By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2019. There are 344 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 21, 1977, on his first full day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders. On this date: In 1793, ...

By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2019. There are 345 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 20, 2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, pledging emphatically to empower America’s “forgotten ...

By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2019. There are 346 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 19, 1955, a presidential news conference was filmed for television and newsreels for the first time, with the permission of President ...

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2019. There are 347 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Jan. 18, 1957, a trio of B-52’s completed the first non-stop, round-the-world flight by jet planes, landing at March Air Force Base in ...

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2019. There are 349 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 16, 1920, Prohibition began in the United States as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect, one year to the day after its ratification. (It was ...

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2019. There are 354 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 11, 1913, the first enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York. On this ...

Today is Saturday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2019. There are 353 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit. On this date: In 1828, the United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of ...

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2019. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 10, 1863, the London Underground had its beginnings as the Metropolitan, the world’s first underground passenger railway, opened to the public with service between ...

By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2019. There are 357 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 8, 2011, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot and critically wounded when a gunman opened fire as the congresswoman met with ...

By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2019. There are 358 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 7, 1999, for the second time in history, an impeached American president went on trial before the Senate. President Bill Clinton faced ...

By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2019. There are 359 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 6, 1945, George Herbert Walker Bush married Barbara Pierce at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York. On this date: In 1759, ...

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2019. There are 361 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his State of the Union address in which he outlined the goals of his “Great ...

Today is Monday, Dec. 31, the 365th and final day of 2018. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 31, 1972, Major League baseball player Roberto Clemente, 38, was killed when a plane he chartered and was traveling on to bring relief supplies to earthquake-devastated Nicaragua crashed shortly ...

By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Dec. 30, the 364th day of 2018. There is one day left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 30, 1853, the United States and Mexico signed a treaty under which the U.S. agreed to buy some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico for ...

Today is Friday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2018. There are three days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 28, 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American “test-tube” baby, was born in Norfolk, Virginia. On this date: In 1612, Italian astronomer Galileo ...

Today is Wednesday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2018. There are five days left in the year. The seven-day African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today. This is Boxing Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 26, 2004, more than 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia, were killed by a ...

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Monday, Dec. 24, the 358th day of 2018. There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 24, 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander ...

MARQUETTE — The Herbert C. Jackson is scheduled to arrive 4 p.m. today at the Lake Superior & Ishpeming ore dock in Marquette’s Upper Harbor. The Ashtabula will arrive 11 a.m. Tuesday and the Joseph H. Thompson is scheduled to arrive 1 a.m. Wednesday.

By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Dec. 23, the 357th day of 2018. There are eight days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 23, 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo. On this date: In 1783, ...

By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Dec. 22, the 356th day of 2018. There are nine days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 22, 2001, Richard C. Reid, a passenger on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami, tried to ignite explosives in his shoes, but ...