Friday News---- OILER BOYS, IRISH GIRLS ADVANCE Mostly sunny skies during the morning giving way to clouds and a few showers late. High 48F. Winds SW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30%. ------------------------------- Police say that 20-year-old Saginaw Spirit major junior hockey player Terry Trafford died of self-inflicted asphyxiation inside his car parked outside a Wal-Mart store. State police say that the autopsy was completed Thursday and says toxicology results will come later. They says the asphyxiation appears to be self-inflicted. ---------------------------- Low-wage McDonalds workers in Highland Park and other locations in Michigan have sued the restaurant chain as part of a three-state legal action over its pay policies. The lawsuits say McDonaldss sometimes forces workers to wait before clocking in as a way to increase profits. McDonalds says its investigating the allegations. ------------------------------ President Barack Obama has signed a bill designating 32,557 acres of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore as protected federal wilderness, the final step for a proposal that has been debated locally for more than a decade. The measure cleared the U.S. House in March and the Senate last June. The White House says Obama signed it Thursday. The Sleeping Bear Dunes federal park is headquartered at Empire along Lake Michigan in the northern Lower Peninsula. Its famed for towering sand dunes, some of which rise hundreds of feet above the shoreline. ----------------------------- Boys Regional Basketball final.....Mt Pleasant 64 Carman-Ainsworth 61 (vs Howell @ Davison Tuesday in a Class A Quarterfinal) Girls Semi-final.....Sacred Heart 54 Marine City Cardinal Mooney 42 (vs Crystal Falls Forest-Park Saturday at Breslin Center for Class D State Championship)
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:03:32 +0000
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