The Latest Breaking News from Michigan

"Extortion, there's no other way to explain it," the couple's attorney says.

An Abbott baby formula plant in Michigan that’s been shut down since February could be up and running as early as next week, the head of the Food and Drug Administration told lawmakers Thursday.

Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) and the FDA are reportedly on track to reopen the company's Sturgis, Michigan, baby formula manufacturing plant within one or two weeks, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said. Abbott, the biggest U.S. supplier of powder infant formula, including Similac, agreed with the FDA on the steps needed to resume production at…

The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency announced May 4 that an additional 55,000 unemployment insurance claimants who received overpayments during the coronavirus pandemic will not have to repay the funds. The agency also said about 400,000 overpayments totalling $4.3 billion had already been forgiven.

First Columbia Gold Corp (OTCPK:FCGD) operating as Fine Cannabis Goods, entered into an agreement to acquire Green Diamond Farms LLC of southwest Michigan.

Just a handful of formula makers dominate the industry so a single plant shutdown can lead to empty shelves.

Bad policy makes people vulnerable, and the current baby formula shortage is just the latest example. The immediate cause of the shortage was contamination in a Michigan factory, which might not resume production until June. But the underlying cause is a slew of bad policies that make the market less…

The Food and Drug Administration has reached an agreement with Abbott Laboratories to resume production at the company’s Sturgis, Michigan, facility. The announcement gives hope of relief for the three-fourths of American parents who rely on infant formula, and have struggled to find the product in recent weeks.

DETROIT — Oxford Community Schools officials, acting sooner than it had declared it would, on Tuesday approved hiring a consulting company to investigate and review the Nov. 30 shooting at Oxford High School.

President is asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Defense Secretary to ‘work expeditiously to identify any and all avenues to speed the importation of safe infant formula into the United States and onto store shelves’

DETROIT — Health departments in Detroit, Oakland, Macomb, Wayne and Washtenaw counties are recommending all residents wear masks in indoor public settings because the COVID-19 infection rate has risen.