WASHINGTON — Tours at the Capitol have come to a standstill. The House is keeping its doors closed, while the Senate is stuck in a loop of failed votes on a rejected plan to reopen the government. President Donald Trump is threatening to mass fire federal workers and refuse back pay for the ...
MARQUETTE — June saw a record-setting nationwide protest called No Kings, and it is set to return on Saturday, Oct. 18, both locally and nationally. “In June, we did what many claimed was impossible — peacefully mobilized millions of people to take to the streets and declare with one ...
PONTIAC, Mich. — Grotesque makeup, menacing props and intimidating costumes are just one part of a Michigan haunted house's 25-year-old formula to terrify guests. It starts by educating the actors looking to provide the most horrifying experience to its visitors. At Scare School, they learn ...
Today is Thursday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2025. There are 83 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 9, 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and ...
ESCANABA – A Gladstone man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assault charges after being accused of holding a female against her will in April, then fleeing downstate. Hunter Grizz Gallagher, 24, and attorney Diane Kay-Hougaboom appeared virtually Monday in the 47th Circuit Court before ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s Archaeology Department hosts a field school every other year on Beaver Island. Located about 32 miles northwest of the northern Lower Peninsula city of Charlevoix, the island is the largest island in Lake Michigan and third largest island in ...