LANSING (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lifted Michigan's nearly 10-week coronavirus stay-at-home order Monday, letting restaurants reopen to dine-in customers next week and immediately easing limits on outdoor gatherings while keeping social-distancing rules intact. The governor moved regions ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Thousands of protesters shouted pro-democracy slogans and insults at police in Hong Kong before lawmakers later today debate a bill criminalizing abuse of the Chinese national anthem in the semi-autonomous city. Police massed outside the legislative building ahead of the ...
LANSING — On Thursday, Gov.Gretchen Whitmer signed executive order 2020-96 to reopen retail businesses and auto dealerships by appointment statewide on Tuesday, May 26, as part of her MI Safe Start plan, a press release states. The governor’s executive order also lifts the requirement that ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Power Five conferences spent $350,000 on lobbying in the first three months of 2020, more than they had previously spent in any full year, as part of a coordinated effort to influence Congress on legislation affecting the ability of college athletes to earn endorsement ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Just 0.7% of Major League Baseball employees tested positive for antibodies to COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. The small number of positive tests, announced Sunday, was positive news for a sport pushing ahead with plans to start its delayed ...
D’Andre Swift’s favorite all-time running back is Barry Sanders, even though he was born after the Hall of Famer ended his career with the Detroit Lions. Swift heard so much about Sanders that he watched the way he ran and tried to emulate him. The Lions, clearly, loved what they saw ...
To the Journal editor: As a lifelong area resident and an avid fisherman, I ’m absolutely amazed at the absurdity of the boating restrictions. The non-motorized marine vessels being first and foremost on my mind. Me and a lifelong friend, (who I also care take for), cannot use a motor ...
An irony of the coronavirus debate is that the more successful lockdowns are in squelching the disease, the more vulnerable they will be to attack as unnecessary in the first place. A growing chorus on the right is slamming the shutdowns as an overreaction and agitating to end them. A good ...
ISHPEMING — Firefighters extinguished a structure fire in Ishpeming on Saturday. Jason Annala, chief of the Ishpeming City Fire Department, said in a news release that the fire department responded to a possible electrical fire at 810 N. Third St. at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. When firefighters ...
DETROIT — Hundreds of new health care graduates from Michigan State University are available to respond to the coronavirus outbreak, the school said Tuesday. State officials have made a desperate plea for health professionals as the number of cases rises each day. MSU said the state has ...
GOGEBIC COUNTY — The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department received notification Thursday of the first U.P. death attributed to COVID-19, which is also the department’s first confirmed case, a press release from the WUPHD states. The individual was an elderly male Gogebic County ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette Symphony Orchestra is postponing its April 18 performance. Further details are to be announced. The MSO urges our community to follow CDC guidelines during this challenging time.
By ANDREW TAYLOR, ALAN FRAM and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — Acting swiftly in an extraordinary time, the House rushed President Donald Trump a $2.2 trillion rescue package Friday, tossing a life preserver to a U.S. economy and health care system left flailing by the ...
MARQUETTE — The Luce, Mackinac, Alger, Schoolcraft District Health Department announced its first positive case of COVID-19 this afternoon. This is the first confirmed case in the four-county district. The LMAS District Health Department was made aware of the case today. The positive case ...
LANSING — Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the “Stay Home, Stay Safe” Executive Order (EO 2020-21), directing all Michigan businesses and operations to temporarily suspend in-person operations that are not necessary to sustain or protect life. The order also directs Michiganders to ...
CHIPPEWA COUNTY -- Testing through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has identified Chippewa County’s first presumptive positive case of COVID-19. Specimens will be sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for confirmation testing. The Chippewa County Health ...
Esme ulland-joy, 11 I remember waking up at 7:30 on Friday, March 13th. On a normal school day, I usually wake up around 6:20. At first, I remember being a little confused. The Snow Day Calculator app had said there was only an 11 percent chance of there being a snow day on Friday. I go ...
“Someday I think I’d like to paint a seascape, if they ever get the ocean to stand still.” — Tom T. Hall Back in the shadowed corners and cobwebbed shelves of my mind rests a little cabin of modest construction that sat along the sandy shores of Lake Superior. Beach grass grew up ...
MATSUSHIMA AIR BASE, Japan — The Olympic flame completed its difficult journey today from Greece to Japan. It signified a small, symbolic victory for the IOC and local organizers, who maintain the Tokyo Olympics will open on July 24 amid a chorus of doubters who believe they should be ...
Effective immediately, M-28 is now reopened between Kawbawgam Road to Munising, according to the Michigan State Police.