QUINNESEC — A Breitung Township Board trustee and his family were surveying the remains of their Quinnesec Street home Thursday evening after a late morning fire gutted much of the interior. Ben Peterson said his neighbor called just before 11 a.m., saying smoke was pouring out of the house ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The 3-on-3 Gus Macker Basketball Tournament team was busy Thursday setting up courts and getting organized for the three-day event that opens today. Nothing happens at the tournament without teamwork, event co-coordinator Barb Reisner stressed. “For the last six years ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Dickinson County Sheriff Aaron Rochon has issued his monthly report for July. The road patrol served 75 civil process papers, investigated 223 complaints, handled 25 accidents, issued 100 citations and 260 verbal warnings, made 52 arrests — 18 of which were for outstanding warrants, including nine felonies — and completed 217 property checks. The K-9 officer conducted six searches, including two for local agencies and had three deployments resulting in arrest. There were nine transports, one to prison and eight miscellaneous. The correctional center had 94 ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Cooluli has recalled roughly 250,000 of its minifridges due to fire and burn hazards. According to a Thursday notice published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the now-recalled "10-Liter" and "15-Liter" minifridges have an electric switch that can short ...
The top editor of Forbes left his job last month after an "undisclosed conflict of interest" and was reportedly dismissed for accepting $6 million from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine. The New York Times reported this week that Randall Lane was paid by RJ Shook, ...
Rescuers call for silence CALI, Colombia (AP) — With arms raised and fists clenched, rescuers in Colombia called for silence as they listened for signs of life in the rubble left by a deadly earthquake. The disaster has killed more than 270 people and left hundreds more missing. The call for quiet on Thursday was part of last-ditch efforts to find survivors in the aftermath of the 7.4 magnitude quake that struck the South American country Monday. Aid agencies consider the first two to three days after a quake to be the prime window for retrieving survivors. But that time ...
