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  • Family frustrated over lack of answers in Theresa Robinson homicide

    Dec 31, 2015

    Eight months after 11-year-old Theresa Robinson was found dead in Garden Hill, her family and the community are no closer to finding out who killed her. After finding partial remains of her body in May 2015, RCMP initially thought Robinson had been mauled by an animal, but later confirmed they were investigating her death as a homicide. "It has taken a toll in the community and it's been hard this past Christmas to remember what happened and try to deal with it and come to terms with it", said Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief Sheila...

  • Utah officer did not kill Ute tribal member after 2007 chase, appeals court rules

    Dec 31, 2015

    VERNAL — A federal appeals court has ruled that there is no evidence to support a Utah family's allegation that their son was murdered by a police officer in 2007 at the end of a high-speed chase. In a 37-page opinion handed down Tuesday, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell's decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parents of Todd Rory Murray against the state of Utah, Uintah County, the city of Vernal, and 11 current and former law enforcement officers. A panel of three appellate court judges said M...

  • Manitoba First Nation house fire kills 3, including father, son and cousin

    Dec 31, 2015

    A northern Manitoba reserve is mourning after three people died in a house fire yesterday. Emergency crews arrived within minutes of being called to Oxford House First Nation shortly before 7 a.m. CT on Tuesday, but the wood home was already engulfed, said Oxford House Chief Tim Muskego. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/3-die-oxford-house-manitoba-1.3384212...

  • Vuntut Gwitchin chief, Roger Kyikavichik, arrested on sexual assault charge

    Dec 31, 2015

    Roger Kyikavichik, chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, faces a charge of sexual assault, Yukon RCMP said Wednesday. The charge stems from an alleged incident in the fall of 2014. Police say the charge was filed in Yukon Territorial Court Wednesday, although Kyikavichik was arrested Dec. 23. In a news release, RCMP said they first received the complaint in September, 2015. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/vuntut-gwitchin-chief-arrested-sexual-assault-charge-1.3384895...

  • Former tribal chairman's son strikes plea deal in drug case

    Dec 31, 2015

    WPBN/WGTU — The son of former chairman of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians entered a plea after being accused of dealing narcotics from his home. Johnathan Harrington pled to one count of controlled substance-possession of cocaine and one count of controlled substance-possession of LSD in exchange for the dismissal of one count of possession with intent to deliver meth/ecstasy, one count of possession with intent to deliver LSD, one count of maintaining a drug house as well as one count of possession of marijuana. h...