The state of Michigan is expected to announce a settlement this week to pay residents of Flint $600 million to resolve civil claims from the city’s lead-tainted drinking water crisis, according to a person familiar with the settlement.

A company headed by Jason Mohney, who oversees a national strip club empire, filed the lawsuit Wednesday, exposing a regulation in the federal Paycheck Protection Program that prohibits loans to businesses that provide live performances of a “prurient sexual nature.”

Residents of Flint, Michigan, can sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its handling of the city’s drinking water crisis, which has been ongoing for five years. The disaster has brought attention to drinking water issues across the country but Flint residents say they remain distrustful of both their water and the government.

Jaden Smith’s organization and a local church announced a mobile water filtration system that reduces lead and other potential contaminants.

Billionaire inventor Elon Musk and his Musk Foundation are donating $480,350 for water stations and filtration equipment for every building in Flint Community Schools. The school district tweeted about the donation and Musk replied that he hopes "to do more help in the future." The district says it will use Musk's donation to replace drinking fountains with water stations using ultraviolet filtration equipment. The drinking fountains have been out of service since the Flint water crisis in 2015.

The death toll in Flint, Michigan, from contaminated water may be much higher than state health officials have acknowledged, an ongoing FRONTLINE investigation has found. The likely killer: Legionnaires’ disease, a severe form of pneumonia caused by the legionella bacteria.

"Two years of LCR data show that Flint's water is testing the same as or better than similar cities across the state," the DEQ announcement Wednesday says. "Third-party independent experts have also confirmed that Flint's water currently tests below actionable levels for lead and copper.

Here’s a fact no one seems to be talking about: As of July 2018, Flint’s water has now been testing below action levels of the EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) for two years. Four consecutive six-month monitoring periods and many other independent tests have shown that Flint’s water is testing at levels better than …

A new art-documentary explores why this city is the poster child for the American Dream gone wrong

Michigan environmental experts warned that Flint's water system had "significant deficiencies" just weeks before Gov. Rick Snyder announced an end to bottled water service that was introduced to allay a lead-tainted water crisis. A surface water treatment engineer detailed 10 unresolved issues in a March 21 letter to Flint Mayor Karen Weaver. The letter said that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has no confidence in Flint's capacity to manage the system.

Water pods in Flint have already begun to run out of cases of bottled water after residents were informed they'd no longer be receiving it from the state. Many people are also voicing their concerns about the long lines and tensions rising as the resources ran out. We’ve just received word that the state will no longer be providing Flint residents affected by the water crisis with bottled water.

The city of Flint saw fewer pregnancies, and a higher number of fetal deaths, during the period women and their fetuses were exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water, according to a new research study that reviewed health records from Flint and the state. Fertility rates decreased by 12% among Flint women, and fetal death rates increased by 58%, after April 2014...

Attorney General Bill Schuette charged two high-ranking state health officials today in the fourth round of criminal charges in the Flint drinking water crisis.

The city has warned 8,000 residents that they could face foreclosure over refusing to pay for poisoned water. By Bryce Covert.