This week’s Local 4 high school football Game of the Week is a matchup between two powerhouses for the Macomb Area Red Division Championship. The Utica Eisenhower Eagles will host the Macomb Dakota Cougars on Friday, Oct, 11, at 7 p.m.

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the U.S. failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago.

Under the tall prairie grass in far southwestern Minnesota lies a precious seam of dark red pipestone that, for thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried and carved into pipes essential to prayer and communication with the Creator.

4Frenzy’s seventh Game of the Week was a MAC-Red league matchup between the Dakota Cougars and the Eisenhower Eagles that took place at Dakota High School.

The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time.

The video showed someone burning a varsity jacket. Dakota High School football players and their parents said the team is being bullied online by adults who should know better. They were called poor sports, lowlifes, drug addicts, future murderers, wife beaters, animal abusers, a parent of a football player, Mark Hall, said. It was a video of a Dakota parent burning his Chippewa Valley varsity jacket after his sons team beat Chippewa. The parent who burned his own varsity jacket has been barred from attending any events without the permission of administrators.

A petition has been created to exonerate Macomb Dakota head football coach Greg Baur after he was suspended before Fridays season-ending loss to rival Sterling Heights Stevenson in a second-round state playoff game. A father of a Dakota player who also graduated from Chippewa Valley burned his old Chippewa Valley football jacket in the parking lot when buses driving Dakota players returned to the school following the game, according to the petition. The father allegedly told his son years ago that if Dakota ever beat Chippewa Valley on Chippewa Valleys field, then hed burn his jacket, the petition said. The petition has been created in hopes of getting the Chippewa Valley School District to issue a statement exonerating Bauer and the Dakota team. An email has been sent to Chippewa Valley Schools spokesperson Diane Blain seeking comment from the school district.

What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with the Dakota Cougar High School Marching Band! The Marching Band proudly performs at Dakota varsity home football games, competes in the Scholastic Marching Band circuit, and can be seen in parades throughout the Metro Detroit area, including in the Richmond Good Old Days Parade. The band consistently earns first division ratings at the MSBOA marching band festival. The band performed at Chicago Symphony Hall in April of 2011, and they will be performing at the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, FL in April of 2012. The Dakota Cougar High School Marching Band will be performing "Celebrate" by Kool and the Gang at America's Thanksgiving Parade.