WALKER, Mich. (AP) — A black bear nicknamed Yogi was struck and killed Tuesday on a highway ramp in the Grand Rapids area, police said. The bear, an adult male weighing roughly 250 pounds, had been spotted for a few years in Walker. He was hit by a large truck on a ramp leading to westbound ...
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT — Fiat Chrysler is backing off a planned May 4 restart at its North American factories because some U.S. states still will have stay-home orders in place. The move likely means that factories of all three Detroit automakers will be idled for at least ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Monday she will allow commercial and residential construction to restart in Michigan within a week or two and is taking a “hard look” at whether to let industrial sectors like manufacturing reopen in the next phase of ...
LANSING (AP) — Retailers outside Michigan can’t send alcohol directly to the state’s consumers, a federal appeals court said. The court overturned a decision by a federal judge in Detroit who had described Michigan’s restrictions as an “unjustifiable protectionist regime.” The ...
LANSING (AP) — Republicans who control the Michigan Legislature said they will meet today to pass bills to rein in the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and create a committee to oversee the state’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, a dramatic strike against the Democrat amid ...
DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union is endorsing Democrat Joe Biden for President. The roughly 400,000-member union says in a statement Tuesday that the nation needs stable leadership with less acrimony “and more balance to the rights and protections of working Americans.” The ...
LANSING (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made clear Wednesday that she will extend her stay-at-home order beyond April 30 and that some form of it will be in effect for a “long time” in Michigan, hinting that people age 65 and older and those with chronic lung problems may face ...
DETROIT (AP) — A man who had a major role in the extraordinary exoneration of another prisoner after 45 years has died, one of 25 Michigan inmates to succumb to complications from COVID-19, authorities said. Richard Palombo, 71, had been in poor health while housed at the Lakeland prison in ...
DETROIT (AP) — Beaumont Health, which has treated thousands of coronavirus victims as Michigan’s largest health care system, said Tuesday it’s cutting 450 jobs and temporarily laying off 2,475 employees due to a drastic drop in revenue from services that can’t be offered during the ...
FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — As mourners watched from cars, a 105-year-old World War II veteran was laid to rest in a Flint-area cemetery. Ferrald Waller Sr. lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, served in Europe during World War II and worked for General Motors, MLive.com reported. He died ...
LANSING (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s plan to suspend immigration is distracting from efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic and part of “inconsistent messages” that spread fear and put the public in “greater danger.” Trump’s ...
LANSING (AP) — Michigan candidates will have 17 additional days to collect voter signatures to qualify for the ballot because of the state's order to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge ruled Monday, the eve of the filing deadline. The decision by U.S. District Judge ...
LANSING (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday said the state is working with major retailers to open more drive-thru sites to test as many as 1,000 people a day for the coronavirus, especially people who don’t have symptoms but still are required to work outside their ...
By MARK KURLYANDCHIK Detroit Free Press AP Member Exchange DETROIT — It was war that took it from them the first time they lost everything. Their sixth-floor flat in the heart of Damascus, the city where they were born, met, married, raised children and lived their whole lives; the ...
EAST LANSING (AP) — The president of Michigan State University said tuition rates will remain frozen in fall to ease pressure on families whose finances have been affected by the coronavirus. "We are doing what we can to ensure students can stay in our Spartan family," Samuel Stanley Jr. ...
LANSING (AP) — Michigan’s governor said Sunday she was eager to loosen businesses restrictions while also avoiding new flareups of the coronavirus illness that has killed nearly 2,400 people in the state. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said a lack of virus testing supplies is delaying such steps ...
TRENTON (AP) — The Michigan appeals court has reinstated murder charges against two Detroit-area brothers who were accused of allowing their severely disabled mother to wither and die. In a 2-1 decision last week, the appeals court said there was “sufficient evidence” to allow a jury to ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING — An additional 219,000 people in Michigan filed for unemployment last week, bringing the total number who have lost their jobs in the coronavirus pandemic to more than 1 million — a staggering quarter of the state’s workforce. The initial ...
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) — The National Cherry Festival, a major northern Michigan summer destination for decades, has been canceled for 2020 due to uncertainty over the coronavirus, organizers said Thursday. The festival in Traverse City was scheduled for July 3-10. The event coincides with ...