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Driver transported to Bell Hospital after injuries from crash

CHAMPION — One driver was left with minor injuries after a semi truck hit a vehicle in Champion on Monday. According to Michigan State Police, a vehicle turned west onto U.S. 41 off County Road AAJ and was going to turn left into the Champion Post Office when a semi truck traveling ...

Remains of Korean War soldier from Palmer to be buried

PALMER — The remains of a soldier from Palmer killed during the Korean War are to be buried. Army Cpl. Gordon D. McCarthy will be buried on Dec. 14 in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. McCarthy was a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd ...

Calumet Italian Hall Disaster remembered over a century later

MARQUETTE — Music can be tied to memories — both wonderful and tragic. One Upper Peninsula composer is memorialyzing a tragedy that changed the face of the Copper Country more than 100 years ago. On Christmas Eve in 1913 in Calumet, a Christmas party was held on the second floor of the ...

NMU student attends White House Tribal Youth Forum

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University student Riley Diehlman traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the White House Tribal Youth Forum. The Muskegon resident is an enrolled member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians and is pursuing a degree in Native American community ...

‘Tis the season

MARQUETTE — The Marquette holiday parade and tree lighting is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Friday along Third Street and at the Marquette Commons. The Marquette Post Office will also be collecting letters during the holiday parade while it goes down Third Street, so little ones can bring their ...