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Mike Curtis: Pistons strengthen frontcourt depth with trade for James Wiseman

DETROIT — In the waning hours of the NBA's trade deadline, Pistons general manager Troy Weaver shook up the roster with a trade — his third consecutive deadline-day deal since taking over in 2020.

Tribune News Service · Feb 10, 2023

Feds seized records, phone of former Michigan House leader

A former leader of the Michigan state House had his phone seized as part of a federal investigation that included grand jury subpoenas, search warrants and bank records

The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2023

Feds investigate ex-Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson for alleged bribery in pot licensing

LANSING, Mich. — FBI agents and a federal grand jury have spent more than two years investigating whether former Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson and others received bribes in return for awarding state licenses to operate medical marijuana facilities, The Detroit News has learned.

Tribune News Service · Feb 2, 2023

Michigan employee reported unauthorized person accessed email accounts at football HQ days before police search

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A University of Michigan employee told police someone accessed university email accounts without authorization at Schembechler Hall, the headquarters of the football team that includes the offices of coach Jim Harbaugh and suspended co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss, according to a UM crime log.

Tribune News Service · Jan 18, 2023

'How do you just lose a painting like that?': Detroit museum packed in wake of van Gogh controversy

DETROIT — Cheryle Van Wert said she can't fathom how a $5 million Vincent van Gogh painting could have disappeared for six years before turning up at the Detroit Institute of Arts — but she said she drove 100 miles Sunday from Saginaw to the museum to see for herself…

Tribune News Service · Jan 16, 2023

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel reopens investigation into false Trump electors

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Friday her office is reopening its investigation into the 16 Republican electors who signed a certificate falsely claiming that former President Donald Trump had won the state's 2020 election.

Tribune News Service · Jan 6, 2023

A Michigan Supreme Court Justice Hired an Ex-Con. Another Justice Shamed Him Into Resigning.

Justice Richard Bernstein said Pete Martel's hiring as clerk was unacceptable because "I'm intensely pro-law enforcement."

Reason · Jan 6, 2023

Voicemails: Trump lawyer, ex-senator sought access to Dominion voting machines in Michigan

LANSING, Mich. — A lawyer who said he worked for former President Donald Trump's campaign and a former state senator asked a clerk in Oakland County for access to voting machines in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election, according to two voicemails that were made public for the first…

Tribune News Service · Jan 5, 2023

Oxford High, district officials seek to dismiss shooting lawsuits

DETROIT — A lawyer for Oxford High School and district staff asked a federal judge to dismiss civil lawsuits filed in connection with one of the nation's deadliest campus shootings, claiming officials were not fully responsible and have qualified immunity shielding them from liability.

Tribune News Service · Dec 23, 2022

Michigan senator plans bill against pressuring election workers to break law

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Dayna Polehanki, D-Livonia, said Monday she plans to sponsor a bill that would impose penalties for pressuring, coercing or intimidating election workers in Michigan to violate the law.

Tribune News Service · Dec 13, 2022