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A former accounting manager at a Cargill Inc. grain shipping facility in New York pleaded guilty to stealing more than $3.1 million from the company and causing at least $25 million in losses for it. Diane Backis, 50, admitted Monday in federal court in the Northern District of New York to committing mail fraud and falsifying an income tax return. The scheme occurred over 10 years while she was an employee at Cargill’s Port of Albany facility, which sells, receives and stores grains. Backis managed Cargill’s accounts, creating customer...
Republican Stewart Mills said Monday he would request — and pay for — a hand recount of votes in the congressional race he narrowly lost to DFL U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan. "We just want to make sure that every vote gets counted, and counted correctly," Mills said in an interview. "We're prepared to accept whatever is the genuine will of the voters, but we would be negligent not to seek this recount." Nolan, the incumbent, beat Mills by 2,009 votes of a total of 356,971 cast in northeastern Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District. That margin,...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by a police officer. Police said they were investigating whether it was a terrorist attack. Eleven people were hurt, one critically. The attacker was identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan. He was born in Somalia and was a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to a U.S. official who wasn't authorized to discuss the case and spoke on...
Whether it’s petulance or a cunning attempt to spur voter suppression, Donald Trump’s irresponsible, unfounded claim that he would have won the popular vote but for the millions of “illegal” votes cast is a new low in a presidency that has not even formally begun. Trump has yet to name most of his Cabinet members. He has but eight weeks to assemble a new administration, prepare for his first congressional session and get ready to deliver the State of the Union address. Yet here he is, still obsessing about the outcome of an election...
Don't tell the Mall of America that online shopping is killing stores — or that it would regret not being open on Thanksgiving this year. To the contrary, executives of the Bloomington megamall say their decision to stay closed on the holiday and to start Black Friday sales on Friday paid off big time. This year, an estimated 250,000 shoppers flocked to the mall on Black Friday, crowning it as the busiest day for the mall in at least the last decade. Traffic was up 25 percent compared with the same day in 2015 and up 23 percent from 2014,...
HAVANA — Fidel Castro changed the flavor of the milk Cuban children drink at breakfast. He filled Cuban kitchens with energy-saving rice cookers, and he gave a two-hour lesson in their use live on national television. He even changed the nation's lightbulbs, launching a nationwide campaign to replace incandescent bulbs with fluorescents that cast a pallid white light in Cuban homes to this day. Castro, who died Friday night at 90, gained global stature with grand visions: confronting the United States; building universal health care and...
Shortly after the Republicans’ stunning Election Day sweep, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack grabbed Vice President Joe Biden in a receiving line. Vilsack had an urgent message and he sensed that in Biden he would find a receptive audience. The two politicians had served together throughout President Obama’s eight years in office and had known each other for decades. Both are nearing the end of long and successful political careers, built on speaking to the ambitions and anxieties of white, working-class voters who turned decisively for...
In a strongly worded letter to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Tribal Chairman Kenneth Kahn expressed his disappointment with the Board’s recent cancellation of the December 8, 2016 Ad Hoc Subcommittee meeting between the County and the Tribe. Chairman Kahn, who has participated in each Ad Hoc Subcommittee meeting since its inception in September 2015, said, “While the Ad Hoc Subcommittee has helped improve the government-to-government relationship, meaningful progress on Camp 4 and other is...
(HELENA) The Department of the Interior says it’s extended more than $270 million worth of offers to buy back fractional land interests on the Blackfeet Indian reservation. The offers will go out to some $7,000 owners who have a partial or fractional interest in the property on the reservation. Landowners will have 45 days to consider the offers. http://www.ktvh.com/2016/11/department-interior-extends-buy-back-fractional-land...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has "no plans for forcible removal" of protesters who have been camping in North Dakota to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The Corps says in a statement Sunday that it "is seeking a peaceful and orderly transition to a safer location." The Corps notified tribal leaders Friday that all federal lands north of the Cannonball River will be closed to public access Dec. 5 for "safety concerns." The agency says those who choose to stay do so at their own risk. The Corps says...
Gov. Jack Dalrymple issued a mandatory emergency evacuation order Monday directed at the hundreds of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters camping on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land. The edict was issued as a winter storm has dumped at least a half foot of snow throughout the central part of the state. No law enforcement resources have yet been dedicated to enforcement of the order. Dalrymple’s order said that the corps land is not safe for the arrangement of tents and teepees erected by protesters in Morton County. He also referenced last...
BISMARCK - Gov. Jack Dalrymple has ordered an emergency evacuation of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camps on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land, citing safety concerns due to harsh winter weather. Dalrymple’s order signed Monday, Nov. 28, states that people camping in areas near the Cannonball River are ordered to leave immediately and take their possessions with them. The order comes three days after the Corps told the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe it would close the Corps-managed land north of the Cannonball River on Dec. 5....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Government orders for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline to leave federal land could have little immediate effect on the encampment where scores of people have been gathered for months to oppose the $3.8 billion project. A North Dakota sheriff on Monday dismissed a deadline from the Army Corps of Engineers as a meaningless move aimed only at reducing the government's legal responsibility for hundreds of demonstrators. The Corps "is basically kicking the can down the road, and all it is doing is taking the...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued an ultimatum on Friday to protesters at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota: vacate by December 5, or face charges for trespassing. In a letter to protest leaders, the corps said it will close access to federal land north of the Cannonball River where the protest site is located, mainly to keep spectators and the general public away from clashes that have escalated between protesters and law enforcement. In order for them to do that, the protesters need to vacate, the authorities said. But the...
Attempted murder charges were dropped in a North Dakota courtroom Monday against a Standing Rock protester accused of firing a gun at police — but the protester now faces federal charges that could land her in prison for up to 10 years. Morton County dropped its attempted murder charges against Red Fawn Fallis to clear the way for federal prosecutors to pursue the charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. About 15 family members and supporters, all of them wearing red “Free Red Fawn” t-shirts, watched in silence from the...
A National Lawyers Guild group has filed a class action lawsuit against Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, Morton County and other law enforcement agencies for bringing excessive force against Dakota Access Pipeline protesters earlier this month. The Water Protector Legal Collective filed suit Monday in U.S. District Court in Bismarck seeking an immediate injunction to prevent Kirchmeier and other agencies from using impact munitions, such as rubber bullets, lead-filled beanbags, water and sound cannons, directed energy devices, water...
This weekend the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued a temporary flight restriction over the Standing Rock oil pipeline protest in North Dakota, banning all aircraft except those flying in support of law enforcement from operating over the area. Drones have been used to capture footage of police clashes with protesters attempting to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is being built a half-mile from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and would cross under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe — the tribe’s main source of drinking...
Tribal members said Monday if lines of communication had been open earlier in the process, and if officials had been open to listening, perhaps the crowd gathered in the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library wouldn’t be there and the months of protesting might never have happened. “These are voices, critically important voices, that aren’t being heard. We can have better understanding if we listen to each other,” said Dakota Resource Council Executive Director Don Morrison. Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II joined...
Neil Young has posted a lengthy statement to his official Facebook page that covers subjects ranging from President-elect Donald Trump to the ongoing protests against the controversial construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the US. The Canadian-born 71-year-old took to his social media page earlier today (November 28) to share his thoughts on a number of the issues facing the US at the moment, which he prefaced by talking about the “fictional” history of Thanksgiving. “It is now widely understood this Thanksgiving story is a...
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Monday that the incoming Trump administration should work to find an alternative route for the controversial Dakota Access pipeline. "I encourage the new administration and the Army Corps of Engineers to continue finding alternative routes," said the outgoing top Senate Democrat. "There is one out there. It should not be hard. There is no reason that this situation cannot be remedied in a manner that's fair to all." http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/307737-reid-to-tr...
OKMULGEE, Okla. — According to a Native American Finance Officers Association press release, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Labor’s overtime rule from going into effect Dec. 1. ‘The judge granted the injunction as it “preserves the status quo while the court determines the department’s authority to make the final rule as well as the final rule’s validity.” In this injunction, the court ruled regulation exceeded the authority granted to the DOL by Congress,’ the statement said. The releases stated that the...
Black, ant-like figures crown a russet hill ringed by the Cannonball River at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota. Soon they come into focus: dozens of policemen in full riot gear, stationed on high ground so as to better surveil the handful of people lingering in the aftermath of what Native Americans protesting a new oil pipeline and their allies call a "direct action," or a confrontation with the law. On closer inspection of the hilltop from the ground across the river, at least two officers are peering through rifle scopes....
"Look, it's Amber," says Vivian Tuccaro, pointing to the sun as it breaks through clouds over Leduc, Alta. She smiles as the rays reach her face. It's Tuccaro's first smile since the beginning of a rally in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous women such as her daughter, Amber Tuccaro. A small group gathered in Leduc on Saturday, clutching posters of the four Indigenous women whose remains have been found within an eight-kilometre radius in Leduc County since 2002. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/leduc-women-miss...
There are many different types of financial settlements. You may receive one from your insurance company or from an employer after an accident, or you may have been awarded a settlement in a court case. Some come easily and others are hard won, but regardless of the reason for the settlement, they’re often surrounded by drama on both sides – among those awarded the settlements and those who give them out. What produces the controversy surrounding settlements? We’ll take a look into some headline cases to find out. Regulations and...
A former chief of the Penobscot Nation said Monday that he hopes it will be a learning experience for a man who police have charged with making racist phone calls to his home. Barry Dana of Solon said he got 10 calls on his home phone Nov. 10 from a man using vulgar language and insulting his Indian heritage. Bryan P. Aubrey, 43, of Skowhegan is charged with harassment by phone, punishable by as much as six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. http://www.pressherald.com/2016/11/28/skowhegan-man-charged-with-harassing-f...