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Who were police looking for in Seney Township?

Although it’s not entirely clear what they were doing, a handful of police agencies spent most of last week poking around wooded areas in and around northern Seney Township in Schoolcraft County last week. We do know investigators have said they were looking for human remains, perhaps buried decades ago. What we don’t know is whose remains they sought or what case all of this was in connection to. Of course, area coffee shops and social media platforms have been abuzz with speculation. A number of people have posited that Jimmy Hoffa, the long, lost ex-president of the ...

Focus next week on driver behavior around school buses

To ensure students’ safety when traveling to and from school, police officers across Michigan will be ramping up patrols next week looking for drivers illegally passing school buses. “Operation Safe Stop” is a statewide enforcement campaign that will be conducted Monday through Friday of next week in conjunction with National School Bus Safety Week. Participating police agencies will work with their local school districts during this week to provide education and enforcement for their communities. OSS enforcement efforts will focus on drivers who ignore the flashing red lights ...

Why people resist modern vaccines a mystery

It’s hard to understand why parents or adult guardians refuse to get their children vaccinated. It’s a puzzling problem that medical experts seem unable to crack: convincing all parents that immunizing their children against diseases that we thought were long gone generations ago. There has long been a cottage industry of sorts of vaccine doubters, which has grown exponentially with the widespread advent of the internet. Anti-vaxers, as those folks are sometimes called, can cite chapter and verse of statistics that show how dangerous vaccines are and how parents are putting their ...