. Vietnam and the Philippines have signed an agreement to elevate their relationship to a strategic partnership. The countries are the ones most at odds with Beijing over its claims to the S...
Little Pine First Nation, Sask., is considering banishment as a way to deal with crime. Banishment was one of eleven recommendations made at a seminar on Oct. 22. Community members, elders and the RCMP met to discuss the best ways to deal with problems in the community. The recent problems include break-ins, motor vehicle accidents, and shootings in the community, according to Jacob Pete, a band member who led the first meeting. Pete says there have been cases where a community member has returned to the First Nation after committing a crime,...
Several student organizations at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon have come together to host a week of events to draw attention to the issue of murdered and missing indigenous women. The U of S Students Union along with the Indigenous Students' Council, Building Bridges, USSU Women's Centre and other members of the community have organized several events this week. On Tuesday a panel discussion will take place (starting at 4 p.m.) at the North Concourse with a number of speakers including Pauline Muskego, Myrna LaPlante, Tala...
Navajo Nation officials pledged greater housing and job support to Navajo veterans at the Veterans Day celebration in Window Rock on Wednesday. The event was sponsored by the Department of Navajo Veterans Affairs. The Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President and the Navajo Housing Authority outlined plans to create ownership opportunities, increase rental ability, increase access to jobs, and in some cases renovate veterans’ houses. http://navajotimes.com/reznews/tribal-leaders-commit-to-housing-jobs-for-nava...
PLEASANT POINT, Maine (AP) _ The chief of the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point says his tribe's rift with Maine officials is deeper than it has ever been and he's skeptical of the state's willingness to negotiate earnestly with Native Americans. The tribe and others in Maine have clashed with state regulators and Republican Gov. Paul LePage about issues ranging from tribal fishing rights to Native American representation in the state legislature. Pleasant Point Chief Fred Moore says he wants a productive relationship going into the next...
The inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations students in Thunder Bay, Ont., begins its fifth week of testimony on Monday with a continued focus on students whose bodies were found in waterways in the city. Pathologists testified during the first week of the inquest that five of the students — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau and Jordan Wabasse — died by drowning, but questions remain about how the teens ended up in the water. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/first-nation-student-d...
Fred Seymour will be sworn in as the new chief of the Tk'emlups Indian Band. He will be taking over the job from Shane Gottfriedson who was elected as the Assembly of First Nations B.C. regional chief earlier this year. Seymour won by just four votes over candidate Frank Paul. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kamloops/new-chief-and-council-for-the-tk-emlups-indian-band-1.3320870...
WHITE EARTH (FNS) — A new constitution approved two years ago by an overwhelming majority of voters on this Indian reservation is crumbling due to efforts by officials who want to see it never implemented. “We’re going backwards,” White Earth Tribal Chairwoman and constitution supporter Erma Vizenor said, lamenting how the document has been scuttled. The constitution would bring sweeping — and controversial — changes to life at White Earth. For one, it would eliminate blood quantum — the rule that White Earth members must have at least a quarte...
William Frank, the vice chairman of the Nisqually Tribe of Washington, will continue drug treatment after being sentenced in a theft case. Frank pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree theft and two counts of second-degree theft. He admitted that he took more than $50,000 from two tribal accounts while in the throes of a substance abuse addiction. Frank also pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree attempted theft. He admitted that he went into two banks with the intent of robbing them although he never followed through....
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A North Carolina man says he is guilty of stealing money from the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point in Maine. A federal prosecutor says 68-year-old Stephen E. Crawford of Beaufort pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Monday. Court records show that he served as the Passamaquoddies' environmental director from 2003 to 2012 and fraudulently obtained about $25,000 from the tribe. He did so by submitting fraudulent travel expense reports and supporting documents. Crawford faces up to five years in prison and a $...
A Yellowknife man who suffered organ failure due to complications from a bacterial infection died in an Edmonton hospital Saturday. Michael Francois, 33, had been receiving treatment at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton for a streptococcus pneumoniae infection. Machines kept him alive for nearly two weeks after his lungs, liver, and kidneys shut down. "The infection went through his bloodstream and organs," said Helen Minoza, Francois' sister. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/michael-francois-infection-missed...
