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An appeals court is raising major questions about the trial of two key figures in a plot to kidnap Michigan's governor - and putting federal prosecutors on the defensive as the government tries to preserve the extraordinary guilty verdicts.

At the 2022 trial, U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker greatly restricted the use of certain text messages and audio recordings under his interpretation of evidence rules.

MARQUETTE — Plea agreements filed by a U.S. attorney in federal court offer some insight and more details about an international sextortion case brought by federal prosecutors following the death

Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital and the current architectural firm involved in a proposed $60 million pediatric hospital say a previous firm’s claims of copyright violations involving the project belong in arbitration, not in federal court. 

U.S. Attorney Mark Totten thanks law enforcement personnel "who came running to help" for 2-year-old Wynter Cole Smith.

From Judge Robert Jonker's opinion today in Ashton v. Okemos Public Schools (W.D. Mich.): [Plaintiff's] daughter, E.B., served a time-limited expulsion from…

MARQUETTE — After a little more than two hours of deliberation, a federal jury found a former Michigan Technological University student guilty o

MARQUETTE — After a little more than two hours of deliberation, a federal jury found a former Michigan Technological University student guilty on two counts r

By Houghton Daily Mining Gazette staff MARQUETTE — After a little more than two hours of deliberation, a federal jury found a former Michigan Technologica

MARQUETTE — The case of a Hancock man charged with spraying anti-Semitic graffiti on Temple Jacob in Hancock will head to the jury Thursday. The prosecutio