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About 100 people fishing on a frozen lake in Minnesota were rescued after a large chunk of the ice broke off, leaving them stranded. Emergency dispatchers received a 911 call just after 11:30 a.m. Monday from people who were fishing on Upper Red Lake in northern Beltrami County... ...Due to the urgent nature of getting people off the ice and the likelihood that several groups were unaware of the separation, the first responders sent out a wireless emergency alert...

There is an unconfirmed report the two boys, who have been missing since Thanksgiving, have been found in a junk yard in Red Lake. Red Lake Police could not confirm the reports. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS was told about the by their grandfather. Stay tuned to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS and KSTP.COM for the latest information.

RED LAKE, Minn. - Dozens of trained searchers were taking to woods, lakes and air Friday to hunt for two young brothers who disappeared from an American Indian reservation two days earlier. The FBI offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of Tristan Anthony White, 4, and Avery Lee Stately, 2. The boys were reported missing Wednesday from the Walking Shield area of the remote, heavily wooded Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota, the FBI said. Their parents said they had been playing outside their home before they disappeared, Tribal Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain Jr. said....

Jeff May, 16, has been awarded the title of "hero" in a national poll. But for him the recognition always will be linked in his mind to tragedy. Reader's Digest magazine has named May, who is credited with saving others' lives during last spring's shooting at Red Lake High School, as its Hero of the Year. May was shot in the face after he tried to wrestle the gunman, schoolmate Jeff Weise, to the ground. It has been a long and difficult struggle for May — who turned 16 on Friday — since the shootings nearly a year ago. And...

Drug investigations on the reservation were thwarted by tribal officials, according to three former police officials. "We were doing our jobs with our hands tied behind our backs," one told a newspaper. Three former law enforcement officials on the Red Lake Indian Reservation say that tribal politics and resistance from officials thwarted investigations into drug trafficking there, the New York Times reported Sunday. Clifford Martell, a former senior police investigator at Red Lake, accused the tribal chairman, Floyd Jourdain Jr., of pressing him to drop investigations of relatives, friends and political associates. Martell contended that he was fired in July...

An AP Story that ran in USA Today said that Weise posted information about his own mental state in the months before he killed nine people and himself. But the story failed to note that his comments included favorable references to using marijuana or MJ. Weise said, "MJ is my gal of choice." A March 25 Washington Post article by Blaine Harden and Dana Hedgpeth said Weise had serious mental problems but ignored the pot connection. A March 24 Post article by Ceci Connolly and Dana Hedgpeth described "a deeply disturbed youth who had been treated for depression in a...

The Washington Post published a story on Match 25 faulting President Bush for not injecting himself quickly enough into the tragic killings at the Indian reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota. Post reporter Ceci Connolly found a volunteer at an Indian office who said about Bush, "I don't feel he cares about the American Indian people." This is a classic case of a manufactured story designed to make the president look bad. Connolly, a contributor to Fox News, wrote that "The reaction to Bush's silence was particularly bitter given his high-profile, late-night intervention on behalf of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida...

MINNEAPOLIS - Tribal leaders on Thursday defended a $5,000 victims-aid grant given to the family of a teenager who killed nine people before killing himself, saying his relatives had "a double burden." Red Lake Tribal Secretary Judy Roy said the tribal council had decided unanimously that shooter Jeff Weise should be considered a victim of the March 21 violence centered on a high school, and that his family should get help paying for his funeral and burial. "It's not for him, it's for the family. ... They have a double burden," she said. Some relatives of others who were killed...

As many as four believed to have helped plot attack. Updated: 2:07 p.m. ET April 2, 2005 RED LAKE, Minn., As many as 20 teenagers may have known ahead of time about plans for the shooting spree that resulted in the deaths of 10 people on the Indian reservation here March 21, tribal and federal officials said Friday. Capt. Dewayne Dow of the tribal police told a group of parents, teachers and staff at a three-hour school board meeting that authorities believe as many as 20 students were involved. One law enforcement official said the FBI believes that as many...

RED LAKE, Minn., April 2 (UPI) -- A shooting rampage at a Minnesota high school that left 10 dead apparently did not surprise numerous teens on the Indian reservation, officials say.Federal and tribal officials say as many as 20 teenagers may have known of plans by Jeff Weise to shoot up Red Lake High School March 21, Capt. Dewayne Dow of the tribal police said. One law officer said the FBI believes as many as four students, including Weise and Louis Jourdain, a classmate arrested Sunday, were directly involved in planning the killings, and well over a dozen others may...

Authorities Believes (sic) as Many as 20 Teen-Agers Were Involved in Red Lake Shooting... As many as 20 teen-agers may have known ahead of time about plans for the shooting spree that resulted in the deaths of 10 people on the Indian reservation... Developing...

WHAT COULD drive a child to kill? That’s the question residents of the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota are asking after 16-year-old Jeff Weise shot to death his grandfather and grandfather’s partner, before killing seven people at Red Lake High School--including a teacher, security guard and five classmates--and finally turning the gun on himself. This is the worst school shooting since the killings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999. The media focused on the strange blend of neo-Nazi politics that Weise, an Native American, seemingly embraced. But the real source of such a desperate and terrible...

Wounded by two police bullets, Jeff Weise made his way back to a bloody classroom where he'd killed six people, put his grandfather's shotgun under his chin and pulled the trigger. An e-mail account from a sheriff's deputy, obtained by The Associated Press, sketches a more complete picture of last week's attack at Red Lake High School. Weise killed himself with a shotgun after being hit in the hip and leg, according to the March 26 e-mail, which also said a heroic security guard was shot first in the chest, then in the back. In all, nine people died in...

Only a gun could have stopped Jeff Weise MARK YOST, St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted on Tue, Mar. 29, 2005 In the week since teenage gunman Jeff Weise walked into Red Lake Senior High School and killed five students, a teacher and a security guard before killing himself, the usual voices from the usual precincts have been asking: What can we do to keep this from happening next time? How about arming security guards, as well as a handful of administrators and teachers who volunteer to be properly trained?I can hear the gasps echoing from Mac-Groveland to Crocus Hill. But...

RED LAKE, Minn. - A juvenile has been arrested in last week's shooting rampage on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, federal authorities said Monday. They would not say how the juvenile was believed to be connected to the attack, which left 10 people dead, including the 16-year-old gunman. U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger said the juvenile was arrested Sunday, but declined to give any details, including the age and gender of the juvenile. Heffelfinger said federal law required him to withhold the details. The gunman, Jeff Weise, a student with a history of depression, shot to death his grandfather and the...

Federal authorities in the United States have announced the arrest of a juvenile in connection to last week’s shooting rampage at a high school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Officials would not say how the youth was involved in the attack, which left 10 people dead, including the 16-year-old gunman. US Attorney Tom Heffelfinger said the juvenile had been arrested a day earlier, but declined to reveal any further details, including the age or gender of the youth. Investigators said last week that Jeff Weise had acted alone in the shooting, which shocked the tightly-knit community, in the northern...

For Immediate ReleaseMarch 26, 2005 President's Radio Address      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This weekend, millions of Americans celebrate the joyous holiday of Easter. Easter is the most important event of the Christian faith, when people around the world join together with family and friends to celebrate the power of love conquering death. At Easter time we pray for all who serve in our military. The outstanding members of our Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are keeping America secure and advancing liberty in the world. We remember especially those who have given their lives in...

THE MINNESOTA SCHOOL SHOOTING AND THE RACE CARD...AGAIN!  By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 25, 2005 10:01 AM  A few days ago, I noted that some ethnic grievance-mongers were griping that there wasn't enough coverage of the Minnesota school shootings because many of the victims were Native American.The race card-playing continues in the Friday A section of the Washington Post, under the eye-roll-inducing headline: Native Americans Criticize Bush's Silence Response to School Shooting Is Contrasted With President's Intervention in Schiavo Case  Ceci Connolly writes: MINNEAPOLIS, March 24 -- Native Americans across the country -- including tribal leaders, academics and rank-and-file...

Derrick Brun was an unarmed security guard at Red Lake High School, the Minnesota school where the massacre occurred. LeeAnn Grant was his partner. When the shooting began Mr. Brun went after the shooter. However, school regulations require that security guards must be unarmed. Unable to defend himself or the students under his protection, Brun had little to utilize but his courage. But as he stood face to face with a murderer armed with a shotgun, his courage offered him no defense, and Bruns was shortly gunned down. Here's the help he got from his partner, Miss Grant: "I screamed...

The teen who allegedly killed nine people before turning the gun on himself has been described as a "towering loner" who had expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and claimed to have been investigated for a school shooting plot last year. According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the shooter has been identified by fellow Red Lake Indian tribe members as Jeff Weise, who had reportedly posted on an online nationalist forum last April that police investigated him after learning of plans to "shoot up the school on 4/20, Hitlers [sic] birthday." He later claimed in the forum that he had...