GARDEN CITY (AP) — A Detroit-area woman at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case about transgender rights is in hospice care while awaiting a decision. Aimee Stephens has kidney disease and was in a wheelchair when the court heard arguments in October, The Detroit News reported ...

LANSING (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Monday she wants 450,000 Michiganders to be tested for the coronavirus this month, an average of nearly 15,000 a day, a critical goal because she said social-distancing cannot go on indefinitely until a vaccine is developed. Testing is on the ...

LANSING (AP) — A commission that oversees Michigan’s Capitol delayed a decision Monday on banning guns from the building before a planned protest against the govern or’s coronavirus restrictions, in a meeting that later ended abruptly due to racist and threatening messages posted ...

By JEFF SEIDEL Detroit Free Press AP Member Exchange DETROIT — Jim Curry came out of the house and moved quickly down the driveway, pushing a walker. He flashed a tender smile one day before his 100th birthday. “Happy birthday!” Curry was told from about 15 feet away, trying to ...

By JACKIE SMITH The Times Herald AP Member Exchang e PORT HURON — It’s planting season, but for the hundreds taking the city of Port Huron up on its free sprouts program to grow veggies at home, it may be their first time figuring out how to navigate it. Luke Marion, whose ...

DETROIT (AP) — Some Michigan teachers are taking care of classroom pets that were removed from schools after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced closures in March due to the coronavirus outbreak. Scott Kefgen, who works at Harlan Elementary School in Birmingham, is one of those teachers. He ...

LANSING (AP) — Nearly 69,000 people in Michigan filed initial claims for unemployment last week, bringing the state's seven-week total in the coronavirus pandemic to more than 1.3 million. The number of new claims dropped for the fourth straight week — it hit 388,000 the week ending April ...

FLINT (AP) — Authorities charged a fourth person Thursday in the fatal shooting of a Michigan security guard who had refused to let a customer inside a store without a face mask during the coronavirus outbreak. Brya Bishop's alleged crimes occurred after the death of Calvin Munerlyn, who was ...

LANSING,(AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday that auto and other manufacturing workers can return to the job next week, further easing her stay-at-home order while extending it through May 28 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Manufacturers — which account for 19% of the ...

LANSING (AP) — The Republican-led Michigan Legislature sued Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday, asking a judge to declare invalid and unenforceable her stay-at-home order and other measures issued to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The lawsuit, filed in the state Court of Claims, ...

TRAVERSE CITY (AP) — Some Michigan farmers say the U.S. Department of Agriculture's plan to buy tart cherries to feed communities and support farmers will help the industry as cold weather threatens their crops. The department announced this week that it will buy $20 million worth of U.S. ...

TRAVERSE CITY (AP) — Enbridge's application for an oil pipeline tunnel beneath a Great Lakes channel can't be processed without more information, including an analysis of alternatives to the project, state regulators say. The Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy requested ...

LANSING (AP) — Guns cannot be banned from Michigan's Capitol unless legislators change state law, an official who helps oversee the building said Wednesday, less than a week after some protesters armed with rifles shouted at lawmakers inside the Senate chamber. John Truscott, vice chairman ...

LANSING (AP) — The stress of video conferences: Michigan's chief justice apologized Wednesday after a colleague on the Supreme Court was put on mute while trying to speak to a lawyer. "As a blind person, I'm not able to use Zoom. So I'm at an extreme disadvantage," said Justice Richard ...

FLINT (AP) — A Michigan woman was formally charged Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a store security guard who refused to allow her daughter inside because she wasn’t wearing a face mask to protect against transmission of the coronavirus. Sharmel Teague, 45, was arraigned via video Tuesday ...

LANSING (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general on Tuesday backed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and told local law enforcement officials that her stay-at-home directive and restrictions on pla ces of public accommodations are valid and enforceable despite Republican lawmakers’ refusal to extend ...

GRAND HAVEN (AP) — Officials have closed the parking lot at a Michigan state park after crowds of visitors ignored social distancing guidelines designed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Grand Haven State Park’s parking lot was shut down on Sunday. Mayor Robert Monetza said the ...

FLINT (AP) — A woman, her adult son and husband have been charged in the fatal shooting of a security guard who refused to let her daughter enter a Family Dollar in Michigan because she wasn’t wearing a face mask to protect against transmission of the coronavirus. Calvin Munerlyn was shot ...

LANSING (AP) — Michigan hospitals and physicians have “broad discretion” to decide whether to continue delaying procedures during the pandemic, the state said in new guidance issued in the face of pressure to let providers do more as the curve of coronavirus cases flattens. Dr. Joneigh ...

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan appeals court has affirmed the murder conviction of an Ottawa County man who told police that he killed a neighbor on the day after Christmas because she was a nuisance to the neighborhood. Wendell Popejoy argued that jurors should have been allowed to ...