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Michigan News

Union nemesis will get reward for suing over COVID-19 loans

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — A conservative economic-policy group will get a $22,500 reward for blowing the whistle on a Michigan teachers union and its insurance arm, which got $12.5 million in government-backed loans during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mackinac Center for ...

Can parents of Oxford shooter be charged?

DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors on Tuesday defended charges against the parents of a teenager who killed four students at a Michigan school in 2021, telling an appeals court that extreme drawings and the boy’s fascination with guns should have been a wake-up call on the day of the shootings. A ...

Barbara Bryant, first woman to lead Census Bureau, has died

ANN ARBOR (AP) — Barbara Everitt Bryant, the first woman to run the U.S. Census Bureau and its leader during the contentious debate over how to compensate for undercounts of minority groups in the 1990 census, has died. She was 96. Bryant’s family said in an email that she died of ...

Outdoor opportunities: Park Service seeks Youth Conservation Corps employees

By Journal Staff MUNISING — High school students have the opportunity to get outside, learn and grow this summer — and get paid for it. The Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is seeks students ages 15 through 18 to participate in the Youth Conservation Corps summer employment program. ...

Judge: Oxford Schools, staff immune from shooting lawsuits

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has ruled that staff and administrators at Oxford High School cannot be sued for a mass shooting that left four students dead and seven others wounded. Oakland County Circuit Judge Mary Ellen Brennan also dismissed Oxford Community Schools from civil ...

Hill talks energy efficiency

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Making the transition to energy efficiency will require a lot of steps, but it is possible, state Rep. Jenn Hill, D-Marquette, said during a Friday presentation of the Northern Climate Network at Northern Michigan University. “The ...