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 ...
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 the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A judge handed down the last sentences Thursday in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, sending one man to prison and putting another on probation, the climax to a remarkable investigation that became public on the eve of the 2020 presidential election but produced mixed results in ...