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Monday, November 25, 2024
LANSING — Democratic President Joe Biden on Friday honored Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for protecting the right to vote and withstanding “unprecedented pressure and threats” to overturn the 2020 election. In a White House ceremony marking the two-year anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, […]
LANSING, MICH. – During National Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Michigan State Police (MSP)motor carrier officers are teaming up with officers from across the nation and the Commercial VehicleSafety Alliance (CVSA) to raise awareness of human trafficking. From January 9-13, MSP officers will join with their colleagues in law enforcement, CVSA, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot early Saturday, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks and floor tensions that boiled over after a chaotic week that tested the new GOP majority’s ability to govern. “My father always told me, it’s not […]
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who has represented Michigan in the U.S. Senate since 2001 and risen to become a member of Democratic leadership in the chamber, announced Thursday morning she would not seek another term in 2024. Stabenow, 72, who lives in Lansing, was the first woman to be elected […]
Cover photo by Emily Glassford, a fifth-grade student at Almont Elementary in Almont, won the state-wide contest in 2021 and placed second overall nationally in the National Missing Children’s Day Poster. LANSING, MICH. The Michigan State Police (MSP) Missing Children’s Clearinghouse invites fifth grade students statewide to participate in the […]
MACKINAC COUNTY, MI – A Mackinac County man is facing multiple charges stemming from an investigation by Michigan State Police. According to a release from MSP, 59-year-old Timothy Edward Headley of Hessel was arrested on December 9, 2022 on three counts of criminal sexual conduct. Headley’s arrest followed an investigation […]
MIDLAND, Mich. – MyMichigan Health is hosting a recruitment fair for those interested in nursing or patient care technicians at any of its facilities. The event will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, from 6 to 8 p.m. at MyMichigan Medical Centers in Alpena, Midland, Mt. Pleasant, West Branch and Sault […]
Sault Ste. Marie, MI — Stop resorting to imprecise, trite, and meaningless words and terms of seeming convenience! You’re taking the lazy way out and only confusing matters by over-relying on inexact, stale, and inane communication! Language monitors across the country and around the world decried the decrepitude and futility of […]
A downstate woman has died in a snowmobile crash in Luce County. The sheriff’s department says the accident happened on M-123 and the Charcoal Grade in McMillian Township at about 6:30 Tuesday night. The 55-year-old woman from Chesterfield Township, MI was trying to cross M-123 to go south into Newberry, […]
Barry Croft, the second of two men convicted for spearheading the plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, was sentenced today to serve close to 20 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker of the Western District of Michigan. Mr. Jonker at a hearing today in Grand […]
