Erie News Archives

A Michigan man charged with assaulting two undercover Toledo police detectives the day of his bachelor party was convicted yesterday, after a week-long jury trial, of misdemeanor assault, and two other men on trial, including his brother, were found not guilty on all charges.

A toxic form of algae that has overtaken Lake Erie's western basin in recent summers appears to be thriving not only because fertilizers are getting washed into area rivers and streams by rain but also because the silt doesn't stay put once it gets into the water.

Eric Edward Larson, a senior at Farmington High School and the son of Jeffrey and Lynne Larson of Farmington Hills, has earned the rank of Eagle Scout - Boy Scouts of America's highest award.

They call it the "holy grail" of Great Lakes shipwrecks. The Griffon went under in Lake Michigan more than three centuries ago.

It's another quiet morning in Luna Pier. Multimedia Waves gently break over the rocks that help form the local Pier.

Capital Area Michigan Works welcomes job seekers to a work expo in Lansing. Thousands of people packed the Lansing Center last year for the event, and the same is expected this year.

John Flanagan's best-selling series of children's books about a young Ranger's apprentice named Will has a loyal following.

Traverse City -- An experimental system that uses satellite data and computer modeling will help forecast the direction and intensity of ugly, smelly algae blobs in the Great Lakes, scientists said today.

This weekend, you can celebrate the annual migration of birds of prey at a festival at Lake Erie Metropark and enjoy autumn's tastes, sounds and smells at an evening hayride and campfire at Independence Oaks.

Salmon are moving into the rivers, but the big push has not yet occurred in Michigan, the state Department of Natural Resources said in its weekly fishing report.

BATH - Four young Boy Scouts set out from Bath on Aug. 9 with one goal in mind: bicycle to Cedar Point.

A 38-year-old Erie, Mich., man was discovered Wednesday morning inside a home by his father, an apparent homicide victim, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said.

A 38-year-old man was found dead at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 7000 block of South Telegraph Road in Erie Township, authorities said.

Cooler temperatures along with rain last week pushed salmon into some of the rivers, especially on the west side of the state where the runs are typically a week or two ahead of the east side, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources says.

Two Temperance women were taken a Toledo hospital after a Monday morning crash at Telegraph and Erie Rds.

Reeling a sheepshead in on Lake Erie recently, I realized the fish was so big we were either going to have to net it or reach down and lift it up by the spoon stuck in its jaw.

As salmon begin making their way up the state's rivers from the Great Lakes, the Department of Natural Resources reminds anglers that the use of salmon eggs and minnows for bait is restricted in some waters as part of a strategy to slow the spread of viral hemorrhagic septicemia .