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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, ...

Wildfire near Athens burned area almost twice the size of Manhattan

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A European Union satellite mapping agency says 104 sq. kilometers (40 sq. miles) of land was burned northeast of Athens this week during a deadly wildfire that gutted dozens of homes and prompted multiple countries to send assistance. The Copernicus Emergency Management Service announced the damage estimate Wednesday, a day after the wildfire was contained in a massive effort that ended on the outskirts of the capital. A factory worker was killed in the fire that swept through mountainous areas southward, covering an area almost twice the size of Manhattan and ...

Today in History: Aug. 15, Woodstock music festival begins

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Aug. 15, the 228th day of 2024. There are 138 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 15, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York; more than 460,000 people attended the three-day festival, which would become a watershed event in American music and culture. Also on this date: In 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain. In 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened as the SS Ancon crossed the just-completed waterway between the ...

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Marquette and vicinity: Today, showers likely, with a thunderstorms also possible after 5 p.m. Increasing clouds, with a high near 73. South wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except ...