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Wrecked!

LANSING – A new book, “Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy” (Michigan State University Press, $29.95), uncovers more of the political and legal aspects of the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck. Thomas Nelson, a Wisconsin public administrator and ...

Magnificent Mozart

MARQUETTE — Marquette Choral Society will present its Magnificent Mozart concerts at 7:30 p.m., April 25; and 3 p.m., April 26, in Kaufman Auditorium in Marquette. The singers will perform Mozart’s famed Coronation Mass in C Major and Mozart’s Vesperae solonnes de confessore. The ...

Resurrection

HOUGHTON — At 7:30 p.m. April 18 the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, Choirs of Michigan Tech, musicians from the Upper Peninsula and Upper Midwest, and soloists Lara Neves and Kathryn Summersett, will combine for the Upper Peninsula’s first-ever performance of Gustav Mahler’s transcendent ...

Ketamine Queen to be sentenced in Matthew Perry’s death

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who admitted to selling Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him is set to be sentenced Wednesday. Jasveen Sangha will be the third defendant sentenced of the five people who have pleaded guilty in connection with the 2023 overdose of the 54-year-old actor. His role as Chandler Bing on NBC's “Friends” in the 1990s and 2000s made him one of the biggest television stars of his era. Sangha is the only one whose plea deal included an acknowledgment of causing Perry’s death, and is likely to get the stiffest sentence of the group by far. Prosecutors are ...

Won’t stop till she gets enough

This article is reprinted from The Conversation an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. LOS ANGELES — When Michael Jackson died in 2009, he left everything he owned to a family trust – an estate planning technique for giving away ...

Jazz Man

HOUGHTON — The Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts welcomed jazz multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Braxton Cook backstage last weekend for the Don Keranen Jazz Festival. He played with Michigan Technological University student jazz groups including R&D Jazz Band and Jazz Lab Band. Cook, ...