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May 4, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Three Livingston County projects have been included among ten submitted by Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin for possible federal funding. Last week, the 8th District Democrat said that of the 58 projects that had been submitted to her office from across the district, she was recommending ten of them for submission to the House Appropriations Committee for possible inclusion in the annual spending bill Congress will vote on fo...

May 4, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Appeals have been denied in the murder case against two men charged in Livingston County for their roles in a deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak. Attorneys for Barry Cadden and Glenn Chin filed motions in January to reverse earlier rulings against their clients that they should stand trial on 11 counts of second degree murder. Last week, Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Michael Gadola denied both in a one-sentence opin...

The Johnson City Press presents "From the Warehouse," a new music-driven series highlighting local and regional artists. Hoping to periodically provide homegrown acts with a video platform, the series is shot on premises (in an old city garage and battery warehouse) with the artists permission. Jon King is a singer-songwriter from Piney Flats who has big dreams of country music success, and when you meet him you understand those dreams have to be large in order to fit his stature. While his lon...

The Johnson City Press presents "From the Warehouse," a new music-driven series highlighting local and regional artists. Hoping to periodically provide homegrown acts with a video platform, the series is shot on premises (in an old city garage and battery warehouse) with the artists permission. Jon King is a singer-songwriter from Piney Flats who has big dreams of country music success, and when you meet him you understand those dreams have to be large in order to fit his stature. While his lon...

May 4, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A plea has been entered for a jailhouse assault by a Detroit man already serving time for armed robbery and fleeing from police in late 2019. 29-year-old Bryan James Busher was sentenced last month to serve a year in the Livingston County Jail for his plea to an armed robbery charge for an incident on Christmas Eve 2019 at the Genoa Township Walmart. Today Busher was back in 53rd District Court for a plea hearing on an ass...

The Johnson City Press presents "From the Warehouse," a new music-driven series highlighting local and regional artists. Hoping to periodically provide homegrown acts with a video platform, the series is shot on premises (in an old city garage and battery warehouse) with the artists permission. Jon King is a singer-songwriter from Piney Flats who has big dreams of country music success, and when you meet him you understand those dreams have to be large in order to fit his stature. While his lon...

May 4, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Voters in the Fowlerville Community Schools district will be casting ballots today on a $37.8 million bond proposal that school officials say would fund a new building and improvements district-wide, while not increasing property taxes. Superintendent Wayne Roedel says that if passed, the bond would help pay for a new K-2 school building, allowing them to transform the H.T. Smith Elementary School into the districts early ...

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May 3, 2021 By Mike Kruzman & Jon King / news@whmi.com A local legislator is calling on the governor to reverse her mask mandate on young children. Republican State Representative Bob Bezotte of Marion Township is criticizing Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the state health department for a mandate requiring children from 2 to 4 years old to wear masks. Monday’s order calls for kids in that age range to wear masks in public places and places like d...

May 3, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A trial has been ordered for a Brighton man charged with sexually assaulting a woman several times. 31-year-old Joseph Henry Santana was arraigned February 28th on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and single counts each of unlawful imprisonment, assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and resisting, obstructing police. That followed testimony from a Michigan State Police trooper that...