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Not every kid in the Minneapolis Public Schools can easily pay for a school lunch. A donation campaign that's spreading through social media aims to change that fact. St. Paul is getting in on the fundraising, too. Around 4,000 accounts in Minneapolis are overdue, leaving a total outstanding balance of $160,000. The district's nonprofit partner Achieve Minneapolis is accepting donations pledged to Minneapolis schools' nutrition services school lunch fund to help. http://www.startribune.com/overdue-school-lunches-in-mpls-st-p...
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann Roof wanted the world to know he hated black people and thought they were criminals. He thought about attacking drug dealers, but they might shoot back. So, he told the FBI, he picked a historic black church in Charleston he had learned about online. In a videotaped confession shown Friday during his death penalty trial, Roof laughed several times and made exaggerated gun motions as he recounted the massacre. He explained that he wanted to leave at least one person alive to tell what happened and complained that his v...
The election of Donald Trump has introduced fresh uncertainty into the effort to fill two judicial vacancies in Minnesota, leaving the possibility that the state’s federal bench will be beset for months by what some observers have called a partial shutdown of the nation’s court system. Judges Donovan Frank and Ann Montgomery decided earlier this year to assume senior status, a form of retirement that allows judges to maintain part-time or full case loads, immediately creating two of the country’s now 38 “judicial emergencies.” Democrati...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Florida declared its crisis with local transmission of Zika over for the season Friday in a welcome announcement ahead of peak tourism months, but health authorities warned that travelers would continue bringing the disease into the state. Starting in late July, state health officials had identified four zones in the Miami area where the virus was spreading through local mosquitoes — the first such transmissions in the continental U.S. — and launched aggressive efforts to control the insects. One by one, the zones were...
Minnesota’s ice anglers by necessity must operate at extremes: Patient, as they wait for Mother Nature to produce the conditions that create ice, yet ready to spring into action, as the ice-fishing season already is a short one to begin with. Though some folks look askance at anyone who would head out into freezing conditions, walk or drive upon frozen water, and dangle a lure or bait through a small hole, the reality is ice fishing seems to be gaining in popularity in states such as Minnesota and Wisconsin. When the lakes are frozen, it’s the...
A review of the state's graduation rates by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General shows the state misstated its rates by counting students who received Alabama Occupational Diplomas in its numbers and by not properly overseeing local school systems' awarding of class credits, resulting in some diplomas that weren't honestly earned. "We are accountable to all people of this state and deeply regret the misstating of our graduation rate. We are now undergoing a meticulous review to ensure that all monitoring and data...
What does the future of the school bus industry look like? With telematics, the future of pupil transportation lies in connectivity. School buses are becoming more efficient, safer through enhanced driver performance, easier to maintain and just plain “smarter,” all of which also decrease the total cost of ownership. And the future isn’t that far off. In fact, enhanced technologies through telematics are here today and they’re here to stay. In the spring of 2014, Thomas Built Buses introduced Zonar’s V3 telematics control unit on the Saf-T-Lin...
We are living in uncertain times, but here’s something to lift the spirits: About half the schools in Washington now have a garden. The gardens are neither luxuries nor insignificant. To young, formative minds, these green spaces represent an introduction to the delicate and vital dance between nature and the city in a century when the two must come together in harmony as never before. I stopped by Leckie Elementary School in Southwest Washington on a recent, blustery Saturday to watch an army of volunteers (including former Redskins p...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State funding for public education in New Mexico is almost certain to be reduced further next year to offset plunging state revenues, the chairman of an influential state budget committee announced Thursday. Democratic Sen. John Arthur Smith, chairman of the Legislative Finance Committee that drafts the state budget, said lawmakers will be hard-pressed to leave out cuts to public schools as they work to reduce deficits linked to a downturn in the oil and natural gas sectors. "We're not going to be able to hold the e...
The family of the 14-year-old boy whom police shot and critically wounded at a Nevada high school said Thursday that the officer should have found a better way to resolve things. A school district police officer shot the boy Wednesday during a confrontation witnessed by more than 40 classmates at Hug High School in Reno, authorities said. They said the boy got into an altercation with a classmate and began threatening other students with a knife. The boy remained in critical condition Thursday at Renown Medical Center, police told NBC News,...
SOUTH VIENNA, Ohio (AP) — A Clark County elementary/middle school will close after more than 100 students and some faculty members were out sick following a suspected norovirus outbreak. Northeastern Local Schools Superintendent John Kronour announced that the South Vienna School will be closed on Thursday as health officials examine what caused Wednesday's absences. Clark County Combined Health District officials will conduct testing to determine whether the illnesses are linked to norovirus, a gastrointestinal virus that typically lasts 24 t...
SULPHUR, Okla. – Nationally and internationally acclaimed Chickasaw artists are poised to display works of fine Native American art Dec. 17 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Chickasaw Cultural Center's Holiday Art Show and Market. Sixteen artisans will be on hand. Among them are: Joanna Underwood-Blackburn is a celebrated potter whose artwork is inspired by early Chickasaw culture and ancient designs from the southeast, where the tribe thrived until removal to Indian Territory in 1837. Oka' C...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has awarded $2 million in Livestock Investment Grants to 104 Minnesota livestock farmers in Fiscal Year 2016. Grantees will use the funds to make purchases or improvements to their livestock operations. Minnesota’s livestock sector is valued at nearly $9 billion, making Minnesota the 8th largest livestock-producing state in the nation. An estimated 989 construction jobs and 256 full- or part-time jobs on Minnesota farms were created as a result of this round of Livestock Inv...
Agriculture Under Secretary Michael T. Scuse today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved and obligated the first loan under the Highly Fractionated Indian Land Loan program. The program, made possible by the 2014 Farm Bill, provides revolving loan funds to qualified intermediary lenders, allowing qualified tribes and individuals the ability to purchase tribal farmland that has multiple owners. Scuse made the announcement during the Intertribal Agriculture Council Membership meeting in Las Vegas, Nev. “This program w...
CANNON BALL, N.D. — Last Friday, Hawaiian activist Andre Perez faced a crowd of about a hundred Standing Rock newbies standing halfway to their knees in snow. Most of those assembled were freshly arrived volunteers at Oceti Sakowin Camp — the northernmost of the three camps in the area and the closest to the front lines with police. If volunteers wanted to go to the front lines, where police were using concussion grenades and tear gas, they had to get through Perez's training. "I'm gonna need a couple of rent-a-cops up here," Perez shouted ove...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — For protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline, the messages from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation are confusing: The tribal chairman tells demonstrators that it’s time to leave their camp and go home. Another leader implores them to stay through the bitter North Dakota winter. The conflicting requests show how the camp’s purpose has widened beyond the original intent of protecting the tribe’s drinking water and cultural sites into a broader stand for Native American rights. Camp occupants are working through...
FORT YATES, N.D. — Supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux rejoiced when the Army announced it would not allow construction of the final piece of the Dakota Access pipeline. That perhaps sounded like a definitive answer after months of protests, but insiders from the tribe and their allies knew that the fight over the pipeline remains far from over. Opponents of the pipeline aren’t even necessarily in agreement about exactly what the Army decided. The most optimistic interpretation comes from the attorney representing the Standing Rock Sio...
MARSHALL — Concerned area residents are lending their support to the Standing Rock Water Protectors who are fighting the Dakota Access pipeline. The $3.8 billion, 1,170-mile natural gas pipeline proposed and mostly completed by Energy Transfer Partners is slated to carry around 470,000 barrels of domestic crude oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois. Concerned people say construction would damage sacred lands and any leaks could pollute the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and have set up teepee and tent camps nearby. North D...
Three Dakota Access Pipeline protesters were arrested Thursday for allegedly crossing the police barricade at the Backwater Bridge on Highway 1806. According to the Morton County Sheriff's Department, the men were arrested for criminal trespass. Authorities believe the incident was staged, as a forth person was seen on the camp side of the line videotaping. Video provided by the sheriff's department shows the men on the north side of the bridge. http://m.bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/three-arrested-thursday-on-...
WASHINGTON — Native American reservations cover just 2 percent of the United States, but they may contain about a fifth of the nation’s oil and gas, along with vast coal reserves. Now, a group of advisors to President-elect Donald Trump on Native American issues wants to free those resources from what they call a suffocating federal bureaucracy that holds title to 56 million acres of tribal lands, two chairmen of the coalition told Reuters in exclusive interviews. The group proposes to put those lands into private ownership - a politically exp...
President-elect Donald Trump promised to move quickly on “solving” the Dakota Access Pipeline. Trump appeared on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace, where he said, “I will tell you, when I get to office, if it’s not solved, I’ll have it solved very quickly.” The Obama administration effectively killed the Dakota Access Pipeline when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not grant the company building the easement needed to cross the Missouri River permission Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/11/trump-on-dakota-acces...
The U.S. government is slated to sell $375 million worth of crude oil from the country’s emergency reserve this winter after Congress passed a temporary spending bill on Friday that contained a measure authorizing the sale. President Barack Obama’s administration has pushed Congress to approve an up to $2 billion plan for a revamp of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a string of heavily guarded underground salt caverns along the Gulf of Mexico filled with crude. The stash currently holds about 695 million barrels of oil. A Department of Ene...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The chief of a New England tribe who spends part of the year living in Florida won't step down after being impeached, sowing division among the Narragansett Indians who are Rhode Island's only federally recognized tribe. Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas is calling his detractors "impostors" after they sued him in federal court seeking his ouster from the leadership role he's held for nearly two decades. Dozens of tribal members gathered for an outdoor meeting to impeach the 55-year-old chief in October. When he refused to s...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump on Sunday called a recent CIA assessment of Russian hacking "ridiculous" and says he's not interested in getting daily intelligence briefings — an unprecedented public dismissal by a president-elect of the nation's massive and sophisticated intelligence apparatus. Trump's remarks come as key congressional Republicans joined Democrats in demanding a bipartisan investigation into the Kremlin's activities and questioned consideration of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson — who has close business ties with Moscow — as head of...
The bodies of a man and a child were discovered at a Faribault home Sunday afternoon, according Faribault Police Chief Andy Bohlen. Both died of gunshot wounds. Faribault police officers and a Rice County sheriff's deputy were called to a home in the 2500 block of Hulett Avenue at 1:44 p.m. Sunday afternoon by a neighbor who reported seeing a man lying in the entryway, according to a news release. Officers found a child's body and a firearm elsewhere in the home. The identities of the deceased haven't been confirmed, the release said....
