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Saturday, May 4, 2024
The death penalty sentence for the convicted Boston Marathon bomber has been overturned by a federal appeals court. On Thursday, a Boston appeals court handed the case down to a lower court, which will decide the fate of 27-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The judges claimed the jurors were not properly screened […]
CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — For over 100 years, War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie has remained an independent hospital, but that may be changing soon. Officials said that after two bad financial years in 2017 and 2018, War Memorial Hospital is considering joining a health system. Officials said […]
Enbridge Energy won a major victory Wednesday when Attorney General Dana Nessel unexpectedly reversed course and declined to appeal a Court of Appeals ruling holding that a 2018 law setting up an authority to oversee the construction, maintenance and operation of a tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac to house […]
Mackinaw City police say a Toledo man was arrested on the Mackinac Bridge for drunk driving Friday morning. Police started following the man just south of the bridge. They tried to pull him over, but the man drove onto the Mackinac Bridge. The chase ended about a mile and a […]
Wear your face mask at Mackinac Bridge toll booths. The bridge Twitter account, run by the Michigan Department of Transportation, issued the call on Tuesday, saying drivers need the coverings during transactions, “even though it takes just a few seconds.” “Our collectors interact with thousands of customers each day, so […]
On Wednesday, July 29, at about noon, a trooper from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Sault Ste Marie Post conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle on Seymour St near 4th Avenue in Sault Ste Marie. Following an on-scene investigation, a 25-year-old St. Ignace man was arrested for possession of […]
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is pulling back the reins in Michigan’s northern regions that have so far enjoyed looser COVID-19 restrictions than lower Michigan but also reopening Detroit’s three casinos. Whitmer issued an executive order Wednesday that reopens the casinos at 15% capacity Aug. 5.The order also reimposes restrictions starting Friday for […]
State wildlife officials say the wolf population in the Upper Peninsula remains “healthy and stable.” The Department of Natural Resources completed its biennial wolf survey between December and March. Cody Norton is a DNR large carnivore specialist. He says the survey estimates there are at least 695 wolves in the […]
Late Monday night, Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Station St. Ignace, and Mackinac Marine Rescue MEDIVAC’d four people from Mackinac Island after their boat collided with the harbor break wall. At approximately 11:30 p.m. EST, Sector Sault Sainte Marie Command Center received a call that a recreational vessel with […]
MACKINAC COUNTY, Mich — Mackinac County Sheriff’s Deputies are investigating a fatal motor vehicle accident that occurred on US-2 near River Road in Garfield Township. Deputies and Troopers from the Michigan State Police St. Ignace Post were called to the scene Saturday afternoon for a two vehicle accident involving a […]
