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IM adding 2 full-time firefighters

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IRON MOUNTAIN — Help is on the way for the understaffed Iron Mountain Fire Department as two new full-timers will be added to reduce the amount of overtime needed for adequate coverage. The city council approved the move last month to bring the full-time staff to nine. They learned Monday ...

School shooter wants guilty plea withdrawn

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DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors urged a judge Tuesday to reject a Michigan school shooter’s request to withdraw his guilty plea in the deaths of four students in 2021. Ethan Crumbley, 18, is serving a life sentence for the Oxford High School shooting. But his new appellate lawyers want to ...

Residential lead hazard services expanded in UP

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LANSING — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $7 million in community grants to expand residential lead hazard control services to eligible households with a Medicaid-enrolled residents. A grant of $700,000 to the Public Health of Delta and Menominee ...

Cancer closet donation

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Marguerite Lanthier/Daily News photo Who’s Next in Aurora, Wis., co-hosted a cancer benefit with breast cancer survivor Robin Krueger on Oct. 26 and raised $5,700 for the Dickinson County Cancer Unit Loan Closet. Krueger, who has hosted three other benefits for the cancer closet, approached ...