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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 ...

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 ...

Detroit police fatally shoot man with knife after 911 call

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police officers fatally shot a man early Sunday as they were responding to a call about a knife-wielding man who was having a mental health crisis, police said. Police Chief James White said officers responded to a 911 call around 5 a.m. EDT about a man armed with a ...

U.P. lawmakers target state history office

By: Iron Mountain Daily News Staff A decision by the Michigan Historic Preservation Review Board to support adding a Menominee site to the National Register of Historic Places is under fire from Upper Peninsula lawmakers, who claim the action comes in response to a request from a ...