JACKSON, Mich. (AP) The Consumers Energy Foundation has announced more than $480,000 in grants to help Michigan nonprofits provide critical help to communities during the coronavirus pandemic. Since March, the Jackson-based foundation that is the charitable arm of Consumers Energy has provided $5.4 million in direct response to the pandemic. Grants support those working on the front lines to directly meet basic needs such as food and shelter. The Food Bank Council of Michigan received $200,000 in funding to address food insecurity, including mobile food distributions across the state. Other
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By - Associated Press - Sunday, January 10, 2021
ADA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Students at a Grand Rapids-area high school have raised enough money to help a family acquire a home.
Forest Hills Central in Ada Township raised $21,000, more than double its goal, to help families with gifts at Christmas. The balance will be used by Family Promise of Grand Rapids to help a family with housing, MLive.com reported.
Family Promise Partners in Housing purchases and renovates affordable homes. After a year, a family gets to keep the home, said Kate O’Keefe, director of development.
Prosecutors decided for now not to proceed with charges against Leslie Grimes, one of the six Michigan people arrested during the insurrection at the Capitol on Wednesday, according to a District of Columbia official with knowledge of the situation.
Grimes father, Robert Grimes, told The Detroit News she was wrongfully arrested near a pro-Trump insurrection, which unfolded from a protest she and her Grand Rapids-area friends attended as counter-protesters.
Grimes was identified by the police as Logan Grimes when arrested. Grimes is a transgender woman who uses feminine pronouns, according to her father.
After spending a full day in a Washington, D.C., jail, Grimes headed back to Grand Rapids Friday, her father said. The 54-year-old Cadillac man said his whole family is opposed to the sitting president, and it s been horrible to see his daughter s name associated with violent acts committed in President Donald Trump s name.
LANSING — A justice made her public debut Wednesday as the Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments in five cases.Election victories by Elizabeth Welch and Chief Justice Bridget McCormack gave Democratic nominees a majority on the seven-member court for the first time since 2010. They campaigned as a team."We are all eager to have her contributions to our work," McCormack said at the start of the day.Because of coronavirus restrictions, the Supreme Court still is hearing cases by video