By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats will be in charge of Michigan’s state government for the first time in nearly 40 years come January, raising progressive hopes of undoing decades of Republican-backed measures and advancing an ...

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — The body of a southern Michigan doctor who vanished last week after leaving work has been found in a frozen pond near his home, police said. Divers found Dr. Bolek Payan’s body early Tuesday afternoon after holes were cut in the ice-covered pond near Payan’s Leoni ...

GRAND RAPIDS — A Delaware trucker described as an architect of the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan’s governor was sentenced Wednesday to more than 19 years in prison — the longest term yet given to anyone convicted in the plot. Prosecutors had sought a life sentence for Barry Croft Jr., ...

ISHPEMING — An Ishpeming man was lodged in the Marquette County Jail following a standoff Tuesday evening in the city of Ishpeming. According to the Ishpeming Police Department, officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Angeline Street for a domestic assault complaint involving the ...

GRAND RAPIDS — The co-leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced Tuesday to 16 years in prison for conspiring to abduct the Democrat and blow up a bridge to ease an escape. Adam Fox’s sentence is the longest of anyone convicted in the plot so far, though ...

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA — Federal proposals that would have significantly boosted security funding for election offices and heightened penalties for threatening their staff failed to advance this year, leaving state officials looking to their ...