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Today

Cloudy with drizzle this evening...then scattered thunderstorms overnight. Low 58F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 60%.

Tonight

Cloudy with drizzle this evening...then scattered thunderstorms overnight. Low 58F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 60%.

Tomorrow

Cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. High 69F. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph.

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Have you ever driven past that empty building on the corner and wondered what’s going on inside? Or noticed a long-time construction project and thought, “When will that be finished?” Starting this month, readers will have a new way to get answers to those everyday questions that spark curio…

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FREMONT — Despite battling back with two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, the Mason County Central varsity football team couldn’t snap its losing streak on Friday.

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Los Angeles — In the Roman interpretations of Homer’s Iliad, the Greek warrior Achilles was dipped in the River Styx by his mother Thetis, seeking to make him invulnerable. She held him by his little heel, that eponymous weakness that doomed him later in the Trojan War when a poisoned arrow …

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LUDINGTON — Travis Michael Gale, 32, of Oceana County, was sentenced Sept. 16 in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court to an additional five years in prison for convictions in two separate case files beyond his earlier fentanyl-death case. Mason County Prosecutor Beth Hand confirmed that one fil…

GRAND RAPIDS — A Lansing man was sentenced Tuesday to more than six years in federal prison for trafficking machinegun conversion devices and possessing an illegal short-barreled rifle with a silencer, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan announced.

A 27-year-old Oxford man was arrested on multiple warrants and three other charges by Mason County Sheriff deputies Saturday following traffic stop at 12:58 a.m. in Branch Township.

    I wore my Lions jersey the day after their 52–21 win over the Bears. I wasn’t alone at the grocery store, as other fans were wrapped in Honolulu blue and silver, smiling and swapping highlights in huddles — as if we’d all won together.

    For presidents of both parties, one of their primary roles has always been consoler-in-chief, healing wounds, lifting hearts and unifying the nation in times of tragedy. Think of Ronald Reagan, comforting the country after the Challenger disaster in 1986. Or Barack Obama, singing “Amazing Gr…