Schyler Perkins
Digital Reporter at WJMN-TV (Marquette, MI)
Digital Reporter | WJMN Local 3
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2 weeks ago |
myupnow.com | Schyler Perkins
There is a better way to read this story. Download the My UP Now app for your apple or android device. LANSING, Mich. (WJMN/WBUP) — One year after the State of Michigan moved to ban coyote hunting in the spring, the Natural Resource Commission (NRC) may vote on Thursday to bring back the state's year-round open season on the canines. The move comes just days before the legal season for coyote hunting is set to end under the new rule.
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2 months ago |
myupnow.com | Schyler Perkins
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WJMN/WBUP) — Lawyers for Enbridge and the Michigan Attorney General's Office argued in a state courtroom for the first time in years, both urging a judge to end the long-running dispute. In 2019, Attorney General Dana Nessel filed suit against Enbridge Energy over its Line 5 oil pipeline that runs from Canada, across Michigan's Upper Peninsula, along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac, and down through the Lower Peninsula.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
myupnow.com | Schyler Perkins
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WJMN) — UPDATE (1/17/25): On Thursday, Stacey Kangas was sentenced for charges related to her embezzlement of thousands from Marquette Senior High School. When she was arrested last year, Kangas was charged with embezzling over $100,000 — a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Last November, Kangas agreed to plea no contest to a lesser charge of embezzling $20,000-$50,000. This week, Judge Andrew Griffin sentenced Kangas to 90 days in jail and three years of probation.
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Nov 13, 2024 |
channel3000.com | Schyler Perkins
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WJMN/WBUP) — A Michigan man was sentenced to prison for his participation in a drug-smuggling ring that ran from Detroit to the Upper Peninsula, according to federal prosecutors. On Wednesday, a spokesperson for U.S. District Attorney Mark Totten's office said Charles Lester Knuckles Jr. was sentenced to 11 years in prison for leading a drug trafficking operation that traversed the state for at least two months, ending in January of 2023.
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Nov 1, 2024 |
news8000.com | Schyler Perkins
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (WJMN/WBUP) — A construction worker was saved after a construction incident left him trapped under 700 pounds of drywall while working on renovations at Michigan State Police's Sault Ste. Marie Post. In a Friday release, a spokesperson for MSP said the startling event happened on Oct. 31. During the day, a 43-year-old man from Levering, MI was working on renovations at the MSP post in Sault Ste. Marie, wheeling in several sheets of drywall on a cart.
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The move comes just days before the legal season for coyote hunting is set to end under the current rule. https://t.co/ksskoU7hY6
Should there be a year-long MI coyote hunt? Feuding factions say either may lead to higher population. https://t.co/YoX6sWzHRF