3/27/2025

IRON COUNTY - Voters in Iron County head to the polls on Tuesday. to make their choices for both local and state officials. There are a number of uncontested races on the ballot. There will be a choice to be made for state superintendent and Justice of the Wisconsin State Court. There will also be the question of whether one should have to show a photo i.d. when voting in any election. Hurley voters will have a vote on who represents each ward in the city and the sanitary district. Voters will be asked to choose two candidates for the Hurley School District. Mercer will be choosing town board supervisors, the town clerk and town treasurer. There will also be the question of filling the two vacant seats on the Mercer School District Board of Education.

3/27/2025

ASHLAND - A U.S. Forest Service worker in Ashland has her job back, two weeks after a U.S. District Court Judge ruled that the current administration had to re-instate over 16,000 fired employees, stating that their dismissals were most likely illegal. In a social media post on Wednesday, Hayley Matanowski posted that she had gotten her job back. Matanowski poster a photo of herself and said,”Our judicial branch stood separate and strong, and found that we had in fact been terminated illegally. It was ordered that we be reinstated.” Sheposted concern regarding the reduction in force procedures and directives being used by the White House. She also thanked everyone who continues to support federal workers and what they’re going through.

3/27/2025

MARQUETTE - A Georgia man faces up to two decades in prison for his role in the sextortion scheme that led to the suicide of Marquette teen Jordan DeMay, and three more convictions are possible in the days ahead.  Kendall London, Jr., pleaded guilty to money laundering in federal court yesterday.  London faces up to 20 years in prison, a three-year term of supervised release and a fine of up to $500,000. Sentencing has been set for July 21 at 2:00 p.m. in Grand Rapids.  Samuel and Samson Ogoshi - two brothers from Nigeria - were sentenced last year to 17 1/2 years in prison for their role in the sextortion scheme that involved over 100 victims and led to the death of DeMay.  The two admitted as posing as young women on social media and would persuade teenage boys and young men to send sexually explicit photos of themselves and then would blackmail them with those images.