Biden backs end to wolf protections but hunting worries grow
FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is sticking by the decision under former President Donald Trump to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. But a top federal wildlife official on Friday told The Associated Press there is growing concern over aggressive wolf hunting seasons …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Biden backs end to wolf protections but hunting worries grow
FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is sticking by the decision under former President Donald Trump to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. But a top federal wildlife official on Friday told The Associated Press there is growing concern over aggressive wolf hunting seasons …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Biden backs end to wolf protections but hunting worries grow
FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is sticking by the decision under former President Donald Trump to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. But a top federal wildlife official on Friday told The Associated Press there is growing concern over aggressive wolf hunting seasons …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Biden backs end to wolf protections but hunting worries grow
FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is sticking by the decision under former President Donald Trump to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. But a top federal wildlife official on Friday told The Associated Press there is growing concern over aggressive wolf hunting seasons …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Fight over Canadian oil rages on after pipeline's demise
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to build the oil pipeline, yet the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure President Joe Biden to intervene — all while oil imports from the north keep rising.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Fight over Canadian oil rages on after pipeline's demise
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to build the oil pipeline, yet the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure President Joe Biden to intervene — all while oil imports from the north keep rising.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Fight over Canadian oil rages on after pipeline's demise
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to build the oil pipeline, yet the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure President Joe Biden to intervene — all while oil imports from the north keep rising.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Fight over Canadian oil rages on after pipeline's demise
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to build the oil pipeline, yet the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure President Joe Biden to intervene — all while oil imports from the north keep rising.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Trump policy that weakened wild bird protections is revoked
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday reversed a policy imposed under former President Donald Trump that drastically weakened the government's power to enforce a century-old law that protects most U.S. bird species.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Trump policy that weakened wild bird protections is revoked
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday reversed a policy imposed under former President Donald Trump that drastically weakened the government's power to enforce a century-old law that protects most U.S. bird species.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Trump policy that weakened wild bird protections is revoked
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday reversed a policy imposed under former President Donald Trump that drastically weakened the government's power to enforce a century-old law that protects most U.S. bird species.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
As Biden seeks a turn on environment, Trump rules to linger
Longtime safeguards for U.S. bird populations took a hit under former President Donald Trump, whose administration made it harder to prosecute industry-caused deaths — such as the 2019 destruction of a sprawling Virginia seabird nesting ground — and chipped away protections for endangered species.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
As Biden seeks a turn on environment, Trump rules to linger
Longtime safeguards for U.S. bird populations took a hit under former President Donald Trump, whose administration made it harder to prosecute industry-caused deaths — such as the 2019 destruction of a sprawling Virginia seabird nesting ground — and chipped away protections for endangered species.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
As Biden seeks a turn on environment, Trump rules to linger
Longtime safeguards for U.S. bird populations took a hit under former President Donald Trump, whose administration made it harder to prosecute industry-caused deaths — such as the 2019 destruction of a sprawling Virginia seabird nesting ground — and chipped away protections for endangered species.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Flint water crisis: Rooted in neglect, fallout continues
Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and other ex-officials have been told they’re being charged after a new investigation of the Flint water scandal, The Associated Press has learned.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Enbridge rejects Michigan's demand to shut down oil pipeline
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Enbridge said Tuesday it would defy Michigan's demand to shut down an oil pipeline that runs through a channel linking two of the Great Lakes, contending that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's decision was based on bad information and political posturing.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Flint water crisis: Rooted in neglect, fallout continues
Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and other ex-officials have been told they’re being charged after a new investigation of the Flint water scandal, The Associated Press has learned.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Recovered Midwestern bird soars off endangered species list
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The interior least tern, a hardy Midwestern bird that survived a craze for its plumage and dam-building that destroyed much of its habitat, has soared off the endangered species list.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Enbridge rejects Michigan's demand to shut down oil pipeline
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Enbridge said Tuesday it would defy Michigan's demand to shut down an oil pipeline that runs through a channel linking two of the Great Lakes, contending that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's decision was based on bad information and political posturing.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Deal reached on project to protect lakes from invasive fish
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan, Illinois and a federal agency have agreed on funding the next phase of an initiative to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes by strengthening defenses on a Chicago-area waterway, officials said Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Michigan judge nullifies crucial permit for mining project
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has overruled state regulators who approved a key permit for a proposed open-pit mine in the Upper Peninsula, another delay for a project that has been debated for nearly two decades.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Michigan judge nullifies crucial permit for mining project
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has overruled state regulators who approved a key permit for a proposed open-pit mine in the Upper Peninsula, another delay for a project that has been debated for nearly two decades.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Wrong number draws mistaken calls, ire from Trump supporters
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan resident was briefly amused to be mistaken for a high-ranking legislator by President Donald Trump supporters who demanded nullification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in the state.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Wrong number draws mistaken calls, ire from Trump supporters
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan resident was briefly amused to be mistaken for a high-ranking legislator by President Donald Trump supporters who demanded nullification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in the state.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
AP: Michigan spent $135M on medical gear early in pandemic
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan spent $135.3 million on masks, gloves and other gear during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, when officials were racing against time — and other states — to protect medical personnel and other essential workers, an Associated Press analysis found.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
AP: Michigan spent $135M on medical gear early in pandemic
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan spent $135.3 million on masks, gloves and other gear during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, when officials were racing against time — and other states — to protect medical personnel and other essential workers, an Associated Press analysis found.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Congress OKs 5-year extension of Great Lakes cleanup program
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) —
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6 men indicted in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan governor
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal grand jury has charged six men with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in what investigators say was a plot by anti-government extremists who were angry over her coronavirus policies.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Feds to delay seeking legal protection for monarch butterfly
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal officials on Tuesday declared the monarch butterfly “a candidate” for threatened or endangered status, but said no action would be taken for several years because of the many other species awaiting that designation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Endangered-species decision expected on beloved butterfly
Trump administration officials are expected to say this week whether the monarch butterfly, a colorful and familiar backyard visitor now caught in a global extinction crisis, should receive federal designation as a threatened species.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Endangered-species decision expected on beloved butterfly
Trump administration officials are expected to say this week whether the monarch butterfly, a colorful and familiar backyard visitor now caught in a global extinction crisis, should receive federal designation as a threatened species.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Federal officials hear arguments on Enbridge pipeline tunnel
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Building an oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes would risk environmental devastation, opponents said Monday, while supporters argued that rejecting the plan would further damage a Michigan economy already reeling from the coronavirus.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Federal officials hear arguments on Enbridge pipeline tunnel
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Building an oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes would risk environmental devastation, opponents said Monday, while supporters argued that rejecting the plan would further damage a Michigan economy already reeling from the coronavirus.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Officials: Flint makes progress toward ending water crisis
Flint has taken important steps toward resolving the lead contamination crisis that made the impoverished Michigan city a symbol of the drinking water problems that plague many U.S. communities, officials said Monday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Enbridge sues Michigan over oil pipeline shutdown order
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Enbridge filed a legal challenge Tuesday to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's recent demand that the company shut down its oil pipeline that crosses the waterway connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Enbridge sues Michigan over oil pipeline shutdown order
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Enbridge filed a legal challenge Tuesday to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's recent demand that the company shut down its oil pipeline that crosses the waterway connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Michigan certifies Biden win, Trump challenge thwarted again
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan election officials on Monday certified Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state, another setback for President Donald Trump in his futile effort to undermine the results of the Nov. 3 election through baseless legal challenges and unsupported claims of fraud.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Hunting licenses soar as virus-weary Americans head outdoors
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Hunting was a big part of Zane Goucher's youth, when he pursued whitetail deer and ruffed grouse in the Maine woods with his father. He eventually drifted away from the sport but has returned after a 22-year absence, inspired by the coronavirus outbreak.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Trump influence seen in deadlock of Michigan election board
DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump offered up his first tweet praising two Michigan Republicans for blocking certification of election results only after the pair did an abrupt about-face in favor of Democrat Joe Biden.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Hunting licenses soar as virus-weary Americans head outdoors
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Hunting was a big part of Zane Goucher's youth, when he pursued whitetail deer and ruffed grouse in the Maine woods with his father. He eventually drifted away from the sport but has returned after a 22-year absence, inspired by the coronavirus outbreak.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Hunting licenses soar as virus-weary Americans head outdoors
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Hunting was a big part of Zane Goucher's youth, when he pursued whitetail deer and ruffed grouse in the Maine woods with his father. He eventually drifted away from the sport but has returned after a 22-year absence, inspired by the coronavirus outbreak.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Michigan governor seeks shutdown of Great Lakes oil pipeline
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took legal action Friday to shut down a pipeline that carries oil beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Michigan governor seeks shutdown of Great Lakes oil pipeline
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took legal action Friday to shut down a pipeline that carries oil beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Trump officials end gray wolf protections across most of US
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Trump administration officials on Thursday stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting states and tribes in charge of overseeing the predators.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Michigan governor seeks shutdown of Great Lakes oil pipeline
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took legal action Friday to shut down a pipeline that carries oil beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Trump officials end gray wolf protections across most of US
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Trump administration officials on Thursday stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting states and tribes in charge of overseeing the predators.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Michigan governor seeks shutdown of Great Lakes oil pipeline
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took legal action Friday to shut down a pipeline that carries oil beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
FBI investigates robocalls warning voters to 'stay home'
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (AP) — Voters across the U.S. received anonymous robocalls in the days and weeks before Election Day urging them to “stay safe and stay home” — an ominous warning that election experts said could be an effort to scare voters into sitting out the election.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Federal agencies fall short of Trump forest protection goals
Nearly two years ago, President Donald Trump stood amid the smoky ruins of Paradise, California, where he blamed the deadliest wildfire in the state's history on poor forest management.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Federal agencies fall short of Trump forest protection goals
Nearly two years ago, President Donald Trump stood amid the smoky ruins of Paradise, California, where he blamed the deadliest wildfire in the state's history on poor forest management.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Federal agencies fall short of Trump forest protection goals
Nearly two years ago, President Donald Trump stood amid the smoky ruins of Paradise, California, where he blamed the deadliest wildfire in the state's history on poor forest management.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Trump officials end gray wolf protections across most of US
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Trump administration officials on Thursday stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting states and tribes in charge of overseeing the predators.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Trump officials end gray wolf protections across most of US
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Trump administration officials on Thursday stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting states and tribes in charge of overseeing the predators.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Trump officials end gray wolf protections across most of US
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Trump administration officials on Thursday stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting states and tribes in charge of overseeing the predators.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
FBI says extremist threatened Trump, Obama in online posts
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A man charged in an alleged conspiracy to
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Minority communities question election-year push by EPA
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Theresa Landrum lives in southwest Detroit, where residents complain frequently about dirty air. Tree-shaded neighborhoods with schools, churches and parks lie on either side of an interstate highway and in the shadow of a sprawling oil refinery that belches soot and fumes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Minority communities question election-year push by EPA
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Theresa Landrum lives in southwest Detroit, where residents complain frequently about dirty air. Tree-shaded neighborhoods with schools, churches and parks lie on either side of an interstate highway and in the shadow of a sprawling oil refinery that belches soot and fumes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
'All talk, no action' defense likely in Michigan kidnap case
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — When members of a Michigan paramilitary group were accused a decade ago of scheming to overthrow the U.S. government, their defense was based largely on one claim: We were all talk, no action.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Judge: Michigan agency can evaluate Great Lakes tunnel plan
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Public Service Commission has some authority over Enbridge's plans to build an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the channel that connects two of the Great Lakes, a state administrative law judge ruled Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Judge: Michigan agency can evaluate Great Lakes tunnel plan
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Public Service Commission has some authority over Enbridge's plans to build an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the channel that connects two of the Great Lakes, a state administrative law judge ruled Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Another suspect charged in alleged Michigan kidnap plot
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's attorney general charged an eighth person Thursday in what authorities have described as a foiled scheme to storm the state Capitol building and kidnap officials, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Agent: Michigan, Virginia governors mentioned in kidnap plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Members of anti-government paramilitary groups implicated in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor ahead of the November election because of her measures to slow the coronavirus also discussed abducting Virginia’s governor, an FBI agent testified Tuesday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Agent: Michigan, Virginia governors mentioned in kidnap plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Members of anti-government paramilitary groups implicated in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor ahead of the November election because of her measures to slow the coronavirus also discussed abducting Virginia’s governor, an FBI agent testified Tuesday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Enbridge hires companies to design, build Great Lakes tunnel
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Enbridge Inc. said Friday it has hired companies to design and build a disputed oil pipeline tunnel beneath the channel linking Lakes Huron and Michigan, despite pending legal challenges.
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Trouble below the bridge
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Fair game
BILLINGS, Mont. - Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long recovery effort that has restored the animals but only in parts of their historic range.
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Michigan lawmakers approve right-to-work bills
LANSING, Mich. - As the chants of angry protesters filled the Capitol, Michigan lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to right-to-work legislation, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat to organized labor in a state that has been a cradle of the movement for generations.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Michigan GOP approves right to work
LANSING, Mich. - Republicans slammed right-to-work legislation through the Michigan House and Senate Thursday, drawing raucous protests from throngs of stunned union supporters, whose outnumbered Democratic allies were powerless to stop it.
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Research murky on Asian carp invasion
HAVANA, Ill. - As scientists aboard a research boat activate an electric current, the calm Illinois River transforms into a roiling, silvery mass. Asian carp by the dozen hurtle from the water as if shot from a gun, soaring in graceful arcs before plunging beneath the surface with splashes resembling …
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Two dead after boat capsizes in race
DETROIT - The crew of the WingNuts knew trouble was brewing in northern Lake Michigan.
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Rust Belt states losing people, political clout
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - After years of losing residents to more prosperous states, the nation's Rust Belt now confronts another blow to its economic prospects: losing some of its votes in Congress.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
World's thirst for oil leads to risks
MIAMI - The world's thirst for crude is leading oil exploration companies into ever deeper waters and ventures fraught with environmental and political peril.
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Search ends for plane crash survivors
LUDINGTON, Mich. - Authorities abandoned hope Saturday of finding alive four people missing since a small plane plunged into Lake Michigan while flying a cancer patient to the Mayo Clinic.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Flight crashes in Lake Mich.; 4 missing, 1 rescued
LUDINGTON, Mich. - A pilot who volunteered to fly a man with cancer, his wife and a doctor to the Mayo Clinic on Friday was rescued by boaters in Lake Michigan hours after his small plane crashed into the water, authorities said. The search for a co-pilot and the three …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Michigan couple convicted in Stamos extortion case
MARQUETTE, Mich. - A Michigan couple were convicted Thursday of trying to extort $680,000 from actor John Stamos by threatening to sell old photos of him with strippers and cocaine to the tabloids unless he paid up.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Sea creatures flee, gather near shore
GULF SHORES, Ala. - Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.
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Health care advocate Stupak to retire from Congress
MARQUETTE, Mich. - Rep. Bart Stupak insists that tea party activists outraged over his crucial support of health care legislation didn't run him out of office, but his decision to retire gives conservatives a rallying point as they target Democrats in the midterm elections. The congressman, an anti-abortion Democrat whose …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
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