DETROIT — A young Chinese scientist interrogated for hours after an international flight to Detroit and held in jail for three months was sentenced to time served Wednesday for illegally shipping biological material to the U.S. that nonetheless wasn't a threat to the public. U.S. District ...
LANSING — With less than three weeks until a government shutdown, marking 72 days since the Legislature’s July 1 budget deadline, Michigan school superintendents and administrators took the Legislature to task over their failure to reach a consensus on the budget. The stalled budget talks between the House and Senate have left Michigan schools in uncertain territory with the threat of closures on the horizon. On Wednesday, members of the Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators and the Michigan Alliance for Student Opportunity met in Lansing to highlight how the ...
LANSING (AP) — As local governments across Michigan attempt to balance the growing need for homeless services with community concerns, one is planning a novel approach: mini housing pods. The city of Lansing last month approved the purchase and storage of 50 modular housing units — ...
PHOENIX (AP) — A driver who crashed into a group of bicyclists in suburban Phoenix, killing two of them and injuring several others, was sentenced Thursday to one year in jail. Pedro Quintana-Lujan pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by moving vehicle and 10 counts of causing ...
LANSING — The Republican-led Michigan House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill dictating which bathrooms K-12 and higher education students can use, a move that LGBTQ+ advocates have called a seeming violation of the state’s hallmark civil rights law. House Bill 4024, sponsored Rep. Joseph Fox (R-Fremont), passed the House on a party line vote of 58 to 46. Democratic representatives including Alabas Farhat, Peter Herzberg, Donavan McKinney, Cynthia Neeley and Karen Whitsett did not vote on the bill. Rep. Betsy Coffia of Traverse City also did not vote on the bill, but is ...
DETROIT — The legacy of Vincent Chin has recently been commemorated in a street sign bearing his name on the corner of Cass Avenue and Peterboro Street in Detroit’s historic Chinatown. I was glad to see it. Watching the 1987 documentary “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and learning about his life and Asian American activism changed my life. I was 18 and taking my first Asian American studies class at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The film made me realize two things: Asian Americans are targets of racial violence, and Asian Americans across the ethnic spectrum could ...
