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Sunday, April 26, 2026
If former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was looking for mercy from U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds, he not only didn’t get it; he got chastised. In a blistering court opinion, Edmunds on Thursday denied Kilpatrick’s request to end his supervised release early so he could travel more freely as a […]
LANSING, Mich. – Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks, and Speaker Joe Tate released the following statement after agreeing to a framework for the Lowering MI Costs plan that will deliver the largest tax break to Michiganders in decades and ensure that all taxpayers see relief. The […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. and Ontario – The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge will begin to phase out its Prox toll cards starting March 31. While Prox cards for personal commuter accounts will be accepted for toll payments through the end of the year, customers will have to use the card […]
LANSING, Mich. — Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) Director Anita Fox announced that a record number of Michiganders signed up for comprehensive health insurance on the Health Insurance Marketplace during the recent open enrollment period. More than 322,000 Michiganders enrolled and will be able to save money on health insurance throughout 2023 thanks to state and federal actions championed by Governor Whitmer. […]
ST. IGNACE, Mich. - The Mackinac Bridge Authority (MBA) has a new model of the bridge on display in its St. Ignace office, a gift from the Vocational Village students at the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia. A rotating group of students at the first-of-its-kind skilled trades training […]
GOGEBIC COUNTY, MI – Alcohol is believed to be a factor in an Upper Peninsula snowmobile crash that killed one person and injured another. According to troopers from the Michigan State Police Wakefield Post, the crash occurred on Trail No. 2 near Ramsay in Gogebic County’s Wakefield Township at 1:30 […]
Are you a high school student or a university student staying in the area for the summer and need a fun summer job? Look no further than the Department of Natural Resources and spend your summer outdoors in some of Michigan’s most beautiful places! Our more than 1,300 seasonal park workers positions are […]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist have been formally charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico movie set, according to court documents filed by prosecutors Tuesday. Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies filed the charging documents […]
Legislation that would remove retention provisions in the state’s third grade reading law took its first step with a Tuesday committee vote following testimony in which supporters called the retention language in statute being harmful to students while opponents questioned lowering standards. The Senate Education Committee reported SB 12 by […]
CHIPPEWA COUNTY, MI – From the Office of the Chippewa County Prosecutor, Rob Stratton, he has announced that following a five-day jury trial, Sean James McInnis was found guilty on Friday January 27,2023 of six felony counts including Criminal Sexual Assault in the 1st Degree, three separatecounts of Child Abuse […]