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“Local, state and federal officials. we all failed the families of Flint,” Snyder told a congressional committee in 2016. He now could face criminal charges.
Fmr. Gov. Rick Snyder (R-MI) (file photo)
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In Flint, criminal and civil cases stemming from the city’s lead tainted drinking water crisis are converging this week. New criminal charges may be coming while many in Flint still question whether they will ever get justice.
Nearly seven years ago, government leaders here pushed the button that switched the city of Flint’s drinking water source from Detroit’s water system to the Flint River.
What are the charges?
Snyder and eight other former officials involved in the Flint water crisis were charged and arraigned this week:
Former state health director
Nick Lyon was charged with nine felony counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of willful neglect of duty. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Dr. Eden Wells was charged with nine felony counts of involuntary manslaughter, a misdemeanor count of willful neglect of duty, and two felony counts of misconduct in office.
Current state health department employee
Nancy Peeler was charged with two felony counts of misconduct in office and one misdemeanor count willful neglect of duty.
In Flint, criminal and civil cases stemming from the city’s lead tainted drinking water crisis are converging this week. New criminal charges may be coming
DETROIT, MI (AP) A team at Wayne State University in Detroit has released an annual list of little-used words it deems worthy of resurrection.
Anagapesis, blatteroon, snollygoster and footle are among the 10 words selected by Wayne State University s Word Warriors. Unlike overused words or phrases that counterparts at Lake Superior State University list each year for banishment, the Word Warriors want to dust off those that have fallen over the decades into disuse.
The school says submissions come throughout the year from Detroit residents and other wordsmiths.
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Kevin Craig
Meteorologist Kevin Craig joined FOX 17 in 2001 and FOX 47 in January 2021. He is one of only a few in the state that have earned the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) seal of approval from the American Meteorological Society. Kevin started his broadcast career in 1993 at WCAR radio in Detroit as a board operator and part time news anchor. He continued in radio news as an anchor/reporter for the next three years in northwest Ohio until taking his first television job in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
He was a TV news reporter/anchor for about a year when the opportunity came up to fill-in for the weather department. Kevin became the morning weather anchor and science reporter at WIFR-TV in Rockford, Illinois in 1996. He was hired as the morning weather anchor in Madison, Wisconsin in 1998 at WKOW-TV and a private forecasting firm called Weather Central.