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Michigan detectives interview convicted murderer before death

(AP) — Authorities in western Michigan are looking into missing persons cases and unsolved homicides after interviewing a convicted murderer and long-haul truck driver with terminal cancer who died last week in a prison hospital. Kent County sheriff’s detectives questioned Garry Artman on three occasions before his death Thursday at a state Corrections health facility in Jackson, Michigan. Kent County Lt. Eric Brunner said detectives “gleaned information” from their interviews with Artman and are collaborating with other law enforcement agencies to “connect the dots with ...

Michigan gas prices on the decline

By Gas Buddy Average gasoline prices in Michigan have fallen 8.6 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.86/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 4,913 stations in Michigan. Prices in Michigan are 35.5 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 32.4 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 4.5 cents in the last week and stands at $3.96 per gallon. According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Michigan was priced at $2.52/g yesterday while the most expensive was $3.79/g, a difference of $1.27/g. The ...

Michigan Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot

By COREY WILLIAMS & NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press LANSING — Michigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary election ballot. The court said Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep ...

Tribal Nations appeal Line 5 tunnel permit

By DREYMA BERONJA Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Some Michigan residents are continuing the effort to push back against a proposed Line 5 tunnel project. Four Tribal Nations filed a notice on Friday that they would appeal the Michigan Public Service Commission’s recent approval of a permit for Canadian-based company Enbridge to build the Line 5 tunnel project beneath the Straits of Mackinac. According to a press release from Earthjustice and the Native American Rights Fund, representing the Bay Mills Indian Community, the Bay Mills Indian Community, Grand Traverse Band of ...

Missing a serial killer: missteps over 15 years kept DeAngelo Martin free

By ED WHITE, DEL QUENTIN WILBER and MADDY PEEK Associated Press DETROIT — The serial killer lured women one by one into vacant homes to be murdered, posing their nude or partially clothed corpses amid cheap booze pints, crumbling sheetrock and hypodermic needles. The slayings set ...