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Opinion

Basketball memories

Features

ESCANABA- “March madness" is an old saying first coined in 1939 to describe the excitement of a basketball tournament. Through the years, many of us have spent countless hours in the month of March in a sweaty, stuffy loud gymnasium! The chanting and cheering crowd, the squeak of ...

Michigan AG: AI scams, fraud a growing threat

Editorial

For National Consumer Protection Week, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel again is warning about fraudsters’ growing use of artificial intelligence — such as deepfake audio and video — to take advantage of consumers. Scammers can clone a person’s voice using audio data collected ...

The age of missile defense

Local columns

We officially live in the age of missile defense. The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has been the showcase for missile-defense systems — interceptors, radars, and complex command and control — that are extremely robust and have largely defanged Iran's foremost military threat to Israel, ...

Trump says he’ll endorse soon in GOP Texas Senate runoff

Local columns

DALLAS (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he soon will endorse a Republican candidate in the Texas Senate race, warning that the divisive contest "cannot, for the good of the Party, and our Country, itself, be allowed to go on any longer." But Trump, a former reality television ...

Almanac for March 5, 2026

Local columns

Today is Thursday, March 5, the 64th day of 2026. There are 301 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who had been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people. The killing fueled colonists' outrage in the ...