By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — As students banged on desks and stomped their feet inside a packed lecture hall at the University of Michigan, someone decades older stood in the back, quietly taking in the scene. Debbie Dingell, a longtime Democratic ...
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Lynette Hooker bounced around the deck of the docked Soul Mate, smiled into the camera and proclaimed: "We're finally leaving Kemah," referring to a Texas port town. "It's only been four months," she said as her husband, Brian, tugged on some rigging as ...
By LAURA HERBERG/Bridge Michigan Hunters are divided over a proposed "one buck rule" that some hope would help balance the buck-to-doe ratio, curb overpopulation in the Lower Peninsula and make deer hunting better for future generations by leaving more prize bucks on the table. The ...
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press WESTLAND, Mich. (AP) — It was cloudy with a chance of marshmallows at two Detroit-area parks Friday as kids raced to collect thousands of the gooey treats dropped from a helicopter. The annual Marshmallow Drop, hosted by Wayne County Parks, took ...
By JENA BROOKER/BridgeDetroit Over the last decade, Michigan municipalities have given more than a billion dollars in local tax breaks to industrial companies to keep the air clean. But the reductions often haven't fully materialized: The companies receiving the tax breaks have been cited by ...
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — The man who drove his pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue was described as suicidal in a 911 phone call to police by his former wife that day, a TV station reported Monday. The call to Dearborn Heights police came around the same time last Thursday that ...
By ISABEL LOHMAN/Bridge Michigan One of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's signature initiatives has been to expand the availability of early childhood education. But efforts like offering free pre-kindergarten and providing grants to open new classrooms have not resolved a central problem: Attracting ...
By JULIA FRANKEL AND BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The man who attacked a Michigan synagogue was the brother of a Hezbollah commander killed earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike, Israel's military claimed Sunday. Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in the March 5 strike in ...
By ED WHITE AND ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press The Michigan synagogue that came under attack this week when an armed man drove his car into the building had for months been strengthening its security apparatus by hiring a seasoned police lieutenant as its security director and holding ...
The Associated Press Communities were left reeling from attacks that unfolded less than two hours apart at a Michigan synagogue and at Old Dominion University in Virginia, violence that officials said would have been bloodier without intervention from residents. In Virginia, a former Army ...
By ROBIN ERB/Bridge Michigan In lockdown and confusion and fear following an attack at nearby Temple Israel, the staff at Soul Café made pizza — cheese, mushroom, and margherita. As dozens of police cars and fire trucks and ambulances screamed outside and bomb detection teams arrived at ...
By COREY WILLIAMS and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — The armed man who rammed his vehicle into one of the nation's largest Reform synagogues Thursday has been identified as a 41-year-old naturalized citizen born in Lebanon, according to federal ...
By PETER SMITH Associated Press The Michigan synagogue that came under attack Thursday is part of Reform Judaism, the largest branch of the religion in North America, which emphasizes progressive values such as social justice and gender equality. According to the Union for Reform Judaism, ...
ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — A man was found guilty Tuesday of killing his wife, whose body was found in a empty farm tank in rural Michigan in 2024, three years after she disappeared. Jurors heard evidence of a troubled marriage between Dee and Dale Warner, though defense lawyers emphasized that ...
By DAVE COLLINS, STEVE KARNOWSKI and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press UNION CITY, Mich. (AP) — Authorities searched through rubble and debris in southern Michigan on Saturday after suspected tornadoes tore through the region and killed four people, including a 12-year-old boy, during ...
By HALLIE GOLDEN, KATHY McCORMACK and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press Four people were killed Friday in southern Michigan as powerful storms that produced at least one tornado, reduced homes to rubble, sent parts of roofs flying into the air and left a trail of debris hanging from power ...
By JANELLE D. JAMES/Bridge Michigan Bridge Michigan Michigan is once again sending millions of dollars in marijuana tax revenue back to local communities — though this year's payout is slightly smaller than last and spread across more governments. Nearly $94 million will be distributed ...
By LAURA HERBERG/Bridge Michigan Bridge Michigan The US Forest Service is proposing a massive project in a national forest in Michigan that would log land roughly the size of Detroit, expand gravel mining and build roads. The Silver Branch Vegetation Management Project would span about 40 ...
By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — When Donald Trump fought his way back to the White House in 2024, he capitalized on simmering economic discontent in political battlegrounds such as Michigan. Now Democrats are trying to harness those same concerns, which have ...
By LAURA HERBERG/Bridge Michigan Bridge Michigan Cougars were detected 31 times in Michigan in 2025, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. That's the highest number of confirmed observations since the predator was wiped out of the state in the early 1900s. And the ...