LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Prompted by the death of a teen who was wrongly restrained by staff, a Michigan facility for teenagers with behavioral problems on Thursday lost its contract with the state to care for youth in the state’s foster care and juvenile justice systems and its license to ...
LANSING (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday extended Michigan's coronavirus emergency declaration through July 16, enabling her to keep intact certain business closures, longer unemployment benefits and other changes after she previously lifted a stay-at-home order. The Democratic ...
FENNVILLE, Mich. (AP) — The sea of poppies a couple in central Michigan planted to honor their late son who was deployed in Afghanistan is bringing comfort to many visitors during moments filled with national unrest. The seemingly endless field of red, white and blue flowers stretching ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING — Small breweries could sell and deliver more craft beer to stores without having to go through Michigan’s three-tier system for alcohol distribution under legislation that advanced to the governor’s desk on Wednesday. The Senate voted ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that K-12 schools can reopen for in-person instruction as long as Michigan’s successful containment of the coronavirus doesn’t lapse, subject to safety rules she will announce June 30. Schools closed in ...
LANSING (AP) — Michigan’s top law enforcement official unveiled several changes she hopes to make to policing in the state, including a public registry of verified police misconduct claims meant to increase transparency and prevent problem officers from getting rehired in law enforcement ...
LANSING (AP) — A ballot group failed to collect enough petition signatures to put veto-proof legislation before the Republican-led Michigan Legislature that would prohibit a common second-trimester abortion procedure, the state elections bureau said. Monday’s report was a blow to the ...
SANFORD, Mich. (AP) — With a friend’s help, a woman has discovered her mother’s ashes in the flood-ravaged remains of her Midland County home. Kathy Parsch said she had made eight trips to the home in Sanford, which was destroyed by a flood nearly a month ago, but couldn’t find the ...
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Recyclable items can once again be returned for cash in Michigan after an almost three-month suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic, which is great news for those who didn’t stop collecting bottles, cans and plastics in the meantime. Joe Potchea of ...
DETROIT (AP) — The city of Detroit has removed a bust of explorer Christopher Columbus from a prominent downtown spot after 110 years. The bust has been placed in storage until its future can be determined, Mayor Mike Duggan told reporters Monday. The move comes as cities the world over ...
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau says the Detroit area has lost out on more than $200 million through cancellations of convention and other business gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. The actual amount of money lost amid virus-related lockdowns and ...
By ELENA DURNBAUGH Battle Creek Enquirer AP Member Exchange BATTLE CREEK — W.K. Kellogg graduate Tyberius Settles hasn’t always been a model student, and he owns that. “I was falling off. I was skipping class, I didn’t do no work, and I was just falling. I wasn’t even ...
DETROIT (AP) — About 168,700 homes and businesses were without electricity Thursday in Michigan after thunderstorms barreled through the state, downing hundreds of trees and power lines. DTE Energy said about 49,700 of its customers in southeast Michigan were without service as of 8 p.m. ...
LANSING (AP) — Key Republican lawmakers on Thursday backed legislation that would waive a requirement that the Legislature pass the next state budget in less than three weeks, citing uncertainty over a major shortfall caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Senate Appropriations Committee ...
HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) — Severe thunderstorms accompanied by winds approaching 70 mph battered lower Michigan late Wednesday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Cristobal moved out of the Midwest and into Canada. Cristobal ended a trek from the Gulf of Mexico up through the midsection of the U.S. ...
LANSING (AP) — A Michigan judge on Wednesday gave an LGBT rights ballot drive more time to collect signatures due to coronavirus stay-at-home restrictions but refused the group's request to slash the number of signatures needed to make the ballot. The ruling from Court of Claims Judge ...
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan mail carrier is delivering personal congratulations to high school graduates. Joshua Davis knows what it’s like to have a teenager whose senior year suddenly was turned upside down by the coronavirus. His message: Go get ‘em, graduates! Davis wrote ...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Public school trustees in one northern Michigan district have voted to end a free, state-funded preschool program. Traverse City Area Public Schools trustees voted 6-1 Monday to eliminate the Great Start Readiness Program, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported. ...
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Regional Chamber said Tuesday it canceled its annual policy conference on Mackinac Island due to the coronavirus pandemic. The annual meeting of business, political and other leaders had been moved from late May to August. But the chamber said it will not convene ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT — The Michigan Supreme Court is taking another look at the case of a suburban Detroit man who was sentenced to at least 17 years in prison for killing an unarmed woman on his porch in 2013. The issue is whether Ted Wafer’s constitutional rights ...