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Judge will allow some statements in open murder trial

Local News

ESCANABA – A judge has decided that past statements a woman made about an assault in February 2023 can be used in the trial of the man accused of killing her later that year. Tavaris Jackson appeared virtually in the 47th Circuit Court of Delta County in Escanaba on Dec. 18 and again Tuesday ...

Nigerian villagers rattled by US airstrikes

International News

JABO, Nigeria (AP) — Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed on Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed outside his mud house with his wife to see the sky glowing a bright red. The light ...

Trump’s tariffs hit nearly every country in 2025

Business

Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy. His double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country have disrupted global commerce and strained ...

Japan’s Cabinet OKs record defense budget

International News

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, aiming to fortify its strike-back capability and coastal defense with cruise missiles and unmanned arsenals as tensions rise in the region. The draft ...

50 years ago, UP tried to break from Michigan

Local News

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Fifty years ago, residents in the Upper Peninsula faced a choice that could have rewritten the map: Whether to break away from Michigan and ...