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With so many closely contested races in Michigan, authorities are on the lookout for efforts to meddle with elections or harass election workers. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The Michigan Senate adopted two bills this week to expand Michigan’s ethnic intimidation law. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office has been served with a subpoena by the special counsel investigating the January 6th attack on the US Capitol and former President Donald Trump’s attempts to reverse the results of the November 2020 election. Rick Pluta reports.

The US Justice Department has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against the City of Lansing. The lawsuit claims the Lansing city jail fired a Seventh Day Adventist after she said she could not to work a shift that fell during her religion’s sabbath. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Ryan Kelley, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor of Michigan, was arrested Thursday by the FBI and formally charged in federal court with taking part in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. We have more from Rick Pluta.

There were no guilty verdicts as a jury acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer and deadlocked on whether to convict two other defendants. That result Friday followed five days of deliberations at the federal courthouse in Grand Rapids. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The ACLU was in court Monday trying to get a federal judge to issue an order that immigration officers cannot threaten or coerce detained Iraqis into…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Justice Department say an agreement has been reached with Marathon Petroleum to reduce air pollution from a…

State and city officials will announce more steps today as they try to address the water contamination crisis in Flint. Five new centers have been set up…

Governor Rick Snyder has declared a state of emergency in Genesee County related to lead contamination of the city of Flint’s water supply. “The health…