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Michigan News

Video shows white deputy telling Black woman he’s `blacker’

DETROIT (AP) — A white sheriff’s deputy in Michigan was reprimanded after body camera footage showed him tell a Black woman who had just been struck in the face during an altercation that he was “blacker” than she was because he’s from Detroit. The woman, Tracy Douglas, 59, of ...

Ann Arbor sends partially treated wastewater into river

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The City of Ann Arbor says an estimated 1.38 million gallons of partially treated wastewater flowed into the Huron River during maintenance Tuesday at its treatment plant. The wastewater had received all treatment except disinfection, the city announced Wednesday in ...

Michigan board approves $400 million to advance EV batteries

LANSING — A Michigan economic development board approved more than $400 million in state incentives Wednesday for two battery facilities estimated to cost $4 billion and bring 4,500 jobs to the state. Pending approval by state lawmakers, the incentive packages would draw from a fund created ...

‘Forever chemicals’ in deer, fish challenge hunters, tourism

PORTLAND, Maine — Wildlife agencies in the U.S. are finding elevated levels of a class of toxic chemicals in game animals such as deer — and that’s prompting health advisories in some places where hunting and fishing are ways of life and key pieces of the economy. Authorities have ...

Groups encouraged to enroll in easement program

EAST LANSING —The U.S. Department of Agriculture encourages groups wanting to protect agricultural land to consider enrolling in its Agricultural Conservation Easement Program. The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, administered by the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation ...

Jury pool warned of rough talk in trial tied to Whitmer plot

JACKSON, Mich. — Questions about guns, secretly recorded “repugnant” talk and even the Jan. 6 Capitol riot dominated jury selection Monday in the third trial connected to a 2020 anti-government plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Dozens of potential jurors packed the ...