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High School Calumet spotted Houghton a 2-0 first period lead, then scored three unanswered goals to win the championship game of the annual MacInnes Holiday Classic hockey tournament 3-2 Saturday afternoon. The Gremlins’ early tallies came from Brandon Trudeau and Dane Johnson. Scott Loukus and Tanner Rowe tied the game …

The Michigan Supreme Court will not step in to expedite a decision on Michigan’s attempt to ban the sale of flavored nicotine-based e-cigarette products.  Governor Gretchen Whitmer had asked the court to intervene after a Court of Claims judge blocked the ban in October. With Justice Stephen Markman dissenting, the …

High School Houghton and Calumet will play for the title in the annual MacInnes Holiday Classic high school hockey tournament this afternoon, following convincing opening-round wins last night. The Gremlins dismantled Jeffers 9-1, in a mercy-rule game that ended 5:44 into the third period. Houghton raced out to a 4-0 …

No injuries have been reported from a fire at an apartment building in Little Lake this morning. The five-unit building at the intersection of highway M-35 and Marquette County Road 456 was destroyed. M-35 was closed, as firefighters from numerous departments battled the blaze.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is vowing to press forward with her investigation into clergy sexual abuse next year. Nessel released some figures this morning. Based on her department’s reviews of the Marquette, Gaylord and Grand Rapids Catholic Dioceses, 552 victims have named 270 priests as abusers. 130 cases were …

At least one of the Democrats who entered the presidential race late in the game, won’t be in the game in Michigan. Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has fallen short of the number of petition signatures he needed to be included on the state primary ballot. Patrick submitted 13,777 signatures …

The glow was a little different last night, as cross country skiers gathered at the Maasto Hiihto Trail for the annual Luminary Ski. John Diebel from the Keweenaw Nordic Ski Club said organizers abandoned real candles, in favor of LED lights… It was the seventh year for the evening-after-Christmas event, …

The warmer than average temperatures we’ve been experiencing have prompted the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to issue a caution about ice conditions. The warning comes after a pickup truck broke through the ice on Big Shag Lake near Gwinn Sunday afternoon, and sank. No one was hurt, but conservation …

Declining enrollments have hit some of Michigan’s public universities hard, although Michigan Tech is holding its own. Figures released by the state and compiled by the MLive website show that the number of students at Michigan’s 15 public universities this past fall were more than 2 percent below 2018, and …

There’s a sad ending to the story we reported yesterday about a missing 5-year-old boy in central Michigan. The body of Beau Brennan Belson was found in a pond on his grandparents’ property near Six Lakes in Montcalm County. He and other family members had been playing in the area …