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Marquette and vicinity: Today, patchy fog before 8 a.m. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon. Tonight, mostly clear, with a low around 58. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest after midnight. Extended forecast: Friday, a 20 percent ...

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Marquette and vicinity: Today, a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. ...

North Dakota lawmaker dies at 54 following cancer battle

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. — A lawmaker who was North Dakota’s youngest state senator when he was elected at 24 has died at 54, a year after he began treatment for cancer. Republican state Rep. Randy Schobinger, of Minot, died Tuesday in Delano, Tenn., according to an obituary. He had begun treatment for esophageal cancer last August, according to the Minot Daily News. Schobinger campaigned in an aging 1972 Toyota for which he paid $100 and he stenciled with “Vote Schobinger” before winning election. He served as a state senator from 1994 to 2006, and ...

Today in History: August 16, American music loses two legends

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Aug. 16, the 229th day of 2024. There are 137 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 42; forty-one years later, in 2018, singer Aretha Franklin, ...