ESCANABA — This year’s U.P. State Fair is set for Aug. 17-23 in Escanaba. “Since 2010, the UP State Fair has been operating independently of state funding and our emergence as Michigan’s only State Fair,” reads the fair website. “The fair is now governed by the Upper Peninsula ...
MARQUETTE — The “berry” popular Blueberry Festival is set to return to downtown Marquette from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday. The event will be held along West Washington and South Front streets. “Downtown comes alive with sidewalk sales and a wide variety of blueberry-themed food ...
OMAHA, Neb. — Bob Walls was getting set to tee off on the first hole at his home course last week when his partners interrupted his pre-shot routine. "Get back here, man," James King said. "We're playing blues today," Dawn Dozier added. Walls wasn't having it. "When you're over 100, you ...
MOSCOW (AP) — A U.S.-Russian space crew landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Sunday after an eight-month stint on the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian crewmates Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev touched down in their Soyuz MS-28 that ...
PARIS — A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said. Put another way, that means the inferno was no longer simply being ...
