Rick Pluta
Managing Editor, Michigan Public Radio NetworkRick Pluta is the managing editor for the Michigan Public Radio Network.
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The firearm store that sold the gun used in the Oxford High School shooting is asking the Michigan Court of Appeals to dismiss a liability lawsuit filed by the family of a survivor. We have more from Rick Pluta. -
The Oxford High School shooter is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to let a new trial judge reconsider his life-with-out parole sentence. The shooter’s legal team says he was denied effective assistance of counsel. Rick Pluta has more. -
The Republican chair of the Michigan House Oversight Committee says he is stepping carefully in an inquiry into the state’s economic development agency to avoid interfering with a criminal investigation. We have more from Rick Pluta. -
Democrats in the Michigan Legislature have introduced bills to let student athletes at public universities form labor unions. We have more from Rick Pluta. -
A Michigan Department of Corrections report says the rate of repeat offenders being returned to prisons is at an all-time low. We have more from Rick Pluta. -
School districts face tough choices as their fiscal years began Tuesday while the Legislature remains deadlocked on a state K-12 budget. We have more from Rick Pluta. -
The director of the Michigan State Police spent an hour and a half Tuesday taking questions from lawmakers about morale in a department that appears skeptical of his leadership. We have more from Rick Pluta. -
A ballot campaign planning to launch soon would ask voters to ban political donations from committees affiliated with utility monopolies and from with public contractors. We have more from Rick Pluta. -
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the state of Michigan does not have to destroy data gleaned from infant blood samples collected by hospitals at birth. Rick Pluta has more. -
A state House committee voted along party lines Wednesday for a bill to blunt the effects of a Michigan Supreme Court decision. The ruling says 19- and 20-year-olds cannot be automatically sentenced to life-without-parole. Rick Pluta has more.
