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February 25, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, and as it winds down this weekend, Michigan advocates say while teen romance can be tricky, it shouldnt be dangerous. Its estimated that one in three teens experiences some type of abuse by a romantic partner. Paige Welch - a senior at Dewitt High School - is on the Michigan Youth Girls Advisory Board, a program of the Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health...

February 23, 2021 By Tom Tolen / news@whmi.com The Brighton Area Schools Board of Education reached a consensus at its meeting Monday night that the present 2-1-2 model for face-to-face learning will remain for the rest of the school year for the district’s roughly 5,800 pre-K-through-12 students. The 2-1-2 arrangement that has been in place since the start of the school year in September simply means all in-classroom students attend school on Mondays and T...

February 23, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A family of four in Iosco Township had to flee a fire in their home early this morning. The Fowlerville Fire Department was called out at 2:19am on the report of a fire at a home on Lange Road, west of Dutcher. Fire Chief Bob Feig says upon arrival they found that a fire that had started in the chimney area of the home was extending through the roof and into the walls. He says firefighters were quick to attack the f...

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February 22, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A Washtenaw County judge is set to rule today on whether citations issued last summer during a racial injustice protest in Chelsea should be dismissed. That follows a protest Friday in front of the Chelsea Police Department after Chief Edward Toth said his department will not dismiss the civil charges against 29 people issued $180 tickets for impeding traffic. All of those who were ticketed last July, including seven...

February 20, 2021 By Jon King / news@whmi.com The deadline is approaching to apply for scholarships being offered for area hospitality and tourism workers. The Livingston County Convention & Visitors Bureau says its annual “Hospitality Star Scholarship” seeks to continue investing in the education of the tourism industry professionals in the Brighton-Howell Area. The LCCVB will award two $1,500 scholarships; one to a current Cleary University Hospital...

February 19, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A local pastor is responding to an incident last weekend in which individuals disrupted her congregation’s service with racist taunts and threats. Last Sunday, February 14th, Julie Brock, the Minister of the Community Unitarian Universalists in Brighton, says that white supremacists Zoom-bombed their church service as they celebrated the legacy of civil rights achievements. The culprits, who were able to take ov...

February 19, 2021 By Mike Kruzman & Jon King / news@whmi.com Mixed support was shown largely along party lines for a new resolution introduced at the county level requesting the state change how they determine vaccine allocations. The Board of Commissioners’ General Government and Health and Human Services Committee held a special meeting, Thursday. There they passed a resolution calling upon Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health & ...

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DNA may link coyote that bit little girl to at least 3 other attacks     MORAGA, CA (KPIX) — A coyote that attacked and bit a child walking with a parent in a Moraga neighborhood Tuesday morning may be responsible for other recent attacks in the area. Moraga police said the attack happened at about 8:30 a.m. near the intersection of Calle la Montana and Campolindo Drive. A woman was walking with her three-year-old daughter and her other child in a stroller when a coyote attacked and bit ...