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The pilot of a 2007 medical flight that crashed into Lake Michigan, killing all six aboard, mishandled an unusual flight situation and was unable to properly coordinate with his first officer, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.
Guitar virtuoso and inventor Les Paul will be buried Friday in his Wisconsin hometown — but not before the public gets to pay their respects in Milwaukee at a science and technology museum along the shores of Lake Michigan.
A five-minute drive from this community's lone gas station leads to a gateway to untapped riches: A bed of coal twice the size of Lake Michigan.
Towels draped over their heads, Lisa Hendrix and Jennifer Webster lounged on a sparsely populated Lake Michigan beach Friday as raindrops trickled from a gloomy sky.
A dive bomber that had ditched in Lake Michigan on a training run in 1944 was brought to land Friday for restoration in Florida for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. The Douglas SBD Dauntless lifted from the water Friday to a pier in Waukegan, Ill., is among 130 to 300 or more planes estimated to have sunk in the lake during training late in World War II.
Ron Kurth, who grew up in Gary and worked in the steel mills, raised his family in the region near the outskirts of Chicago. He always wondered about the smoke and smog that overcast the Lake Michigan shoreline.
Born in an Irish neighborhood in Chicago 111 years ago, the Cardinals have spread football mediocrity or worse from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River to the Sonoran Desert.
President-elect Barack Obama personally thanked a handful of military service members after a morning workout.
Lake-effect snow was expected in Michigan, Ohio and upstate New York on Friday. Some areas of Upper Michigan and New York's Syracuse area were to receive up to a foot of snow. Scattered flurries and snow showers were forecast for the northern Ohio Valley, parts of Pennsylvania and New York.
The early season winter storm in the Northeast will continue Wednesday morning as accumulating snow continues to fall throughout upstate New York.
For a newly hatched striped bass in the Hudson River, a clutch of trout eggs in Lake Michigan or a baby salmon in San Francisco Bay, drifting a little too close to a power plant can mean a quick and turbulent death.
There's no telling what might turn up in Lake Michigan.
A sailor rescued after he fell into Lake Michigan says one of the worst moments of the 12-hour ordeal came near the end, when a Coast Guard helicopter seemed to have its spotlight on him, only to turn away.
Scientists worry that a rapidly reproducing, tiny invasive snail recently found in Lake Michigan could hurt the lake's ecosystem.
A couple watched helplessly as their 4-year-old son was trapped alone on a runaway boat as it spun in circles on Lake Michigan for nearly 45 minutes.
An enclosed walkway being attached to a floating casino on Lake Michigan slipped Tuesday as it was being attached, sending seven construction workers into the water, authorities said.
Wrigley Field is going to be the frozen confines on New Year's Day 2009 when the defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings meet the Chicago Blackhawks outdoors in the home park of the Chicago Cubs.
Hundreds of pounds of household garbage has washed onto Lake Michigan shores in the past couple of days, leading to an investigation by the Coast Guard and the temporary closure of a public beach.
For the first time in more than 20 years, the organizers of the Harbor Fest musical festival in Racine, Wis., were forced to cancel their seminal summertime event on the shores of Lake Michigan.
After warning of a possible big wave, or seiche (SAYSH), Park District officials say water levels on Lake Michigan appeared to have swelled about a foot before receding.
A commercial jet that had just taken off from Chicago had to dump its fuel over Lake Michigan and return to O'Hare International Airport for an emergency landing after one of its engines malfunctioned.
A woman who lost her class ring in Lake Michigan in 1954 has it back, thanks to a metal-detector hobbyist.
Barack Obama joined family and neighbors for a bicycle ride along the shores of Lake Michigan on Sunday.
Officials say a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and rescue swimmer saved seven people from a sinking boat on Lake Michigan.
A gust of wind blew a 2-year-old in a stroller into Lake Michigan, where the boy remained submerged for at least 15 minutes before being pulled out unconscious but alive.
Michigan is a vacationers dream, especially one who loves the beach. The state of Michigan has more than 3000 miles of shoreline.
The history of the Great Lakes is full of ships defeated by the harsh winter storms. November is the most notorious month for sunken ships. That was the month that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, a ship that has been immortalized in song.
France and US battle over shipwreck found in Great LakesA ghostly length of timber protruding from the bottom of one of the Great Lakes has become the subject of a legal battle between France, the state of Michigan, and a private team of American explorers who say it is the remains of a French ship that sank more than 300 years ago.
Lake Michigan underwater stones continue to puzzle archeologistsThis spring Holley and a student from Northwestern Michigan College hope to make laser scans of the image that will yield a computer model. That will help scientists assess the site, which is otherwise off limits because of American Indian concerns that the area could be sacred.
Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan?In a surprisingly under-reported story from 2007, Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University College, discovered a series of stones – some of them arranged in a circle and one of which seemed to show carvings of a mastodon – 40-feet …
Stonehenge in Lake Michigan?The iconic Stonehenge in the UK is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the world, but it is not the only stone formation of its kind.
Fish Virus Feeds Fears It Will Spread to Mississippi RiverA deadly fish virus has been found for the first time in southern Lake Michigan and an inland Ohio reservoir, spurring fears of major fish kills and the virus's possible migration to the Mississippi River.
Yes, you read that correctly-- paddlewheel aircraft carriers. Fresh-water paddlewheel aircraft carriers, no less.
Mich. woman gets back ring she lost in lake in '54A woman who lost her class ring in Lake Michigan in 1954 has it back, thanks to a metal-detector hobbyist.
Fish die-off near Milwaukee signals latest lakes invader may be advancing on Chicago shoresWhen thousands of bloody, hemorrhaging fish recently turned up on the Lake Michigan shore south of Milwaukee, it confirmed the worst fears of scientists worried that an Ebola-like virus stalking Great Lakes fish would strike closer to Chicago.
A Great Lakes mystery: The case of the disappearing speciesThroughout the overlooked depths of Lake Michigan and other Great Lakes, a small but important animal is rapidly disappearing.
My Gramps was a Fisherman. It was in his blood. In fact my family are all fishermen; not by profession but certainly by obsession.
Wind blows toddler in stroller into frigid lake "A gust of wind blew a 2-year-old in a stroller into Lake Michigan, where the boy remained submerged for at least 15 minutes before being pulled out unconscious but alive."
What's in your drinking water from Lake Michigan?Chicago officials have never tested the city and suburban water supply for pharmaceuticals and other unregulated chemicals, even as concern grows about the possible health effects of trace amounts of drugs in drinking water.
Ice "Bergs" on Lake Michigan-Pics includedThe warmer temperatures, sunshine and brisk west winds have caused the ice to break away from shore and float several miles away from shore. The above freezing temperatures expected the next several days should cause these floating ice "bergs" to shrink and disappear
Lake Michigan monthly averages nearing record lowsLake Michigan is 13 inches more shallow than it was a year ago, scientists say. They warn record-low depths could be near. "Lake Michigan has been dropping continuously since 1997, and it's finally approaching the record lows."
Chicago Greening it's AlleysCHICAGO, Nov. 25 — If this were any other city, perhaps it would not matter what kind of roadway was underfoot in the back alleys around town.
Time to plug the drain?: Distant outlet depletes Lake Michigan, some contendAs angst mounts and debates rage over the causes behind the distressingly low water levels on the Great Lakes, some influential regional leaders are tired of waiting for answers.
Great Lakes key front in water warsPotentially huge battles over water are looming in the Great Lakes region as cities, towns and states near and far fight for access to the world's largest body of fresh surface water, all of it residing in the five Great Lakes.
Message in bottle: Marriage meant to be....Melody Kloska and Matt Behrs take it as a sign they were meant to get married.
Approval of Point Beach sale also lessens state oversight of nuclear energy plant"The approval of the sale of the nuclear power plant at Point Beach does more than just transfer the ownership of a huge asset from Wisconsin Electric Power Co. to FPL Energy. It also diminishes the role of state oversight in the operation of the nuclear facility.
globeandmail.com: The Great Lakes disappearing actEnvironmentalists contend the Great Lakes have sprung a man-made link in the vicinity of Sarnia that is draining water away at the rate of 116 cubic meters every second. This loss exceeds the rate of 116 cubes metres every second.
BP says it won't increase pollutionMove follows outcry sparked by Tribune report, but pledge not to dump more in lake is not legally binding
Two Great Lakes losing water quickly This summer's distressingly low water levels on the upper Great Lakes have a lot of people scratching their heads, but a group of Canadian property owners is pointing the finger straight at the Army Corps of Engineers - an agency it says is largely responsible for a 3-foot drop i …
British Petroleum to Dump 3 Pounds of Mercury into Lake Michigan Per YearGreat Lakes. 'Fresh' water lakes? Better throw those fishes back. Sorry about your tap water. Maybe you shouldn't let your kids swim at the beach either. Got a good filter on your showerhead?
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