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A Michigan marvel: Grand Island's ice caves reveal brutal beauty

MUNISING, Mich. — Along the eastern shore of Lake Superior's Grand Island, giant icicles drip from the cliffs like fangs, a fitting reminder that winter in the Upper Peninsula has a bite.

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022

Demand for RVs is up, and so is the need for dealership workers

WIXOM, Mich. — Road trips and weekend getaways in RVs boomed during the pandemic and one Metro Detroit-based dealership says demand for the homes-on-wheels shows no sign of slowing, even as gas prices reach all-time highs.

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022

Prosecutor wants accused Oxford shooter's name excluded from court filings, hearings

PONTIAC, Mich. — The Oakland County prosecutor wants the name of the accused Oxford High School shooter removed wherever possible from court filings and for participants in hearings to refrain from saying his name, according to court records.

Tribune News Service · Mar 18, 2022

Bob Wojnowski: Harbaugh fully entrenched at Michigan, and determined to prove it

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Maybe some people have doubts. Maybe some wonder if last season’s Big Ten championship was an outlier, or if NFL ambitions still linger. Jim Harbaugh clearly has heard it all, and with spring football underway, well, he figured it was a swell time to quell.

Tribune News Service · Mar 9, 2022

Michigan's Juwan Howard takes 'full ownership' for actions in Wisconsin altercation

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The past two weeks have been a period of self-reflection for Juwan Howard.

Tribune News Service · Mar 9, 2022

Dueling portraits emerge as domestic terror trial begins in Whitmer kidnap case

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Opening statements Wednesday in the trial of four men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer offered contrasting narratives colliding in one of the nation's most important cases of violent extremism.

Tribune News Service · Mar 9, 2022

Whitmer kidnap plotters wanted to help spark second Civil War, feds say

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Prosecutors marked the start of the domestic terrorism trial of four men accused of scheming to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday by cataloging the alleged acts of angry men who built bombs, hatched violent plans and amassed an arsenal in hopes of sparking a…

Tribune News Service · Mar 9, 2022

Why coach Jim Harbaugh thinks Michigan can be 'scary good'

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan is four practices into spring practice, but head coach Jim Harbaugh, coming off his best season with the Wolverines and then a flirtation with the NFL, already has a good feeling about his team.

Tribune News Service · Mar 8, 2022

Shipwreck hunters find wreck claimed by Lake Superior in 1891

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. — Explorers have found the wreckage of a schooner-barge that sank in a Lake Superior gale more than 130 years ago.

Tribune News Service · Mar 3, 2022

'Justice best served' by keeping teen accused in Michigan school shooting in jail, judge says

PONTIAC, Mich. — An Oakland County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday that the county jail is the appropriate place to house accused Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley and denied requests to have him transferred to the county's Children's Village juvenile facility.

Tribune News Service · Mar 1, 2022