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“What happened in Flint is a failure of government,” Kildee, D-Flint Township, told the National Drinking Water Advisory Council on Wednesday. “People expected that the government at multiple levels would be able to protect them … and the government failed them. |
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Police are continuing to search for a man seen on camera with a sword who robbed the Port Huron Dairy Queen on Tuesday evening. Port Huron police Sgt. Dave Seghi said the man ordered a Blizzard then pulled out a sword or machete as the store employee opened the cash register. The suspect grabbed cash and fled the ice cream shop. |
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A pedestrian bridge over the Southfield Freeway has been replaced more than a year after it was pulled onto the freeway by a passing truck. The Michigan Department of Transportation issued a news release today saying the bridge has reopened to pedestrians. About $2.9 million in emergency federal funds were used for the work. |
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“It hurts us, what they are saying especially President Aquino’s memorandum to Mayor Estrada that we are dirty and gravely hungry for the image of Manila. For us, what they are saying is that we aren’t being recognized and respected of our rights as Filipinos but instead, the government is.... |
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One metro Detroit community is really the pits, according to the infotainment website In a study that compiled data from small cities across the country (populations under 70,000), the website says Roseville, located in Macomb County, is among the 10 worst in America. |
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Renovator. Protector. Detroit steward. No woman is an island, and Michele is no exception. As president of the Belle Isle Conservancy, she's part of a large group of public and private supporters who are committed to restoring the 982-acre Belle Isle. It's her mission to renovate buildings,.... |
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VEVAY TWP., Mich. — After $1,000 was stolen from a local Veterans of Foreign Wars hall last week, donations for Mason-area veterans' programs have replaced what was lost more than four times over. About $4,000 has been raised in individual and business donations since the Nov. |
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BOSTON — The deadly attacks in France left schools and parents around the world grappling with what to say to children, and how to say it. When classes resumed this week, many teachers struggled to decide whether to discuss what happened in Paris . Parents wondered whether to talk about the violence or how to explain it. |
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A fugitive-apprehension team arrested four people Tuesday after an Oakland Township man was stabbed 12 times outside his home that morning, authorities said. The 58-year-old man was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after the 4:30 a.m. stabbing on the 100 block of Lyndon Circle in the.... |
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Sir David Attenborough has said he would consider voluntary euthanasia if he was “compos mentis” and his life became “wretched”. The veteran broadcaster told BBC Radio 4′s Costing The Earth programme that he backed the right-to-die campaign but queried the complicated moral arguments surrounding assisted dying. |
