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K-Day held in Chassell

CHASSELL — Upwards of 3,000 Michigan Tech students showed up at Chassell Centennial Park Friday afternoon to browse the many ways to get involved on campus. K-Day (short for Keweenaw Day) provided students with many options to choose from, including Greek Life, club sports, niche hobbies and ...

One attack, Many Americas

NEW YORK (AP) — When the planes crashed and the buildings fell on that sunny September morning 25 years ago, the shock waves of dismay and grief went far past downtown New York City, rural western Pennsylvania and just outside Washington, D.C. They radiated through every part of the United ...

9/11: Students perspective

HOUGHTON — 25 years ago today, a total of four U.S. airliners were hijacked in a large-scale act of terror. The largest incident was at the Word Trade Center in New York City where two planes struck the two largest buildings in New York and killed 2,753 people in the deadliest terrorist ...

Trouble in Paradise

PARADISE — A man was arrested after breaking into a room at the Paradise Lakefront Lodge, stealing more than $3,000 in cash and then later resisting arrest. At approximately 11 a.m. Thursday, a trooper from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Sault Ste. Marie Post responded to a reported theft ...

Woman sentenced for 1st degree CSC

DAGGETT -- A Daggett woman has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in July to first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a person under the age of 13. Rocquel Anne Irving, 39, was sentenced in the Menominee County 41st Circuit Court on Friday to a minimum prison term of 20 years to a maximum prison term of 60 years, with credit for 219 days' incarcerated, according to court documents. In exchange for her plea, the prosecution agreed to dismiss five felony counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a person under the age of 13; one ...

Retiring old tires

HOUGHTON — Superior Watershed Partnership is giving residents in Houghton County's Adams, Portage and Chassell Townships the opporunity to recycle old automobile tires. On Saturday, residents of those three townships can bring up to 10 tires per household to 20251 B. F. Gundlach Rd next to ...