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Book gathers historic accounts of Michigan cougar encounters

LANSING — In 1892, a woman left her young child asleep in a wagon while she picked blackberries close by in small-town Fergus, Saginaw County. She returned a short time later to a horrific scene: Her child was gone and a pool of blood lay in its place. That story, first reported by the ...

Senate showdown goes wrong way

Republicans in Congress are ceding their constitutional power to the president, so says the “politerati.” Yes, but there’s the rub: 10 Senate Democrats joined Republicans, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. He changed his mind the day before. The Senate 10 sacrificed the ...

Wildfires prompt evacuations in the Carolinas

Wildfires forced a mandatory evacuation in one North Carolina county as emergency crews fought separate fires in an area of the state still recovering from Hurricane Helene, while South Carolina’s governor declared an emergency in response to a growing wildfire. The North Carolina Department ...

AOC points to party’s sad future

Even Will Rogers might be hard-pressed to come up with an appropriately harsh jibe about the current state of the Democrats. “I am not a member of any organized political party,” the 20th century humorist famously said. “I am a Democrat.” Now, the problem isn’t a lack of ...

The canary in the coal mine

Tens of thousands of pages related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy were released last week. Not to spoil it, but he dies in the end. In the process of reviewing the documents, it is apparent that the government kept a lot private because the names of CIA agents in the ...