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School shooter wants guilty plea withdrawn

DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors urged a judge Tuesday to reject a Michigan school shooter’s request to withdraw his guilty plea in the deaths of four students in 2021. Ethan Crumbley, 18, is serving a life sentence for the Oxford High School shooting. But his new appellate lawyers want to ...

Election offices say they received ballots misdirected from other states

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Terry Thompson had an election to run for voters in Cascade County, Montana. Why then, she thought, was her office in Great Falls being sent mailed ballots completed by voters in places such as Wasilla, Alaska; Vancouver, Washington; and Tampa, Florida? It was only about ...

Residential lead hazard services expanded in UP

LANSING — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $7 million in community grants to expand residential lead hazard control services to eligible households with a Medicaid-enrolled residents. A grant of $700,000 to the Public Health of Delta and Menominee ...

Cancer closet donation

Marguerite Lanthier/Daily News photo Who’s Next in Aurora, Wis., co-hosted a cancer benefit with breast cancer survivor Robin Krueger on Oct. 26 and raised $5,700 for the Dickinson County Cancer Unit Loan Closet. Krueger, who has hosted three other benefits for the cancer closet, approached ...

Democrats reelect Neubauer as Assembly minority leader

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democrats reelected Greta Neubauer as Assembly minority leader on Tuesday after she helped the party flip nearly a dozen seats in this month’s elections. Assembly Democrats unanimously selected Neubauer as their leader during an afternoon caucus meeting in ...