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The Minnesota Attorney General's Office on Tuesday sued a Fridley used car dealership for violating consumer protection laws, alleging it fraudulently sold more than 3,000 vehicles and targeted Spanish-speaking customers. Midwest Car Search and its owner, Scott Spiczka, misrepresented cars as "certified" when they were not and illegally tacked on expensive service contracts without buyers' consent, Attorney General Keith Ellison claims in the suit. "This is a long-term systemic pattern of...
April 23, 2024 (SAINT PAUL) — Attorney General Keith Ellison today announced that his Office has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Fridley used-car dealer Midwest Car Search and its owner, Scott Spiczka. The lawsuit alleges that Midwest Car Search: (1) misrepresents that its used cars are certified when they are not; (2) illegally adds expensive vehicle service contracts to consumers’ purchases without their consent; (3) refuses to provide warranties that it is required to provide by law; (4) fails to make accurate “Buyer’s Guide...
University of Minnesota police arrested nine people after a pro-Palestinian encampment set up overnight on the Northrop Mall on the Twin Cities campus. Video and photos posted to social media showed student groups pitched tents about 4 a.m. and placed signs aimed at showing "solidarity with the people of Palestine." About two hours later, university police arrived. "The group was asked to disperse by 7 a.m. and told they would be arrested if they chose to stay past that time," the university...
MINNEAPOLIS – A Blooming Prairie man has been indicted for sexually exploiting children outside the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, between November 2021 and April 2022, Steven John Sokel, 61, by aiding and abetting other individuals, coerced three minor girls outside of the United States to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions. Sokel also possessed sexually explicit images and videos of m...
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation and Indian Health Service (IHS) today announced a new Memorandum of Understanding to further develop safe drinking water and community sanitation infrastructure projects across Indian Country. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Michael Brain made the announcement at the White House’s first-ever Clean Water Summit, alongside Indian Health Service Deputy Director Benjamin Smith and Yakama Nation Chairman Gerald Lewis. Reclamation Commissioner Camil...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Ramsey man has been sentenced to six months in prison followed by one year of supervised release and restitution for operating a tax preparation business as cover for a tax fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, Lyle Nierenz, 70, ran tax preparation businesses-called Fast-R-Tax and Lyle's Tax Service-out of his home in Ramsey, Minnesota. Nierenz prepared and filed numerous income tax returns falsely claiming that his clie...
MINNEAPOLIS – A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 192 months in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for receipt, distribution, and access with intent to view child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents and the evidence presented at trial, beginning in August 2020, through January 2022, Michael Francis Hamer, 56, knowingly and frequently obtained, distributed, and accessed child pornography online. On multiple occasions, he u...
The Red Lake Band held an Informational Session on Legislative Bills and Congregate Shelter on Monday, April 15, 2024 at the Red Lake Casino Event Center. Congregate Shelter Project This project was conceptualized from the series Zhawenimin summit meetings held in 2023 in response to the Opioid and Fentanyl crisis our community is facing, along with homelessness issues. Purpose: To address the current challenges posed by the opioid crisis and homelessness within the Red Lake Nation by offering a...
Yesterday, the Return to the Heart Foundation celebrated Earth Day by honoring 44 Indigenous women leaders and their efforts to protect Mother Earth through its Traditional Helpers and Healers grant program. Led by Indigenous women, Return to the Heart Foundation is a 501(c)(3) that supports projects that embrace traditional ways of living. It focuses on healing through storytelling, community involvement, and environmental justice, all rooted in a deep connection to the Earth. The foundation...
Columbia University canceled in-person classes, police arrested dozens of protesters at Yale and New York universities, and pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up encampments at other colleges Monday as tensions flared again on campuses across the country over the Israel-Gaza war. Students at many schools are escalating protests over the war, living in tents on campus, disrupting university events, and risking and provoking arrest, leading to a growing sense of chaos and crackdown at colleges in...
In sunny California, solar panels are everywhere. They sit in dry, desert landscapes in the Central Valley and are scattered over rooftops in Los Angeles's urban center. By last count, the state had nearly 47 gigawatts of solar power installed - enough to power 13.9 million homes and provide over a quarter of the Golden State's electricity. But now, the state and its grid operator are grappling with a strange reality: There is so much solar on the grid that, on sunny spring days when there's...
UnitedHealth Group said Monday "a substantial proportion" of Americans may have had their personal data compromised in a February cyberattack and is offering them free credit monitoring and identity theft protection. The Minnetonka-based health care giant also disclosed for the first time that it paid a ransom to the hacker in hopes of protecting patient data from disclosure. UnitedHealth did not specify the size of the ransom, but a report in Wired magazine last month suggested it may have...
A 9-year-old Hopkins girl spent a week in intensive care from an asthma attack that left her brain dead. Now the girl's parents are charged in her death, after her father failed to refill her inhaler and her mother ran a steam bath instead of rushing her to the hospital. Anthony and Rachel Modrow both face one count of second-degree manslaughter for the alleged neglect and endangerment of their child, Amy Lynn Modrow, who they called "chicken nugget," according to her obituary. The parents, both 34, were booked into Hennepin County jail late...
One person was injured and taken to a hospital after a home explosion Monday morning in Richfield. Hennepin County Sheriff's Deputies were in the area of the 6400 block of Oliver Avenue S. and heard the explosion, which happened about 8:45 a.m., said Richfield Fire Chief Mike Dobesh. Deputies went to the residence and were able to pull the victim to safety, Dobesh said. https://www.startribune.com/home-explosion-richfield-injury/600360771/...
MELBOURNE, Australia - Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that an uncle of the U.S. president had been eaten by ''cannibals'' there during World War II. Biden's comments offended a key strategic ally as China moves to increase its influence in the region. The president spoke at a Pennsylvania war memorial last week about his Army Air Corps aviator uncle Second Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr., whom he said was...
MADISON, Wis. — Lake sturgeon don't need Endangered Species Act protections, federal wildlife officials announced Monday, saying that stocking programs have helped the prehistoric fish return to areas where they had vanished. The decision ends the Arizona-based Center of Biological Diversity's petition filed in May 2018 asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list lake sturgeon as endangered or threatened. Such listings would make harvesting the fish illegal, but without them, popular sturgeon harvest seasons in states such as Wisconsin a...
BEMIDJI - The Sanford Center provided a haven for nearly 4,000 tech enthusiasts and gamers as Paul Bunyan Communications hosted its seventh annual GigaZone Gaming Championship and second annual TechXpo event on Saturday. Making its post-pandemic return last year, gamers flooded the Sanford Center arena to compete in Rocket League - this year's main stage tournament - along with Fortnite, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Valorant and a host of other tournaments. A total of 32 teams competed on the...
BEMIDJI, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced today, construction on Highway 87 east of Hubbard will begin May 20. The project includes reconstructing Highway 87 from Third Crow Wing Lake to east of Hubbard. The project also includes shoulder widening and culvert replacements. Staging information and detour routes are subject to change. Estimated durations and detour routes are as follows: Stage 1: Hubbard CR 20 to CR 13 • Detour: Hubbard CR 17, Hubbard CR 20, Hubbard CR 13 • Work to complete: grading, aggregate base...
MINNEAPOLIS – A Rochester man has been indicted for production and possession of child pornography and coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, on multiple occasions between 2015 and 2023, Mathew Richard Adamson, 45, produced child pornography involving 12 and 13-year-old minor girls, including surreptitiously recorded videos. Adamson also possessed sexually explicit images and videos of minors and coerced a...
WASHINGTON – The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs today announced the opening of the Division of Indigenous Connectivity and Technology within the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The new division will assist federally recognized Tribal nations with managing and expanding new technological and wireless services on their lands and advance their sovereignty over the digital resources and assets on those lands. “The new Indigenous Connectivity and Technology division will modernize the way Tribal nations engage in technological opp...
The Red Lake Band held an Informational Session on Legislative Bills and Congregate Shelter on Monday, April 15, 2024 at the Red Lake Casino Event Center. Congregate Shelter Project This project was conceptualized from the series Zhawenimin summit meetings held in 2023 in response to the Opioid and Fentanyl crisis our community is facing, along with homelessness issues. Purpose: To address the current challenges posed by the opioid crisis and homelessness within the Red Lake Nation by offering a...
For more than 20 years, Tom Goldtooth has listened to conversations about the negative impacts fossil fuels and carbon markets have on Indigenous peoples. On Wednesday, Goldtooth and the Indigenous Environmental Network, or IEN, called for a permanent end to carbon markets. Beyond being an ineffective tool for mitigating climate change, the organization argues; they harm, exploit, and divide Native communities around the world. This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs...
This Earth Day, President Joe Biden announced $7 million in solar grant funding to deliver residential solar power to close to one million low-income households. The grant program, made available through the Environmental Protection Agency's Solar for All grants, will save each recipient household about $400 a year while also avoiding 30 million metric tons of carbon pollution in the next quarter century, according to the agency. Throughout this week, the Biden-Harris Administration said it...
In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide outbreak by developing the first-ever global pandemic accord. The deadline for a deal? May 2024. The costs of not reaching one? Incalculable, experts say. An unknown future pathogen could have far more devastating consequences than SARS-CoV-2, which cost some 7...
SAN FRANCISCO - For years, governments around the world have waged a bitter fight with Google and Meta over whether the Big Tech giants should pay for the news stories and videos that show up in search results and on social media. Now that fight has come to their home turf - the United States. California politicians are advancing a bill that would force Google and Meta - which owns Facebook and Instagram - to pay news publishers each time they display pieces of their articles or show links to...
