Category Archives: State News
State agency predicts major budget shortfall
LANSING (WKZO) — An already dismal financial picture just got gloomier. The state’s House Fiscal Agency says the general fund is looking at an estimated 454-million dollar shortfall. The e...
Jan 15, 2015
Study finds Michigan has nation's tenth highest cigarette smuggling rate
MIDLAND (WKZO) — A new study from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy finds 25-percent of all cigarettes smoked in Michigan in 2013 were smuggled into the state, the 10th highest percentage in...
Jan 15, 2015
Base jumper dies near Jackson after parachute fails to open
RIVES JUNCTION, MI (WTVB) – A daredevil is dead after a stunt that failed near Jackson. WLNS-TV 6 in Lansing is reporting that Michigan State Police say the man leapt from a TV tower just north ...
Jan 15, 2015
Data shows Asian carp eDNA very close to Lake Michigan
CHICAGO (WKZO) — Sampling results from the Chicago Area Waterway System by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service indicate the presence of environmental DNA from Asian carp closer than ever before t...
Jan 15, 2015
98th Michigan legislative session opens
LANSING (WKZO) — State lawmakers are back at work in Lansing with the start of the new term on Wednesday. Not a lot will be done for the next several weeks other than getting organized, but new ...
Jan 15, 2015
Bashara sentencing set for Thursday
DETROIT (WKZO) — Bob Bashara will be sentenced Thursday for the 2012 murder of his wife, Jane. The Grosse Pointe Park man was convicted last month of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit fi...
Jan 14, 2015
Macomb County woman to face trial in son's death
MOUNT CLEMENS (WKZO) — A Macomb County woman charged in the brutal murder of her son is headed to trial. Sixty-year-old Donna Scrivo is charged with first-degree premeditated murder, disintermen...
Jan 14, 2015
Revenue down at Detroit casinos
DETROIT (WKZO) — Revenue at all three of Detroit’s casinos declined last year. It marks the third consecutive year that annual revenues at Greektown, MGM Grand and MotorCity casinos have f...
Jan 14, 2015
Kilpatrick waits for decision after appeal for new trial
CINCINNATI (WKZO) — The decision on whether former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should get a new trial on corruption charges is in the hands of a three judge appeals court panel. Attorneys for...
Jan 14, 2015
Fiat Chrysler head says fuel standards too tough
DETROIT (WKZO) — Sergio Marchionne, the head of Fiat Chrysler, says the government’s mandated fuel economy targets should be rolled back. Marchionne says the U.S. auto industry should actu...
Jan 14, 2015
