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A proposed bill in the Michigan House would offer tax incentives to food businesses, farms, and other donors that give unused food to charitable organizations, Governor Gretchen Whitmer says more interstate action is needed to better protect children from online exploitation, and more.

The Michigan Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case today involving the Fifth Amendment and criminal sentencing

Police in Lowell looking for “person of interest” in fire, runner in Plainfield Twp. raising funds, GR Griffins hockey promotes safety planning, unemployment benefits increasing, MI Supreme Court to hear 1st amendment challenge, resentencing deadlines for young people

Nine West Michigan employers are teaming up to address workforce shortages, a portion of traffic tickets to go to libraries, Muskegon General Hospital being demolished to make way for affordable housing, Hudsonville Ice Cream to expand in Holland, and more.

Ethan Crumbley's new lawyers argue that a new judge should hear expert testimony on fetal alcohol syndrome, a troubled home life and other mitigating factors before imposing a new sentence

An American Civil Liberties Union attorney says the legislation is probably unconstitutional because it would automatically change all the sentences without court hearings

The decision expands an earlier ruling that lifers convicted of first degree or felony murder when they were younger than 18 are entitled to resentencing hearings

Rashad Trice acknowledged that he took Wynter Cole Smith from her home in Lansing in July 2023 as part of a dispute with the girl's mother, his former girlfriend

A Lansing man has received a life sentence, the Michigan State Police offers some bus safety for parents, the Schubert Male Chorus is looking for new members, and more.

The case before the court concerned William Neilly, who, at age 17 was part of a group of four people that killed another teenager in an attempted armed robbery