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MARQUETTE CO. UNOFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS

Marquette County General Election results By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Clerk’s Office has released the final unofficial results of the general election for all contests, districts, tabulators and counting groups in Marquette County. PRESIDENT/VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Kamala D. Harris/Tim Walz (DEM): 20,564 Donald J. Trump/JD Vance (REP): 16,849 Chase Oliver/Mike ter Maat (LIB): 167 Randall Terry/Stephen E. Broden (UST): 57 Jill Stein/Rudolph Ware (GRN): 137 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr./Nicole Shanahan (NLP): 255 Joseph Kishore/Jerry White (NPA): ...

Cleveland-Cliffs receives final OK for Stelco acquisition

CLEVELAND — Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. announced Friday that it has received regulatory and program approvals under the Investment Canada Act and Strategic Innovation Fund, the final approvals needed to complete Cliffs’ pending acquisition of Stelco Holdings Inc., according to a company press ...

Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer It’s as if Mother Nature shut off the rain faucet in the United States in October. More than 100 cities across the nation are reporting their driest October so far. In June, less than 12% of the US was in drought. Now it’s nearly half and growing. Meteorologists say the country is going through a flash drought, something the world is seeing more of as Earth’s climate changes. No rain was measured in October in New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and many other places. Meteorologists blame a dome of high pressure ...

Massachusetts officials cancel high school classes, trick-or-treat event

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON. — A high school in Salem, Massachusetts, shut down classes early Tuesday and an annual Downtown Trick or Treat event in a second town was canceled because of smoky conditions as firefighters continued to battle stubborn brush fires in eastern parts of the state. School officials in Salem — about 24 miles north of Boston and the state’s ground zero for Halloween festivities — said there is no danger from flames. The danger instead comes from the elevated smoke levels around the campus, the officials said. Officials also decided to ...