Flint water

Lead crises have hit poorer, majority-Black cities like Flint especially hard, propelling the risks of lead in drinking water into the national consciousness.

The Michigan Attorney General’s office says efforts to prosecute state officials in the Flint water case are over. That’s after the Michigan Supreme Court issued an order today (TUE) declining to hear the case.

State prosecutors obtained documents from computer servers controlled by other state attorneys who had represented former Gov. Rick Snyder in Flint water matters. The search apparently swept up sensitive records from the Detroit bankruptcy as well as attorney-client communications of other state officials.

The study shows lead levels in Flint water dropped slightly during the 1st six months of this year, which follows a steady pattern of improvement

Effort part of state mandate of being lead-free by 2040

The latest orders are in cases involving former Michigan state medical executive Eden Wells and former Flint emergency manager Darnell Earley

The Republican was charged with misdemeanor willful neglect of duty for allegedly failing to supervise the officials who allowed Flint's water to become tainted with lead.

Genesee County Judge F. Kay Behm was approved by the U.S. Senate this week to become a federal judge in eastern Michigan. Snyder’s lawyers had asked Behm to dismiss misdemeanor charges against him, after the Michigan Supreme Court said indictments by a one-person grand jury were invalid.

Nick Lyon’s defense team made the plea this week in response to a pledge by prosecutors to try to save indictments that were declared invalid by the Michigan Supreme Court

Judge Elizabeth Kelly took action Tuesday, three months after the Michigan Supreme Court said a one-judge grand jury had no authority to issue indictments