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Crime

Contois found competent to stand trial

By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — A 39- year-old Marquette man in custody for a 2021 murder was found competent to stand trial. The Marquette County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Curtis Contois appeared in Marquette County Circuit Court for a competency hearing on Tuesday. Judge ...

Dickinson County man faces sexually abusive activity charges

By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — A Dickinson County man is in police custody after an arrest for child sexually abusive activity-aggravated and using a computer to commit a crime. Brandon Douglas Lake, 28, of Quinnisec was arrested after an investigation by the Michigan State Police Computer ...

Can parents of Oxford shooter be charged?

DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors on Tuesday defended charges against the parents of a teenager who killed four students at a Michigan school in 2021, telling an appeals court that extreme drawings and the boy’s fascination with guns should have been a wake-up call on the day of the shootings. A ...

Fox News host works to change Jan. 6 narrative

WASHINGTON (AP) — Handed some 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 security footage, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has launched an impassioned new effort to explain away the deadly Capitol attack, linking the Republican Party ever more closely to pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot. The ...

UPSET arrests Chicago women for alleged prescription fraud

By Journal Staff NEGAUNEE — Detectives from the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team Thursday conducted an investigation that resulted in the arrest of two female suspects from Chicago for trying to illegally obtaining a false prescription and resisting arrest. According to an UPSET ...

Jurors say Murdaugh testimony confirmed his guilt

By REBECCA REYNOLDS and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press WALTERBORO, S.C.— Alex Murdaugh didn’t help his defense when he took the stand at his trial for the murder of his wife and son, three jurors said on Monday. Murdaugh’s testimony only managed to cement what they were already ...