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SCHOOL SHOOTING-MICHIGAN

Judge delays case against Michigan school suspect’s parents

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A judge has granted a Michigan prosecutor more time to collect and share additional evidence against the parents of a boy charged with killing four students at Oxford High School. It’s partly because prosecutor Karen McDonald wants to give the Michigan community “time to heal” during the holiday season. James and Jennifer Crumbley are charged with involuntary manslaughter. They’re accused of giving 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley access to a gun and failing to intervene when they were confronted with his disturbing drawings just before the the Nov. 30 shooting. The teenager is separately charged as an adult with murder and other crimes.

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Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds

ATLANTA (AP) — A review by The Associated Press in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 cases of potential voter fraud, a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election. Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and their 79 Electoral College votes by a combined 311,257 votes out of 25.5 million ballots cast for president. The disputed ballots represent just 0.15% of Biden’s victory margin in those states. Trump, a Republican, has continued to insist that the election was fraudulent by citing a wide range of complaints. The AP review also showed no collusion intended to rig the voting.

BUSINESS INCENTIVES

Michigan lawmakers eye $1.5B in business incentives, relief

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan legislators are starting to pass a $1.5 billion bill with state incentives to land major business expansions, including an electric vehicle battery factory that General Motors wants to build in the Lansing area. Once Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs the funding and related bills, the money will go to the new Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve Fund. Legislative budget committees would have to approve transfers from the account to site readiness and “critical industry” funds before Michigan could distribute grants, loans and other assistance to companies. Lawmakers are in session Tuesday night.

PAYDAY LENDING

Board approves language for payday loan ballot petition

LANSING, Mich (AP) — A coalition took a step closer in its effort to have voters decide how Michigan should cap interest rates on payday loans. Michiganders for Fair Lending on Tuesday won the approval of the Board of State Canvassers for the language on its proposed petition to put the issue on the November 2022 ballot. Payday loans are short-term loans with high interest rates. The coalition says payday loans can cost borrowers dearly and trap them in a cycle of debt. The petition calls for a prohibition on fees on payday loans that total more than 36% APR.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-FUNDING

Michigan Legislature poised to OK $841M in COVID, other aid

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers are poised to approve an additional $841 million in COVID-19 and other spending, including for coronavirus testing at schools and emergency assistance to help low-income renters. The proposed supplemental funding was advanced out of a conference committee to the House and Senate floors Tuesday. It includes nondiscretionary aid that Congress and President Joe Biden enacted nine months ago: $150 million for schools to screen and test for the virus; $168 million in relief for airports; and $140 million in emergency rental aid. The bill has $36 million in state funding to address the water crisis in Benton Harbor.

BROTHER MISTAKEN FOR DEER-SHOT

Teen mistakes brother for deer, shoots him: deputies

SOLON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a teenager mistook his 12-year-old brother for a deer and shot him with a rifle. The Kent County Sheriff’s Office says the younger boy had gone to call his 17-year-old brother in for dinner Monday evening when the shooting occurred in Solon Township, north of Grand Rapids. Deputies say the teenager was hunting from a tree stand at the time. WOOD-TV reports the 12-year-old was hospitalized in serious but stable condition. The names of the brothers haven’t been released .

MSU BONUSES

MSU expresses ‘gratitude,’ gives $1,500 bonuses to faculty

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University is awarding $1,500 bonuses to campus employees. The bonuses, which will cost roughly $27 million, will go to regular and temporary faculty, support staff and graduate students who teach. MSU last month announced 2% raises for non-union faculty and academic staff hired before June 30. Winter break has also been extended by three days. Some faculty members welcomed the latest bonuses but said they don’t replace cuts made earlier during the COVID-19 pandemic. President Samuel Stanley Jr. says he’s grateful for what campus employees have accomplished during the pandemic.

PICTURED ROCKS-ENTRANCE FEE

Pictured Rocks to begin charging 1st entrance fee in March

MUNISING, Mich. (AP) — Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore will soon begin charging visitors entrance fees for the first time in the 55-year history of the tourist destination in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Park officials announced Monday that the park along Lake Superior will start charging visitor fees starting March 1, 2022, and that camping fees and lighthouse tour fees will increase as of Jan. 1. Superintendent David Horne says the new and increased fees will help finance infrastructure improvements at the 70,000-acre park, which last year saw a record more than 1.2 million visitors. The lakeshore destination is known for its colorful sandstone cliffs, rock formations, waterfalls and acres of sand dunes.

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Vehicle emission declines decreased deaths, study finds

Researchers who study the environment and public health say that thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars have been saved in the United States by recent reductions in emissions from vehicles. The researchers from Harvard University looked at the impact of declines in emissions from cars and other vehicles between 2008 and 2017 on deaths caused by air pollution from them. They found deaths dropped from 27,700 in 2008 to 19,800 in 2017 and that the economic benefits from the emissions reduction totaled $270 billion.

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State details of AP’s review of potential voter fraud cases

The Associated Press spent months contacting hundreds of local election offices in the political battleground states where former President Donald Trump and his allies disputed his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. In all, the review found fewer than 475 instances of potential cases of voter fraud in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. That’s nowhere near Biden’s total margin of victory in those states of more than 311,000 votes. Here are details from the AP review in each of those states.