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Despite fears that dementia rates were going to explode as the population grows older and fatter, and has more diabetes and high blood pressure, a large nationally representative survey has found the reverse. Dementia is actually on the wane. And when people do get dementia, they get it at older and older ages. Previous studies found the same trend but involved much smaller and less diverse populations. The new study found that the dementia rate in Americans 65 and older fell by 24 percent over 12 years, to 8.8 percent in 2012 from 11.6...
A double murder that had gone unsolved for nearly 16 years came to a close with a guilty plea Monday. Jason Preston, 37, admitted in court that on Christmas Eve 1998 he was responsible for the deaths of 18-year-old Carrie Richter and 20-year-old Dustin Baity. Preston wasn’t charged in the Minneapolis slayings until 2014, when DNA found at the scene matched his. He pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder. Preston, who had been serving a prison sentence in California when he was charged, said in court that he was at Baity’s apa...
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Bloodied students lay on stretchers, while other children walked away dazed with their parents after an elementary school bus crash that killed six Monday in Chattanooga. Chattanooga police Chief Fred Fletcher said the crash was "every public safety professional's worst nightmare." The bus was carrying 35 children from Woodmore Elementary, students in kindergarten through fifth grade, when it crashed about 3:30 p.m., turned on its side and wrapped around a tree. http://www.startribune.com/police-at-least...
Here is the good news for Thanksgiving travelers: No major snowstorms are in sight. But it won't be totally smooth sailing, either. The Twin Cities should see a couple inches of snow beginning Tuesday night while places to the north and west of the metro could see up to 4 inches as the first of two weak storm systems moves across Minnesota. The second is expected Thursday night, just as Thanksgiving leftovers are put away. http://www.startribune.com/more-snow-coming-with-just-enough-to-make-thanksgiving-travel-dicey/40228984...
WASHINGTON — An immigration adviser to President-elect Donald Trump and a possible candidate for a top government post wants to make some changes at the Homeland Security Department, including recreating a system that required certain immigrants, including men and boys from 25 mostly Muslim nations, to register with the federal government upon their arrival. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach met with Trump on Sunday and brought with him a detailed list of proposals for the agency tasked with enforcing immigration laws and securing the b...
VATICAN CITY — Saying nothing is beyond the reach of God's mercy, Pope Francis told Catholics worldwide he is allowing all priests to absolve the faithful of abortion — women and health workers alike — even while stressing that it is a grave sin in the eyes of the church to "end an innocent life." In an Apostolic Letter made public Monday, Francis said he was extending indefinitely the special permission he had granted to all rank-and-file priests during the just ended Holy Year of Mercy. "There is no sin that God's mercy cannot reach and w...
CANNON BALL, N.D. — Authorities on Monday defended their decision to douse protesters with water during a skirmish in subfreezing weather near the Dakota Access oil pipeline, and organizers said at least 17 protesters were taken to the hospital — including some who were treated for hypothermia. The clash occurred late Sunday and early Monday as protesters trying to push past a long-blocked bridge on a state highway were turned back by authorities using tear gas, rubber bullets and water hoses. One officer was injured when struck in the hea...
WASHINGTON — Here's the idea: Swiftly pass a repeal of President Barack Obama's health care law, perhaps soon enough for Donald Trump to sign it the day he takes the presidential oath. Then approve legislation restructuring the nation's huge and convoluted health care system — despite Republican divisions, Democratic opposition and millions of jittery constituents. What could go wrong? With Republicans controlling the White House and Congress in January, they're faced with delivering on their long-time promise to repeal and replace "Ob...
Sunday night’s no-holds-barred offensive by police from multiple agencies against unarmed water protectors opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline on Highway 1806’s Backwater Bridge — in which at least 167 suffered injuries — sent two elders into cardiac arrest, left a 13-year-old girl injured by a rubber bullet to the head, and now, one woman will almost certainly lose her arm. Sophia Walinsky stood among the crowd of around 400 water protectors as the police launched an all-out assault, firing ‘nonlethal’ projectiles, tear gas, mace, LRAD...
Tensions continued in North Dakota on Monday afternoon as law enforcement officials arrested 16 people at a demonstration, one day after hundreds clashed with the police over the Dakota Access Pipeline. During a news conference on Monday, officials also defended their use of fire hoses against protesters the night before, despite the below-freezing weather. “Some of the water was used to repel some of the protest activities that were occurring, and it was used at a time where they were aggressive towards the officers,” the Morton County she...
MORTON COUNTY, N.D. -- An hours-long standoff between Dakota Access Pipeline protesters and police on the Backwater Bridge ended midday Monday as an elder encouraged people to leave the bridge where hundreds were sprayed with water in subfreezing temperatures the night before. The previous night’s confrontation followed efforts by the protesters to remove burned out vehicles blocking the bridge since late October. The attempt escalated into hours of conflict in which protesters reportedly threw rocks and logs at police, who responded with t...
CANNON BALL, N.D. — Tension flared anew on the Dakota Access pipeline as protesters tried to push past a long-blocked bridge on a state highway, only to be turned back by a line of law enforcement using water cannon and what appeared to be tear gas. Sunday’s skirmishes began around 6 p.m. after protesters removed a burned-out truck on what’s known as the Backwater Bridge, not far from the encampment where they’ve been for weeks as they demonstrate against the pipeline. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department estimated 400 protesters sought to...
Protests in North Dakota against the Dakota Access pipeline continued this past weekend, with tensions between protesters and police coming to a head on Sunday night. For months, opponents of the pipeline have gathered in the area to protest and prevent its construction on lands sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. There have been numerous clashes between protectors and police since the beginning of what has since been dubbed the #NoDAPL movement. Allegations of police brutality and excessive use of force against peaceful demonstrators...
Hundreds of peaceful protestors were injured at the Standing Rock encampments when law enforcement blasted them with water cannons in freezing temperatures Sunday evening. The attacks came as water protectors used a semi-trailer truck to remove burnt military vehicles that police had chained to concrete barriers weeks ago, blocking traffic on Highway 1806, to control citizens demanding a stop to the Dakota Access Pipeline — a 1,172-mile pipeline that would carry oil from North Dakota across four states. Efforts to clear the road and improve a...
NEW YORK -- Actress Kirsten Wiig wore a "Stand with Standing Rock" T-shirt during the close of "Saturday Night Live" on Saturday night, Nov. 19. The former "SNL" cast member was hosting the show for the second time since her departure in 2012. At the close, Wiig thanks the guest and says "Please stand with Standing Rock" as she tugs on her black T-shirt. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/4163769-snl-host-shows-support-standing-rock-shows-close...
An old school bus that Portland volunteers converted into a mobile medical bunk house to shelter activists protesting the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline is inching its way to the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota. On Sunday, bus project leaders and climate activists Mike Horner and Harlan Shober arrived in Bozeman, Montana, and were greeted by about 300 people at a rally. Later that day, in subfreezing temperatures 600 miles away in North Dakota, police shot a water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas at pipeline...
Despite following every letter of the law along the way, Energy Transfer Partners (NYSE: ETP) has encountered an unexpected obstacle in the quest to build the Dakota Access Pipeline: a reluctant federal government. That is after the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers decided to re-review an essential permit the company needed to construct the pipeline on federal land amid growing protests surrounding the critical infrastructure project. However, despite the mounting delays, escalating protests, and ensuing legal battles, the company will likely get...
HIGHLIGHTS: While it always is important to defend tribal sovereignty and protect the gains tribes have achieved, it also is important for tribal advocates to take advantage of opportunities for advancing tribal government parity that the new Trump Administration will present. Three key legislative opportunities made possible by the new Administration's promises and priorities are worth discussion. With the advent of a Republican-controlled White House and Congress, many who work in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Indian tribes may be tempted...
President-elect Donald Trump's shortlist of candidates to lead the U.S. Department of Interior has employees and environmental advocates fearful of a shift in the agency's direction, from one focused on preserving public lands to one that would open them up to more drilling and mining. The outcome will have implications for industry access to millions of acres of national parks, reserves and tribal territories stretching from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico and the viability of President Barack Obama's efforts to keep the United States in...
The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit Friday against the Interior Department, Bureau of Indian Affairs and U.S. Bureau of Land Management, asking a judge to void recently approved drilling permits on tribal land and halt the issuance of new ones. The lawsuit was filed by the tribe’s Attorney General Don Mason on behalf of the tribe and Pawnee Nation member Walter R. Echo-Hawk in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma based in Tulsa. As reported in TulsaWorld.com, the 5.8 magnitude quake on September 3, 2016, d...
A federal lawsuit was filed Friday, November 18, 2016 by a group of Narragansett Indians to uphold an October impeachment of Mathew Thomas as chief of the tribe according to WPRI.com. Thomas has been chief for two decades. A new tribal council that was elected on July 30, 2016 voted for the impeachment on October 1, citing a number of claims – one of which is that Thomas is a current resident of Florida. One of the tribal rules requires tribal chief to be a resident of Rhode Island or within a 50-mile radius. John Brown, a Narragansett m...
Every Thanksgiving weekend for the past 17 years, Arapaho and Cheyenne youth lead a 180-mile relay from the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site to Denver. The annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run opens at the site of the Sand Creek Massacre near Eads, Colorado, with a sunrise ceremony honoring some 200 Arapaho and Cheyenne people who lost their lives in the infamous massacre. This brutal assault was carried out by Colonel John Chivington on Nov. 29, 1864. While the Sand Creek massacre has been the subject of numerous books,...
For both the English settlers who landed at Plymouth Rock, and the Native Americans who met them, their first meetings introduced an entirely new soundscape. But with the passage of time, many of those sounds were lost—especially as the religious traditions that were so important to colonists and indigenous peoples changed or died out. So it was even more meaningful when an audience in Washington, D.C., gathered to hear the sacred sounds of both English colonists and New England’s indigenous Wampanoag people earlier this month. “Waking the A...
A panel of three federal judges said on Monday that the Wisconsin Legislature’s 2011 redrawing of State Assembly districts to favor Republicans was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander, the first such ruling in three decades of pitched legal battles over the issue. Federal courts have struck down gerrymanders on racial grounds, but not on grounds that they unfairly give advantage to a political party — the more common form of gerrymandering. The case could now go directly to the Supreme Court, where its fate may rest with a single jus...
On Sunday, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) elected Cheryl Andrews-Maltais as its chairman, replace the outgoing Tobias Vanderhoop. Ms. Andrews-Maltais ran against Don Widdiss for the post; both candidates had previously held the title tribal chairman. Several other leadership positions were also filled. The results were described in an email to The Times on Monday. A total of 190 ballots were counted. With 115 votes, Cheryl Andrews-Maltais has again become chairman after a three-year absence. Donald Widdiss received 67 votes and,...
