Tag: Michigan

Long-Lost Ship Found in Lake Huron, Confirming Tragic Story

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.—Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton’s fate seems particularly cruel. The 191-foot (58-meter) cargo vessel collided with a grain hauler on a blustery night in September 1894, sinking both. The Ironton’s captain and six…


Election Reformers Get New Tool to Pressure States to Clean Up Voter Rolls

A new interactive website database is now available free to individual citizens and election reform groups across the country to help in the fight to get all states to obey a federal election law mandating regular voter roll maintenance. The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a national, non-profit, law firm dedicated to election integrity, announced…


Rep. Elissa Slotkin Entering 2024 US Senate Race for Open Michigan Seat

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) on Feb. 27 announced she is running for the U.S. Senate. “There are certain things that should be really simple, like living a middle class life in the state that invented the middle class, like making things in America so that we’re in control of our own economic security, like protecting…


Michigan Power Crews Work, California Recovers After Storms

Some Michigan residents faced a fourth straight day in the dark on Sunday as crews continued working to restore power to more than 165,000 homes and businesses in the Detroit metropolitan area following last week’s ice storm. Leah Thomas, whose home north of Detroit in the suburb of Beverly Hills lost power Wednesday night, was…


EPA Orders Temporary Halt to Shipping of Ohio Toxic Train Crash Contaminated Waste

Amid objections from Michigan authorities who said they were not aware hazardous materials were headed into their state, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a temporary pause on shipments of contaminated waste from the site of Norfolk Southern Railway’s Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. “Everyone wants this contamination gone from the…


Ford Suspends Production of F-150 Lightning EV for Additional Week After Battery Fire

Ford Motor Co. will halt on F-150 Lightning production until the end of next week following a battery problem that caused an EV truck to catch fire during a pre-delivery check, the company said on Friday. “The teams worked quickly to identify the root cause of the issue,” Ford spokesperson Emma Bergg said in a statement…


Snow, Rain Slam California as Michigan Suffers Without Power

LOS ANGELES—Heavy snow and rain pounded California and other parts of the West on Friday in the nation’s latest winter storm, while tens of thousands of people in Michigan suffered in freezing temperatures days after one of the worst ice storms in decades caused widespread power outages. Days of winter storms blacked out nearly 1…


Judge Releases Man in 1990 Slayings of 2 Michigan Hunters

DETROIT—A man was released from a Michigan prison Friday after nearly 21 years, freed from a life sentence after state authorities acknowledged that an Ohio serial killer could have been the person who killed two deer hunters in 1990. “A state of shock,” Jeff Titus, 71, told The Associated Press moments after walking out of…


Pro-Lifers Indicted for 2020 Blocking of Doors at Michigan Abortion Facility

The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week is reaching back three years to charge eight pro-life activists who, through sitting and praying, blocked the door of the Northland Family Planning abortion facility in Sterling Heights, Michigan. They face up to 11 years in federal prison. Many have already been charged for similar incidents. According to…


Controversy Erupts Over Michigan Governor’s Plans to Give Norfolk Southern $15 Million in Taxpayer Funds

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, is reportedly planning to give Norfolk Southern $15 million in taxpayer dollars to help expand its operations in the state, despite two separate derailments in the past month. The proposal has sparked concern among Republican lawmakers who are calling for more scrutiny of the train operator in light of recent events. Michigan…