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Search expands for missing NY man last seen in northern Wisconsin

A search continues in the northwoods for a man missing since October. The latest:

By Shereen Siewert | Wausau Pilot & Review An urgent search is underway for a missing New York man last seen in October near Mercer, police have confirmed. Namrud Tessema, also known as “Rudy” or “Wegahta,” is a 46-yaer-old father of two who was last seen Oct. 22 walking barefoot in the area of Maple Ridge Road in Mercer. Friends and family say he is on a spiritual journey, with an interest in…

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Wind already causing power line issues in the U.P. - Don't be surprised if your power goes out or trees tumble overnight - already power lines down in Houghton and Gogebic counties

Wind already causing power line issues in the U.P. – Don’t be surprised if your power goes out or trees tumble overnight – already power lines down in Houghton and Gogebic counties

U.P. Breaking News Weather and Wind Damage Advisory  11-27-17 9:30 p.m.

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Upper Peninsula of Michigan) – The wind has been howling over the Upper Peninsula – and damage reports are already coming in from Houghton and Gogebic counties.

Moments ago, firefighters were dispatched to downed power lines in Houghton County near the…

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VA hospital in Louisiana chases man to Upper Peninsula because he did not like their food - Gulf Coast petty offense misdemeanor tickets get man arrested in Iron County, MI

VA hospital in Louisiana chases man to Upper Peninsula because he did not like their food – Gulf Coast petty offense misdemeanor tickets get man arrested in Iron County, MI

Upper Peninsula Breaking News Bulletin  11-21-17 9:45 p.m. ET

He didn’t like the VA food in Louisiana – and he got a ticket for smuggling in food. He was tracked down in Iron County, Michigan and dragged into a Marquette federal courtroom

By Greg Peterson Upper Peninsula Breaking News News Director/Co-Owner 906-273-2433

(Marquette, MI) – If you are being treated by a Veterans Affairs Hospital…

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Iron County crash closes U.S. Two - and Two fires reported this afternoon in Iron County

Iron County crash closes U.S. Two – and Two fires reported this afternoon in Iron County

U.P. Breaking News Urgent Bulletin  11-13-17 2 p.m. CT and 3 p.m. ET – Very Serious accident in Iron County, other fires reported

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News News Director/Owner 906-273-2433

(Iron County, MI) – U.P. Breaking News has confirmed that a portion of U.S. Highway Two has been closed in Iron County, MI due to a severe accident. We have not confirmed the location – but have…

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A second missing person's case in Houghton County this winter renews fears about the dozens missing and the unsolved murders in the Upper Peninsula

A second missing person’s case in Houghton County this winter renews fears about the dozens missing and the unsolved murders in the Upper Peninsula

URGENT URGENT – Where and Why are U.P. Residents disappearing 1-18-17 Houghton Sheriff’s dept. Alert tonight – another missing person in Houghton County has law enforcement worried tonight – please share the story they ask – and visit the Houghton County Sheriff’s Department Facebook Page

Where is Kenneth “Ryan” Clark of Hancock, MI ? – It’s Not the Same Safe U.P. – Missing and Endangered List…

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Fatal Iron River, MI Crash - Car vs. Big Snow Grader - Latest of many serious wrecks across the Upper Peninsula in past 24 hours

Fatal Iron River, MI Crash – Car vs. Big Snow Grader – Latest of many serious wrecks across the Upper Peninsula in past 24 hours

URGENT URGENT U.P. Breaking News bulletin: Fatal Crash – Car vs. Big Snow Grader Iron County, MI 12:10 p.m. Central Time – U.S.-2 west of Iron River

Morning Turns Into Mourning in Iron County, MI after Snow Grader and Car Crash

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Iron River and Upper Peninsula of Michigan) – A least one person was killed this morning and others…

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"It's a mess" - Beware Falling Limbs and Trees: Wind machine cranks up with safety and windchill warnings for south and western U.P. - expect 30 below in Iron River and Ironwood when you wake up

“It’s a mess” – Beware Falling Limbs and Trees: Wind machine cranks up with safety and windchill warnings for south and western U.P. – expect 30 below in Iron River and Ironwood when you wake up

URGENT URGENT – U.P. BREAKING NEWS Public Safety Advisory and Weather Bulletin 1-12-176:55 p.m. ET – Limbs coming down in Keweenaw; Windchill bad in western U.P. and expected to spread – 30 below wind chills when Iron River and Ironwood residents wake up Friday – 14-foot Lake Superior waves

Tree limbs, trees falling in high winds – be careful – plus severe wind chill moving into U.P. starting at…

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Serious Fire Danger - U.P. Wildfires are blazing: Cow Barn Burns at Popular Menominee County Dairy Farm; One of dozens fires in past 24 hours from houses to numerous grass and brush fires across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Serious Fire Danger – U.P. Wildfires are blazing: Cow Barn Burns at Popular Menominee County Dairy Farm; One of dozens fires in past 24 hours from houses to numerous grass and brush fires across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

URGENT URGENT URGENT U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 4-29-18 – 3:42 p.m. CT – 4:42 p.m. ET 

“Danger Will Robinson” – Please be careful as wildfires are springing up everywhere with perfect conditions for quickly spreading

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Stephenson Township, MI) – State and local firefighters – aided by DNR aircraft – have been fighting dozens…

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Serious Fire Danger - U.P. Wildfires are blazing: Cow Barn Burns at Popular Menominee County Dairy Farm; One of dozens fires in past 24 hours from houses to numerous grass and brush fires across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Serious Fire Danger – U.P. Wildfires are blazing: Cow Barn Burns at Popular Menominee County Dairy Farm; One of dozens fires in past 24 hours from houses to numerous grass and brush fires across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

URGENT URGENT URGENT U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 4-29-18 – 3:42 p.m. CT – 4:42 p.m. ET 

“Danger Will Robinson” – Please be careful as wildfires are springing up everywhere with perfect conditions for quickly spreading

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Stephenson Township, MI) – State and local firefighters – aided by DNR aircraft – have been fighting dozens…

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URGENT URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 2-11-18 – 2:52 p.m. CT – 3:52 p.m. ET

Gogebic Iron SWAT Team activated on a Sunday – Call in Bessemer, MI area

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

**If you have information on this event – please privately contact U.P. Breaking News

(Bessemer, MI) – The Gogebic Iron SWAT Team was activated this Sunday afternoon for a situation in Bessemer, MI.

SWAT Team was paged at 1:50 p.m. CT on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018.

U.P. Breaking News decided to hold this story for about an hour – to give police time to respond.

The Gogebic Iron SWAT Team was paged and told to gather at the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department.

The incident is said to be in the Bessemer, MI area. All police/EMS feeds from that end of the U.P. abruptly ended about 2:15 p.m. CT – could be coincidence..

The team has been used in many drug raids and to help end hostage/domestic type situations.

No injuries have been reported.

Temps will continue to drop to dangerous levels below zero (-16 F, -25 wind-chill) as day turns to evening and into night.

Gogebic Iron SWAT Team paged into the sheriff’s office for a call in Bessemer, MI area – details not yet known URGENT URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 2-11-18 – 2:52 p.m. CT - 3:52 p.m. ET…

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In a series of press release, Upper Peninsula drug teams announced today they had made numerous meth and pill drug busts in past few days

By Greg Peterson S.E. Social Justice Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

  n Houghton County, Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement team (UPSET)  arrested two men in connection with a meth investigation:

The suspects are:

35-year-old Terry Bartlett of Houghton, MI and a 29-year-old  Hancock, MI man. U.P. Breaking News is still trying to confirm the name of the Hancock man.

Meanwhile in deputies raided a meth and heroin drug house in Menominee , MI on Fri., Dec. 5, 2018 – located across from the Menominee High School and arrested four suspects.

Three suspects were arrested on immediately on warrants by the Menominee County Sheriff’s department. During the search, the person in charge of the residence showed up and was arrested.

Six charges have been filed against the four subjects who remain  in the Menominee County Jail. The charges include possession of heroin and meth, possession of meth with intent to deliver within a school zone, and maintaining a drug house.

Police confiscated a small  amount of heroin and meth plus many items needed to run a drug ring and package drugs for sale

 Officers found baggies used for packaging narcotics, over 100 syringe needles, a ledger to account for drug sales, digital scales and more.

The suspects even had Narcan, that can be used to save a person’s life during an opioid overdose.

In Wakefield, MI, two people were arrested Friday by the Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics team (GIANT). 

38-year-old Paul Robert Rooni and 45-year-old Jessica Ann Boggetto are both charged with  conspiracy to deliver of a Schedule 2 controlled substance – a seven-year felony,  and a high court misdemeanor of maintaining a drug house that carries two years if convicted.

Boggetto is also charged possession of a Schedule 2 controlled substance, a two-year felony.

Rooni and Boggetto are both currently lodged at the Gogebic County Jail on a $200,000 at 10 percent bond.

GIANT was assisted with a search warrant by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

To contact GIANT or report something to them, you can call their toll-free number at 1-855-644-4219 or email them at giantdrugteam@gmail.com.

Drug busts: Meth, pill arrests across the U.P. – Houghton, Menominee, and Wakefield In a series of press release, Upper Peninsula drug teams announced today they had made numerous meth and pill drug busts in past few days…

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In a series of press release, Upper Peninsula drug teams announced today they had made numerous meth and pill drug busts in past few days

By Greg Peterson S.E. Social Justice Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

  n Houghton County, Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement team (UPSET)  arrested two men in connection with a meth investigation:

The suspects are:

35-year-old Terry Bartlett of Houghton, MI and a 29-year-old  Hancock, MI man. U.P. Breaking News is still trying to confirm the name of the Hancock man.

Meanwhile in deputies raided a meth and heroin drug house in Menominee , MI on Fri., Dec. 5, 2018 – located across from the Menominee High School and arrested four suspects.

Three suspects were arrested on immediately on warrants by the Menominee County Sheriff’s department. During the search, the person in charge of the residence showed up and was arrested.

Six charges have been filed against the four subjects who remain  in the Menominee County Jail. The charges include possession of heroin and meth, possession of meth with intent to deliver within a school zone, and maintaining a drug house.

Police confiscated a small  amount of heroin and meth plus many items needed to run a drug ring and package drugs for sale

 Officers found baggies used for packaging narcotics, over 100 syringe needles, a ledger to account for drug sales, digital scales and more.

The suspects even had Narcan, that can be used to save a person’s life during an opioid overdose.

In Wakefield, MI, two people were arrested Friday by the Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics team (GIANT). 

38-year-old Paul Robert Rooni and 45-year-old Jessica Ann Boggetto are both charged with  conspiracy to deliver of a Schedule 2 controlled substance – a seven-year felony,  and a high court misdemeanor of maintaining a drug house that carries two years if convicted.

Boggetto is also charged possession of a Schedule 2 controlled substance, a two-year felony.

Rooni and Boggetto are both currently lodged at the Gogebic County Jail on a $200,000 at 10 percent bond.

GIANT was assisted with a search warrant by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

To contact GIANT or report something to them, you can call their toll-free number at 1-855-644-4219 or email them at giantdrugteam@gmail.com.

Drug busts: Meth, pill arrests across the U.P. – Houghton, Menominee, and Wakefield In a series of press release, Upper Peninsula drug teams announced today they had made numerous meth and pill drug busts in past few days…

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Latest just issued by NWS Office Negaunee Township: A White Christmas - Good Grief - plus lake-effect snow will continue to hammer those in the snowbelt areas - If you can't remember to drive with care - think of this - turning "Ho Ho Ho" into "Slow Slow Slow"

Latest just issued by NWS Office Negaunee Township: A White Christmas – Good Grief – plus lake-effect snow will continue to hammer those in the snowbelt areas – If you can’t remember to drive with care – think of this – turning “Ho Ho Ho” into “Slow Slow Slow”

U.P. Breaking News Weather and Traffic Advisory – 6:40 a.m. ET 5:40 CT

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2017 Christmas Day – Cold and snow are here to stay Even SUVs in Marquette and Chippewa County – slide off road – in big way Latest from NWS in Negaunee Township, MI and links that always have updated info By Greg…

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Latest just issued by NWS Office Negaunee Township: A White Christmas - Good Grief - plus lake-effect snow will continue to hammer those in the snowbelt areas - If you can't remember to drive with care - think of this - turning "Ho Ho Ho" into "Slow Slow Slow"

Latest just issued by NWS Office Negaunee Township: A White Christmas – Good Grief – plus lake-effect snow will continue to hammer those in the snowbelt areas – If you can’t remember to drive with care – think of this – turning “Ho Ho Ho” into “Slow Slow Slow”

U.P. Breaking News Weather and Traffic Advisory – 6:40 a.m. ET 5:40 CT

MTU Webcam  Campus Aerial A view of campus from the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Building.

2017 Christmas Day – Cold and snow are here to stay Even SUVs in Marquette and Chippewa County – slide off road – in big way Latest from NWS in Negaunee Township, MI and links that always have updated info By Greg…

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Police fan out across ironwood, Michigan searching for missing 10-year-old autistic girl

Police fan out across ironwood, Michigan searching for missing 10-year-old autistic girl

U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 1-16-17 6 a.m. Central Time Search for missing 10 year old in Gogebic County

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

(Ironwood, MI) – Numerous police agencies are searching this morning for a missing 10-year-old autistic girl in the Ironwood, MI area. Girl disappeared from her aunt’s home at 102 North Mansfield in Ironwood, MI – autistic…