Police, family and neighbors described MSU shooter Anthony McRae as a recluse who didn’t speak to neighbors, nursed slights, abruptly quit his job and rarely left his bedroom. For a time, a neighbor said, he would only talk to his dad through notes.
Kelly House
Kelly House covers Michigan's environment for Bridge Michigan, with a focus on the Great Lakes, climate change, industrial pollution, water quality and wildlife. She joined Bridge in March 2020 after reporting for the Oregonian, where her coverage earned national honors and sparked efforts to better protect Oregon's natural resources. Kelly holds a master's degree in environmental law from Lewis & Clark Law School and a bachelor's in journalism from Michigan State University.
Kelly grew up in Harrison and is based in Lansing.
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Michigan State University school shooting: How to help victims of attack
Donations are pouring into verified fundraisers set up to help victims and their families.
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Michigan State professor details terror of mass shooting in Room 114
Marco Díaz-Muñoz, a language and humanities professor, described the terrifying moments when a masked figure entered the classroom and wordlessly began shooting, killing two students and injuring others.
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For Ann Arbor water managers, ongoing battle to keep toxic chemicals at bay
Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking supplies.
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Michigan State shooting: Anthony McRae had guns charge, mental health problems
The alleged gunman is a 43-year-old who faced a felony gun charge that could have led to a lifetime bam on possessing a firearm if he was convicted. He was allowed to plead to a misdemeanor.
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Michigan State victims: Brian Fraser, Alex Verner and Arielle Anderson
A fraternity president, a top-notch student and an aspiring pediatrician were the MSU students killed by a gunman in a campus attack. All three made huge impacts before their young lives were cut short.
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Cocaine Bear? In Michigan, it's melatonin bear
Michigan wildlife regulators are scrambling to ban hunters from putting melatonin, a sleep aid, in bait piles after allegations that a ‘piss-poor’ hunter was doing just that to make the state’s thriving bear population easier to kill.
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Flint residents still fighting to replace lead pipes, get torn yards fixed
Fed up with missed deadlines in line fixes that were supposed to wrap in 2020, Flint residents and advocacy groups want a federal judge to impose a new replacement deadline and make Flint do more to restore yards and sidewalks damaged by pipe excavations.
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Right to water: Could 2023 be the year Michigan ends shutoffs?
Some Democratic lawmakers see a bill to declare a human right to water as a first step toward broader efforts to end the water shutoffs that plague low-income Michiganders.
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Michigan plastics company forced to probe PFAS contamination, cover costs
The legal settlement with Asahi Kasei Plastics North America over PFAS at its Brighton plant comes as Attorney General Dana Nessel pursues lawsuits against a host of companies tied to Michigan’s PFAS crisis.