After shootings, MSU to restrict building access

March 2, 2023

By ED WHITE Associated Press Public access to most buildings at Michigan State University will be restricted at night, the school announced Wednesday, one in a series of security steps in response to the February shootings that killed three students and wounded five more. Students, faculty and staff will need to use their campus ID cards to gain electronic access to buildings between 6 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. on weekdays, starting March 13, officials said. There will be exceptions for events typically open to the general public. Michigan State plans to make it possible to lock 1,300 ...

5 days later, some in Michigan still lack power

March 1, 2023

A new storm teeming with freezing rain and strong winds socked Michigan on Monday, presenting a fresh challenge for crews that have been trying to restore electricity to thousands of customers who have been in the dark since ice snapped lines days ago. The state’s largest utilities, ...

Michigan power crews work, California recovers after storms

February 28, 2023

Some Michigan residents faced a fourth straight day without power Sunday as crews continued work to restore electricity more than 165,000 homes and businesses in the greater Detroit area following last week’s ice storm. Leah Thomas, whose home north of Detroit lost power Wednesday night, ...

Millions who rely on Medicaid may be booted off program

February 27, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year. Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But as states begin checking everyone’s eligibility for Medicaid for the first time in three years, as many as 14 million people could lose access to that health care coverage. A look at why so many people may no longer qualify for the Medicaid program over the next year and what ...

Judge releases man in 1990 slayings of 2 Michigan hunters

February 25, 2023

DETROIT — A judge threw out murder convictions Friday and ordered the release of a man who has long claimed innocence in the slayings of two Michigan deer hunters in 1990. Jeff Titus, 71, has served nearly 21 years of a life prison sentence. The state this week asked that he be freed, saying an Ohio serial killer instead could have been responsible for the deaths in southwestern Michigan. Titus’ rights were violated at trial in 2002 when his lawyer never was informed that sheriff’s investigators in Kalamazoo County had gathered evidence years earlier against Thomas Dillon, the ...

GOP Rep. James won’t seek U.S. Senate seat

February 25, 2023

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press DETROIT — Republican Rep. John James filed paperwork Friday to run for reelection to his Detroit-area House seat, opting against a campaign for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Debbie Stabenow in 2024. James, a 41-year-old first-term ...