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12 Detroit Principals Charged in Bribery Scheme

Feds say they took kickbacks from supplier

(Newser) - Detroit's battered public school system got another black eye on Tuesday when federal prosecutors filed bribery charges against 12 current and former principals over an alleged school supply scam. US Attorney Barbara McQuade says the sordid scheme involved businessman Norman Shy, who allegedly scammed Detroit Public Schools for millions,...

Pilot Arrested After Allegedly Showing Up Drunk for Flight

TSA noticed him acting strangely

(Newser) - Nervous flyers should stop reading now. ABC News reports an American Airlines co-pilot was arrested Saturday morning at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly showing up for work drunk. The unnamed pilot was was acting strangely and was reported by TSA, according to the New York Daily News . Officials say he...

Woman Dealt Diseased Body Parts in Grisly Case

Her estranged husband will stand trial in April

(Newser) - A Detroit woman faces up to 10 months in prison for fraud after admitting to renting diseased body parts to researchers. Elizabeth Rathburn, 56—to be sentenced in July—also must pay $55,225 to the American Anesthesiology Association, whose researchers were told the body parts were clean, reports the...

Flint Investigates Odd Break-In of Office That Holds Water Files

Files were left strewn around room at City Hall

(Newser) - In what they might be calling "Water-gate" if that name wasn't already taken, authorities are investigating a mysterious break-in at Flint City Hall. In December, somebody broke into the vacant Michigan office where the city's water files were kept, and the city's new police chief tells...

Courtroom Crooner Channels Adele at Sentencing

Michigan man is apparently very sorry

(Newser) - A convicted felon may be rolling in the deep (trouble), but that didn't stop him from breaking out into song during his recent sentencing hearing, the Ann Arbor News reports. Singer Adele was the apparent inspiration behind the courtroom crooning of 21-year-old Brian Earl Taylor, who appeared March 10...

Mysterious Blood Infection Hits 2nd State

A Michigan resident has also died after contracting Elizabethkingia infection

(Newser) - Health officials have confirmed that a western Michigan resident died after contracting a bloodstream infection matching a Wisconsin outbreak that's stumped health officials. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it was notified March 11 by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of...

Cops: Shooting Suspect's Uber Lawsuit Is a Hoax

Jason Dalton isn't seeking $10M

(Newser) - The Uber driver charged with murdering six people during a shooting spree in Kalamazoo , Mich., hasn't sued Uber after all. Police on Thursday declared Wednesday's widespread reports of a lawsuit to be a hoax, reports CBS Detroit . County sheriff's officials talked to suspect Jason Dalton, who seemed...

Teen Shooting Survivor in Kalamazoo Says First Word

Abigail Kopf continues to improve

(Newser) - The 14-year-old victim of the Kalamazoo shooting rampage who was thought to be dead until she squeezed her mom's hand has now said her first word since the shooting. "This little girl loves her pig named Hamlet. Tonight, Abbie spoke her first word. It was 'pig,'...

Beneath Empty Michigan Mall: 484 Rooms

 Beneath Empty 
 Michigan Mall: 
 484 Rooms 
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Mar 5, 2016 11:50 AM CST

Beneath Empty Michigan Mall: 484 Rooms

What lurks beneath Northland Center is wild

(Newser) - While it's far too early to declare the shopping mall "dead" (the New York Times last year cited figures that showed only 20% of America's 1,200 malls have vacancy rates in excess of 10%), there are dead malls. The Detroit Free Press has the fascinating story...

Michigan Sees 'Cluster' of Toxic Shock Cases

5 cases have been reported since December

(Newser) - Cases of toxic shock syndrome have been falling since the 1980s, partly due to increased warnings about tampon use. That's why a sudden bump in cases in Michigan is so startling. Greenville's Rylie Whitten was put on life support in early January with one of the worst cases...

Email Undercuts Mich. Governor's Excuse on Flint Delays

'As you know, the Governor can declare at any time for any reason'

(Newser) - In the Flint water mess , Gov. Rick Snyder's office has said it waited so long to declare an emergency because local officials needed to act first. But an email released over the weekend makes clear Snyder could have moved months before he actually did, reports the Detroit Free Press...

Wife: I've Got Bad News for Accused Kalamazoo Shooter

Carole Dalton files for divorce

(Newser) - Mass murder, apparently, was the last straw. The wife of Michigan mass-shooting suspect Jason Dalton has filed for divorce, Michigan Live reports. "There has been a breakdown in the marriage relationship to the extent the objects of matrimony have been destroyed and there remains no reasonable likelihood that the...

Latest E. Coli Culprit: Alfalfa Sprouts

Outbreak in Michigan, Wisconsin has sickened 9 people

(Newser) - Alfalfa sprouts are behind the latest E. coli outbreak, making nine people ill in Michigan and Wisconsin, CNN reports. Per a CDC announcement issued Thursday, the affected sprouts originated from Jack & the Green Sprouts in River Falls, Wis., and caused two of the sickened individuals to be hospitalized.

Firefighter Pays $1K Bill for Disabled Teens

'I hope it inspires other people to do something similar'

(Newser) - Firefighter Ryan McCuen spent $1,023 on a Detroit family and received cookies, fruit, and a balloon in return. He doesn't regret it one bit. After responding to a medical call at a home earlier this month, McCuen, 35, learned Christy Stone has five kids, including two teens with...

Sheriff: Kalamazoo Victim Was Shot Saving Kids

Tiana Carruthers' actions 'were very courageous,' he says

(Newser) - As investigators try to piece together Saturday night's shooting rampage in Kalamazoo, Mich., the first person to be shot is emerging as a hero. Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller says Tiana Carruthers, a 25-year-old mother, was with several children outside an apartment complex when alleged gunman Jason Dalton approached...

Before Mass Shooting, Uber Sidelined Complaint

Injured Kalamazoo teen still fighting for life

(Newser) - Could faster action from Uber have stopped the Kalamazoo rampage? The company has admitted it received a complaint about driver Jason Dalton hours before Saturday's mass shooting and failed to act on it, the Guardian reports. Passenger Matt Mellen may have been present at the moment the alleged gunman...

Driver Charged With Murder in Kalamazoo Killings

6 counts, plus 2 counts of attempted murder

(Newser) - A prosecutor has charged an Uber driver with six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder in a series of random shootings in western Michigan, the AP reports. The Kalamazoo County prosecutor filed the charges Monday against 45-year-old Jason Dalton of Kalamazoo Township. Dalton, who was arrested Sunday...

Entire Family 'Wiped Out,' Likely by Carbon Monoxide

A generator had been running following a power outage

(Newser) - Authorities suspect carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator running indoors killed a family of six in their home in Fenton Township, Mich. The two adults and four children were found dead Sunday, NBC News reports. "Seeing an entire family wiped out is a very, very sad thing," Genesee...

Motive a Mystery in Kalamazoo Rampage
Uber User Describes Chilling Exchange With Suspect
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Feb 22, 2016 6:31 AM CST

Uber User Describes Chilling Exchange With Suspect

Jason Dalton 'liked guns,' neighbors say

(Newser) - More details have emerged about Kalamazoo mass shooting suspect Jason Dalton—but none explain what could have driven him to kill six people in a Saturday night rampage , apparently picking up fares as an Uber driver between murders. Neighbors in rural Michigan tell the Detroit Free Press that the 45-year-old...

Mich. Shooting Suspect Was an Uber Driver

May have given rides between 3 shootings Saturday night

(Newser) - The man expected to be charged in the Kalamazoo shooting spree that has so far claimed six lives and injured eight people was an Uber driver who was giving rides to customers in between opening fire on three separate locations, reports WOOD-TV . Uber confirmed that suspect Jason Dalton worked as...

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