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Michigan resumes monitoring troubled Wayne County juvenile jail

The Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility is again operating under state supervision less than a month after a public emergency order was lifted following the alleged sexual assault of a child and months of overcrowding and understaffing in the troubled facility.

Tribune News Service · Jul 2, 2023

Newborns get routine heel blood tests, but should states keep those samples?

Close to 4 million babies are born in the United States every year, and within their first 48 hours nearly all are pricked in the heel so their blood can be tested for dozens of life-threatening genetic and metabolic problems. The heel-stick test is considered such a crucial public health…

Tribune News Service · Sep 15, 2022

Michigan sees spike in cases, deaths from COVID-19 in past week

DETROIT — Michigan experienced a spike in the coronavirus as it added 16,681 cases and 160 deaths from COVID-19 Tuesday, including totals from the previous six days, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Tribune News Service · Jul 12, 2022