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Michigan News

Jury hears frantic 911 call from Michigan school shooter’s dad

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors on Thursday played a recording of a desperate 911 call by the father of a Michigan school shooter as they tried to show jurors how he quickly determined that the teen might be the killer. “I have a missing gun at my house. ... I raced home just to like ...

Fewer fish and more algae?

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island’s fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season’s planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks. The ski plane they study the wolves from ...

Gas chemicals eyed as cause of fire and explosions in suburban Detroit

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A large fire followed by multiple explosions at a building in suburban Detroit killed one person and injured a firefighter. A look at what we know about the site, including investigators’ questions surrounding the vaping supply distributor operating ...

Ousted Michigan Republican Party chair loses key ruling at appeals court

DETROIT — The ousted former leader of the Michigan Republican Party lost a key court ruling Thursday in her effort to regain the top post. The Michigan Court of Appeals said it won’t suspend a lower court’s order affirming Kristina Karamo’s removal by party members. Karamo was ...

Michigan man gets 30 years in death of brother

MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who pleaded guilty in his disabled brother’s starvation death was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 30 years in prison by a judge who said the defendant is “one step away from becoming a psychopath.” Paul Ferguson, 21, pleaded guilty in December to ...