There’s quite a bit to love about secondhand items: The mysteries, the stories, the joyful coincidence of just the right object somehow finding its way to you, the chance to give something another use, a new life. Whether an item comes from a thrift store, a yard sale, an estate sale, a ...

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES — Hollywood mustered its creative forces in the 1940s when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany sought to conquer the world, with Humphrey Bogart standing up to the fascist regime in ìCasablancaî and director Ernst Lubitsch mocking it and its ...

MARQUETTE — Ray Johnson, CEO of Innovate Marquette SmartZone, is retiring. But the mission continues. Innovate Marquette SmartZone was created to help accelerate the creation and growth of technology-based start-ups and jobs in Marquette. Johnson was hired in September 2015 as its ...

Albums. Boxes. Hard drives. Discs. Social media. The cloud. While all of these methods of storing photos have their relative benefits and drawbacks, I find nothing quite compares to flipping through an album or box of photo prints. For one, there’s the tactile experience of looking ...

MARQUETTE — Martin Heikel drew from his personal experience in the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds to give business advice to Northern Michigan University students on Tuesday at the Northern Center. Heikel, a former Verizon vice president and founder/CEO of Flatiron Apps Company in ...

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK — He was born Issur Danielovitch, a ragman’s son. He died Kirk Douglas, a Hollywood king. Douglas, the muscular, tempestuous actor with the dimpled chin, lived out an epic American story of reinvention and perseverance, from the riches ...