FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The head of the Michigan health department was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter, the highest-ranking member of Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration to be snagged in a criminal investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water. Nick Lyon is accused of failing to alert the public about an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the Flint […]
Jeff and Rhonda Grayer's W.T. Stevens Construction will help bring back clean water to Flint residents.
Jessica Preston said she begged officials to take her to the hospital, but they accused her of lying about being in labor.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Someone sent racist and anti-Semitic emails to University of Michigan students and made it look like they were from a computer science professor who pushed for presidential election recounts in several states. About 40 students protested early Wednesday outside the home of the school’s president, Mark Schlissel, about the spoofed […]
State officials are now admitting that most of the voting machines in Detroit were broken on Election Day.
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s presidential recount suddenly became in doubt Tuesday as a state appeals court said the Green Party candidate’s poor showing disqualified her from seeking a second look at the votes. Meanwhile, the fate of a statewide recount push in Pennsylvania must wait at least until Friday, when a federal judge has scheduled […]
A small group of students at Royal Oak Middle School in Detroit, Michigan broke out into chants of “Build the wall” the day after the election.
One flier, titled “Why White Women Shouldn’t Date Black Men,” highlights individual violent relationships between Black men and White women.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer Monday, killing two bailiffs and injuring two more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said. People scrambled for cover inside the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph in […]
The town of Idlewild, Mich. was once a thriving vacation community and a prime destination for the Black elite. The community, once known as “Black Eden,” enjoyed success in the 20th Century and new efforts to revive the town to its former glory have been underway for years. Idlewild was established in 1912 by opportunistic […]
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A gunshot victim whose life was saved by Detroit doctors has graduated from medical school and hopes to help others like the surgeons who treated him. Kevin Morton Jr., 31, graduated this month from Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, The Detroit News reported. One of the surgeons who […]
