EPA awards Great Lakes grants to Central Michigan, Clarkson

April 24, 2021 GMT

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded grants to Central Michigan University and Clarkson University to continue monitoring coastal wetlands and fish contaminants throughout the Great Lakes basin...

Father angry after teacher cuts biracial daughter’s hair

By COREY WILLIAMSApril 21, 2021 GMT

A Michigan father has moved his 7-year-old biracial daughter from one school to another after the child’s hair was cut on separate occasions by a classmate and a teacher...

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Grants awarded for more electric vehicle charging stations

December 20, 2020 GMT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — More electric vehicle fast-charging stations are coming to Michigan.

The Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy said more than $448,000 in grants have been awarded for six new charging locations and three expansions of previous projects...

Democrats swarm industrial Iowa to prove they can beat Trump

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and THOMAS BEAUMONTJanuary 22, 2020 GMT

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — Since their surprise loss to Donald Trump in 2016, Democrats have struggled with how to regain territory that long supported the party before suddenly flipping to Republicans...

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Iowa audit says county official took money for fake intern

June 26, 2019 GMT

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — A state audit says a county employee in Iowa who faked having an intern collected nearly $219,000 in improper payments...

The Latest: Father killed in Michigan had served in Iraq

March 4, 2018 GMT

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at Central Michigan University (all times local):...

Police: Gun in student’s shooting of parents belonged to dad

By RICK CALLAHANMarch 4, 2018 GMT

A 19-year-old student charged with fatally shooting his parents at a Central Michigan University dormitory had been acting so strangely the day before the killings that campus police talked to his mother and then took him to a hospital for suspected drug abuse, authorities said Saturday...

Police: Parents gunned down by their son on college campus

By ED WHITE and MIKE HOUSEHOLDERMarch 3, 2018 GMT

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — More than 100 police officers, some heavily armed in camouflage uniforms, searched neighborhoods near Central Michigan University on Friday for a 19-year-old student suspected of killing his parents at a dormitory and then running from campus...

The Latest: Chief: Deaths of officer, wife “tragic”

March 3, 2018 GMT