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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder addresses reporters in Flint | 03:40. Gov. Snyder answers questions about the federal government's response to the Flint water crisis and reaffirms that he will not resign.
Snyder says feds had multiple failures on Flint | 00:52. |
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DeWITT — Chad and Lisa Borodychuk know about the challenges faced by parents of children with severe impairments or a terminal illness. Their 7-year-old daughter Olivia has Alexander Disease, a rare disorder of the nervous system that breaks down a covering in the brain, which insulates nerve fibers and promotes the transmission of nerve impulses. |
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THE BLACK PRESIDENCY: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America. By Michael Eric Dyson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 346 pp. $27. In April of last year, Michael Eric Dyson wrote a lengthy and brutal takedown of his old friend and mentor, Cornel West, labeling the black philosopher a.... |
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A former Sunday school teacher accused of sexually exploiting a 15-year-old girl has been released on bail. Matthew Valentini, 34, was released on a $15,000 bond Thursday. As part of his release conditions, he must reside with his parents in a small community north of Sharbot Lake and must be.... |
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“I mean, the Bible throughout the scriptures lists over and over again the building of walls. I’m a little perplexed for the pope to say one who is building walls would be unchristian when in reality, the Vatican itself is 100 percent covered around a wall,” Burns said. |
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LANSING — A controversial package of bills introduced by House Republicans and aimed at trying to fix the financially ailing Detroit Public Schools is unlikely to get much of a hearing in the state Senate. And the Republican leadership in the House said they won’t hold a vote on the bills being.... |
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WASHINGTON — The S.S. Badger, Lake Michigan's last remaining coal-fired car ferry and until a few years ago the target of efforts by environmentalists to clean it up or ground it, was named to the list of National Historic Landmarks on Thursday. U.S. Reps. |
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A Clarkson High School student faces expulsion after he admitted threatening to kill a classmate during class, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office. The 16-year-old, 10th-grader from Independence Township told deputies he was friends with the girl, that he was joking and would never hurt.... |
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder addresses reporters in Flint. Gov. Snyder answers questions about the federal government's response to the Flint water crisis and reaffirms that he will not resign.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder addresses reporters in Flint Gov. Snyder answers questions about the federal.... |
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Snyder said in a news release the money will be available for the city to start removing priority lead service lines within the next 30 days. Based on estimates Flint Mayor Karen Weaver has received from the Lansing Board of Water and Light, which is assisting with the replacement of lead service.... |
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NIGERIANS have been told to look up to God and channel all their grievances to Him. They were also advised to be humble and learn from exemplary persons, while applying God’s words in all aspects of their lives. The Overseer and Senior Pastor of God’s First Ministries (Illumination Assembly), Bishop.... |
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Father Paul Scalia will also deliver the homily, which in the Catholic tradition is a sermon that deals with the themes of the scripture readings of the Mass, Basilica spokesman Jackie Hayes said. President Barack Obama will travel to the Supreme Court on Friday to pay his respects to Scalia, whose.... |
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Jerry Falwell Jr., a prominent Evangelical leader with a reputation for exerting influence in politics, said Thursday that Jesus Christ would have objected to the idea that religion should influence political leaders or electoral politics. on how to run a country," Falwell said in an interview with CNN. |
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The Permanent Secretary, Rena Glinton, along with Ambassador Godfrey Eneas, Senior Officers and Staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources, joined their Minister, The Honourable Minister, V. Alfred Gray, at his Church of Worship - New Destiny Baptist Church, Blue Hill Road on Sunday,.... |
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A bicyclist in Livingston County accused of impeding traffic appealed the $200 ticket and won when a circuit court judge found in his favor. A Michigan State Police trooper pulled over Tim Panagis of Ann Arbor in June and ticketed him for being in the road as he and other cyclists rode toward the right side of a lane. |
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Concerns about who is in charge of Wayne County's underfunded pension system were on stark display as commissioners debated a reorganization plan for the system's board that is part of a federal legal case. The debate came as commissioners in their regular meeting today formally rejected an.... |
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The Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Antonia Mennini, attended the ordination, representing Pope Francis. President of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, said: "I congratulate Monsignor Brian McGee on his nomination and consecration as Bishop of Argyll and the Isles and look.... |
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WATCH Marco Rubio Nabs Key South Carolina Endorsement.
Four Republican candidates attended the Faith and Family Presidential Forum at Bob Jones University in South Carolina last Friday. But the local Greenville News was more concerned with those who didn’t bother. “Trump, Kasich no-shows at BJU presidential forum,” the headline blared. |
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A bicyclist in Livingston County accused of impeding traffic appealed the $200 ticket and won when a circuit court judge found in his favor. A Michigan State Police trooper pulled over Tim Panagis of Ann Arbor in June 2015 and ticketed him for being in the road as he and other cyclists rode toward the right side of a lane. |
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The Pope then pointed to a narrow exception to the church’s ban on most forms of birth control: His predecessor, Pope Paul VI, allowed African nuns to use contraceptives “in cases of rape,” Francis said. He did not explain the circumstances or what forms of birth control were used. |
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A Clarkson High School student faces expulsion after he admitted threatening to kill a classmate during class, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office. The 16-year-old, 10th-grader from Independence Township told deputies he was friends with the girl, that he was joking and would never hurt.... |
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The Department of Health and Human Services awarded $500,000 to two health centers amid the water crisis in Flint. The money will be split between Genesee Health System and the Hamilton Community Health Network to help respond to issues created by the lead contaminated water in Flint, according to a news release issued today. |
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The Macomb County Sheriff's Office is looking for help in identifying a pickup truck and driver who fled after striking and injuring a 15-year-old jogger in Washington Township on Wednesday night.. The Washington Township township teen told deputies he was jogging on the shoulder of Mound Road when he was hit from behind by a vehicle. |
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Father Paul Scalia will deliver the homily at the funeral mass for his father Justice Antonin Scalia Saturday, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, who will not attend the 11 a.m. |
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CARACAS Venezuela's football federation (FVF) said on Thursday that chief sponsor, cash-strapped state oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL], did not pay the organisation any money last year. "In all of 2015 we didn't receive a single dollar from PDVSA," FVF president Laureano Gonzalez told a news conference in Caracas. |
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