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Moment of silence held for former Belvidere employee at UAW rally
BELVIDERE, Ill. (WIFR) - An autoworker killed at a plant in Toledo, Ohio, is recognized Thursday during a United Auto Workers rally in Belvidere. Antonio Gaston, 53, died August 21 when he was working on the Jeep Gladiator line tightening undercarriage body bolts, according to Toledo police. Gaston was offered...
Burlington opening new store in Troy
TROY, MI – A new retail shopping option is coming to Metro Detroit. Burlington Stores Inc. announced this week that it will open a new store in Troy this fall. The location will become the 28th in Michigan and will join more than 1,000 open across the U.S. The...
Lansing School District bans student phones in classrooms
Thousands of high schoolers in Lansing are back to school this week and, for the first time in years, without the buzz of their smartphones. A new policy in the Lansing School District requires high school teachers to collect student phones at the beginning of class. The students can use their phones in between classes and during breaks.
Thieves Trying To Steal $500k Of Dodge Durangos Thwarted By The Dwayne Johnson Of Security Barriers
A gang of youths from Detroit has been arrested after trying and failing to steal six Dodge Durango SUVs worth around $500,000. The thieves rammed two of the SUVs into the super-tough security gate at Ground Effects Automotive, totally destroying the Durangos. Four teens and one 24-year-old were arrested, and...
Michigan doctor charged with recording women and children in hospital with hidden cameras
A Detroit-area doctor has been charged with using hidden cameras to secretly record women and children in the hospital where he worked over six years in a case police said showed his "depravity had no limits." Dr. Oumair Aejaz, 40, recorded children as young as 2 and women recovering from...
Legacy Arbor Assists with Recent Lenawee Great Start Diaper Drive
Adrian, MI – Lenawee Great Start, with some help from Gleaner Life Insurance Society’s Legacy Arbor, recently held a diaper drive. The diaper drive collected 5,546 diapers, 5,552 wipes and more than $2,300. Gleaner’s Legacy Arbor, donated $1,000 to the drive. Diapers, wipes, cream, and other items...
How A Criminal Enterprise Stole $800,000 From Meijer Stores
Retail criminals have gotten better at getting away with their crimes. A group in Michigan targeted Meijer and was able to scam them out of almost $1,000,000. Meijer has suffered over $800,000 in losses due to an organized retail crime scheme that has persisted for several years in Michigan. Court...
Are Michigan Schools Ready to Adopt a Four-Day Week?
Is your family ready to embrace a four-day school week? Although it's a fairly new concept, two school districts in Northern Michigan have already adopted it. According to the Associated Press, there are roughly 13,000 school districts in the United States. Two decades ago, there were only about 100 school districts in the US observing a four-day week. That number grew to 662 in 2019 and currently stands at close to 900 districts nationwide.
MICHIGAN SCHOOL MEALS PROGRAM: A WIN FOR STUDENTS AND LOCAL AGRICULTURE
Wow, how times have changed! Remember the days when your parents would have to give you money daily so you could buy a school lunch? It looks like those days are over for all Michigan elementary, middle and high school students. Earlier this year, Govenor Gretchen Whitmer was able to...
Study Says Michigan Believes Its Teachers Are Woefully Underpaid
Many people agree that teachers are one of the most underpaid positions in the entire workforce. Oftentimes they work well over 40 hours, pay out of pocket for classroom supplies, and handle 15-25 children per day. If you know a teacher, you know it's exhaustive work. Unfortunately, in most situations,...
'Things are going fantastic': Michigan Senate Majority Leader Brinks gives thoughts on DNC
CHICAGO, Ill. — Thursday marks the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and several Michigan Democrats are in attendance. One of them is Michigan Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D - Grand Rapids), who has said she is happy with how the convention has gone so far.
Michigan Judge Has Field Trip Student Placed in Cuffs and Jumpsuit
According to WXYZ, a non-profit The Greening of Detroit went on a field trip to the 36th District Court where Judge Kenneth King was presiding. A 15-year-old student was falling asleep and Judge King did not like and warned about it but he felt she had a bad attitude. That is when he ordered her out of the courtroom. Judge King felt she needed a lesson and told her to change into a jail uniform, put her in cuffs, and sit in lock up.
'I'm just being me,' Gretchen Whitmer says as she prepares to take DNC stage
CHICAGO ― Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is getting the reception of a rock star at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week, but she's not doing anything differently than she does it in Michigan. "I don't know, I'm just being me," she told The Free Press in an interview at the convention...
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