Trayon White, a member of the city council in the District of Columbia, just walked away from a hung jury in a bribery trial. The facts were kind of wild. Though White admitted to accepting $35,000 in cash from a city contractor (who turned out to be an FBI informant), and the prosecution ...
Warm, dry weather and windy conditions are expected in the Upper Peninsula over the next few days, boosting the risk of a wildfire. "Grasses have dried out and leaves are starting to drop, which adds a layer of fuel that can feed and speed the spread of a wildfire," Paul Rogers, fire prevention specialist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, said in a news release. "Make sure to check for a burn permit before you burn any yard debris and be careful of heat or sparks from equipment and off-road vehicles." Unseasonably warm temperatures reaching the 70s and strong southerly ...
To the Journal editor: You wrote in your editorial published on Sept. 24, “Don’t look for a Bergman vs. Barr debate": “The mathematics of past elections should tell you most First Congressional District voters care little or not at all where Bergman lives, be it Watersmeet, Louisiana, or the surface of the moon… There is no reason we know of to think anything has changed there for the 2026 midterms.” Since I’ve launched this campaign, I’ve criss-crossed the district, meeting folks who clamor to tell me about what’s changing in their lives and their communities, and how ...
"Capital punishment presents moral questions that philosophers, theologians, and statesmen have grappled with for millennia," wrote Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a 2015 concurring opinion, so the Constitution's Framers "handled it the same way they handled many other controversial ...
Let's be clear. Forty-five years is an extraordinarily long time to live with an unanswered question. Yet for the family, friends and community of Helen Dymond, the question has never gone away: What happened to her? Dymond disappeared in 1981 after leaving a party at the Tilden Township Club to walk home. She was never seen again. No one was arrested in connection with her disappearance, and despite the passage of decades, the case remains unresolved. That alone is reason enough to keep looking. But the recent search of property in Negaunee demonstrates something equally important: ...
To the Journal editor: In the Sept. 21 (edition of the) Daily Mining Gazette (Houghton) I read of legislation proposed in the State House to require hunting and trapping of gray wolves in Michigan, if and when the species is removed from the federal list of endangered species. This is not the first time, and probably not the last, for such a proposal. What is new, of course, is that voters go to the polls in another month and will see the names of the sponsor and co-sponsor, respectively, of the proposed bill - state representatives Dave Prestin, R-Cedar River and Greg Markkanen, ...
