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Friday, January 10, 2025
ST. IGNACE, MI – An Ohio man accused of illegally climbing the Mackinac Bridge in November has been charged in Michigan. Issac Kendall Wright, 25, of Cincinnati was arraigned in the 89th District Court of Cheboygan County on Thursday on a charge of felony trespass upon a key transportation facility. […]
Of the 3,211 inmates held some version of solitary confinement within a Department of Corrections prison, nearly half – 47 percent – have been there for more than two years, said a report released Tuesday from the group Citizens for Prison Reform, though the agency disputes data in the report. […]
Governor Gretchen Whitmer goes on the record saying she wished she could have arrested former President Donald Trump. In a recent interview with the magazine “Hour Detroit,” Gov. Whitmer laughed boisterously at the prospect of having arrest President Trump when his campaign rallies allegedly violated her coronavirus orders. The governor […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — There’s a civil war inside the Michigan Republican Party. Laura Cox had planned to step down as chairwoman Saturday but now wants to keep the job a little longer while she accuses a possible successor of misconduct when he led the party in 2018. Cox said […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will announce today that the state is allowing contact sports to resume, with some safeguards, following one of the more intense waves of opposition her administration has seen in response to its efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, EUP News has learned. Contact sports have […]
The authority tasked with overseeing design and construction specifications of Enbridge Energy Company’s Line 5 tunnel were chided repeatedly by various groups, including Tribal communities, over its approval of various joint design specifications as the group met Wednesday for the first time in nearly a year. The Mackinac Straits Corridor […]
Employees with the Department of Corrections are calling on Governor Gretchen Whitmer to restore personal leave time and wages lost due to mandated quarantine procedures because of close contacts with a person possibly infected with the coronavirus. Members of the Michigan Corrections Organization, the union for corrections officers, in an […]
Let Them Play – the group of student-athletes and advocates wanting to allow winter contact sports to begin competing – filed a lawsuit today in the Court of Claims against Department of Health and Human Services Director Elizabeth Hertel claiming several violations of the state and U.S. constitutions along with […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The fight over whether to allow youth contact sports took center court Thursday in Lansing as Michigan lawmakers heard testimony from educators, parents and students wanting to get back to competition. Even though a ban on indoor dining ends Feb. 1, youth contact sports, including winter high […]
Senate Republicans today voted to reject 13 appointments on multiple boards and commissions as a “signal” of displeasure to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s “refusal” to work with the Legislature. The Senate voted 19-14, with all Democrats voting no, to reject the appointments of Kristin Totten to the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention […]