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Sunday, May 11, 2025
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to look again at a law that allows communities to collect millions of dollars from poor criminal defendants to pay salaries, keep lights on and wax floors in courthouses up and down the state. The issue is whether it’s unconstitutional, especially when a […]
Bills that would require voters to show identification when voting in person, supply identity verification information when voting absentee and make state IDs available for free to low-income persons were vetoed Friday by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Senate Bills 303 and 304 would have removed the current voter identification system, where voters can […]
MARQUETTE COUNTY, MICH. — It was after nightfall during a backpacking trip through the Upper Peninsula’s rugged McCormick Wilderness this spring when Nick Hansen first spotted the giant Eastern white pine. Towering on the banks of a stream, illuminated only by the beam of his headlamp, the tree was so […]
A 39-year-old Cadillac man was arrested Sunday after leading law enforcement on a chase through downtown Cadillac and eventually onto M-115. Around noon Sunday, officers from the Cadillac Police Department attempted to stop a Ford Ranger on north Lake Street near Haynes Street for having an improper license plate on […]
ALPENA COUNTY, MI. The Michigan State Police (MSP) Emergency Support Team (EST) and troopers from the MSP Alpena Post responded to a residence on US-23 in Ossineke for barricaded gunman last week. The incident led to a standoff that lasted several hours. It ended when the suspect surrendered later that […]
A new Michigan State University study finds less than one percent of Michigan third graders were held back this year for failing to meet the state’s reading standard. According to MSU researchers, of the students who participated, 76.1% (or 54.2% of all third-grade students) were eligible for promotion with no additional literacy support, […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court is considering a statewide court holiday on Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery. The court said it will accept public comment and hold a hearing in the months ahead. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of […]
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) – A Marquette man is celebrating the release of his new song highlighting life in the Upper Peninsula. Adam Carpenter, commonly known for his show Adam Carpenter’s Outdoors Show on WFXD, has lived in the U.P. for over 20 years. His new song, called U.P. Life, is now available on […]
A bipartisan package of bills could see the state chip away at its Truth in Sentencing laws by offering inmates the ability to seek an earlier release or parole date through earning what is being referred to as productivity credits. Michigan currently uses mandatory minimum sentencing, meaning that if an […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan has recorded more than 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, the health department said Wednesday. The state crossed that threshold by reporting 6,079 new cases over the last two days. There have been at least 20,781 deaths in Michigan linked to […]