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Sunday, February 9, 2025
After the March 13th arrests of Donald Holloway, Draper Leverson and Emma Washko, Trident continued their investigation. A Search Warrant was executed when Trident connected additional suspects to the previous arrests. Trident executed the search warrant at a Sault Ste Marie residence and seized Methamphetamine and Heroin. ARRESTED:AMBER MARY WARD […]
“Eddie began working for our family business in 1987, when he was just 18 years old. He has poured in the wind, rain, and snow, in heat waves or blizzards, off barges or ferries, and on remote Great Lakes islands,” says Northern Sand & Gravel and VanSloten Enterprises Inc. owner […]
LANSING, MICH. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared March 20-26 as Michigan’s Severe Weather Awareness Week, and the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division (MSP/EMHSD) is calling on residents to take action by participating in a voluntary statewide tornado drill at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 23. “Last summer […]
OTSEGO COUNTY, MI. — On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, troopers from the Michigan State Police(MSP) Seventh District Hometown Security Team stopped a vehicle on I-75 Highway near the Loon Lakerest area in Bagley Twp. The driver, 54-year-old Victor Emmanuel McMillan of Rudyard and 30-year-oldJoshua Lee McMillan of St. Ignace, were […]
On March 17, 2022, Shawn Alex Vert (age 35) was sentenced by the Honorable James P. Lambros of the 50th Circuit Court in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Mr. Vert was sentenced to 35 years to 60 years in the Michigan Department of Corrections, based on his conviction of one count […]
NUNDA TOWNSHIP — A woman from the Upper Peninsula was taken to McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey after she sustained serious, non-life threatening injuries when she lost control on the wet roadway of I-75. At 3:01 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, the Cheboygan County Sheriff’s Department was dispatched to […]
LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and local agencies are enacting additional annual spring weight restrictions to protect roads. Effective 6 a.m. Friday, March 18, weight restrictions will be imposed and enforced on all state trunkline highways from the Michigan/Indiana and Michigan/Ohio state lines north to and including […]
It was a year ago this month when Michigan fish and wildlife regulators caught wind that aquarium moss balls sold in a Washington state pet shop were infested with zebra mussels, an invasive species that has decimated Great Lakes ecosystems. Within a day, Corporal Nick Torsky and his fellow Michigan […]
A two-story historic clapboard home on the East Bluff of Mackinac Island, overlooking the harbor and filled with a century of memories, is now gray ash and rubble. “The fire was spotted by a security guard at the Grand Hotel. He saw an orange glow,” Kathryn Kavanaugh Ledtke, of Fort Gratiot, told the […]
Spring in Northern Michigan marks the return of the maple syrup season. For many this is the first opportunity to get back into the woods after a long winter. There is a lot of debate over the origins of maple tapping, but the practice goes back to indigenous culture where […]