All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 17 2023 // A group of families won a key court victory in an effort to pin some responsibility on a Michigan school district for a shooting that left four students dead and seven others wounded in 2021.The families can pursue claims...
May 16 2023 // An SUV slammed into a bridge pier along an interstate highway in Detroit, throwing four young men from the vehicle and killing them, state police said. The GMC Yukon was going fast when it hit the pier around 8 p.m. Sunday...
May 12 2023 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Director Anita Fox from the Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) announced a criminal enterprise and related charges against. six individuals who are accused of...
May 12 2023 // ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) – A northern Michigan paper mill has resumed operations after closing for three weeks to deal with an unusual outbreak of fungal infections.The Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba reopened Monday,...
May 8 2023 // GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Two workers were being treated for chemical burns Friday after one fell into a vat at a Grand Rapids electroplating plant, authorities said.The Grand Rapids Fire Department was sent on a...
May 4 2023 // Mead Johnson & Company, a manufacturer of baby formula, violated federal law at its Zeeland, Michigan facility by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability, the U.S. Equal...
May 1 2023 // Mercy Health St. Mary’s, a Grand Rapids hospital and member of the Trinity Health system, violated federal law when it failed to provide a religious accommodation to an applicant and declined to hire him because of...
Apr 27 2023 // GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Federal authorities in Michigan filed charges Wednesday against nine people in a scheme to defeat air-pollution rules by tampering with software and hardware in heavy-duty diesel...
Apr 13 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – Michigan researchers have found the wreckage of two ships that disappeared into Lake Superior in 1914 and hope the discovery will lead them to a third that sank at the same time, killing nearly 30...
Mar 30 2023 // Michigan, long known as a mainstay of organized labor, on Friday became the first state in decades to repeal a union-restricting law known as “right-to-work” that was passed over a decade ago by a...
Mar 21 2023 // PORTLAND, Mich. (AP) – An interstate highway stretch in central Michigan has reopened following a massive pileup involving 150 vehicles in whiteout conditions that left 16 people hospitalized.Interstate 96 in Ionia...
Mar 20 2023 // DETROIT (AP) – Up to 100 vehicles were involved in a massive pileup on Interstate 96 during white-out conditions, Michigan police said. There were reports of injuries that do not appear to be serious, police said on...
Mar 8 2023 // MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) – A conservative economic-policy group will get a $22,500 reward for blowing the whistle on a Michigan teachers union and its insurance arm, which got $12.5 million in government-backed loans...
Mar 6 2023 // PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) – A Michigan judge has ruled that staff and administrators at Oxford High School cannot be sued for a mass shooting that left four students dead and seven others wounded.Oakland County Circuit...
Mar 2 2023 // The power in Leah Thomas’ Beverly Hills, Michigan, home went out about 9 p.m. last Wednesday.It was back on Sunday evening but was lost again the next day. And like thousands of Michigan residents left in the dark...
Feb 27 2023 // A federal judge in Detroit on Thursday dealt a blow to a U.S. labor agency by drastically narrowing his recent order that had barred Starbucks Corp SBUX.O from retaliating against pro-union workers nationwide to cover only...
Feb 21 2023 // TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – Police Chief Jason Wright feared the worst as he rushed to the scene of a freight train derailment in Michigan’s Van Buren Township, mindful of a fiery rail crash this month in Ohio that...
Feb 16 2023 // A former Michigan insurance agent was convicted of filing false tax returns and making false statements to both a bankruptcy court and the Department of Justice.According to court documents and evidence presented at trial,...
Feb 1 2023 // BRIGHTON, Mich. (AP) – A plastics manufacturer reached an agreement with the state to investigate and address hazardous substances known as “forever chemicals” at a former factory in Livingston County,...
Jan 30 2023 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed $5.4 million settlement with The Dow Chemical Co. to recover costs for EPA’s cleanup work at the Tittabawassee River, Saginaw River & Bay Superfund...