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Monday, March 10, 2025
Not long after 6:30 p.m. Saturday, a small plane crashed on Upper Island Lake, north of Sault Ste. Marie. The pilot and passenger escaped without apparent injury from the overturned plane, says James Egan, a resident of the area. He and his wife were at their residence on the lake when […]
On August 1, 2020 at approximately 11:30 p.m., a trooper from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Sault Ste. Marie Post conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle on Ashmun Street near Marquette Avenue in the city of Sault Ste. Marie. The driver was identified as a 29-year-old male subject from […]
On August 1, 2020 at approximately 8:30 p.m., troopers from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Sault Ste Marie Post were dispatched to a report of a male subject actively breaking into a residence on E. Avenue D in Newberry. When the troopers arrived on scene, the suspect saw the troopers […]
The death penalty sentence for the convicted Boston Marathon bomber has been overturned by a federal appeals court. On Thursday, a Boston appeals court handed the case down to a lower court, which will decide the fate of 27-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The judges claimed the jurors were not properly screened […]
CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — For over 100 years, War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie has remained an independent hospital, but that may be changing soon. Officials said that after two bad financial years in 2017 and 2018, War Memorial Hospital is considering joining a health system. Officials said […]
Enbridge Energy won a major victory Wednesday when Attorney General Dana Nessel unexpectedly reversed course and declined to appeal a Court of Appeals ruling holding that a 2018 law setting up an authority to oversee the construction, maintenance and operation of a tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac to house […]
Mackinaw City police say a Toledo man was arrested on the Mackinac Bridge for drunk driving Friday morning. Police started following the man just south of the bridge. They tried to pull him over, but the man drove onto the Mackinac Bridge. The chase ended about a mile and a […]
Wear your face mask at Mackinac Bridge toll booths. The bridge Twitter account, run by the Michigan Department of Transportation, issued the call on Tuesday, saying drivers need the coverings during transactions, “even though it takes just a few seconds.” “Our collectors interact with thousands of customers each day, so […]
Barrie Maurice Phillips, age 86, of Drummond Island, Michigan, died peacefully on July 25, 2020, surrounded by his family. He was born on February 18, 1934 in Highland Park, Michigan, to Clyde and Meribah (McClung) Phillips. Barrie grew up in Jackson, Michigan and graduated from Jackson High School. Soon after […]
Evelyn Lucille (Keelean) Cook, 88 of Sault Ste Marie MI passed away July 24, 2020. She was born May 2, 1932, in Strongs Michigan to the late William and Lola Keelean. Lucille graduated from Brimley High school in 1950. She is survived by her loving husband of 69 ½ years […]