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Braille services, resources available to Michiganders

By Journal Staff LANSING — To recognize the braille reading system’s impact on individuals who are blind or visually impaired and to call attention to the invaluable services and resources that enable Michiganders to learn and enhance their reading skills, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ...

GM to sink over $900M into 4 plants, Flint to get new engine

FLINT, Mich. — General Motors says it will spend more than $900 million to update four factories, with the bulk going to an engine plant in Flint, Michigan, to build the next-generation V8 for big pickup trucks and SUVs. Factories in Rochester, New York; Defiance, Ohio; and Bay City, ...

Period for public comments for Alpena Airspace Complex ends

By Journal Staff ALPENA — The public-comment period for the draft environmental assessment for the modification and addition of airspace at the Alpena Special Use Airspace Complex, prepared by the Michigan Air National Guard and the National Guard Bureau, has closed. The draft EA was ...

MDHHS launches vulnerability index to address substance abuse issues

By Journal Staff LANSING — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new tool, the Michigan Substance Use Vulnerability Index, to help stakeholders target efforts to address substance use issues specifically facing their communities. Previously, overdose ...

3 sentenced in facemask murder

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A married couple and their son convicted of first-degree premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of a security guard who demanded the woman’s daughter wear a mask while shopping were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole. Larry Teague, wife Sharmel ...

3 die after ‘mental health crisis’

PONTIAC (AP) — A Michigan mother and her two children were found frozen to death over the weekend after the mom experienced a “mental health crisis,” a county sheriff said Monday. Monica Cannady, 35, “believed someone was trying to kill her and that everybody was in on it” ...