In relation to an article post earlier on EUP News.com regarding a homicide and officer involved shooting being related, the Michigan State Police have provided an update to the case. The passenger taken into custody on January 2 has been identified as 42-year-old StephanieFerrante of Kentucky. She was arraigned on […]

MANISTEE COUNTY, MI. On January 1 at approximately 9:30 a.m., troopers from the Michigan StatePolice (MSP) Cadillac Post responded to a residence on Cadillac Hwy. in Cleon Township for aresidential fire. Preliminary investigation indicated that after the fire was extinguished by firefighters, they located adeceased individual inside the residence. This […]

Wexford County, Michigan. MSP is releasing further details related to an incident it isinvestigating that is believed to have preceded an officer involved shooting in the City ofCadillac. On January 2, 2026, at approximately 4:25 p.m., the Michigan State Police (MSP) SeventhDistrict Special Investigation Section (SIS) was requested to investigate […]

ALPENA COUNTY, MI. The Alpena County prosecutor has reviewed the investigation conducted by theMichigan State Police. The suspect was identified as 33-year-old Edward Fitzgerald of Alpena. Below arethe findings given by prosecuting attorney: “Michigan law gives a person the right to use force or even take a life to defend […]

INDIAN RIVER, MICH. The Michigan State Police (MSP) Computer Crimes Unit, Internet Crimes AgainstChildren (ICAC) Task Force is announcing the arrest of Damien Joseph-Michael Slaven, 26 of IndianRiver, for aggravated possession of child sexually abusive material, possession of child sexually abusivematerial, distributing or promoting child sexually abusive material, and using […]

ALPENA COUNTY, MI. On Monday, December 22, 2025, officers from the Alpena Police Departmentand troopers from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Alpena Post conducted a traffic stop on a reportedstolen vehicle on Grant St. near Lawn St. in Alpena Township. The preliminary investigation indicated that during the traffic stop, an […]

Upper Peninsula, Michigan. Instead of Santa and his sleigh, Michigan State Police (MSP)troopers aboard their “Blue Goose” patrol car brought Christmas cheer to a young girl fightingcancer far from home. On December 13, 2025, MSP Wakefield Post staff learned from Vialah’s grandmother during aShop with a Cop community event that […]

Gogebic County, Michigan. At approximately 10:31 a.m. on December 21, 2025,troopers from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Wakefield Post and deputies from theGogebic County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a snowmobile crash on Trail 2in Bessemer Township. The preliminary investigation found the snowmobile was traveling eastbound on Trail […]

Lansing, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) will be implementing a new policy requiring all confidential and legal mail sent to incarcerated individuals to be provided to them as a photocopy, with the originals shredded to prevent the introduction of contraband into facilities. The department previously instituted the […]

LANSING, Mich. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer has ordered U.S. and Michigan flags within the State Capitol Complex to be lowered to half-staff on Friday, December 5 to honor and remember former state Representative Fred Durhal Jr. The flag lowering will coincide with the date of the funeral.  “Representative Fred Durhal Jr. was a committed public servant who fought hard […]