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Michigan News

Victim of 1973 killing identified

SAGINAW (AP) — Police say DNA has led to the identification of a Texas man whose body was found floating in a mid-Michigan river nearly 50 years ago. Michigan State Police and The DNA Doe Project announced Thursday that the body found in the Saginaw River outside Saginaw on March 13, 1973, ...

Ex-convict quits job at top court after criticism by judge

LANSING — An ex-convict who was hired by a new justice at the Michigan Supreme Court resigned Thursday after harsh criticism from another member of the court. “I have accepted Pete Martel’s resignation,” said Justice Kyra Harris Bolden, who took office this week. “He did not want to ...

Man sentenced in infant death

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A southwestern Michigan man was sentenced Tuesday to at least 12 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty in the 2017 death of an infant he had been babysitting. A Kalamazoo County Circuit Court judge sentenced Bryant Rolland Jr., 37, to 12 1/2 to 40 years in prison ...

Michigan man sentenced in death of child he babysat

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A southwestern Michigan man was sentenced Tuesday to at least 12 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty in the 2017 death of an infant he had been babysitting. A Kalamazoo County Circuit Court judge sentenced Bryant Rolland Jr., 37, to 12 1/2 to 40 years in prison ...

Democrats take charge in Michigan

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 ...

Body of missing Michigan doctor found in pond near his home

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 ...