The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting 980 new COVID-19 cases today and 12 new deaths, bringing the case total to 447,349 and the death toll to 5,939. Of all deaths, 3,786 were residents of long-term care or assisted living facilities. Of all cases, 34,894 were health care workers. Today’s data comes after 21,000 tests…
Regional law enforcement departments say they have responded to 62 overdoses since Dec. 1, with 10 of them being fatal. According to a joint release from the Red Lake Nation, White Earth Nation, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Beltrami County and the Bemidji Police Department, the significant increase in recent opioid overdoses may be attributed…
A Red Lake man was indicted for murder in the federal courts. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 36-year-old Ralph Edward Cloud, Jr., is accused of killing someone on the Red Lake Reservation last September. The Red Lake Tribal Police Department and the FBI Headwaters Safe Trails Task Force is conducting the investigation. No information was…
