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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Local health departments will no longer require area school districts to enforce the state’s COVID-19 quarantine guidelines, which says students in close contact to a person with COVID-19 must stay home. Health officials in Kent, Ottawa, Muskegon, and Ionia counties still do recommend districts use the Michigan Department of Health […]
LEELANAU COUNTY, MI – A Michigan man has been charged after he allegedly harassed and spit on media members in attendance for a visit from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. According to the Leelanau County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to Discovery Pier in the 13000 block of S. West Bay Shore […]
All elected state officers would receive 2 percent raises in 2023 and 2024 under a recommendation issued Friday by the State Officers Compensation Commission, putting the proposal before a Legislature that has in recent years largely declined to approve such increases. The proposed increases require action by the Legislature, which […]
A Court of Claims judge on Wednesday denied a motion for preliminary injunction filed by a group of high school athletes who sued the director of the Department of Health and Human Services over health orders that imposed coronavirus testing requirements and other restriction upon high school athletics. Judge Michael […]
Three of five men charged in the kidnapping plot against Governor Gretchen Whitmer will face new federal charges, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and additional federal firearms charges for at least two of them, a U.S. attorney said Wednesday after an amended superseding indictment was filed in the U.S. District […]
A 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday unanimously upheld a district court ruling against a Department of Corrections inmate with a history of filing frivolous claims who had exhausted the third-strike rule for prisoners filing lawsuits against the state without paying an initial filing fee. In a […]
Michigan will lose a seat in the U. S. House of Representatives for the next decade, reducing its current count from 14 members to 13, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. The state was among seven to lose a seat, including California, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, […]
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals is breaking new ground with a decision that could lead to people staying out of jail while awaiting a murder trial. The Michigan Constitution says someone charged with murder is entitled to bail unless a judge finds that “proof of the defendant’s guilt is […]
After the Board of State Canvassers did not advance the Unlock Michigan petition Thursday with members failing to certify on a 2-2, party-line vote, organizers are now signaling the Supreme Court will have to get involved. The Bureau of Elections recommended the board certify the petition, as a staff report […]
Lansing — Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, revealed this week that she’s considered running against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the 2022 election, according to a Thursday report from Politico. The national news outlet said McDaniel, the former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, made the remark during “a […]
