ESCANABA -- After much anticipation, the streetscape project on Ludington Street is almost complete. The road should be fully open to traffic before Sept. 15, said Escanaba Water Superintendent Jeff Lampi at a meeting on Wednesday. Held at City Hall, the session was the latest in a series of ...
ESCANABA — The votes are tallied, and the runaway winner of this year's Pet Idol contest was Tucker the Yorkshire Terrier. The reader-determined contest coordinated by the Daily Press asked pet owners to submit photo entries, with one winner ultimately becoming the following year's mascot for Newspapers in Education (NIE). The fees collected — five dollars for each submission and fifty cents for each vote — were divided evenly between NIE, the program that sends newspapers to local schools, and the Delta Animal Shelter, the area's no-kill, open-admission shelter. The contest ...
Scams in the U.S. have surged to a record high, and most people have been targeted. Americans reported a record $15.9 billion in losses last year to the Federal Trade Commission — a 25% increase from 2024, and likely a huge undercount. The FTC estimates that real losses in 2024 were close to $200 billion, or about $550 million every day. An investigation by The Associated Press and FRONTLINE found that despite attempts by both the Trump administration and Congress to fight scams, victims still have little recourse. The investigation included interviews with 58 victims. Here are ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An immigrant rights group sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from using federal databases that it alleged are being used to target naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington on behalf of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, alleges that DHS and the U.S. Justice Department are interfering with fair elections by using inaccurate federal databases in an attempt to buttress allegations of voter fraud. The federal government is engaging in an ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Rangers agreed to terms with winger Eeli Tolvanen on a one-year, $1.5 million contract, the team announced Wednesday. The Rangers and Tolvanen reached the deal with a little more than two weeks before the start of training camp. Tolvanen is coming off a ...
GARDEN – The case involving a convicted felon from Garden who was arrested after Michigan State Police (MSP) discovered he was in possession of over three dozen firearms, methamphetamine and other evidence has been bound over to the Delta County 47th Circuit Court. Bruce Rochefort, 56, ...
