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December 14, 2020 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A generous donation will make sure that members of a local first responder support team will now stand out at emergency scenes. The Howell Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star have purchased new Carhartt “high visibility” jackets for all 33 members of the Livingston County Disaster Assistance Response Team, or DART. Now in its 8th year of operation, DART is an all-volunteer, independent organization com...

December 12, 2020 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A federal lawsuit filed against the Village of Milford by a former employee has been settled out of court. Michael Esson, the Village’s former assistant public services director, filed suit in 2019 alleging violations of Michigan’s Whistleblower Protection Act, extortion, retaliation, racketeering, freedom of speech issues and violations of due process. Esson claimed he was fired after alerting village of...

December 12, 2020 A motorist was killed in a single vehicle accident late Friday in Handy Township. The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office reports they were dispatched at 11:35 Friday night to a report of an injury crash at the intersection of W. Allen Road and Fowlerville Road. A preliminary investigation indicated that a 32 year old male Byron resident was driving north on Fowlerville Road in a 2007 Pontiac G5 when the driver lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle s...

December 11, 2020 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A proposal to repair a local pedestrian bridge was recommended last week by the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Board to the Michigan Legislature. $50,000 will be granted to Hamburg Township to repair the Hay Creek bridge along the Lakelands Trail near Chambers Road. The 104-foot bridge dates from the 19th century when it was built by the Ann Arbor Railroad. Repairs are expected to begin in the fall of 2021 onc...

December 11, 2020 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Sentencing has been handed down to a man who posed as a police officer and pulled over a woman in Livingston County. 43-year-old Michael Joseph Snyder of Northfield Township pleaded guilty as charged earlier this year to a charge of false impersonation of a police officer or employee of the United States. On Wednesday he was sentenced to a year in prison, which would be time already served, plus three years of superv...

December 10, 2020 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A motion has been denied to drop the charges against one of the two men charged with the deaths of 11 Livingston County residents. Barry Cadden is facing trial in Livingston County Circuit Court on second degree murder charges filed last year by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office for his role in running the New England Compounding Center. Cadden was the co-owner of the facility, while his co-defendant, Glen...

Tweets attacking the ousted ambassador to ukraine as she was testifying. lets bring in our correspondents and jon king, we just heard joey connolly emerge from the closeded toor meetings with holmes who overheard that conversation between the ambassador and the president talking about investigations, what was going on in ukraine. he basically confirmed what ta r lor said and david holmes was right there. >> and so the question is number one, what do they get? whats the full explanation? the full...

Into the house running with obama care. health care politics are complicateded. howa. welcome to the campaign. campaigns should be about ideas. >> can you believe were here again? can you believe it? >> yes. because of what happened in 2016, because the democrats view the stakes as so high because so many people want to run. its a little early, but bring it on. its fun. >> jon king. thank you so much. and well all be watching tonight. senator kamala harris joins jake tapper for this live cnn tow...

White house? jon king is with me now. so just on that point, ryan nobles just ran through all the potential you know men and women who want to throw their hat in the ring for 2020. so r for people thinking about it or on the if he safence, wil crowd and goose bumps for a lot people who felt what kamala harris was throwing down in oakland, might that keep them out all together? >> its possible. one o of the questions you have to make is is there oxygen for me. it can take many forms. are there ke...

By schultz will mean he will peel off some independent votes, democratic votes and perhaps make donald trumps play to his base look like the smartest political move that he ever made if its a three-way race. >> which is perhaps one of the reasons why it was howard and not kamala harris that the president took on on twitter. sort of his way of saying bring it. so says jon king last hour. come on in, the water is fine. look forward to all your reporting. loved your pieces from oakland over the wee...