Newly released dispatch records show multiple callers offered a description of the gunman soon after shooting. A deluge of tips about everything from suspicious trucks to loud sounds may have diverted police.

The Michigan Senate version of the school aid budget passed Thursday on a 20-17 vote, a day after the House approved its version.

A doctor, author and national expert on epidemics through the ages, Dr. Howard Markel of the University of Michigan managed to avoid COVID for nearly three years. Then he faced the ‘human petri dish’ of international travel.

All residents deserve safe, affordable water and the funding for water infrastructure. This requires more money, which might include state tax revenue, fees on groundwater removals for bottled water, variable utility rates and adding bottled water to the state deposit law.

An expert panel voted 17-0 Wednesday to approve the first U.S. birth control pill without a prescription. Supporters say it would expand pill access to low-income and rural patients, but some worry about taking doctors out of the equation.

Grand Rapids Public Schools is adding a backpack ban after confiscating a gun from a student. The superintendent says it’s a ‘drastic’ but necessary step.

Senate approves plan that would allow fines or mandatory driver safety courses for motorists who use a handheld cell phone to make calls, send texts or read social media posts, among other things.

Another geomagnetic storm is expected to make the light show visible across much of the northern U.S. late at night. Your odds improve if you are far from city lights, there is no cloud cover and luck is with you.

Democrats eye $150 million in one-time funding for six large counties and another $100 million in infrastructure earmarks. Boosters say that helps heavily traveled roads. The GOP says it benefits Democrats.