Representative image (AP) DETROIT: The Michigan supreme court on Wednesday dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021, ending efforts to hold employees partly responsible for the mass shooting. Under Michigan law, immunity is a high hurdle to overcome in lawsuits against a government body, including public school […]
Mistrial for Michigan police officer charged in fatal shooting of Congolese immigrant (Photo: AP) A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after the jury in Michigan couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in the second-degree murder trial of a police officer who shot Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, in the back of the head following a traffic […]
A jury in Grand Rapids, Mich., began hearing testimony on Monday in the murder trial of a white former police officer who fatally shot a Black man as the two scuffled on the ground after a traffic stop in 2022. There is no dispute about the basic sequence of events that began as the officer, […]
Haley Stevens (Image: AP) LANSING: Fourth-term US representative Haley Stevens has launched her run for Michigan’s open US senate seat on Tuesday with a video focused on the economic crisis caused by President Donald Trump‘s volatile tariffs policies. Walking through a lot full of pickup trucks and SUVs to make the case that she’s the […]
This is a representational AI image Three people have been arrested after Michigan authorities discovered them living in “deplorable” conditions with a 9-year-old boy, surrounded by starving, mistreated animals, including a dead puppy stuffed inside a pizza box, officials said.The shocking case unfolded in Flint when AT&T workers reported $30,000 worth of stolen cables from […]
