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Soo Locks delays midnight closure for freighter loaded with 70K tons of taconite Updated Jan 16, 2021; Posted Jan 16, 2021 The Walter J. McCarthy Jr. arrived at the Poe Lock in the Soo early on Jan. 16, 2021. Facebook Share SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had planned to close the Soo Locks system to all ship traffic at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 15, kicking off the annual 10-week season of winter maintenance. But when you’ve got a 1,000-foot freighter motoring across Lake Superior loaded with 70,107 tons of taconite that needs to get to Gary, Indiana, you leave the...

U.S. Rep. Paul Mitchell, newly independent of the Republican Party, says he's retiring from public life and won't run for governor of Michigan or any other office. "I have no intention of running for elected office again," Mitchell said in a Friday interview. "I have disagreements with the governor on a whole range of things, but I’m going to go home and inflict my opinion on my family, who will probably tell me to please shut up." "It’s the right decision at this point in my life," he added. "In my family." Mitchell, a former corporate executive, is leaving Congress at the end of his te...