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☆ 2-year-old who walked out of her family home after bedtime killed in car accident
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Samantha Kubota | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Police in Michigan are investigating after a car hit and killed a toddler who appeared to have left her home after being put to bed on Friday. According to a statement from the Michigan State Police, a 2-year-old girl “got out of her bed and walked out of the house” while her parents were working around the family’s home in Allen Township, a small community about an hour southeast of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Police were called at 8:20 p.m. about a “car versus pedestrian crash” and found the young child in the road. An autopsy will be performed on the child, Jackson Post Troopers said in the release, and the investigation is ongoing. If anyone has information about the incident, they’re asked to contact Michigan State Police Jackson Post at 517-780-4580.

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CNN —The US Secret Service is scrambling to increase security ahead of former President Donald Trump’s first campaign rally since the failed assassination attempt on his life last week, sources familiar with the planning told CNN. “We assist the Secret Service,” a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office told CNN, adding that the Secret Service was leading all security planning for the rally. The source said the lack of these exercises have resulted in security gaps, including communication breakdowns between law enforcement partners. “The Secret Service is responsible for the security planning for presidential visits, but we stand ready to assist them with whatever they need,” Banner wrote in an email. The Secret Service would not comment on security planning for the rally or Trump.

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☆ Detroit shooting: 2 dead, 19 injured after block party shooting
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Zenebou Sylla | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Two people are dead and 19 others are injured after a shooting in Detroit, according to the Michigan State Police. The shooting unfolded early Sunday at a block party where someone opened fire shortly before 2:30 a.m. The 19 people who survived suffered “various injuries,” Michigan State Police said on X Sunday. It is unclear how many of the injured sustained gunshot wounds or how many were injured in other ways. State police said they are assisting the Detroit Police Department with the investigation.

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☆ These gay military veterans wonder what Biden’s new pardon means for them
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Ramon Sanchez | Ray Sanchez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The pardon won’t automatically change the record of convicted veterans, but it will allow them to apply for a certificate that will help them receive withheld benefits. “Our nation’s service members stand on the frontlines of freedom, and risk their lives in order to defend our country. Despite their courage and great sacrifice, thousands of LGBTQI+ service members were forced out of the military because of their sexual orientation or gender identity,” Biden said. A service member’s discharge status can determine what Veterans Affairs benefits they are eligible for. To get their records changed under the pardon, veterans will need to complete an online application, which will go to their military service department.

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☆ Michigan state trooper accused of fatally hitting a fleeing suspect with an SUV is charged with murder
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | Raja Razek | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A Michigan State Police detective has been charged with murder after investigators say he fatally struck a fleeing suspect with an SUV last month near Grand Rapids, state prosecutors announced. Sterling fell to the ground and began yelling and groaning about pain in his back, body-worn police camera footage shows. Keely, 50, has been charged with one count of second-degree murder, which carries a life sentence, as well as an alternative charge of involuntary manslaughter, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday. Brian Keely Michigan State Police)“Detective Sergeant Keely’s actions that day were legally, grossly negligent and created a very high risk of death or great bodily harm, which could have otherwise been prevented,” Nessel said. Keely was suspended from his position following the incident, Michigan State Police Director Col. James Grady II said last month.

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☆ Michigan Vows to Destroy Buyback Guns After Resale Uproar
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Mike Mcintire | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Michigan will no longer allow guns marked for destruction to be sold online as parts — a change prompted by public anger over revelations that firearms turned in through buyback programs were not being destroyed as promised. Michigan State Police, responsible for collecting unwanted firearms from local law enforcement, said on Tuesday that the weapons would now be crushed and melted down “in their entirety” at a scrap metal site. The agency said it had disposed of 11,582 guns last year. The policy change came after The New York Times reported in December that communities across the country that claimed to be removing guns from the streets through buyback programs, as well as eliminating confiscated or surplus weapons, were allowing them back on the market. Cities were handing off the guns to companies that disposed of a single regulated component containing the serial number; the businesses then sold the rest of the parts online, often as nearly complete gun kits.

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A man who fell through the ice on a frozen Michigan lake was rescued after a quick-thinking state police officer used the stranded man's dog to get rescue equipment to him and pull the man to safety. Bystanders called 911 on Thursday after the 65-year-old Traverse City man fell through ice-covered Arbutus Lake, state police said. It shows Bennetts first trying to throw a rescue disc tethered to a rope out to the man. Come here Ruby!” Bennetts shouts in the video before whistling for the canine, which runs to him and arrives tail wagging. The officer ties the rescue disc to the dog's collar and asks the man to call Ruby back to him.

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CNN —Investigators are searching for a motive in the death of a Detroit synagogue leader found stabbed over the weekend, the city’s police chief said. The body of Samantha Woll, president of the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, was discovered with multiple stab wounds at her home on Saturday morning, the Detroit Police Department said in a statement. “Understandably, this crime leaves many unanswered questions,” Detroit Police Chief James E. White said in a statement on social media site X. “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Samantha Woll, our Board President,” the synagogue said. “This entire city joins with her family and friends in mourning her tragic death.”A law enforcement agent walks near the scene where Samantha Woll was found dead in Detroit on Saturday.

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DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed to death outside her home Saturday, police said. Woll, 40, had led the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue since 2022 and was a former aide to Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin and campaign staffer for Attorney General Dana Nessel, the Detroit Free Press reported. Police have not identified a possible motive and are investigating, the Free Press reported. Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesPolice found Woll around 6:30 a.m. after someone called to alert them of a person lying on the ground unresponsive, the Free Press reported. “Sam’s loss has left a huge hole in the Detroit community," the mayor said.

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FAITHORN, Mich. (AP) — A 2-year-old girl who walked away from her home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula alongside two family dogs was found in the woods hours later sleeping on the smaller dog like a furry pillow, state police said. “She laid down and used one of the dogs as a pillow, and the other dog laid right next to her and kept her safe,” Lt. Mark Giannunzio said Thursday. Troopers from Michigan State Police’s Iron Mountain post had been called to a home in the Faithorn area of Menominee County about 8 p.m. Wednesday after the girl wandered away. Around midnight, a citizen on an ATV found the girl about 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) from her home, state police said. Faithorn is an unincorporated village located just east of the Wisconsin state line and about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Marquette, Michigan.

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PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A former Detroit-area prosecutor will serve no additional time behind bars after he was sentenced Wednesday on corruption charges that he embezzled more than $600,000 from drug and drunken driving forfeiture funds. A Michigan State Police investigation found former Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith used the funds to throw parties, buy gifts and install a personal home security system. Smith, 56, accepted a plea bargain from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in which pleaded guilty to official misconduct, tampering with evidence and conspiracy to commit forgery while seven other counts against him were dropped. Smith apologized in court "for spending these drunk driving forfeiture funds as I did.”This sentence was ordered to be served concurrently with a 21-month federal sentence Smith already has served after pleading guilty to attempting to obstruct justice. Smith, a Democrat, began working in the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office in 1993, was first elected prosecutor in 2004 and resigned as prosecutor in March 2020 after the attorney general filed criminal charges.

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CNN —A Michigan teen who used a slingshot to ward off a kidnapper from his sister told CNN he “grabbed anything I could get” to save her. Shane Smith told CNN Saturday. Owen spotted the attack from inside his home and used his slingshot to hit the attempted kidnapper twice. The kidnapper then fled into the woods, taking a well-used trail used by the community, police said. Owen said he got his first slingshot when he was “probably seven or eight.”Owen said the community in Alpena has been showing support for him.

☆ Michigan Attorney General Nessel says she and other Jewish officials were targeted for murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

EAST LANSING, MI - OCTOBER 16: U.S. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks at a campaign rally held by U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) designed to get Michigan State University students, faculty and staff out to the polls on October 16, 2022 in East Lansing, Michigan. The race between Congresswoman Slotkin and Michigan State Senator Tom Barrett for Michigan's newly configured 7th Congressional District is one of the two most expensive U.S. House campaigns in the country. In her tweet, Nessel wrote: "The FBI has confirmed I was a target of the heavily armed defendant in this matter." "Probable cause exists that [Carpenter] made threats to cause injury and death to Jewish members of the Michigan government," an FBI agent wrote in a complaint against Carpenter. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday that the FBI told her that she was among the group of Jewish state elected officials targeted for murder by a "heavily armed defendant" who has been arrested.

☆ Michigan State Shooting Suspect Had Two Handguns and a Note Making Threats
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Joe Barrett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Police said the man who killed three students and critically injured five others on Monday night at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., was carrying two handguns and a note threatening several businesses and institutions and stating potential reasons for some of the threats, but officials said Thursday they couldn’t give a definitive motive. Anthony McRae , the 43-year-old Lansing, Mich., man who police say shot and killed himself as officers approached him hours after the attack, was carrying two 9mm handguns, multiple magazines filled with 9mm ammunition and two empty magazines, said Lt. Rene Gonzalez of the Michigan State Police. He had purchased the weapons legally, officials said, but they weren’t registered.

☆ The Michigan lawyer pushing Trump’s voter-fraud fictions in U.S. court
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +27 min

Lambert started in her home state of Michigan, joining four lawsuits on behalf of Trump supporters. As Trump zeroed in on vote-rigging allegations in Michigan, Lambert emailed the White House, according to her July 2021 video interview with two right-wing websites. Cotton and Penrose also were involved in examining breached voting machines in Michigan for DePerno and Lambert, according to the Michigan attorney general investigation. In the process, the commissioners were accused of flouting a court order by allowing a forensics company to inspect county voting equipment. In August 2021, a federal judge reprimanded Lambert, Powell and seven other lawyers who joined the failed lawsuit seeking to overturn Michigan’s vote after Trump’s 2020 defeat.

CNN —The Big Ten Conference has fined Michigan State University $100,000 and suspended Spartans cornerback Khary “KJ” Crump for the first eight games of next season following the post-football game fight against rival Michigan in the players’ tunnel at Michigan Stadium on October 29. Michigan State finished its regular season 5-7. At the time, Michigan football Head Coach Jim Harbaugh said two of his players were “assaulted,” and one of them may have a broken nose. Seven Spartans football players, including Crump, were charged last week, according to the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office. 4 in the nation, defeated Michigan State 29-7 before the scuffle.

The former Michigan police officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya during a traffic stop in Grand Rapids in April will stand trial for the killing, a judge ruled Monday. Judge Nicholas Ayoub said enough evidence was presented in a preliminary hearing to require a jury to decide whether Christopher Schurr was justified in shooting Lyoya. These are questions of fact that the jury must decide based on the totality of the circumstances as presented by the evidence at trial,” Ayoub said in court order. The officer ended up restraining Lyoya with his knee to his back and ultimately shot him as he was facedown on the ground. Patrick Lyoya, 26, was shot and killed on April 4, after what police said was a traffic stop.

☆ Michigan librarian dedicated to 41-year-old Halloween cold case
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Sarah Portney | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

On October 31, 1981, 11-year-old Karl Heikell told his parents he was going out for a walk in his town of Calumet, Michigan. “And sure enough, I found newspaper clippings about Karl Heikell going missing.”The young librarian was eager to learn more about this local mystery. Cleary told Dateline. “It's a shame that so many people have Billy in their heads as this” kind of person, he told Dateline. Detective Cleary told Dateline that after Billy’s suicide, police looked into his possible involvement in the case.

☆ Michigan investigation into missing man Eric Lee Franks continues over a decade later
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Veronica Fulton | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +22 min

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A Michigan family of four who were reported missing after the father displayed what officials called paranoid behavior were spotted this week at a gas station, police said Friday. Family members last had contact with the Ciriglianos on Sunday, officials said. Missing Cirigliano family members, from top left, Suzette, Anthony, bottom left, Noah and Brandon. Earlier Sunday, Anthony Cirigliano called 911 and reported he had information about Sept. 11. Gulliver, where the family stopped at a gas station, is around 170 miles north of Fremont, which is a city of around 4,100 north of Grand Rapids.

☆ A Michigan family of 4 has been missing for 4 days in ‘abnormal’ disappearance, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Phil-Helsel-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Phil Helsel | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A Michigan family of four hasn’t been seen or heard from for days after the father called 911 and exhibited paranoid behavior, police said. But he told NBC affiliate WOOD of Grand Rapids that everyone who knows the family is shocked by the disappearance. Missing Cirigliano family members, from top left, Suzette, Anthony, bottom left, Noah and Brandon. The officers made sure everyone was safe and OK, spending about an hour with Anthony Cirigliano, and also talked to Suzette, Rodwell told WOOD. The family has lived there for four years, Rodwell told the station.

☆ State trooper shot during undercover operation in Detroit; residents warned to stay indoors
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A trooper is in critical condition after being shot during an undercover narcotics operation in Detroit early Tuesday morning, causing officials to urge residents to stay indoors, Michigan State Police said. The unit was conducting surveillance on the city's west side at 1:30 a.m. when “they took fire by an unknown suspect” and the male trooper was struck, Michigan State Police’s Second District said. Michigan Police released this photo following the shooting of a trooper in Detroit on Tuesday. Michigan State PolicePolice said the suspect in the shooting was still at large while warning of a possible barricaded suspect situation. "We are still asking residents to stay inside, unless contacted by police, as we continue to make sure the complex is safe," police said.

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