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Michigan veteran sentenced to 5 years

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan veteran has been sentenced to five years in prison after investigators who followed him discovered he had faked injuries that allowed him to claim more than $260,000 in federal benefits. Joseph Gray, 53, of Lawton repeatedly claimed he had lost the use ...

Michigan man gets 5 years in prison for role in Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Michigan man was sentenced on Friday to five years in federal prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol attack by a mob that disrupted Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Chief Judge Beryl Howell also sentenced Anthony Robert Williams, ...

Parents win key ruling in blood dispute

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT — A judge has found key parts of Michigan’s newborn blood-testing program unconstitutional in a challenge by four parents who raised concerns about how leftover samples are used long after screening for rare diseases. The lawsuit is not a class ...

Buttigieg awards grant to tear down highway

WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-delayed plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) depressed freeway in Detroit that was built by demolishing Black neighborhoods 60 years ago, was a big winner of federal money Thursday, the first Biden administration grant awarded to tear down a ...

Fungal outbreak threatens tricolored bat with extinction

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — U.S. officials are proposing to list the tricolored bat as endangered. It’s among a dozen bat species across the nation suffering sharp declines because of white-nose syndrome. The fungal disease disrupts their winter hibernation and leads to dehydration and ...

Michigan Supreme Court chief justice leaving bench this year

DETROIT (AP) — The chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court said Monday she will step down by the end of 2022, an announcement that followed a major decision affecting abortion rights and more than two years of steering the state’s judiciary through the COVID-19 pandemic. Bridget ...