All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 16 2022 // MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) —A former troop leader was sentenced to 12 to 20 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to two counts of criminal sexual conduct stemming from Michigan’s review of child sexual...
Dec 15 2022 // Michigan’s civil rights watchdog announced two charges of discrimination against the Grand Rapids Police Department on Wednesday, further heightening scrutiny of the department following an officer’s killing of...
Dec 1 2022 // Michigan-based Ford Credit announced plans to launch Ford Pro Insure, a new commercial auto insurance product powered by Pie Insurance. “Ford Pro customers have come to expect a complete set of products and services...
Nov 30 2022 // OXFORD, Mich. (AP) – Policies and procedures that could have prevented a mass shooting that left four students dead at a Michigan high school last year were approved earlier but never implemented, two former school board...
Nov 22 2022 // COVERT, Mich. (AP) – The federal government has turned down a request for financial aid to restart a nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan, the owner said.Holtec International said it was notified Friday by the...
Nov 21 2022 // Patel named First Chief People Officer for Branch Branch has named new hire Pratiksha Patel as the company’s first chief people officer. Patel joins the Columbus, Ohio-based company with more than two decades of...
Oct 31 2022 // LANSING, Mich. (AP) – A judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by eight women alleging sexual harassment and assault by a former University of Michigan lecturer.Judge Thomas Cameron of the Michigan Court of Claims...
Oct 20 2022 // It’s beginning to look a lot like winter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with snow falling and high winds toppling trees and causing power outages.MLive reported that as much as 18 inches (45 centimeters) of...
Oct 14 2022 // A Michigan man has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging he set 25 fires on semitrailers in eight states over more than two years, all belonging to the same trucking company, prosecutors said...
Oct 11 2022 // Crews from several fire departments were still battling a fire Monday that broke out late last week at a paper mill in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.A spokesman for Resolute Forest Products said the fire, which was...
Oct 4 2022 // The Michigan Supreme Court agreed last week to decide whether major changes in car insurance law apply to people who were catastrophically injured before summer 2019.The case is being closely watched by insurers,...
Sep 30 2022 // A train derailment sent a dozen rail cars off the tracks Thursday morning near Detroit, snarling traffic while emergency responders assessed the damage, officials said.Warren Mayor Jim Fouts said 12 of the train’s...
Sep 28 2022 // Gaylord D. Lincoln and G. Lincoln Farms, LLC, located in Springport, Michigan, have agreed to pay $1,200,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of fraudulent claims for...
Sep 26 2022 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) is partnering with the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), the Lansing Police Department (LPD), and Shaheen Chevrolet to offer motorists a free...
Sep 23 2022 // A judge has given tentative approval to a $54 million settlement involving 3M Co., a shoe manufacturer and property owners in western Michigan who said their land and wells were contaminated by toxic “forever...
Sep 22 2022 // A Michigan veteran has been sentenced to five years in prison after investigators who followed him discovered he had faked injuries that allowed him to claim more than $260,000 in federal benefits.Joseph Gray, 53, of...
Sep 19 2022 // A judge on Friday signed off on a fund for more than 1,000 people who said they were sexually assaulted by a University of Michigan doctor, an order that allows victims to start collecting a portion of a $490 million...
Sep 19 2022 // A mid-Michigan organic dairy farm is fighting state safety regulators, five years after a 19-year-old family member was fatally electrocuted while removing a metal pole from a grain bin.The dispute involves the...
Sep 12 2022 // Federal investigators blame pilot error and an overloaded aircraft for a 2019 plane crash near a Michigan airport that killed five Indiana men and seriously injured a sixth person aboard.The National Transportation Safety...
Sep 2 2022 // On Aug. 29, the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan awarded a default judgment, granting the proposed $10 million civil penalty against Diesel Ops LLC and Orion Diesel LLC of Waterford, Michigan. The...