Marine home from Iraq
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Marine Cpl. Erick Baccus holds his one-year-old daughter, MacKenzie, in front of Houghton County Memorial Airport.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — It was good to be back for Cpl. Erick Baccus of Lake Linden, Friday. When Baccus’s plane touched down at about 1:45 p.m. at Houghton County Memorial Airport, bringing the Marine back from a seven-month tour of duty in Iraq, his family and friends were there to greet him. First they stood out on the tarmac to watch the plane land, then hurried into the terminal which they filled with their shouts as Baccus entered. A big banner stretched over the doors on one side of the terminal, saying “Welcome Home Cpl. Erick Baccus,” but he was too busy hugging people to notice it at fir
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PORTAGE TOWNSHIP — Two men were killed in a single-vehicle crash early this morning in Portage Township.
At about 12:48 a.m., deputies from the Houghton County Sheriff’s Department received notice of the crash, at the intersection of Onka
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CALUMET — Nobody knows who she is or what she was doing in Calumet that afternoon in early fall. It was the year of our nation’s bicentennial, a cool day for the first of September. The sun may have been shining when the woman drove her Buick into to
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HOUGHTON — More than 520 students from Baraga, Houghton and Keweenaw counties participated in Touch the Future Thursday at the Rozsa Center at Michigan Technological University.
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