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May 3, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com An Ohio woman claims that racial bias was at the heart of an interaction she had at a Brighton hotel last week. Rosie Ellis of Columbus, Ohio took to social media to tell her story, saying she and her family attended her daughter’s dance competition last weekend and opted to stay at the Courtyard by Marriott in Brighton on Sunday night. Ellis says she noticed that none of the staff at the hotel were wearing masks, and...

April 30, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A public hearing has been delayed on a plan to tear down an abandoned school in Brighton and replace it with a townhome development. The City of Brighton Planning Commission on Monday had been set to consider a site plan approval for the project that would be called the West Village of Brighton. It would also rezone the 10.5-acre property from R-1, or single-family residential, to a planned unit development, or PUD. S.R...

April 29, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A plea has been entered by a Livingston County man charged with throwing a sandbag onto a woman’s car as she drove on I-96. 41-year-old David Vincent Garcia of Brighton was charged last year with three felony counts following an incident in Lyon Township; throwing objects at trains/cars causing serious impairment, assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, and malicious destruction of personal pr...

April 30, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Saturday will mark 30 years since Charlene Hatfield first opened up her knitting shop, Stitch In Time, in Downtown Howell and says it has been her loyal customers that have sustained through the economic ups and downs of the last three decades. Hatfield says she first took up knitting in the late 1980s at a shop in Brighton, and when it closed two years later she was so into the hobby she asked her husband if she could ...

April 29, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A man accused of using a pickup truck to hit his ex-girlfriends brother over the weekend in Highland Township has been charged in the case. 52-year-old Richard Eric Kalinowski of Holly was arraigned Tuesday in Oakland County District Court on a single count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. Authorities say Kalinowski was arrested Sunday shortly after the incident in which a 43-year-old ma...

April 29, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com The woman who leads local Democrats is calling a vote earlier this week by the all-Republican County Board of Commissioners, “a small, petty decision” when they declined to appoint a Democrat to the bipartisan county jury commission, and instead left the position vacant. Judy Daubenmier, who chairs the Livingston County Democratic Party, issued a press release (posted below) following Monday’s meeting of ...

April 29, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Three of the six men charged by federal authorities with plotting to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are now facing additional counts of planning to use weapons of mass destruction to blow up a bridge. 40-year-old Adam Fox of Wyoming, Michigan; 45-year-old Barry Croft Jr. of Bear, Delaware; and 23-year-old Daniel Joseph Harris of Lake Orion, Michigan, were charged with knowingly conspiring to use weapons of mass d...

April 28, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A competency exam has been ordered for a Grand Rapids man shot earlier this month in Howell Township by a Michigan State Police trooper. 20-year-old Tristan Stavedahl was shot April 16th on Milett Road, north of North Burkhart Road by a Detective Trooper with the Livingston and Washtenaw Narcotics Enforcement Team (LAWNET) who was in the area searching for a car theft suspect. State Police say that Stavedahl was armed w...

April 28, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A Fowlerville man has been bound over for trial after being charged in a hit and run incident last year that left an Iosco Township teen seriously injured. 25-year-old Joseph Lee Ackerman was charged in December with Failure to Stop at the Scene of an Accident Resulting in Serious Impairment or Death. The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office says Ackerman was driving a Ford F-350 on the evening of July 26th, 2020 whe...

Buy Now Pay Later & ePOS Credit Spend to Exceed $760 Billion in 2025, as the Installment Market Booms: Kaleido Intelligence Canada The research found that while the US is set to lead the BNPL market until 2025 at least, high growth in Asian markets such as China and India will see Western dominance eroded by BNPL players in these countries. East Asia Pacific and South Asia are expected to record CAGRs of 42% and 74% between 2020 and 2025, respectively. VIEW THE FULL PRESS RELEASE AND INFOGR...