Michigan News
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Chicago -
More than 100 protesters took to Michigan's state capitol on Wednesday to oppose efforts by the US state's Republican-led legislature to limit the powers of its incoming Democratic governor.
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Lansing -
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has rejected three recommendations from a state advisory board tied to the operation of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline, including one that proposed a temporary shutdown where it crosses the Straits of Mackinac.
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Grammy-nominated artist Mike Posner chatted with Digital Journal about his new poetry book "Tear Drops and Balloons" and his smash hit "I Took a Pill in Ibiza."
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With the threat of the Asian carp entering Lake Michigan, the Michigan state legislature has allocated one million dollars for a prize for anyone who comes up with new ideas, or better yet, a sure-fire plan to get rid of the invasive and voracious fish.
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Traverse City -
The state of Michigan is declaring its portion of Lake Erie an "impaired waterway" because of damage to fish and other wildlife caused by toxic algae blooms.
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Los Angeles -
Like Flint, Michigan, California is facing its own problems with lead-tainted water.
Nowhere is this clearer than the tiny town of Vernon, situated five miles south of downtown Los Angeles. Here, the Exide battery plant spewed lead for decades.
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Flint -
Officials in Flint, Mich., have promised to speak with every resident of the 99,000-population city to ensure they have clean water to drink and have not been exposed to lead contamination from the Flint River.
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Flint -
Scary news out of Flint, Michigan shows that when the city switched from Lake Huron to the Flint River for its drinking water, blood tests revealed that the tap water residents are now drinking is causing elevated lead levels in the city's children.
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It's been two months since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and declared it a constitutionally protected civil right, and now, attorneys general and governors who battled against it are receiving a pricey thank-you note for their loss.
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Battle Creek -
Michigan's Calhoun County Public Health Department has issued a warning to people who want to take nature walks, especially near Battle Creek. A highly toxic plant, called the giant hogweed, was found in Pennfield Township and was removed.
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He was once one of Michigan's most well-respected doctors, with a practice that spanned seven cities and 16,000 patients.
Then, authorities say he began telling his healthy patients they were sick, and telling his dying patients they were healthy.
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Michigan's prison food contractor, Aramark Correctional Services, is the focus of a pair of bipartisan bills that would require food safety inspections of prison kitchens. The bills were prompted by reports of maggots in the food served to prisoners.
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A predator-prey study started 57 years ago will have to end, or possibly shift direction next year because the wolves being studied are nearly extinct. The population of predators on Isle Royale is down to three lone wolves.
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Grand Rapids -
After just one hour of deliberating, a jury in Michigan concluded that a woman who fired a shot into a McDonald's after employees twice forgot to put bacon on her hamburger was guilty of firing at the building intentionally.
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Huntsville -
Got homeless? The eastern U.S. has stumbled upon one way to solve the problem, short of actually spending enough money, that is; winter.
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A quarter of a century ago this week, Michael Moore's “Roger & Me” unleashed itself upon the general movie-going public in North America and showed us all what a documentary could be: hilarious, angry, muckraking, irresistibly entertaining.
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Dearborn -
Michigan ‘s Dearborn Heights School District No. 7 is headed to court after a federal lawsuit was filed claiming that the district covered up potential employee and student exposure to asbestos dust.
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Detroit -
The city of Detroit, Michigan, and its nearby and even far-flung suburbs share a unique real estate relationship. For many years, there has been a tremendous give-and-take relationship between the city and suburbs.
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Saginaw -
Drive-thru windows have become a part of everyday life for many of us, but some Michigan residents find the drive-thru visitation window at a local funeral home disrespectful.
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A round of primary elections is scheduled to take place on August 5th in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, and Washington.
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Leland -
Country singer Matt Austin is back with his newest music video for his single "Redneck Date Night" and displays his romantic side.
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Jackson -
This Michigan man wouldn't have much luck playing actual sports. He threw a football, stuffed with cellphones and drugs, into a state prison yard, which unfortunately fell short of its goal.
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Monroe -
Two weeks before he retires, a middle school teacher is struck with a large dose of political correctness when he teaches a history lesson on racism in the United States and shows a video with blackface on it.
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Dowagiac -
A Michigan mother decided to give a Mother's Day present of her own by paying off every student's outstanding balance after her son was refused lunch.
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Holland -
Ben Van Houten, the devoted father to Michigan's first surviving set of sextuplets, succumbed to a fatal heart attack while playing with his kids last week.
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Detroit -
An expert witness hired by the state of Michigan to defend the state's same-sex marriage ban testified Thursday in a court case challenging the ban that unrepentant gay people are going to "hell."
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Howell -
Saturday evening, 10-year-old Danny DiPietro of Howell, Michigan became a local hero when he spotted something peculiar in an open garage on the way home from a hockey game.
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Gaylord -
An employee of a retailer in Michigan lost his job after helping to extinguish a fire at the store. His former boss said that the decision was based on the company's "safety procedures."
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Detroit -
Speaking at the opening of the Republican Party office in Detroit, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stressed the need for the GOP to infiltrate markets the party has largely ignored.
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The 2013 All Star Hoops Festival is getting some major support from an all star in the growing world of mobile payments.
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Current closures and advisories are displayed above Department of Environmental Quality
A Detroiter walks by an apartment building early in the morning
A deer in Ludington State Park
Another church in Milwaukee Junction
I knew my new tripod would come in handy!
Big Sable Point Lighthouse
Big Sable Point Lighthouse
The colorful Light Tunnel at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County International Airport connecting Concourse A with Concourse B/C in the McNamara Terminal. Light patterns along the tunnel are choreographed with music. Steve Hopson
Writing on a sidewalk outside of Milwaukee Junction's Fisher Body 21
The skyline (Woodward Ave., Detroit's main thoroughfare, runs between the two tall buildings in the center of the photograph)
With friends in Muskegon, Michigan
The letter President Obama wrote to Jennifer Cline was sold for $7,000 Myfoxdetroit video screengrab
Another church in Woodbridge
DOWNTOWN: A view of downtown Flint, Michigan, is seen in this photo taken from the Flint River. Connor Coyne / Wikimedia Commons
Looking at Ford Field the night of Super Bowl XL on Feburary 3, 2006 in Detroit. ifmuth
Freeways east of the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects
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