ESCANABA - The Escanaba Public Safety Department recently received a donation of $95,000 from four local organizations to purchase new uniforms and ballistic vests for the department’s officers. The donors include: the Daniel J. Kobasic Foundation, The Edward J. Sackerson Charitable ...
Chippewa County – Limestone Financial Credit Union (Limestone FCU) partnered with FHLBank Indianapolis (FHLBI) to award $25,000 through the Money Masters Scholarship Program to first-generation college freshman students at Lake Superior State University (LSSU). Fifteen students who met the ...
ALPENA -- A man in his 20s and a 2-year-old child sustained burn injuries in a structure fire in Alpena on Monday, according to a Monday press release from the Alpena Fire Department. The Alpena Fire Department was dispatched to a reported structure fire at 1124 Ford Avenue at 9:13 a.m. Upon ...
In his 30 years as teacher and administrator, Jason Purcell felt the weight of responsibility that often fell on his shoulders in enforcing the prohibition of cell phones in the classroom. When Purcell was convinced to come out of retirement this past fall to teach at Mackinaw City High ...
Michigan and Massachusetts are the only states where citizens cannot submit a Freedom of Information Act request to collect records from their executive and legislative branches. For years, both Democrats and Republicans in Michigan have advocated expanding FOIA to include the two branches of ...
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer offered a contrasting view of manufacturing in Detroit Thursday, two days after President Donald Trump defended his tariff strategy in the Motor City. Whitmer, a term-limited Democrat who is in her last year as governor, said in a speech at the ...