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The organization has been helping people with disabilities for the past 45 years and their headquarters have not been improved much since 1994 in Wayland. CEO Michele Suchovsky says they need more space and modern materials and two of their three buildings will be renovated. They will also add a 42-hundred square foot canine village with updated living quarters for 64 dogs being trained.

Visitation will be from 3 to 4 p.m. and the funeral will start at 4 p.m. at Shelby Road Baptist Church in Shelby. Moran's death was announced on social media and the district is asking memorial contributions be made to Moran's Ride for Pride Program.

The game masters at Top Trumps USA are asking residents and businesses to submit ideas for the new board game. You can do so online at toptrumps.us/pages/Detroit. The Detroit Monopoly game is expected to be unveiled in November or December.

The program serves over 200 Grand Rapids youth. Planned activities include arts and crafts, outdoor adventures, sports, swimming, movement and dance, STEM and more. Families interested in signing up can do so online.

This year, visitors can feed and brush goats as a new permanent home and habitat for the beloved goats has been completed. Also, visitors can once again partake in the Skylark Ridge ropes course and zipline, which is open for its second season. The zoo is open from nine to five Monday through Friday, nine to six on Saturday's and ten to six on Sunday's.

Organizers say one of the key reasons for this effort is to change the current pay system to ensure a living wage and to remove the Speaker of the House's ability to hire and fire. Teamsters are currently gathering union cards with the hope of getting sixty-percent of the 220 legislative staffers on board.

The county says she will be succeeded by health planning and promotion manager Lisa Uganski on June 3. Mansaray had been with the department since 2006 and had been deputy health officer since 2020.

Charles Hackley Middle School, located on the former Mercy Health Hackley Hospital, has 133-thousand-square-feet of space for students and had a price tag of 35-million-dollars. A community open house is scheduled for this Thursday at 5:30 p.m. for the public to check out the new building. Teachers will then start moving into the building this summer and classes will begin in the fall for the 2024 to 2025 school year.

The city brought in 775-thousand fans for the event, and Mayor Mike Duggan says it was unexpected to draw that many people. Duggan added he had never heard so many people from the Detroit suburbs referring to "we" for the entire city. He called it a spectacular team effort and praised the work of others including Dan Gilbert and Detroit Police Chief James White.

Interim township manager Timothy Schmitt says the money was "already contractually obligated." Walsh resigned effective April 21 and the township board started negotiating the deal with him on April 16. Meridian Township is located just east of East Lansing.

The vaccine clinic will be first-come, first-served at the Manchester United Methodist Church from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 4. HSHV Friends for Life coordinator Alicia Curley says they don't want people to have to give up anything to keep their pets healthy.

That is three-thousand-miles from Banff, Alberta in Canada to Antelope Wells, New Mexico and it has over 200-thousand feet of elevation change. Linder is doing it in honor of his late son, Kevin, who died at five-years-old from neuroblastoma cancer in 2013. He says Kevin never gave up, loved anything with an engine, and loved riding his bike up and down the driveway. Mark is raising fifty-thousand-dollars for three organizations that help kids fight cancer.

The bill comes after a dog named Queenie died after being subject to experiments at Wayne State University. Critics of the testing say taxpayer dollars have been put toward the experiments and that needs to stop.

The threat was reported around 7 p.m. Wednesday by a student who had said they were going to shoot students with a rifle and a handgun. Police have not said if the student they arrested had access to any guns. The student is in a juvenile detention facility.

Fifty-year-old Clint Dunning was sentenced to prison yesterday by a Van Buren County judge. The mother of three children, Krysta McFadden, was sentenced two weeks ago to between 18 and 21 years in prison after she pled guilty to second-degree murder. Both received new trials after their convictions were overturned last year based on ineffective counsel and failure to disclose evidence.

Visit Detroit's Chris Moyer says there are people coming here from all 50 states for the draft. SFX Downtown hotels have wait lists and Airbnb officials say searches for places to stay are up by 450-percent. Visitors are likely to spend hundreds of millions of dollars during the event.

The bear only touched the bag of sugar after getting in through the back door and took it to the sidewalk to eat it. The staff says the bear visited the store five straight evenings last week, and was inside for less than 20 seconds. They reinforced the door the next day to keep the bear out.

Superintendent Ben Kirby says the student died Friday on the trip to the national finals. The student's name has not been released. Officials say a crisis team is available for any students who need it.

Fouts was prohibited from seeking a fifth term as mayor due to term limits. Fouts says he is running as a Democrat over concerns about global warming and defending democratic governments internationally. Fouts will challenge incumbent Democratic Representative Mike McFall.

Detroit Police Chief James White says they have been planning for the past year and the plan is similar to other large-scale events in the city like Beyonce and Taylor Swift concerts, Detroit Lions games, and the fireworks. His department is aided by the Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb sheriff's offices, the FBI, Homeland Security, ATF, and Canadian police. The Detroit Fire Department will have four stationary medical tents, six ambulances, and more ready as well.

Katie Heid joins the Steve Gruber Show to discuss DeWitt Public Schools optional “mini lesson” on gender pronouns for its youngest students. https://www.michigannewssource.com/2024/04/dewitt-schools-superintendent-gender-pronouns-mini-lesson-only-being-offered-to-one-first-grade-classroom-in-response-to-concerns

The NRC held a forum Wednesday night at Lake Michigan College in Benton Township about the work in front of them as Holtec is trying to become the first nuclear power plant owner in the world to restart a plant that had been shut down. They say since the plant stopped making power in May 2022, Holtec did not keep equipment updated in the way it would have if the plant was still operating and there are pumps that haven't been used for nearly two years. The goal is to restart the plant in August 2025, but the NRC says if they find issues, it will take longer.

Fain is in their "Innovators" category and was named to the list by President Biden. Biden wrote the historic wage increases obtained under Fain's leadership "carry forward the powerful legacy of labor leader and fellow UAW president Walter Reuther, and have led virtually every auto-maker across the country to follow suit."

The results were shared at the Chamber's Policy Conference. The main concerns are public safety and the cost of living and education is a very close third. The survey found Gerald R. Ford International Airport has a 66-percent approval rating.

The sign for the Texas-based travel center chain has the logo and says "444 Miles," indicating their nearest location to west Michigigan in Richmond, Kentucky. SFX That's general Counsel Jeff Nadalo who says they are in early planning stages for new centers near Madison, Wisconsin and Dayton, Ohio.