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(RRN) Man Runs Away From Marquette District Court Hearing
 Authorities in Marquette County are looking for an escaped prisoner. They are looking for 27-year-old Troy Alan Luoma, who ran away from authorities Thursday at the Marquette County Courthouse. Luoma was being arraigned in 96th District Court when Judge Roger Kangas...
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(RRN) Shooting Incident In Escanaba; Suspect Surrenders
A shooting incident on Escanaba's south side leads to a six-hour standoff. Public Safety says it was called out to a neighborhood along South 30th Street at about 5:30 Thursday afternoon. A witness reported a gunshot and a woman screaming inside a home in that area....
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(RRN) Home Damaged By Fire In Schoolcraft County
A home was damaged by fire in Schoolcraft County's Doyle Township on Thursday. Manistique Public Safety says the fire broke out at 40-02 Kelly Road at around noontime…that's near the town of Gulliver. Crews went back to the scene Friday afternoon as some hot spots reignited....
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(RRN) Grey Wolf Leaves Federal Endangered Species List Fri.
At the stroke of midnight Friday morning, the grey wolf was taken off of the federal endangered species list and management of the animal was shifted to the state DNR. So, what does that mean for the management of wolves here in the Upper Peninsula? DNR wildlife biologist Brian Roell says....
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(RRN) Democratic Poll Suggests McDowell Leads Benishek
A new poll suggests that U-P Congressman Dan Benishek could be in trouble for re-election this November. The poll put out by "House Majority PAC" shows Democrat Gary McDowell leading Benishek 46-percent-to-41. Benishek defeated McDowell in the 2010 election....
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(RRN) Phony Cop Incident Was Teenaged Prank
You may recall the story from Marquette County, where a woman said a phony cop tried to pull her over on a rural county road late Saturday night. Well, the sheriff now says it was teenagers doing it as a prank. Police received numerous tips from the public about these incidents...
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(RRN) Ironwood Boy Arrested on Arson Charges
 A home was damaged by fire Tuesday night in the western U-P. Police say the blaze broke out at about 6 p.m. on Lake Street in the City of Ironwood. A few hours after the fire started, police arrested a 17-year-old boy...
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(RRN) U.P. Congressman Not Impressed With Obama Speech
 Upper Peninsula Congressman Dan Benishek was not impressed with much of what he heard in President Barack Obama's State of the Union Speech. The Crystal Falls Republican said that the president has proposed fixing this country’s economy by increasing the size and price tag of the federal government...
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(RRN) Two Teens Charged In Marquette Drive-By Shooting
Two people have been officially charged in connection with the drive-by shooting that happened Sunday morning in Marquette. 19-year-old Phillip Swanson is accused of using a short-barrell shotgun to fire shots at a home in the 500 block of Center Street at 3:20 Sunday morning....
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(RRN) Some U.P. Highway Bridges Are Obsolete Or Deficient
 The Michigan Department of Tranpsortation says that 977 bridges across the state are labeled as "functionally obsolete", and another 299 bridges are labeled as "structurally deficient". A few dozen Upper Peninsula bridges made those lists, but M-DOT says....
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(RRN) Senate Passes Casperson's Leaky Storage Tank Bill
The Michigan Senate has approved legislation that changes the way leaking underground storage tanks are dealt with in the state. U-P State Senator Tom Casperson says the six-bill package reforms the clean-up process where the leaking tanks that pose...
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(RRN) Casperson Says More Revenue Needed For Road Repairs
 The chairman of the Michigan Senate Transportation Committee, Tom Casperson, says something must be done to fix Michigan's roads and bridges. And the Escanaba Republican…while not a fan of raising taxes…says more money is needed to fix the system. Casperson says...
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(RRN) Beware Of Phony Police Officer In Marquette County
A Marquette County woman says someone impersonating a police officer tried to pull her over late Friday night on County Road 581 in Ely Township. Marquette County Sheriffs Deputies say the vehicle had a red light on top and the driver turned it on and motioned for the woman to pull over....
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(RRN) U.P. Man Dies In Northern Wisconsin Traffic Accident
An Upper Peninsula man was killed in a traffic crash in Florence County, Wisconsin. Sheriffs Deputies say the accident happened at just after 5 Central time Sunday evening at the intersection of Wisconsin State Highways 70 and 139. And the freezing rain at the time was a factor in the....
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(RRN) State Democratic Party Chairman Visits Escanaba
 The chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party kicked off an Upper Peninsula tour Monday, meeting with local officials to plot strategy for the upcoming elections. Mark Brewer stopped in Escanaba on Monday, and said that Democrats will enthusiastically try to reverse much of what Governor....
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