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“Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” enforcement urges responsible driving as busy Labor Day holiday nears

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ESCANABA — Impaired driving — whether caused by alcohol or drugs — poses a constant threat on our roads. Late summer and the Labor Day holiday period are among the deadliest times of the year for crashes and fatalities involving impaired drivers. Over the Labor Day holiday weekends from 2021 to 2025, there were a total of 46 driver fatalities in traffic crashes in Michigan. In those crashes, 39.1 percent of the drivers killed were alcohol- and/or drug-impaired, according to the Michigan State Police (MSP) Criminal Justice Information Center. In 2025 alone, of the 1,002 fatal ...

Wall Street slips from its record following the latest weak update on the US economy

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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks edged back from their all-time high following the latest economic report to come in surprisingly weak. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% Friday from its record set the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.3%. Stocks gave up modest gains from the morning after oil prices swung higher. Also raising uncertainty was a report showing shoppers spent less at U.S. retailers last month. Such data could keep interest rates low, which is something Wall Street loves, but it also raises the risk of slowing economic growth ...

Painted tales at Canterbury

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ESCANABA — One business in downtown Escanaba has gotten a decorative addition recently, loosely in honor of its 60th birthday. At Canterbury Book Store, Jesse Traub and Rebecca Bender — who have owned the place since 2018 — hired local artist Lauren Hovland to paint a mural on the ...