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 one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...