WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was expected to spend his last full day in office issuing a flurry of pardons and bidding farewell to the American public from a near-deserted White House and surrounded by an extraordinary security presence outside.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery players will have another shot Tuesday night at the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history.
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — A former western Michigan college professor has been sentenced to prison for manslaughter in the death of his autistic teenage son, who drowned after spending hours in an icy backyard pool with his arms restrained.
MILAN (AP) — The CEO of Stellantis, the carmaker created from the merger of PSA Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler, said Tuesday that the tie-up will help preserve jobs, factories and the 14 storied brands as billions in annual savings are achieved.
The race against the virus that causes COVID-19 has taken a new turn: Mutations are rapidly popping up, and the longer it takes to vaccinate people, the more likely it is that a variant that can elude current tests, treatments and vaccines could emerge.
NEW YORK (AP) — COVID-19 came early for Catherine Busa, and it never really left.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jared Porter went from rising star to unemployed — literally overnight.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Attorneys for former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder are striking back, telling prosecutors Tuesday that the Flint water case should be dismissed because he was charged in the wrong county.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Two self-described militia members facing federal charges that they participated in the assault on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month were jailed Tuesday.
LAWRENCE, Mich. (AP) — A Kalamazoo-area man who vanished in October after visiting friends has been found dead in a wooded area, police said.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appointed a new Republican to Michigan's election board Tuesday, replacing one who was not re-nominated by the GOP after he voted to certify Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Containing the coronavirus outbreak and repairing the economic damage it has inflicted are the top priorities for Americans as Joe Biden prepares to become the 46th president of the United States, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affa…
GENEVA (AP) — A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned whether the U.N. health agency should have labeled it a pandemic sooner.
Two players are among the three latest COVID-19 cases that have emerged from testing conducted on passengers who arrived on charter flights bringing people to Melbourne for the Australian Open.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Mercantile Bank Corp. (MBWM) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $14.1 million.
MILAN (AP) — European car sales plunged by nearly a quarter last year as the pandemic provoked the worst crisis ever to hit the capital-intensive industry.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Inside hospital rooms across America, where the sick are alone without family to comfort them, the grim task of offering solace falls to overworked and emotionally drained hospital chaplains who are dealing with more death than they’ve ever seen.
BENTON TOWNSHIP — People wanting to understand what white privilege is need look no further than what happened on Jan. 6, when a mob of mostly white people stormed the U.S. Capitol because they didn’t like who was elected president, Tekeidra Masters of Benton Harbor said Monday during a virt…
ST. JOSEPH — Skaters are back on the ice at the John & Dede Howard Ice Arena in St. Joseph.
BENTON HARBOR — Whirlpool Corp. will get a leg up on foreign competitors for at least another two years in the U.S. after a favorable tariff was renewed.
BENTON HARBOR — Many questions remain unanswered since “The Other Side of the River” first came out in 1998.
Elizabeth “Betty” Kohn of Berrien Springs, who, with her husband, donated millions of dollars to the community over the years, died on Saturday in Florida at the age of 86.
LAWRENCE — The body of a 45-year-old Parchment man who had been missing for 3 1/2 months has been found.
COVID-19 trends stay steady over weekend
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Monday, January 18, 2021
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
NEW YORK (AP) — Stevie Wonder, whose advocacy helped make the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday, is urging the incoming Biden administration to form a national commission on equality.
DETROIT (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
DETROIT (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
DETROIT (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
DETROIT (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
DETROIT (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
NEW YORK (AP) — Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California on Monday became the first state to record more than 3 million known coronavirus infections.
Facing criticism that he was acceding to President Donald Trump's demand to produce citizenship information at the expense of data quality, U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham said Monday that he planned to resign with the change in presidential administrations.
CHICAGO (AP) — Joe Scheidler, the founder of the Pro-Life Action League and prominent figure in the anti-abortion movement, died Monday, the organization announced. He was 93.
ATLANTA (AP) — Speakers at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration in Atlanta called Monday for a renewed dedication to nonviolence following a turbulent year in which a deadly pandemic, protests over systemic racism and a divisive election capped by an attack on the U.S. Capit…
DETROIT (AP) — The resiliency, culture and heroism of Black Americans and the African diaspora will be the central theme of a virtual event Tuesday that will celebrate the nation’s diversity on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
DETROIT (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
DETROIT (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
DETROIT (AP) — These Michigan lotteries were drawn Monday:
CHICAGO (AP) — A California man who told police that the coronavirus pandemic left him afraid to fly has been arrested on charges that he hid in a secured area at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport for three months.
HARRISON, Mich. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused of ramming his pickup truck into a Michigan State Police SUV in northern Michigan has been arrested, authorities said.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — In a story January 16, 2021, about Republican leaders invoking war rhetoric, The Associated Press incorrectly referred to an incoming chairwoman of the Michigan GOP. Instead, she is the incoming party co-chair. A corrected version of the story is below.
Vermont is facing at least its second lawsuit in four months over a voucher program that allows students in communities that don't have schools or are not part of supervisory unions to attend schools of their choice, including approved private institutions.
PHOENIX (AP) — Exhausted nurses in rural Yuma, Arizona, regularly send COVID-19 patients on a long helicopter ride to Phoenix when they don't have enough staff. The so-called winter lettuce capital of the U.S. also has lagged on coronavirus testing in heavily Hispanic neighborhoods and just …
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Property owners in six Michigan counties can apply for Deer Private Land Assistance Network Grants.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan has been awarded two $5 million grants to fund projects that focus on addressing racial inequity.
With no way out, tennis players in lockdown are figuring out ways to keep themselves fit within the confines of their Melbourne hotel rooms as they prepare for the Australian Open.
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. (AP) — In 30-plus years as a wildlife rehabilitator, Phyllis Carlson has had only three snowy owls.