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NAMI peer groups offered

MARQUETTE — The National Alliance on Mental Illness Alger/Marquette offers free, confidential peer support groups in person and on Zoom, for individuals living with mental illness and friends or families living with an individual with mental illness. In-person support groups will meet from 7-8 p.m. Monday, March 10 and Thursday, March 20 at Superior Alliance for Independent Living, 1025 W. Washington St., Suite C, Marquette. Please note this is a new address. There will not be a March Zoom support group. For information about the dates of future in-person and Zoom support groups, ...

NMU women explode on offense for easy win at Roosevelt

CHICAGO — Nothing wrong with trying on a fancy costume this time of the year for the Northern Michigan University women’s basketball team. Usually wearing the practical duds of a great defensive team, these Wildcats found something with more sparkle on Monday night in dispatching GLIAC newcomer Roosevelt 90-52. This was NMU’s highest scoring game of the season and only the fourth time the Wildcats have reached 80 points all season. It was also the team’s highest offensive output since they scored 93 points against Lake Superior State in January 2019. More importantly, the ...

Houghton County man sentenced on charges of embezzling over $130,000 from a vulnerable adult

HOUGHTON — Jason Heikkinen of Dollar Bay was sentenced on Monday in the 12th Circuit Court in Houghton and charged with Embezzlement - Person in a Relationship of Trust with a Vulnerable Adult. 47-year-old Heikkinen was a car salesman at a Houghton area car dealership and developed a relationship with an elderly woman whom he had sold cars to over the years. When the woman was placed in a nursing home, her bills were managed by a financial institution who eventually stopped handling them. Heikkinen became the woman’s conservator, managing her finances for a small fee as the ...

College basketball — Associated Press top 25 women’s teams

AP top 25 women The Associated Press ---------------------- The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking. ---------------------- Record Pts Prv ---------------------- 1. Texas (19) 26-2 756 2 2. UCLA (11) 26-1 736 3 3. Notre Dame 24-3 715 1 4. Southern Cal (1) 25-2 702 4 5. UConn 26-3 649 5 6. South Carolina 25-3 620 6 7. LSU ...