Amid a continued rise in prison assaults, the Michigan Department of Corrections this month launched a new "safe prisons initiative" that aims to improve conditions for inmates and officers alike. Among other things, the initiative seeks to provide improved prisoner programming to promote ...
CRYSTAL FALLS — The Iron County Board will hold a special meeting at 8 a.m. Monday in the courthouse annex, 2 South Sixth St., Crystal Falls. The agenda includes a soil and sedimentation contract extension with the Iron-Baraga Conservation District and central dispatch staffing.
The price of a PlayStation is going up by another $100, the second time in less than a year that Sony has upped the price tag on its popular gaming console. Citing "continued pressures in the global economic landscape," the Japanese company said that as of next Thursday, the PS5 will cost ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Below Cleveland, in a subterranean world many surface dwellers don't know exists, miners extract a crucial winter mineral — salt. The Whiskey Island salt mine, owned by food giant Cargill, helps supply road salt across the Northeast and Great Lakes, where a colder, ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Tehran has agreed to "facilitate and expedite" humanitarian aid through the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said Friday, even as it endures strikes on its nuclear facilities. Ali Bahreini said Tehran has accepted ...