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Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder And 8 Others Criminally Charged In Flint Water Crisis
Together the group faces 42 counts related to the drinking water catastrophe roughly seven years ago. The crimes range from perjury to misconduct in office to involuntary manslaughter.
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Nine US officials including Michigan ex-governor charged over Flint water crisis
Two ex-health officials charged with manslaughter over Flint water crisis. Prosecutors are revisiting how Flint’s water system was contaminated with lead during one of worst human-made environmental disasters in US history.
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Flint water crisis criminal investigation nears end, charges possible early next year
Investigators hope to make an announcement on the investigation sometime during the first three months of 2021.
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Michigan to Pay $600 Million in Flint Water Crisis Settlement
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.
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Teen sent to juvenile detention center for not doing online schoolwork
In a stunning turn of events, a 15-year-old student in Michigan has been sent to juvenile detention during the pandemic after a judge ruled that she violated her probation by not completing her online schoolwork. The teen, only identified to the public as Grace, had originally gotten into trouble for fighting with her mother and stealing, but had since cleaned up her act, and had near-perfect attendance at her school, ProPublica reports.
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Michigan's Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder Knew About Flint's Toxic Water—and Lied About It
Six years after the city of Flint, Michigan, began using a toxic water source that sickened its residents, VICE uncovered payoffs, the silencing of a whistleblower, a shady financial deal, a coverup, and the former governor who presided over it all.
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Michigan man returns $43K he found hidden in couch bought at Habitat for Humanity store
A mid-Michigan man found more than $43,000 in cash hidden in a couch he bought from a secondhand store, and though he had no apparent legal obligation to do so, he decided to return the money to the family who donated the item. Ovid resident Howard Kirby recently bought a set of furniture for $70 from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Owosso. After the couch spent a few weeks in his “man cave,” he started to think something was off.
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ICE arrests 90 more foreign students at fake university created by DHS in Michigan
Since January, ICE has arrested about 250 students who were enrolled at a fake university in Michigan created to lure in students.
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Does Tire Rotation Include Tightening Lug Nuts? Michigan Court Thinks About It For Awhile, Concludes 'No'
In what will surely go down in history as one of the most Galaxy Brain court rulings of all time, a Michigan appeals court determined that a tire rotation does not, in fact, include tightening the lug nuts.
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Michigan becomes first state to ban flavored e-cigarettes
Governor takes action after health officials declare youth vaping a public health emergency.
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Civil War relics were hidden in Detroit's GAR Building
The GAR Building "was so loved" that when restoration began, "people literally came out of the woodwork” with artifacts from the Civil War.
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Citizen sleuths exposed pollution from a century-old Michigan factory, with nationwide implications
Discoveries have helped fuel national debate over nonstick chemical contamination. By Sara Talpos.
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District Detroit: Inside the Ilitches' land of unfulfilled promises
Despite promises that the area would be transformed by 2017, more than a dozen of its 50 blocks are now more vacant than before
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Local food businesses might want to pay attention to Eastern Market's new credit union partnership
Eastern market is teaming up with a Michigan credit union to help local food entrepreneurs.
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Michigan Republicans ordered to redraw gerrymandered legislative maps
Judges found 34 districts were so severely gerrymandered that they violated the U.S. Constitution
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Flint residents allowed to sue EPA over lead water crisis, judge rules
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.
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A beginners guide to marijuana
Curious about cannabis? Here, take a hit of this
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Detroit-area Catholics permitted to eat muskrat
The permission dates to missionary history in the 1700s allowing Catholics to eat muskrat ‘on days of abstinence’
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A Detroit bathhouse cleans up its act. Welcome to the Schvitz.
Can it be a Detroit spa destination?
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Michigan man pleads guilty to throwing water balloons at Trump fans, says he might do it again
A man who threw water balloons at supporters of President Donald Trump outside a Michigan rally has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor but says he might do it again. Robert Truax Jr. tells TV station WZZM that “actions are going to be louder than words these days.” “I was trying to stand up for the people who are just against the president,’’ he said Thursday outside the 8th floor courtroom. “In a way his supporters are just like him. I did what I had to do.’’
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