On June 8, about a week after he completes classes at Holt High School, 17-year-old Brett Johnson, the drunk driver in a Jan. 30 crash that killed three of his teenage passengers, will learn his official fate.
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At $4.17 per gallon, it cost me $69.96 to fill up my Explorer Tuesday morning at the QD at Jolly and Dunckel. I didn’t have the heart to squeeze in that final four cents’ worth.
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One reader called this one “insane”:
“The ramp from westbound M-43/Grand River Avenue to northbound U.S. 127 will be closed until May 20 as crews work to add an extra lane along U.S. 127 between Grand River Avenue and Lake Lansing Road.
“A detour directs drivers to use southbound U.S. 127 to Dunckel Road, to northbound U.S. 127.”
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A 30-day supply of a medicine crucial to my mother’s well-being would have cost me $215 out of pocket, even with a $100 discount from CVS Pharmacy. Instead, I got a 90-day supply of the same medicine — from the same place — for a $10 co-pay.
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This might be the first-ever candlelight vigil for a bar … On the other hand, maybe not — people do become attached to their watering holes.
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This week’s edition of City Pulse includes an intriguing little tidbit about a Sparrow Hospital employment policy that was, then wasn’t …
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Here’s how the Washington D.C.-based blog Wonkette sees the state law, endorsed by Gov. Rick Snyder, that gives broad new powers to emergency managers appointed to run local governments and schools with financial problems:
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