DELTA COUNTY, MI – Sheriff’s deputies in the southern Upper Peninsula are investigating how a man became trapped in a trailer full of woodchips at a paper and package-making plant. The rescue happened last Thursday around 7:30 p.m. near the back gate of the Verso plant, according to Delta County […]
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Wrong turn into the UP leads to 3 1/2-year prison sentence
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — A Canadian man who said he took a wrong turn into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison for transporting opium paste possibly worth millions of dollars. The man’s name is Abdolnasser Mahmoudikanesbi, a resident of Gatineau, Quebec. […]
Chippewa County prisoner cuts tether – on the run UPDATE: Prisoner Captured
The Chippewa County Sheriff reports that a prisoner as absconded from custody. UPDATE: FUGITIVE ARRESTED IN SAULT STE MARIE 7-20-2020 Approx 530pm. Local Law Enforcement has been working around the clock trying to track down Todd William Carrick. Todd Carrick had cut his tether and Absconded less than 24 hours […]
Multiple sheriff’s offices in the UP won’t issue citations regarding the Governor’s mask mandate
Upper Peninsula (WLUC) – The Menominee County Sheriff’s Office is providing clarity on a press release they issued regarding the Governor’s mask mandate, and the challenges they’ll face when enforcing it in their community. “What I can enforce is writing a citation for someone not wearing a mask, the problem […]
The 2020 Soo Film Festival has been canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Soo Film Festival is looking into the feasibility of an online event at a later date. Soo Film Festival was scheduled for September 16-20 in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan for its seventh year. Films were to screen at the historic Soo Theatre and Bayliss Public Library, a Superior District […]
Sault Tribe responds to false and misleading MUCC release
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — On June 24, the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians asked the court in United States v. Michigan for a 90-day extension of the 2000 Consent Decree, as written, in order to allow the parties more time to negotiate a new decree. The Sault […]
House fire in Sault Ste Marie
On Thursday July 16th 2020, at approximately 3:15am both the City of Sault Ste. Marie Fire Department and Police Department were dispatched to a structure fire on the 200 block of West 12th Avenue in Sault Ste. Marie. Responders found the structure burning with flames and smoke present. The fire […]
Sault Sainte Marie Park Restroom Availability Summer 2020
The City of Sault Ste Marie reports that due to the COVID-19 pandemic they have been operating with limited staffing. Therefore, the City of Sault Sainte Marie will be opening only the following restrooms for public use beginning Friday, July 17, 2020. • Sherman Park – Two (2) Pit Toilets […]
11,207 vehicles crossed the International Bridge last month, most of them commercial trucks and commuters
So far, bridge traffic has been cut in half on a year-to-year basis with commercial trucks and commuter traffic making up the vast majority of crossings last month. Year-to-date, 264,811 vehicles crossed the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, a sharp drop of 57.2 per cent from last year. Traffic crossing […]
Fallen Rudyard Soldier Portrayed, Remembered in New Movie ‘The Outpost’
(9and10News.com) – Over the weekend, a movie about the Battle of Kamdesh debuted called “The Outpost,” and it has a special Northern Michigan connection. The Battle of Kamdesh was a deadly day in 2009 for U.S. Forces in Afghanistan and the movie tells the brave story of the soldiers there. […]