FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.

Navajo Nation getting $554M settlement from feds

The Navajo Nation is poised to receive $554 million from the federal government over allegations of mismanagement of tribal resources in the largest settlement of its kind for an American Indian tribe.

Much of the land on the sprawling reservation has been leased for uses such as farming, grazing, oil and gas development, mining and housing.

The leases were largely overseen by Washington, which mismanaged the revenue and failed to properly invest and account for it, according to the tribe.

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is scheduled to visit Window Rock, Arizona, the Navajo Nation capital, to formalize the deal Friday.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Homeland Security admits many aliens scoffed law

Tens of thousands of young families caught crossing the border illegally earlier this year subsequently failed to meet with federal immigration agents, as they were instructed, the Homeland Security Department has acknowledged privately.

An official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that about 70 percent of immigrant families the Obama administration had released into the U.S. never showed up weeks later for follow-up appointments.

The ICE official made the disclosure in a confidential meeting at its Washington headquarters with immigration advocates. The Associated Press obtained an audio recording of Wednesday’s meeting and separately interviewed participants.

BALTIMORE

Contaminated chicken sickened April convention

Experts who attended a Food Safety Summit in Baltimore in April should have skipped lunch.

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released a report that says the chicken marsala served April 9 during the 2014 Food Safety Summit at the Baltimore Convention Center caused a gastroenteritis outbreak that sickened 216 attendees.

The chicken may not have been kept at the proper temperature.

Centerplate, the convention’s in-house catering company, provided the means at the summit, which attracted roughly 1,300 food safety experts to Baltimore.

MISSOULA, Mont.

Dissident trucker allegedly let frozen poultry go rancid

A truck dripping rancid juices from thousands of pounds of rotting chicken sat in the heat attracting flies Thursday at a western Montana truck stop, where an Idaho trucking company employee abandoned it.

The driver left the trailer containing approximately 37,000 pounds of frozen chicken near the Flying J Truck Stop west of Missoula after the company refused his requests for more money, authorities said. The chicken was worth $80,000.

The truck was discovered Tuesday. It may have been left there more than a month ago, police said.

Police are searching for the driver, 42-year-old Christopher L. Hall, who had been wanted for a parole violation and now faces a possible theft charge.

– From news service reports