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Criminal Courts Reporter A Cook County jury began deliberating this afternoon in the murder trial of a Northwest Side man accused of pushing a 62-year-old fisherman into Lake Michigan...He died after a drunken John Haley allegedly shoved him off the pier...
Tags: Montrose Harbor, Lake Michigan, John Haley, Ronald Squires
Pizzas and a healthy heart are all that you need to swim the seven seas or the five Great lakes. Paula Stephanson (30) should know because she has done it. She became the second person to swim all the five Great lakes – she swam 56 kilometers of...
Tags: five Great lakes. Paula Stephanson, lake michigan, pastas, pizzas
Ottawa teacher Paula Stephanson successfully completed her marathon swim of Lake Michigan Monday night. Stephanson, who became only the second person, after famed Canadian swimmer Vickie Keith, to swim all five Great Lakes, took 25 hours and 38 minutes...
Tags: Paula Stephanson, Chicago, Ontario, Lake Michigan, Michigan-Indiana, Ottawa Citizen, Great Lakes
City commissioners this week applied to the Coast Guard's commandant, Adm. Thad Allen in Washington, D.C., to receive designation as a Coast Guard city. There are only nine such cities in the United States, including Grand Haven on Lake Michigan's shoreline,...
Tags: Traverse City Record-Eagle, Lake Michigan, guard city, Coast Guard
Coast Guard is searching the waters of southern Lake Michigan for a Gary, Ind., man who was reported missing Thursday after a sailing trip. Steven Banks, 59, was reported missing by his wife after he did not return from sailing on his 12-foot sailboat...
Tags: northwest Indiana, Northwest Indiana Times, Steven Banks, Lake Michigan, Gary, NBC Chicago, Miller Beach, search lake
Storms on evening of August 19 caused damage to portions of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Downed trees, closed roads and trails, knocked out power for a time to park offices, and wind damaged some buildings. Park crews were out until midnight on Wednesday...
Tags: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, trails grant, Lake Michigan, water trails, active trails
August 4, 2009 Martin Jordan braved the swirling waters of Lake Michigan to aid his three children and two other young relatives after they were caught by powerful currents while swimming, authorities in Michigan said Monday.
Tags: Lake Michigan, St. Charles, charles man
Police in southwestern Michigan say an Illinois man apparently drowned in Lake Michigan while trying to rescue his five children from rough waters. The 45-year-old man was pulled unresponsive Saturday evening from waters near the South Beach Pier in...
Tags: Lake Michigan, South Haven, man drowned, southwestern michigan, St. Charles, South Beach Pier, family members, young family
Police in southwestern Michigan say an Indiana man who apparently disregarded warnings about rough water conditions has drowned while swimming in Lake Michigan. Karl-Heinz Becker, 57, Granger, Ind., was pronounced dead at the scene early Sunday afternoon...
Tags: Lake Michigan, Karl-Heinz Becker, Karl Heinz Becker, Indiana
A killer who escaped from the Indiana State Prison was caught Monday near the Michigan vacation home of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley by an officer on the mayor's security detail. Police warned nearby residents to stay inside because two other escapees...
Tags: Richard Daley, Michigan City, Chicago, Lake Michigan, chicago mayor, mayor richard, Indiana Department of Correction, Indiana State Prison, Michael Smith