MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A Muncie teenager was jailed early Thursday in connection with the shooting deaths of three Michigan men found in a Muncie apartment.
Chandler Willard Harris II, who turned 18 on Thursday, was being held without bond in the Delaware County Jail, The Star Press reported. ...
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University plans to offer in-person instruction in 75% of undergraduate classes in the fall, and spectators will be welcomed again at sports events and performing arts shows, the president said Friday.
"I am excited at the prospect of coming back ...
LANSING — Detroit this week turned down 6,200 doses of the newly authorized Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, favoring shots from Pfizer and Moderna, but said Friday it will accept J&J doses in the state’s next allocation.
Mayor Mike Duggan had said Thursday that residents ...
LANSING (AP) — Michigan’s redistricting commission will ask the state Supreme Court to push back the Nov. 1 deadline to finalize new political maps, citing an eight-month delay in data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The panel authorized the legal step Friday. Under a 2018 constitutional ...
ERRIEN CENTER, Mich. (AP) — Two men have been rescued from a lake in southwestern Michigan after one fell through thin ice while fishing.
Deputies responded to O’Brien Lake in Berrien Center around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Berrien County sheriff’s office said.
Deputies found Ryan ...
DETROIT — Pandemic lockdowns and stay-at-home orders kept many drivers off U.S. roads and highways last year. But those who did venture out found open lanes that only invited reckless driving, leading to a sharp increase in traffic-crash deaths across the country.
The nonprofit National ...
DETROIT — A Canadian man who was found unconscious and tethered to 185 pounds of marijuana in the Detroit River was sentenced Wednesday to about six years in a U.S. prison.
The capture of Glen Mousseau last June capped a strange few weeks in his dealings with U.S. law enforcement. The case ...
GRAND HAVEN TOWNSHIP (AP) — The pilot of a small plane has been injured after crashing following takeoff from an airport in western Michigan.
A preliminary investigation shows the Cessna experienced engine trouble Tuesday afternoon and was returning to Grand Haven Airport when it went down ...
DETROIT (AP) — An Indianapolis man has been charged in a Detroit slaying in which the victim allegedly was targeted as a member of the LGBTQ community through an online dating app.
Diabolique Paris Johnson, 34, faces arraignment today in Detroit on first-degree murder and using a firearm ...
LANSING — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer faced growing criticism Tuesday after the disclosure of two additional employment-separation deals for former top officials, a day after her administration acknowledged that a key leader in the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was paid ...
LANSING (AP) — Former Michigan Department of Public Health and Human Services director Robert Gordon will receive more than $155,000 as part of a separation agreement, published reports revealed Monday.
The agreement calls for Gordon to drop all claims against the state, though it was not ...
DETROIT (AP) — A man suspected in three slayings in Ohio was critically wounded during a Monday morning shootout with police outside a motel near downtown Detroit, authorities said.
Chandra Moore is wanted in the fatal shootings in Cincinnati of his estranged wife and two men, Cincinnati ...
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) — A 71-year-old elected official in the Traverse City area claims she hasn't had a raise in eight years because the county wants to force her out of office.
Peggy Haines, the register of deeds in Grand Traverse County, has filed an age discrimination lawsuit. She has been ...
DETROIT — Lawyers for former Gov. Rick Snyder are citing possible conflicts about Flint residents serving as judges or jurors in his criminal case related to lead in the city’s drinking water.
Under the prosecutor’s theory of the case, all residents would be victims of Snyder’s ...
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A science professor at a university in central Michigan who claimed sinister forces were targeting him and breaking into his home has been fired months after using racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs on Twitter.
Thomas Brennan announced in a Twitter posting ...
PORT HURON, Mich. — A 32-year-old Ohio man has been charged in eastern Michigan with directing terrorist threats at a Port Huron elementary school and police officers, police announced Sunday.
The Detroit News reported that Dominik Hricovsky faces multiple charges, including a threat of ...
LANSING — The Michigan House backed a proposed constitutional amendment on Wednesday that would require two-thirds majority votes for bills to pass during lame duck sessions of the Legislature, if voters ultimately approve of the change.
The resolution sponsored by Republican House Speaker ...
DETROIT (AP) — A Whole Foods Market store in Detroit is receiving rapid COVID-19 testing for all of its 196 employees after 23 of them tested positive for the coronavirus.
The outbreak hit the store in Detroit’s Midtown, the city’s chief public health officer, Denise Fair, said ...
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man admitted Friday to coordinating a neo-Nazi group's plot to vandalize two Midwestern synagogues and cause other damage across the country.
Richard Tobin, 19, of Brooklawn, pleaded guilty to conspiracy against rights, according to federal prosecutors in ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm won Senate confirmation Thursday to be energy secretary and will be a key Cabinet member trying to fulfill President Joe Biden’s commitment for a green economy as the United States fights to slow climate change.
The vote was 64-35, ...