LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals said Thursday it won’t stop former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot, turning aside challenges from critics who argue that his role in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him. The court affirmed two lower court rulings without […]
General Motors will lay off a total of 1,314 employees at two factories in Michigan in connection to ending production of vehicles, according to the Detroit Free Press. GM filed a WARN notice posted on Thursday that said the Orion Assembly plant’s expected layoff date will take place on Jan. 1, cutting 945 jobs. In […]
IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A woman was sentenced to at least 70 years in prison for causing the deaths of two bicyclists who were hit while taking part in a charity ride in western Michigan. The judge in Ionia County stacked two 35-year terms for Mandy Benn, a rare consecutive punishment. Most sentences in Michigan […]
LANSING, Mich. — Ten years ago, as Michigan’s Republican-led Legislature was on the verge of passing one of the nation’s most restrictive anti-abortion laws at the time, a 42-year-old state senator from East Lansing took to the Senate floor to speak out against what she knew was about to happen. Minutes into her speech, Democrat […]
It is a state that Joe Biden won by just 150,000 votes in 2020, and one of the key battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election. It is also a state in which the Democrats made a series of gains the last time elections were held in 2022. But despite the recent successes, Biden could be […]
Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Michigan rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 9,945 in the week ending December 2, up from 7,165 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims rose to 220,000 last […]
Ethan Crumbley, who was only 15-years-old when he fatally shot four of his fellow classmates at Oxford High School on Nov. 30, 2021, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for what Oakland County Circuit Judge Kwame Rowe calls a “true act of terrorism.” The teen pleaded guilty last year to one count of terrorism […]
PONTIAC, Mich. — A teenager who killed four other students at a Michigan school will listen to their families and survivors of the mass shooting before a judge decides whether the attack will carry a life prison sentence. Crime victims in Michigan have a right to speak in court, and the final hearing Friday in […]
A man already serving 24 to 52 years for a Michigan murder was sentenced this week in Hamilton County for his role in a 2013 shooting in Norwood that killed a woman and seriously wounded her boyfriend. Josiah Fousse, 30, was one of three people investigators connected to the robbery and shooting, which happened in […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court refused Wednesday to immediately hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that would allow former President Donald Trump’s name on the state’s presidential primary ballot. The state Supreme Court said the case should remain before the state court of appeals, and not immediately move to Michigan’s […]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The president of the University of Michigan said he has barred students from voting on two “controversial and divisive” resolutions related to the Israel-Hamas war. “The proposed resolutions have done more to stoke fear, anger and animosity on our campus than they would ever accomplish as recommendations to the university,” […]