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MINNEAPOLIS — A German-operated cargo ship and crew have been stuck at anchor outside the Lake Superior port of Duluth for close to a month for unspecified environmental violations, with no resolution in sight despite the upcoming closure of the St. Lawrence Seaway for winter, officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard said the Liberian-flagged Cornelia is being investigated for "alleged violations of U.S. environmental regulations," and the ship and crew are prohibited from leaving Duluth until they get clearance from U.S. Customs and B...
A few years ago, I sent an e-mail to a University of Minnesota regent to express my concern about what appeared to be a pattern of lavish spending by the university. My comments were triggered by the golden parachutes provided to former President Robert Bruininks and former Athletic Director Joel Maturi, the six-figure salaries being paid to legions of administrators and the seemingly unlimited budget for pricey consultants and outside law firms. I told the regent I had had the good fortune to attend the university at a time when students...
A Minneapolis man who shot and wounded a mother and child near a city park over the summer has pleaded guilty. Dontae Denae Peterson, 28, pleaded guilty Nov. 25 in Hennepin County District Court to intentionally firing a handgun several times. He will be sentenced on Feb. 9. The Hennepin County attorney’s office said Peterson, a member of the 10z gang, was feuding with a man and his associates at Peavey Park on June 18 when he saw an SUV headed north on Park Avenue and ran through the park firing his gun at least eight times. The SUV was h...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will attempt to more than double the number of wild elk previously planned in central Kittson County, where residents have lobbied hard for expansion of the small herd for greater tourism and hunting. But under the state’s new elk management plan, unveiled Thursday, the agency’s wildlife managers will stick to the status quo in managing two other elk herds in the same northwest corner of the state. In those two areas, especially around the town of Grygla, elk aren’t as welcome because they...
JOHANNESBURG — A South African appeals court on Thursday convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning a lower court's conviction of the double-amputee Olympian on the lesser charge of manslaughter for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to death in 2013. Justice Lorimer Eric Leach of the Supreme Court of Appeal delivered the ruling by the five-judge appeals court in Bloemfontein and directed the trial court, the North Gauteng High Court, to impose sentence. http://www.startribune.com/south-african-appeals-court-convicts-...
A strong state economy helped double Minnesota’s projected budget surplus to $1.9 billion, setting off a new political battle over how to carve up the windfall in an election year. “The credit belongs to the people of Minnesota … and the businesses who have decided to locate or expand here,” DFL Gov. Mark Dayton said after the state budget and economic forecast was released Thursday. “Now it’s our responsibility to use that money in ways that are going to better the future of our state.” Republicans said the large surplus is fresh evidenc...
For the Suquamish Tribe and the Squaxin Island Tribe, licensing the retail sale of marijuana and legalizing its use on their lands now seems unavoidable. Thousands of motorists a day take State Highway 305 through Suquamish’s Port Madison Indian Reservation on their way to and from the neighboring cities of Poulsbo and Bainbridge Island. The reservation’s residents include non-Native Americans allowed under voter-approved state law to use marijuana. The Squaxin Island Tribe’s reservation is near U.S. 101, 16 miles northwest of the state capit...
For family members of missing people the days following the discovery of Karina Wolfe's remains bring complicated feelings. "It's a very delicate, emotional time right now," Crystal LaPlante, director of justice for Saskatoon Tribal Council, said. "I am feeling very sad that the family is enduring what they have to do, with bringing Karina home." At the same time, LaPlante is feeling optimistic. She is optimistic about the federal government calling a public inquiry into the deaths of murdered and missing indigenous women. She is feeling...
As hundreds of people streamed into Winnipeg's Indian and Metis Friendship Centre on Thursday, Sue Caribou thought about members of her family who have been taken, killed or possibly both — for two of them, she can't be sure. "My first caregiver was Nancy Dumas," she told CBC. "When we came home from residential, she would look after us." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/hundreds-gather-to-support-families-of-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-1.3348610...
ALBUQUERQUE — The trial for one of three suspects in the deaths of two Navajo homeless men in Albuquerque began Wednesday, with lawyers on both sides delivering opening arguments that provided a glimpse into the grisly murder case that appalled residents and led to the creation of a task force on Native American homelessness. The three defendants were teenagers when Allison Gorman, 44, and Kee Thompson, 46, were fatally beaten in a vacant Albuquerque lot in July 2014, authorities said. The oldest suspect, Alex Rios, who was 18 at the time of t...
TULALIP — A 21-year-old Tulalip man was drunk in August when he drove his truck over a concrete barrier and into a pond, killing himself and three other young people, investigators have concluded. The 1997 Dodge Ram had a lift kit and oversized tires that were nearly 3 feet tall. The truck went over a concrete barrier that was less than 11 inches tall. Tyson Walker, 21, lost control in a downhill curve. He hit the barrier and knocked down a chain-link fence. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20151203/NEWS01/151209761/Police-D...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska's economic development arm is planning to invest more than $100 million in the Sioux City area over the next 10 years. The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1N5xPpk ) that Ho-Chunk Inc. was expected to highlight several of its economic development projects on Thursday. Projects include a 200-acre housing and commercial addition in South Sioux City, Nebraska, and two other commercial projects in downtown Sioux City, Iowa. The corporation is also planning a $7.5 million upscale...
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska Tribal Council swore in two returning members at a meeting Wednesday (12-2-15). But now it’s looking for two more tribal citizens who want to be part of the federally-recognized government body. Ben Miyasato and Lawrence “Woody” Widmark took the oath to retain their positions. Lillian Feldpausch, who also won a seat in the tribal election last month, declined to take it. Tribal Council Chairman Mike Baines says Feldpausch works for the Tribe’s social and family services department. http://www.kcaw.o...
ROSEBUD, SD - The federal government has threatened to remove the Rosebud Indian Health Service Hospital from the Medicare program because of regulatory violations. That would mean the government would stop reimbursing the hospital for care provided to Medicare patients. A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokesman declined to give examples of violations while the matter is ongoing. But Mike Fierberg says they're "serious." http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/feds-threaten-to-terminate-rosebud-hospital-from-medi...
In the photograph from the South Dakota State Historical Society Archive, two Sioux women of an earlier era are swirling around in their long dresses to face the photographer in the South Dakota wind and each carries a child in a shawl on her back. That’s the way Dakota and Lakota people traditionally held their children – closer, physically, than mainstream Americans of the same era held their children. But things were about to change. http://www.capjournal.com/news/a-dakota-family-remembers-three-generations-of-boarding-sc...
HELENA (AP) – A former Chippewa Cree tribal official was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to taking bribes from contractors that included cash, jewelry, furniture, a saddle and an all-expense-paid family trip to Las Vegas, prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris also ordered Timothy Rosette to pay $600,000 in restitution to the tribe. Rosette was the director of the tribe’s roads branch and the head of its health clinic’s environmental health unit, giving him the authority to award contr...
