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March 15, 2021 By Mike Kruzman & Jon King / news@whmi.com Representatives from the Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) called their meeting with Hartland Consolidated Schools’ administrators a “positive first step.” Two weeks ago 18-year old senior Tatayana Vanderlaan, a young woman of color, posted on social media several instances of racial abuse and discrimination she said were made her by fellow students. She also claimed that in at lea...

Last modified on Mon 15 Mar 2021 04.28 EDT Damien Hirst is talking about the epiphany he had at the age of 14. It was 1979 and he’d been “a bit wayward” after his parents’ divorce two years earlier. “Then I got done for burglary,” he says. “I stole a record collection from someone’s house. Among the records was Entertainment! by Gang of Four. I loved it because it made me think. After that, I wrote ‘Gang Of Four’ on my school blazer and had their button badge. I used to copy...

“We didn’t sound like anybody else,” says singer Jon King. A new box set finds the band’s earliest albums have kept their original thrills.

Unusually aggressive coyote behind five East Bay attack caught and euthanized By Lisa Fernandez File Photo. A coyote is seen here staring towards the camera in Northern California. MORAGA, Calif. - The California Department of Fish and Wildlife on Friday announced that the coyote behind five attacks in the East Bay has been caught and euthanized. Fish and Game Capt. Patrick Foy said the coyote walked into a trap on Thursday, which had been set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture off Calle ...

Radio Station WHMI 93.5 FM — Livingston County Michigan News, Weather, Traffic, Sports, School Updates, and the Best Classic Hits for Howell, Brighton, Fenton

Radio Station WHMI 93.5 FM — Livingston County Michigan News, Weather, Traffic, Sports, School Updates, and the Best Classic Hits for Howell, Brighton, Fenton

March 12, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com The guilty verdict of a Brighton-area man for raping a teenage girl at a golf course has been vacated by a local judge. In court Thursday morning, Livingston County Judge Michael Hatty read a ten-page opinion from the bench concerning the verdict against 22-year-old Zachary Lally of Green Oak Township. Lally’s attorneys had sought a new trial based on allegations that Assistant Prosecutor Pamela Maas solicited per...

March 10, 2021 By Mike Kruzman & Jon King / news@whmi.com State bills calling for election reform being championed by a local lawmaker have passed through the House, while opponents argue that some of the legislation will limit voter access. Republican State Representative Ann Bollin of Brighton Township, who chairs the House Elections and Ethics Committee, has targeted the state’s Qualified Voter File (QVF) following an audit that she says suggested a need...

March 10, 2021 By Mike Kruzman & Jon King / news@whmi.com The chair of the Livingston County Board of Commissioners says even utilizing the Social Vulnerability Index, or SVI, he believes the county is still being shorted its fair share of COVID vaccine. Livingston County Health Department Director Diane McCormick made her regular vaccination update to the Board of Commissioners during their online meeting, Monday. She said 16% of Livingston County residents have...

March 10, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Services are set this weekend for a Chelsea teen who died over the weekend in a freeway accident on I-94. 18-year-old Shaun Happy, a senior at Chelsea High School, was killed Saturday night on westbound I-94 near Sargent Road in Leoni Township. His mother Shannon posted online that her son suffered from “anxiety and depression for the past year and a half” and that he “lost control” after taking drug...