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MLB The Detroit Tigers have now lost the last 20 games they’ve played against the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland claimed Sunday’s contest 8-5. Starter Michael Fulmer gave up three runs before leaving in the third inning. The Indians broke open a 4-4 tie with three runs off John Schreiber in the …

MLB Another game against Cleveland . Another loss to Cleveland . The Detroit Tigers dropped their 19th consecutive contest to the Indians Saturday, 3-1. Spencer Turnbull gave up all three Cleveland runs before leaving in the fifth inning. Detroit avoided the shutout when Willi Castro scored on JaCoby Jones’ two-out …

From Michigan Technological University: Michigan Tech’s Student Development Complex (SDC) will reopen to faculty/staff members as well as current students on Monday, August 17. A team of staff from Recreation has continually updated its reopening plan since the July 13 soft opening to students. The facility is implementing an enhanced …

Updated Monday, August 17: The victim has been identified as Ryan Kohnhorst, of Merrill, Wisconsin. -0- A man has died after apparently falling from the Presque Isle falls in Gogebic County. Around 8:30 Friday evening, a 9-1-1 caller told a state police dispatcher that the man had fallen from the falls …

MLB The Detroit Tigers lost to the Cleveland Indians 10-5 last night. Starter Ivan Nova gave up two runs in the second inning, then left as Cleveland scored six times in the fourth. Niko Goodrum and Cameron Maybin homered for Detroit. Maybin’s homer came in his first game back from …

This week on Copper Country Today, Todd VanDyke talks with Marlin Lee about the pandemic’s effect on the Calumet Theatre, and shows that are still planned. Aspirus ophthalmologist Dustin Wasylik discusses kids eye health, as they head back to school. And, our series on Addiction in the Copper Country continues. …

There will be no high school football this fall in Michigan. The Michigan High School Athletic Association today announced plans to move football to spring, in hopes the COVID-19 pandemic will be under control enough by then to allow it. “At the end of the day, we did everything we …

Lake Superior may not yet have hit its high point for the summer. The latest projection from the Army Corps of Engineers anticipates Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario have peaked for the season, and have begun their typical seasonal declines. Lake Superior, however, is not expected to turn the …

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is asking for input on how state forest roads should be used. The DNR updates its online maps each spring, and conducts an ongoing process to designate which roads are open or closed to public use for both off-road and conventional vehicles. Decisions are …

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has handed out $1.7 million in grants to build charging stations for electric vehicles. None of the grants came to the Copper Country, and only one to the Upper Peninsula, for the City of Norway. Applicants can receive up to $70,000 …