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Michigan News

Democrat-backed justices keep their majority on Michigan’s Supreme Court

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Democrats have successfully defended control of the state Supreme Court after an expensive campaign with reproductive rights as a key issue. Court races are nonpartisan but candidates are nominated at party conventions. ...

Trump fights back after Harris questions whether he is ‘exhausted’

By STEVE PEOPLES, MICHELLE L. PRICE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump's energy level emerged as a flashpoint on Friday as the Republican nominee and Democrat Kamala Harris scrambled across battleground Michigan with Election Day looming. Harris ...

Harris will campaign with the Obamas later this month in Georgia and Michigan

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will make her first campaign appearances with Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, two of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party, at get-out-the-vote events this month in Georgia and Michigan. It ...

Swimmer who calls himself The Shark will try again to cross Lake Michigan

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — An ultra swimmer said he again will try to cross Lake Michigan, from Michigan to Wisconsin, just a few weeks after trouble with a GPS device forced him to give up after 60 miles (96 kilometers). Jim Dreyer said he would set off early Monday evening in Grand Haven. ...

Michigan man gets another life sentence in 2-year-old’s kidnapping death

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge has handed a Michigan man who pleaded guilty in the kidnapping and killing of his former girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter a second life sentence. U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker sentenced Rashad Trice Friday, one week after he was sentenced to ...