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For 30 long years, Ana White has been searching for her sister, Andrea “Chick” White. The then 22-year-old Native mother of four, along with an eight-month-old baby, had traveled to Eureka, California, in July 1991 for a court date, after an auto accident. She was spotted hitchhiking home along a freeway near Blue Lake, in northern California. She has been missing ever since. White, who described her sister as a great mother and very giving...

WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced April 2 the formation of a Missing & Murdered Unit within the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services to provide leadership and direction for cross-departmental and interagency work involving missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. According to the BIA, the MMU will help put the full weight of the federal government into investigating these cases and marshal law enforcement resources across federal agencies and throughout Indian country. “Violence against Indigenous people...

Apr 9, 2021 WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the formation of a new Missing & Murdered Unit within the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services to provide leadership and direction for cross-departmental and interagency work involving missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. Approximately 1,500 American Indian and Alaska Native missing persons have been entered into the National Crime Information Center throughout the U.S., and approximately 2,700 cases of murder and nonnegligent homicide offenses have been reported to the federal gove...

Deb Haaland creates unit to investigate killings and disappearances of Indigenous people CNN 1 hr ago By Nicole Chavez, CNN © Leigh Vogel/Pool/AFP/Getty Images/FILE Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said efforts to investigate missing or killed Indigenous people will be "all hands-on deck." Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced a new unit within Bureau of Indian Affairs that plans to tackle the decades-long crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans. "Violence against Indigenous peoples is a crisis that has been underfunded for decades," Haaland said in a statement T...

BELLEAIR BLUFFS — The city’s crime rate fell by nearly one-fourth between 2010 and 2019. The significant drop in serious crime was announced in a recent letter from Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri to Belleair Bluffs Mayor Chris Arbutine. The crime data was contained in the FBI’s most recent Uniform Crime Reporting Program annual report, released in 2020, that reflected crime that occurred through 2019, Gualtieri said in the letter. In highlighting the 24 percent reduction in crime, Gualtieri said it is significant “because it means 24 percent less crime victims among...