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U.P. communities to receive federal fire department funding

MARQUETTE — A handful of Upper Peninsula fire departments, including one in the Village of Lake Linden, are in line to receive more than $2.1 million in federal support. The funding comes from the Federal emergency Management Agency’s Assistance to Firefighters Grants and Staffing for ...

Two people killed by fleeing vehicle

PESHTIGO, WI - Two people were killed Thursday evening after being hit by a vehicle fleeing law enforcement in the Town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin At approximately 6:38 p.m. (CDT), a deputy with the Marinette County Sheriff's Office attempted to initiate a traffic stop of a vehicle with two individuals near the intersection of Pine Street and Maple Street. According to the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), the vehicle failed to stop, prompting the deputy to initiate a pursuit. The pursuit ended three minutes later when the vehicle being ...

Seaplane overturns on Lake Baily

KEWEENAW COUNTY — No one was injured when a seaplane overturned in the waters of a Keweenaw County Lake Saturday. According to a Sunday press release from Keweenaw County Sheriff's Office, Corporal Darren Jurmu, said at about 1 p.m. Saturday, deputies responded to the report of an overturned seaplane on Lake Baily in Eagle Harbor Township. Upon arrival, deputies discovered both occupants of the aircraft were located on top of the overturned plane in the water. Deputies deployed the Sheriff’s Office personal watercraft (PWC) and successfully rescued both occupants, bringing them ...

Daniel McCarthy

You can't be cruel to a toaster; inanimate objects don't feel pain. You can't be cruel to a computer program, either, even if programs like Microsoft Word often seem pretty cruel to us. Yet the artificial intelligence company Anthropic insists its product is different: Starting next ...

Inspiring change

HOUGHTON — Every Wednesday near the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, Copper Country residents wave blue and yellow flags and show solidarity for Ukraine, after years of war and terror for the European ally. Now, a few dozen individuals per week for over four years has now turned into a legislative ...