Ingham County judge orders medical marijuana patient jailed
A medical marijuana patient in Ingham County is facing three days in jail for testing positive for marijuana. Livingston Thompson uses medical marijuana as a treatment for epilepsy. Judge Richard...
View ArticleMichigan Governor to sign bill that will be the end of the road for some...
Legislation that will allow county boards of commissioners to take over duties of county road commissions is expected to be signed by Gov. Rick Snyder. Snyder is scheduled to sign the legislation...
View ArticleAppeal coming as Michigan governor's office pursues consent agreement for...
Aides to Governor Rick Snyder say the state will ask the Michigan Court of Appeals to lift a judges order that prohibits a deal between Michigan and Detroit to resolve the citys budget crisis. An...
View ArticleImproving fire protection in Ingham County by working closer together
Several Ingham County communities have taken a step toward creating a regional fire department. Lansing, East Lansing and four other communities signed an agreement to begin implementing the first...
View ArticleShots fired at vehicles along I-96 corridor in three Michigan counties
WIXOM, Mich. (AP) - The Oakland County sheriff says authorities are investigating at least 16 shootings for any common threads in many Michigan communities. Sheriff Mike Bouchard says no one has been...
View ArticleLansing city leaders concerned about apparent problems with Ingham County's...
The Lansing City Council received a report last night looking at serious problems with Ingham County’s 911 system. The new 911 center opened last summer. It dispatches fire and EMS crews for Lansing...
View ArticleCommission puts brakes on money for expanded bus service between Lansing and...
A federal grant to expand bus service between Lansing and Detroit Metro Airport is stalled. The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission split nine to nine on authorizing a $600,000 grant to help the...
View ArticleEco-protesters to be sentenced this week
A trio of environmental activists will find out this week whether they will face prison time for a 2013 protest. The three women were convicted in January of trespassing and obstruction charges. They...
View ArticleEco-protesters get probation in Enbridge pipeline protest
A judge has sentenced a trio of environmental activists to probation for their role in an oil pipeline protest near Stockbridge last July. The protesters attached themselves to heavy equipment at the...
View ArticleGroup wants "Health" to be a key consideration in all government decisions
A handful of Michigan county health department leaders say “health” should play a bigger role in local decision making. Health department officials from Wayne, Genesee, Ingham, Kent, Kalamazoo, Saginaw...
View ArticleDemand for absentee ballots increases in Michigan; registration deadline nears
There’s still more than a month before the November general election , but many Michigan voters are already getting their hands on the ballot. Today, the Lansing City Clerk’s office mailed out 5,000...
View ArticleMichigan deer face potential deadly threat of chronic wasting disease
A serious health threat to the state’s wild deer population has been detected in mid-Michigan. A six-year-old doe found in Haslett last month has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The...
View ArticleMichigan officials search for deer infected with fatal disease
Last week, state officials confirmed they found chronic wasting disease in a wild deer for the first time. Michigan now joins 22 states and two Canadian provinces where the disease has been found.
View ArticleMichigan mixed bag for home buyers making a low down payment
Michigan counties rank near the top and the bottom of a new national report on home buying . Realty Trac looked at affordability and accessibility for home buyers putting up a low down payment. The...
View ArticleAnother Michigan deer tests positive for chronic wasting disease
State officials say a second mid-Michigan deer has tested positive for a fatal neurological disease. “Finding this second positive deer is disappointing, however, not unexpected,” said DNR Wildlife...
View ArticleFormer Ingham County prosecutor heading to jail
Former Ingham County prosecutor Stuart Dunnings will spend a year in jail for misconduct in office and engaging the services of a prostitute. He was sentenced today on the misdemeanor charges he...
View ArticleCyber attack cost Ingham County $86,000 and could cost $2M to prevent in future
An Ingham County official is suggesting actions that could cost nearly $2 million to strengthen the county's cybersecurity following a computer network attack last month. County chief information...
View ArticleIngham County Sheriff's office announces policy change on immigration holds
The Ingham County Sheriff's Office has announced it no longer will detain people with federal immigration holds past the detention period on their original booking charges. The sheriff's office says...
View ArticleIngham County treasurer being blamed, again, for poor accounting
Ingham County is continuing to have bookkeeping problems with its treasurer. Until recently, Treasurer Eric Schertzing had been writing checks the county had no record of. According to county...
View ArticleThe 1866 lynching of John Taylor shows Michigan’s role in America’s history...
Lynching is one of this country's darkest legacies. It claimed the lives of thousands of black Americans, particularly in the South. But the South wasn't the only place where mobs of white people...
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