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Women who took a class of widely used antidepressants during their second and third trimesters of pregnancy were roughly twice as likely as those who did not to have a child who would later receive a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, says a new study. The new research, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, is among the strongest findings linking antidepressant use in pregnancy to poor outcomes in the children born of those pregnancies, said experts. But it leaves many questions unanswered about the roots of autism, the prevalence of which...
The message delivered Monday night in a Minneapolis mosque was clear: We stand with you. More than 100 elected officials, community leaders, law enforcement officials and faith leaders from churches and synagogues jammed a Cedar-Riverside mosque to condemn the hatred, violence and phobic rhetoric that is erupting against Muslims in the wake of recent U.S. and international terrorist attacks. “I see unity here,” said Jibril Afyari Afyare, president of the Somali-American Citizens League. http://www.startribune.com/twin-ci...
A national team of lawyers has joined forces to focus on a group of children who are underrepresented in clergy abuse cases — namely, girls. The group announced its first legal action Monday, a suit by a Minnesota woman who charges that she was sexually abused for several years in the 1970s by a former youth minister at Zion Lutheran Church in Hopkins. Although 1 in 4 girls reports being a victim of child sex abuse in national studies, just a small fraction of them take advantage of laws that permit victims to seek legal remedy in...
Teens at Minnesota’s largest high school will be able to snooze an extra hour next year, while their elementary-aged peers will have to wake up earlier for classes. Wayzata is the latest district to approve a flip in start times for high school and most elementary schools after a school board vote Monday night. The board’s unanimous vote followed months of divisive deliberation over which of the district’s children need the most sleep. http://www.startribune.com/wayzata-approves-later-high-school-start-time/362160471/...
A rainy, mushy, it-could-be-March-out-there kind of day Monday added up to yet more drizzly dismay for skiers, skaters and ice fishermen who are suffering through a miserable start to winter, even as it buoyed the hopes of those who never saw much beauty in frozen Minnesota. A brown Christmas seems all but certain at this point, with meteorologist Paul Douglas hinting at temperatures in the 50s for the holiday. The mild weather so far meant shuttered alpine runs this week, social media photos of people kayaking on area lakes and an emergency...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to accelerate the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, implicitly acknowledging that progress has been too slow as the extremist group expands its reach with deadly attacks beyond the Middle East. Speaking at the Pentagon after meeting with his National Security Council, Obama revealed that a group of American special operations commandos has begun working with local fighters in Syria to "tighten the squeeze" on Raqqa, the extremists' nominal capital....
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is coming to Minnesota on Tuesday to give what is being billed as a major speech to lay out her plan to defeat Islamic terrorists. Clinton will present her plan in Minneapolis as the state struggles with terrorism recruitment, including the recent arrest of another Minnesotan accused of preparing to join and fight with ISIL. http://www.startribune.com/clinton-comes-to-minneapolis-to-lay-out-more-detailed-plan-to-defeat-islamic-state/362082681/...
KELLIHER, Minn. — Authorities in northern Minnesota say about 50 people had to be rescued after ice broke up while they were fishing on Upper Red Lake and stranded them. The Beltrami County sheriff's office got several 911 calls Monday morning from people stranded on ice floes on the lake about 60 miles north of Bemidji. Authorities say up to 50 people were fishing with portable ice houses on the east side of Upper Red Lake. Wind combined with the poor condition of the ice to cause cracks to widen and chunks of ice to break free. Rescuers...
Nothing kills a buzz like the sight of federal agents seizing tens of thousands of marijuana plants from a tribe's reservation. One year ago, a wave of euphoria swept Indian country when the U.S. Department of Justice released a memo that many read as the feds giving the nation's more than 560 tribes an unrestricted green light to grow and sell marijuana on their reservations — even in states such as Wisconsin where weed remains illegal. "There was a lot of excitement last year," said Robert Williams, an University of Arizona law professor...
As the federal government prepares to launch a national inquiry into murdered and missing native women, a Quebec group has come out with a grim report on violence against women in the province’s First Nations communities. The authors of the document, published Monday by Quebec Native Women Inc., hope its release will spur the province to act. The report focuses on cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women in the province and comprises 18 months of testimonials from people in various indigenous communities. http://www....
KAHNAWAKE, Que. – A native women’s group has published a grim report on violence against women in Quebec’s First Nations communities, hoping its release will spur the province to act. The report, released Monday, focuses on cases of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in the province. http://globalnews.ca/news/2399998/report-reveals-widespread-violence-against-native-women-in-quebec/...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Some members of the Santee Sioux Nation are seeking to extend voting rights to those who live off of the northeast Nebraska reservation. The Sioux City Journal (http://bit.ly/1QGLrfv ) reports that members gathered Friday to compile collected petition signatures calling for a secretarial election on whether to amend the tribe's constitution to extend voting rights. If approved, elections would be open to all tribe members. Currently, only residents of the reservation who have lived there for at least six months can...
Steven Thompson grew up poor on Navajo Nation. After nearly three decades on a diet built around potatoes, lunch meat and canned goods, he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes; his right leg was amputated as a result of complications from the disease eight years ago. Now, at the age of 54, Thompson tries to stay active and eat the food his doctor recommends to prevent further complications from the disease, but it's not easy: the closest grocery store is 32 miles away and he has chronic pain. “It’s really hurting, but you don’t to heal no...
Modern-day Canada is perpetuating the mistakes that led to the creation of the often-abusive aboriginal residential schools more than a century ago by policies that still harm indigenous people, an exhaustive new report has concluded. The warning comes in the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to be released Tuesday. The seven-volume report, a blistering indictment of Canada’s current approach to aboriginal issues, puts the onus squarely on political leaders at all levels to change government policies....
The U.S. Supreme Court accepted a fourth Indian law case on Monday, agreeing to resolve a dispute over the use of tribal convictions against domestic violence offenders. Without comment, the justices issued an order that granted the petition in US v. Bryant. The outcome will determine whether tribal court convictions can be counted in federal court even if the defendant wasn't provided with an attorney. http://www.indianz.com/News/2015/019849.asp...
The Hardin jail opened in mid-2007 with promises to bring more than 100 jobs to an economically depressed area. Locals were hopeful the facility would be the anchor for the town’s economic development organization, started just a few years before. Setbacks plagued the jail from the start, when state officials opted not to house its inmates there. Then, the Montana attorney general issued an opinion saying the jail couldn’t house out-of-state inmates either, and that only the state could legally do so. A Helena District Court judge later...
OTTAWA The Canada Revenue Agency has been aggressively collecting back taxes from a group of mostly low-income aboriginal women who lost a long-running legal battle to be exempt from paying personal income taxes because their employer was situated on a reserve. Native Leasing Services, an employee outsourcing company that has its headquarters on Six Nations of the Grand River, a reserve near Brantford, Ont., is seeking a remission order from National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier — who would have to recommend it to cabinet for...
The Iroquois, known also as the Haudenosaunee (which means People Building a Long House), were a powerful and important Native American confederacy located in the northeastern part of North America. During the colonial period, this confederacy was known to the French as the ‘Iroquois League’, and later as the ‘Iroquois Confederacy’. On the other hand, they were known to the English as the ‘Five Nations’, and, after 1722, as the ‘Six Nations’. The six nations that make up the Iroquois League are the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida,...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A Rapid City man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for producing child pornography on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. 22-year-old Jesse Gallego pleaded guilty in August to one count of production of child pornography as part of a plea agreement that had prosecutors drop one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor. With his plea, Gallego admitted taking multiple pornographic photos with his cellphone of a sleeping 7-year-old girl he was babysitting on...