GWINN — The high school girls basketball game in Gwinn between the Gwinn Modeltowners and Ishpeming Hematites originally set for tonight has been rescheduled for Friday. The junior varsity contest will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the varsity game at 7:30 p.m.
LANSING — Due to widespread emergency weather conditions impacting the state of Michigan, all state government offices will remain closed through Thursday until 10 p.m. Specified essential services will remain operational during the emergency, according to a press release from the Michigan ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette Senior High School No. 1 singles tennis star Alec Olivier signed a national letter of intent on Wednesday to attend and play tennis at Ferris State University this fall. Olivier, going into his senior season this spring at MSHS, is unbeaten in three seasons of high ...
MARQUETTE — Police have identified the mother who was arrested for alleged child abuse after authorities responded to a report in Ishpeming of a 2-year-old girl who was alone and locked in a vehicle that was not running Wednesday morning. Taylor Ann Thompson, 27, was charged with ...
NEGAUNEE — Emergency personnel reported to the scene of a two-vehicle accident on U.S. 41 in Negaunee Township around 2:30 p.m. today. The car and pickup truck involved in the crash both appeared to have sustained major damage. It is unclear whether anyone was injured. Westbound lanes on ...
MARQUETTE — A mother has been arrested for child abuse by the Ishpeming Police Department after authorities responded to a report of a 2-year-old girl who was alone and locked in a vehicle that was not running. Police said the vehicle was reported to be behind the Salvation Army on East ...
By KATHLEEN GRAY Detroit Free Press AP Member Exchange DETROIT — Despite being a self-described mess, the aging and more mellow John Sinclair is taking a victory lap. Arguably, the man most responsible for starting the movement to legalize marijuana in the United States, Sinclair is ...
MARQUETTE — A multiple vehicle accident occurred around noon today at the intersection of Washington Street and McClellan Avenue in Marquette. Officials did not confirm whether any injuries were sustained in the crash. Among emergency responders at the scene were personnel from the ...
A new medical device may change almost everything we think about making babies. It may also sweep away the current controversy over abortion while creating new ethical dilemmas. We speak of the artificial womb. Also called a biobag, an artificial womb is a big plastic sack filled with ...
LAS VEGAS — No other city does New Year’s Eve like Las Vegas. Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Gwen Stefani are among the superstars who will be ushering in the new year with performances at venues on the Las Vegas Strip, while more than 300,000 people are expected to gather on the world-famous ...
NEW YORK — Mariah Carey’s 24-year-old Christmas classic is so popular it set a new one-day streaming record on Spotify on Christmas Eve. Chart Data reported that “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” released in 1994, was played 10.8 million times on Spotify on Monday. The song bested ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Preparations for New Year’s Eve in Times Square are taking shape, and some of those shapes are 192 new crystal triangles on the famous ball. The new Waterford crystal triangles will join about 2,500 others Thursday on the big, sparkling sphere. Some new crystals are ...
LANSING — Democratic Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday named much of her Cabinet, including officials who will be involved in two of her top priorities — cleaning up drinking water and improving roads. Liesl Eichler Clark, who worked in former Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s ...
CHELMSFORD, Mass. — The Army is looking for a few good robots. Not to fight — not yet, at least — but to help the men and women who do. These robots aren’t taking up arms, but the companies making them have waged a different kind of battle. At stake is a contract worth almost half a ...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The euro is about to celebrate its 20th birthday, but the countries that use it are still wrestling with how the shared currency should work and how to fix flaws exposed by the debt crisis that marred its second decade. The euro was launched on Jan. 1, 1999, when ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — About half of Michigan’s road salt storage facilities are in poor condition. The critique comes from the Michigan Department of Transportation and was included Thursday in a report from the state auditor general. Road salt buildings are owned by the counties, but ...
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — Pedro Gonzalez has faith in Donald Trump and his party. The 55-year-old Colombian immigrant is a pastor at an evangelical church in suburban Denver. Initially repelled by Trump in 2016, he’s been heartened by the president’s steps to protect religious groups and ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s military announced Friday it entered the flash-point Kurdish-held town of Manbij and raised the national flag there, where Turkey has threatened an offensive. A Kurdish official said the government troops arrived only at the front lines. Ilham Ahmed, the senior ...
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers Thursday demanded U.S. forces leave the country in the wake of a surprise visit by President Donald Trump that politicians denounced as arrogant and a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. Politicians from both blocs of Iraq’s divided Parliament called for a vote to ...
CARITA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia raised the danger level for an island volcano that triggered a tsunami on the weekend, killing at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java, and widened its no-go zone. The country’s volcanology agency said Thursday that the Anak Krakatau volcano’s alert ...