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Michigan News

U.P. issues focus of U.S. attorney tour

By DREYMA BERONJA Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Michigan’s Western District United States attorney is meeting with Upper Peninsula partners to identify and solve problems that are arising in the area. U.S. Attorney Mark Totten will stop in several U.P. locations this week to build ...

Students, faculty return to Michigan State after shooting

EAST LANSING — Michigan State University students and faculty returned to the East Lansing campus Monday as the university resumed normal operations one week after a gunman shot and killed three students and injured five others. The 50,000-student university’s campus remained relatively ...

No hazardous materials spill in Michigan train derailment

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A train hauling hazardous materials derailed Thursday near Detroit, but none spilled, officials said. The Norfolk Southern train derailed nearly two weeks after a Norfolk Southern derailment in Ohio left a mangled and charred mass of boxcars that had been ...

Michigan State students’ training kicked in during shooting

EAST LANSING — When the texts began coming in about a shooter at Michigan State University, training that many students started receiving as schoolchildren automatically kicked in. They ran. They found a place to hide. They locked and barricaded the doors. They turned out the lights. Then ...

Thai suspect in Michigan hit-and-run agrees to return to US

By CHALIDA EKVITTAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK — A Thai-American woman living in Michigan who fled to Thailand after allegedly being involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed a college student has agreed to return to the United States to face charges, police said ...