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Garnet Garage headed to Twilight championship series

HOUGHTON — After scoring five runs in the late innings of Thursday's Game Two semifinal against Houghton Building Supply/Stanton, Garnet Garage player-coach Kevin Bostwick hoped that the scoring momentum would carry over into the third-and-decisive third game on Sunday, and it did. It was ...

Georgia Garvey

Men in the U.S. are stuck — stuck in dissatisfaction, stuck in judgement and stuck in a culture that increasingly tells them that they aren't strong enough, attractive enough or mean enough to matter. In a perhaps related development, American sailors appear to be trying to escape the ...

Mistrial!

MARQUETTE -- At approximately 2 p.m. on Thursday, Judge Andrew Griffin ruled the Julie Boxley trial a mistrial after the jury failed to come to a consensus after over 17 hours of deliberation over three days. The hung jury was split evenly 6-6. Boxley is charged with one count of felony ...

Fair Weather

Editor's note: The Upper Peninsula State Fair schedule is subject to change at any time and without notice. All events are weather permitting. The full schedule can be found on the U.P. State Fair website. ESCANABA — For one week each summer, the Upper Peninsula State Fair brings ...

NMU truck driving program shut down

MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University truck driving school has been shuttered, courtesy of the Michigan Department of State office. The state agency served NMU with a cease and desist order Wednesday, mandating that the NMU Commercial Driver's License Truck Driving Program halt ...

Coming home

LAKE LINDEN – After 82 years, Lake Linden native, U.S. Army Sgt. Robert James Goldsworthy, missing in action since since Dec. 17, 1944, is coming home for burial. The service at the Maple Hill Cemetery is scheduled for 11 a.m. today, according to Dale Mukavetz, Goldsworthy’s nephew. On ...