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Search for Starla Goings continues, volunteers sought

MUNISING — The search for Starla Goings continues as authorities ask volunteers to aid in another ground search to be held this month. Volunteers are to meet at 9 a.m. Oct. 24 at 16 Mile Lake Fire Hall in Munising. Goings, a 65-year-old woman from Alger County, has been missing since August ...

Wet weather both helps, hurts firefighting efforts

MARQUETTE — The wet weather over the past few days has significantly lowered fire activity at the various wildland fires across the Upper Peninsula. However, wet weather also creates difficult, hazardous conditions for the people fighting those fires, and rain alone will not put them out. ...

Today in History: October 15, #MeToo movement goes viral

Today in History: October 15, #MeToo movement goes viral By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2026. There are 77 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 15, 2017, actor and activist Alyssa Milano tweeted that women who had been sexually harassed or ...

Daggett man pleads no contest to CSC charges

MENOMINEE COUNTY - A Daggett man who faced almost a dozen counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct alongside his fiancé has entered a plea. Travis Scott Thiry, 45, was initially charged with 11 felony counts of first-degree CSC involving a person under the age of 13; one felony count ...