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Friday, January 10, 2025
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan election officials on Monday certified Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state, another setback for President Donald Trump in his futile effort to undermine the results of the Nov. 3 election through baseless legal challenges and unsupported claims of fraud. The Board of State […]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan said Wednesday it will pay $9.25 million to eight women who reported emotional or sexual abuse by a man who became the school’s chief academic officer. “We thank them for their courage and we apologize to each one of them and […]
All of the Michigan Department of Correction’s 29 prison facilities have at least one person, staff member or inmate, infected with coronavirus as the agency struggles to fight a second viral wave which has resulted in the most ever active cases within MDOC. As of November 19, the most up-to-date […]
All eyes were on Michigan and its Republican legislative leaders on Friday as President Donald Trump summoned them to Washington, D.C., in the midst of the president’s false claims that he won the election, with House Speaker Lee Chatfield and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey saying afterwards they expressed their support for federal COVID-19 […]
The Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association today filed suit against Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon for the recent agency health order that, among other things, put a three week moratorium on in-person dining services at bars and restaurants across the state. MRLA – along with Heirloom Hospitality Group, […]
The record Michigan set Thursday with 6,940 coronavirus cases was broken by a large margin Friday when the state announced 8,516 newly confirmed cases of the virus. The large number of new cases also sent the state’s seven-day average for new cases of the virus to a record as well […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan on Tuesday posted a record number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases, near 6,500, and reported 59 deaths within the previous 24 hours — its deadliest day in six months. COVID-19, which subsided over the summer after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer imposed sweeping stay-at-home and other restrictions, […]
LANSING, MICH. As part of the state’s continued efforts to slow the increasing spread of COVID-19, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) today announced the statewide rollout of the COVID-19 exposure notification app MI COVID Alert. The anonymous, no […]
LANSING — A transgender woman who served in Afghanistan as a member of the 101st Airborne Division sued Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her top military official Friday, saying she is being kicked out of the Michigan National Guard over her gender identification. Blaire McIntyre, who was assigned a male gender at birth but identifies […]
Bars and restaurants would be required to collect name and contact information from patrons for coronavirus contact tracing under an amended emergency order issued today by the Department of Health and Human Services. New restrictions for those establishments will also prohibit more than six people sitting at a single table […]