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January 18, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Submissions are now being accepted for an art contest designed to generate public awareness about environmental protection. The 2021 Our Changing Climate art exhibition is being hosted the Huron Valley Council for the Arts, Environmental Council of Huron Valley, Michigan Rock School, Crossroads Group of the Sierra Club, and Community Unitarian Universalists of Brighton. Organizers say it is intended to act as a, �...

January 18, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com As the nation celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an annual event in Lansing will feature Dr. King’s youngest daughter. Dr. Bernice King will headline the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commission of Mid-Michigan’s 2021 MLK Day of Celebration, which will be televised for the first time in its 36-year history. The program will air on WILX TV 10 tonight from 7-8pm. King is a global peace activist who was on...

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January 14, 2021 Ana Liz Nichols (Associated Press) & Jon King / jking@whmi.com The new legislative session in Michigan began Wednesday with political tensions high over the attack on the U.S. Capitol and certification of the presidential election, with State Senator Lana Theis among those being called out for efforts at casting doubt on the validity of Joe Biden’s win. Since the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C., by supporters of President Donald Trump, the ...

January 14, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Sentencing has been handed down to a former bookkeeper for a Livingston County-based religious denomination who admitted to embezzling from the organization. 76-year old Judy Murray of Wyandotte formerly worked for the Assemblies of God Michigan District, located in Brighton Township. She was accused to have stolen $205,000 and was charged in October with embezzlement of $100,000 or more. Murray pleaded guilty in Dec...

January 13, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com An effort has again been denied to dismiss murder charges against two men charged for their roles in a deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak. On Monday, Livingston County Circuit Court Judge Michael Hatty denied motions filed by lawyers for Barry Cadden and Glenn Chin to reverse the decision of 53rd District Court Judge Shauna Murphy who determined in August there was enough evidence to bind the pair over for trial o...

January 13, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Charges have been filed against a Flint man for the armed robbery of a check-cashing business in Livingston County. 40-year-old Rollo Thomas Pickens of Flint had already been charged with several counts of armed robbery, felony firearms and resisting/obstructing police for various robberies and attempted robberies at Check ‘n Go locations in Fenton, Burton, Grand Blanc and Swartz Creek. Those incidents occurred ...

January 12, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Citing President Trump’s incitement of last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, 8th District Democrat Elissa Slotkin says she will support the article of impeachment against him. The House sped ahead Monday with plans to oust Trump from office, warning he is a threat to democracy and pushing the vice president and Cabinet to act even more quickly in an extraordinary effort to remove Trump in the final days of...

January 12, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com With past president Andy Burchfield having retired from his seat on the Brighton Board of Education, the board on Monday selected local attorney Roger Myers as the president for the coming year. Myers, who served as board secretary last year, was elected to a second, 4-year term on the board in November. He and his wife, Kelly, have four children who either attend, or are graduates of, the Brighton Area Schools. Like ...

January 11, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Sentencing has been handed down to a Hartland Township man convicted of setting a large barn fire in September. 33-year-old Michael Paul Nester pleaded no contest last month to charges of arson and malicious destruction of property stemming from a suspicious fire and property damage that occurred at a property located off of Clyde Road, east of Hartland Road, in the early morning hours of September 8th. Last week, Li...