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Michigan News

State help with tuition savings

LANSING — Under a new partnership announced earlier in December, Michigan families can leverage their everyday purchases into college savings for their children and grandchildren similar to earning cash back for gas or groceries. The partnership between the Michigan Education Savings ...

Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for violating consumer law

WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer banking giant Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3.7 billion to settle charges that it harmed customers by charging illegal fees and interest on auto loans and mortgages, as well as incorrectly applying overdraft fees against savings and checking accounts. Wells was ...

3rd air-bag death confirmed, repair recommended

By TOM KRISHER Associated Press DETROIT — Stellantis and U.S. safety regulators have confirmed that an exploding Takata air bag inflator has killed another driver. The company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reiterated warnings to owners of 274,000 older Dodge ...

Mask critics lose appeal over powers of health officers

By ED WHITE Associated Press Mask orders were controversial when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration changed course and left key decisions to local health departments. The result: blistering criticism and tense confrontations at county board meetings in some parts of ...

2 brothers get life for slayings of Michigan woman, daughter

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — Two brothers have been sentenced to life in prison for the 2013 slayings of a Detroit-area woman and her 11-year-old daughter found brutally stabbed to death in their apartment. A Macomb County judge sentenced Tony Johnson, 43, and Henry Johnson, 38, on Thursday ...

Corunna man to serve life for 2019 murder, mutilation

CORUNNA, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who acknowledged killing another man and hanging the victim’s mutilated body from the ceiling of his home was sentenced to life in prison Thursday. A Shiawassee County judge sentenced Mark Latunski, 53, to life in prison without the possibility of ...