DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that prevent drunk or impaired driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Tuesday that it is starting the process to put a new federal safety ...
Special to the Journal LANSING – When Michigan raised the minimum age of adult offenders from 17 to 18, it promised to reimburse 100% of the counties’ cost of justice services for 17-year-olds. That aid is provided until fiscal year 2025, which begins Oct. 1, 2024. “Currently there are two separate reimbursement rates from the state to counties,” said Samantha Gibson, a governmental affairs associate at the Michigan Association of Counties. “There is 100% reimbursement for 17-year-olds and 50% reimbursement for kids under the age of 17.” The Juvenile Justice Reform ...
By DREYMA BERONJA Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Upper Peninsula residents voiced their support and concern about the proposed Line 5 tunnel through online public comment submissions for the Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority meeting on Thursday. Residents across the state had ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University named the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as it’s next president Friday morning, ending a search that began last October after the previous president quit amid tension with the school’s governing board. Kevin Guskiewicz, who has served as chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill for the past four years, was approved by the Board of Trustees in an unanimous vote Friday morning. He will become Michigan State’s 22nd overall president and the fifth person to lead the university since former President Anna Lou Simon ...
By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC — A judge sentenced a Michigan teenager to life in prison Friday for killing four students and terrorizing others at Oxford High School, after listening to hours of gripping anguish from parents and wounded survivors. Judge Kwame Rowe rejected pleas from defense lawyers for a shorter sentence and ensured that Ethan Crumbley, 17, will not get an opportunity for parole. “My actions were what I chose to do. I could not stop myself. ... I am a really bad person. I’ve done terrible things,” Crumbley, who was 15 when he ...
DETROIT (AP) — More than 1,000 workers at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory have signed cards authorizing a vote on representation by the United Auto Workers, the first plant in the nation to reach that milestone in the UAW’s quest to organize more than a dozen nonunion factories. The union says in a statement Thursday that the VW workers signed on in less than a week. The factory in Chattanooga employs about 3,800 people who make the VW ID.4 electric vehicle and the Atlas family of gas-powered SUVs. It could become the first test of the union’s strategy to simultaneously try to ...
