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One person is dead following a house fire in Sagola Township. Firefighters were called to the home on highway M-95 between Channing and Sagola just after 4:00 yesterday afternoon. They and state police troopers discovered the body inside the building after the blaze was extinguished. Another person escaped from the …

A state representative is apologizing after she was arrested for drunk driving late last week. 48-year-old Democrat Rebekah Warren of Ann Arbor was pulled over just before midnight Thursday by police in Auburn Hills, in Oakland County. Officers say she was weaving through traffic, and sideswiped a guard rail. She …

A creepy green ooze that began to spread across a Detroit-area freeway more than a week ago has led to a full-scale battle to secure a deteriorating building that once housed a plating company. The green slime shut down a lane of I-696 in Madison Heights on December 20th. Testing …

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 …

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 …