The Larry Nassar trials are over and the final round of sentencing hearings begin this week in Eaton County. More and more attention now is turning to East Lansing and how the top echelons at Michigan State University allowed an environment for this...
It is the most challenging time in the history of Michigan State University. As MSU becomes the focus of a cascade of allegations regarding sexual abuse on campus, including accusations against members of the football and basketball teams, the school...
More than three centuries of thriving marine commerce and those notorious storms in the Great Lakes have given Michigan a wealth of historic shipwrecks. There are nearly a thousand on the bottomlands of the state's 13 designated underwater preserves...
Once a week, the new mayor of Toledo gets to work by hopping a city bus. Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz has promised to take a Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority bus to work once a week for his entire term. In doing so, he hopes to spark a conversation...
For hours, they kept stepping before the court, one after another, more than two dozen women and girls speaking directly to the man who sexually abused them as children. I've been coming for you for a long time, Kyle Stephens told Larry Nassar, her m...
About 140 women and girls have accused former sports doctor Larry Nassar of sexually assaulting them while he worked for Michigan State University and the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team. More than 80 women and girls are scheduled to speak this...
Last week I talked about the fact that Michigan is headed for a serious budget crisis that threatens everything from education to foster care to public safety. We've been cutting state government spending on programs that give people a chance at a be...
Right now, it's illegal in the state of Michigan to hunt the sandhill crane, the state's largest and oldest bird. But a proposal to hunt the species within the state is gaining traction and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says if the state of Mich...
At least 14 communities in Michigan have water contaminated with a family of chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. One of those sites, in West Michigan, has gotten a lot of attention recently. This month, the state abruptly...
If Governor Rick Snyder were prime minister of Great Britain, he'd have gone to the palace and resigned this morning. That's because he lost what Parliament would have called a vote of no confidence, and lost it in spectacular fashion. Both the state...
