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Monday, May 19, 2025
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signaled Friday she will veto Republican-sponsored legislation that would freeze Michigan’s 27-cents-per-gallon gasoline and diesel taxes for six months amid high prices at the pump. The Democratic governor has instead called on Congress to pause the federal 18-cents-a-gallon gas tax and 24-cent diesel tax. Whitmer […]
Diane Postler-Slattery, CEO and president of the University of Michigan Health-affiliated MyMichigan Health, died Tuesday evening following a plane crash in northwest Florida, the health system announced. She was 62. Postler-Slattery and her husband, Don, who also was killed, were believed to have been on board a single-engine Cessna 182 that went missing […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan authorities on Wednesday announced the first criminal charges stemming from the state’s review of child sexual abuse lawsuits against the Boy Scouts of America, charging a former troop leader before his release from a New York prison on separate crimes. Mark Chapman, 51, is accused […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. – A red-hot Soo Thunderbirds side skated to their 11 win in a row Tuesday evening as they defeated the rival Soo Eagles 5-2 in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League contest at Pullar Stadium. After a splendid save by Thunderbirds’ netminder Noah Zeppa midway through the […]
Kenneth (Ken) Lionel ”Zeke” Horka, Sr., age 88 passed away at home surrounded by family in Sault Ste. Marie, MI on February 28th, 2022. Ken was born on July 31, 1933, in Cedarville, MI to the late Lionel and Louise (Heyer) Horka. He was a graduate of Sault High School, […]
Laurie Belle (Bigelow) Spencer, age 69, passed away quietly with family by her side on February 9, 2022, at Evergreen Living Center in St. Ignace, Michigan, following a long illness. She was born on August 27, 1952, in Newberry, Michigan, the second child of Clifford Eugene and Esther Marie (Castle) […]
Donald Joseph” Don” Dolezel, age 88, of Sault Ste. Marie, MI passed away on Tuesday March 1, 2022, at Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, MI. Don was born on May 6, 1933, in Sault Ste. Marie, MI to the late Vencel J. and Mary J. (Pillote) […]
BRIMLEY – Bay Mills Community College will honor two students at commencement ceremonies in May. Crimson Lewis has been selected as the American Indian College Fund’s Student of the Year and Cole Brehm has been selected as BMCC’s Student of the Year. Both were nominated by their instructors based on […]
To keep ice fishermen around the area safe as spring moves closer, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is requesting all ice shanties be removed from the ice by midnight on March 15. The removal is due to the seasonal changing temperatures. Ice conditions will also soon change, potentially becoming dangerous. […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Three student-athletes on the Lake Superior State men’s basketball team have received all-conference honors for their play during the 2021-22 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) season. Redshirt senior guard Malek Adams was named First Team All-GLIAC, senior forward Kemon Bassett was named Second Team All-GLIAC, and senior guard C.J. Robinson was […]