Vilas County has boosted snowmobile safety with the installation of highly visible, flashing red, white, and green beacons at lake crossings, visible for two nautical miles. Announced by the Vilas County Forestry, Recreation, and Land Department on Tuesday, the beacons will be placed on both shorelines of the lake crossings to clearly mark safe routes and exit points, supplementing existing markers. Additionally, signs enforcing the 55 MPH night speed limit -Wisconsin State law, will be installed at lake & trail access points. Riders are urged to operate responsibly, warned that off-trail riding is trespassing with potential fines and trail closure, and reminded to only use officially marked lake and water crossings.

The Western Upper Peninsula will be represented at a premier semiquincentennial event next year: The Marty’s Goldenaires Drum and Bugle Corp from Bessemer has accepted an invitation to march in the National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, D.C. The group, a familiar performer in the U.P. and northern Wisconsin, was founded in 1950 by local band director and Navy veteran “Marty” Lamoreux. Operations ceased after Lamoreux’s death in 1968 but were revived for the nation’s bicentennial in 1976 and have continued since. Past highlights include performances at the National American Legion Convention, the Michigan state capitol, and Lambeau Field.

Several families in the Show Me State lost loved ones in deadly crashes over the Christmas holiday.According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 10 people died in traffic crashes between 6 p.m. on Wednesday, December 24, and 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, December 28. Statistics show 258 – crashes 94 – injuries 10 – fatalities and 93 – DWI arrests. MSHP said there were no boating crashes/fatalities, drownings or boating while intoxicated arrests.

A Cape Girardeau woman 29 year old Tomeika Patterson is facing charges in connection with a shooting on Saturday afternoon. Patterson is now charged with unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action, resisting/interfering with an arrest and possession of a controlled substance.According to Cape Girardeau Police, officers were called around 4:13 p.m to a home on the 500 block of South Hanover Street for a report of shots fired. She’s being held without bond.

The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to a fire in an apartment building at 2822 Whitener. Firefighters arrived to find a fire in a second-floor apartment and all the residents were already out of the building.The fire was quickly brought under control and confined to the apartment where it started within approximately five minutes of the fire department’s arrival.

Police are searching for the driver of a pickup truck that fled the scene on foot after a wrong-way, head-on crash on the Niagara Scenic Parkway Sunday night.

The Skyway closed at 6 a.m. on Monday due to anticipated severe weather and high wind gusts, city of Buffalo officials announced and will remain closed until further notice.

Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino said $5 million in state allocations for two key city projects was an “early Christmas present.” The funds include $1 million for renovations to the Rapids Theater and $4 million for Niagara Falls’ ongoing efforts to renovate a series of long vacant buildings – mostly along Main Street – in one of the city’s key business districts.

The New York State Department of Health today announced that the state is experiencing the highest number of flu cases ever recorded in a single week. The Department’s most recent data shows a total of 71,123 positive flu cases reported for the seven days ending December 20, 2025, the most that the Department has ever recorded in one week since influenza was made reportable in 2004.

The Bills trailed by 13 at halftime, and through three quarters as well. A potentially epic fourth-quarter back fell short, though, with a 13-12 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

The second pilot has died in Sunday’s helicopter crash over Hammonton, according to authorities. BreakingAC.com reports Kenneth Kirsch, 65, and Michael Greenberg, 71, were the pilots, who had just taken off from the Hammonton Municipal Airport, where they had eaten together as they often did. Kirsch’s Enstrom F-28A and Greenberg’s E280C collided mid-air at about 11:25 a.m., according to the FAA, which is investigating along with the National Transportation Safety Board. Only the pilots were on board each aircraft.

The city’s rules governing e-bikes will get a close look in 2026, Jim Moffatt told City Council at its second meeting in December.The leader of the city’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Committee spoke during the public hearing on an ordinance setting new rules for the motor-assisted bicycles.As city attorney Christopher Gillin-Schwartz described the ordinance at the meeting, the rules match those of neighboring Lower Township and West Cape May. The area between Cape May and the Garden State Parkway, Schellingers Landing, is part of Lower Township, and West Cape May and Cape May share a police department.

A new exhibit by Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture) will go on display in the new year at the city’s welcome center.This exhibit, called Revolutionary Cape May, will explore how the area made its mark on the Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783.This exhibit teaches Cape May’s little-known naval role in the war.Cape May, which was already seen at the time as a seashore resort and popular with Philadelphians, occupied a strategic location at the state’s southern tip.

One person died Sunday after two helicopters collided in the area of Basin Road and the White Horse Pike, Hammonton police said on Facebook.At around 11:25 a.m., police received a call about a crash in the area of the 100 block of Basin Road.According to the Press of Atlantic City an Enstrom F-28A helicopter and an Enstrom 280C helicopter collided in mid-air near Hammonton Municipal Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. One of the helicopters was engulfed in flames, police said.