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Michigan News

Invasive species grant proposals sought

LANSING — Michigan’s Invasive Species Grant Program is now accepting proposals for the 2022 funding cycle, with an anticipated $3.6 million available to applicants. The program — a joint effort of the Michigan departments of Natural Resources; Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy; and ...

Whitmer calls on tech companies to protect data

LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday sent a letter to the leaders of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, five of the world’s biggest tech companies that manage nearly every American’s data. She called on them to take additional steps to protect people’s data, ...

Witnesses: Armed bystander prevented 4th Detroit death

DETROIT (AP) — A young man suspected of randomly killing three people on Detroit streets fled when an armed bystander saw him shoot a fourth person and responded with his own gunfire, witnesses told a TV station. "He scattered like a jack rabbit," Wallace Pleasant told WXYZ-TV. Three ...

Michigan election board rejects abortion rights initiative

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan elections board on Wednesday rejected an abortion rights initiative after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot. The two ...

Storms blamed in deaths of 3 in Michigan, Ohio, Arkansas

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — Severe storms that brought damaging winds, heavy rains and flash flooding to parts of the Midwest and the South were blamed for the deaths of three people, including two children in Michigan and Arkansas as well as a woman in Ohio. Monday's storms also knocked out ...

Man suspected of killing 3 ‘terrorized’ Detroit, chief says

DETROIT — A 19-year-old man suspected of randomly killing three people on Detroit streets over roughly two hours may have been emboldened when he didn't encounter police after the first shooting, the mayor said Monday. The victims included a single mother of five children who was waiting ...