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Today in History: May 6, the Hindenburg crashes in flames in New Jersey
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Today in History: May 6, the Hindenburg crashes in flames in New Jersey By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, May 6, the 126th day of 2026. There are 239 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg caught fire and crashed ...
Family, authorities seek volunteers in search for missing Alger County woman
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MUNISING — Volunteers are needed for an upcoming search for Starla Goings, a 65-year-old Munising woman who disappeared August 2025 in a case investigators say may involve foul play. The ground search will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Au Train Fire Station, located at the ...
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Now that we are well into our spring season, we are now seeing more and more bike riders in our wonderful Upper Peninsula. Let us again review the many benefits that bicycle riding can offer to so many of us. Here is a brief review of the many health benefits of bike riding. Clearly, bike ...
Rich to give Bay College commencement address
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ESCANABA – Bay College has announced that Abigail Rich has been selected to deliver the college’s 2026 graduation student commencement speech on Saturday. Rich is one of two children and part of a set of twins. She and her twin brother grew up in North Carolina on a hobby farm. Rich will ...
Researchers look for answers behind ‘zombie fish’ deep in Lake Superior
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MARQUETTE — There’s something fishy going on in the frigid, dark depths of Lake Superior. In the deepest part of the lake, a quarter mile below the surface, researchers are discovering a growing number of extraordinarily thin lake trout that weigh about half their typical, healthy body ...