Steve Asplund

HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) - The Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center is helping MTU prevent the spread of COVID on campus. They’ve set up a tent on the campus lawn that will act as a testing station for when students arrive on moving day. “We’re gonna have students coming in,” said Brian Cadwell, MTU’s director of Public Safety and Police Services. “This’ll be their first stop before moving into the moving process.

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - A man, recently of Marquette, was sentenced to prison last week for sexual activity with children and bestiality. 41-year-old Stephen Andrew Waligore, was sentenced to prison in the Michigan Department of Corrections on Wednesday, July 22. Waligore previously plead guilty to seven counts of aggravated child sexually abusive material and two counts of sodomy (bestiality) on April 24, 2020.

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - Volunteers dedicated their time to an underwater clean up Marquette Lower Harbor on Saturday. Divers geared up and went diving in Lake Superior for old tires that sank to the bottom. This is the second annual underwater cleanup. Over 30 divers came to help from all parts of the country, including Wisconsin and Oklahoma. They collected more than 83 tires of all sizes. The event organizer, Don Fassbender, tells us his motivation “This is our drinking water,” Fassbender said.