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The man convicted in the murder of Oakland University student Tina Biggar is scheduled to go before the parole board Tuesday.
Kenneth Tranchida, 67, will meet with parole board member and former Detroit Police commissioner Jerome Warfield Tuesday morning.
Tranchida was convicted in 1996 in Oakland County of killing Biggar, a 23-year-old student from Farmington Hills.
Described as a drifter, Tranchida, then 42, met Biggar through a research project she was working on about prostitution and AIDS that was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Biggar disappeared in August 1995.
Her body was found behind the former home of one of Tranchida s relatives in Southfield in the Nine Mile and Lahser area. Her car was discovered in Tranchida s possession, authorities said. Tests revealed blood found in the car belonged to Biggar, and she died from blows to the head and neck, according to an autopsy.
ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.
Michigan has 9,590 confirmed and five probable cases of B.1.1.7, the variant detected originally in the United Kingdom, with 533 confirmed cases reported in the Michigan Department of Corrections. In addition, there are 57 confirmed and two probable cases of the B.1.351 strain first detected in South Africa. Two strains originally detected in California, B.1.427 and B.1.429, account for 72 and 215 cases, respectively. There have been two cases of B.167.1 and five of B.167.2, both of which were originally detected in India, and there have been 179 confirmed cases and one presumed case of the P.1 strain originally detected in Brazil. Michigan has a total of 10,128 variant cases.
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May 2021: Hepatitis Awareness Month
WHEREAS, over four million Americans are living with chronic hepatitis, and many do not know it, as people often are asymptotic. Without a blood test, they may never know they have the hepatitis B or C virus; and,
WHEREAS, hepatitis B and C are the most common blood-borne infections in the United States that primarily affect the liver. Infection can be acute (lasting six months or less) or chronic (lasting more than six months); and,
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