Category Archives: State News

ANTWERP TOWNSHIP, MI (WHTC) – An accident in Van Buren County caused injury to one person and a driving citation to another yesterday afternoon. The Van Buren County Sheriff's Office released a ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC) – A Kent County Circuit Court Jury returned a guilty verdict for first-degree murder against Jamarion Lawhorn. He was 12 years old when he stabbed nine-year-old Connor Ve...

LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Considering that it was commissioned by the Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association, a survey of more than a thousand likely voters showed 72 percent support for keeping pu...

LANSING, MI (WHTC) – A state lawmaker from the Detroit area is confident that a bill to rescind Michigan’s fireworks law can clear the House. Henry Yanez told Michigan Public Television th...

LANSING, MI (WHTC) – The first confirmed human cases of West Nile Virus for this season in Michigan were somewhat disclosed by state Health and Human Services Department officials. They claim th...

LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Michigan State Police will be out in full force this weekend watching for drunk drivers and those who aren’t buckled up around the state through Labor Day holiday week...

LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Traveling in Michigan should be easier this Labor Day weekend with MDOT suspending work on 114 of the 155 active road construction projects around the state. The orange barr...

LANSING, MI (WHTC) – State House Democrat Jeremy Moss says that he will, when the Lower Chamber returns from its summer break next week, push for legislation that would subject the Legislature a...

LANSING, MI (WHTC) – MIRS News is reporting that House Speaker Kevin Cotter and the GOP majority in the Lower Chamber that he represents are the biggest road blocks to a road funding bill cleari...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC) – A 44-year-old Kalamazoo man will spend between 25 and 38 years in prison for admitting that he robbed a Grand Rapids chain drug store a year ago. Dwight Hill is already...