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Remember when?

This week’s “Remember When?” from the Menominee Range Historical Museum shows the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Green School in Vulcan, circa 1885-1900. According to information compiled by local historian William Cummings and available on the Dickinson County Library’s Local ...

One case of cyclosporiasis confirmed in Delta County

DELTA COUNTY — As Michigan continues to grapple with a widespread cyclosporiasis outbreak, health officials have confirmed the Upper Peninsula’s first outbreak-related case in Delta County. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Department of Agriculture ...

Winners announced in the 2026 IM-K Independence Day parade

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Borderhounds LE/MC have announced the winners of the 2026 Iron Mountain-Kingsford Independence Day parade on July 4. The top three award winners were: First place, The Drug Store of Iron Mountain; second place, Walmart; and third place, the combined Iron Mountain and ...

E. Jean Carroll receives $5.6M in Trump case

NEW YORK (AP) — The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said. The payment — representing the $5 million jury award, plus interest — was made ...

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Blockade restored DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military says it has reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports in response to Iran's attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. first imposed the blockade in mid-April and then lifted it in mid-June, a day after the signing of the interim deal aimed at permanently ending the war. Another wave of U.S. strikes on Iran, and Iranian attacks on shipping and U.S. allies, left the deal in tatters. That agreement was supposed to reopen a waterway that is key to world energy supplies and give negotiators ...

Iraqi prime minister visits Oval Office

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump gave Iraq's new prime minister an effusive welcome at the White House on Tuesday, promoting the "tremendous chemistry" between him and a fellow wealthy businessman who arrived at the seat of governmental power without any prior political ...