Michigan News from MLive

Michigan’s declining college enrollment trend continues, jail time remains as a punishment for those who fail to report deer kills in Michigan and the state will pay $20 million to workers accused of unemployment fraud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Officials say ballots won’t be counted any faster in Michigan this year, hacking concerns cause the FBI to contact Michigan’s major political parties and Michigan bears are eating up to 20,000 calories per day right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new law to draw in retired corrections officers might be the answer for staffing shortages, Orkin says three Michigan cities are among the most rat infested in the country and the application launches for the student loan forgiveness program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inflation could hurt candy hauls this Halloween, a bill in the Michigan legislature would allow natural hairstylists to wash their clients’ hair and for the first time in months, no Michigan counties are listed in the “high” category for COVID cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan State University’s president resigns in a video message, prices are up 8.2% as September inflation remained hot and Gov. Whitmer declares a state of emergency for Menominee County after a large paper mill fire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Michigan universities are among the top 150 schools in the world, an “unusual” vessel that sank in Lake Superior nearly 120 years ago is discovered and a Michigan city is ranked as the second worst U.S. city to drive in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan gas prices jump to $4.35 but an expert predicts prices will “inch down,” a man dies in rough Lake Michigan waters during a kayak race and Michigan coach Mike Hart is making positive progress after a sideline scare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The state of Michigan suspends the license of a Carvana dealer, a Michigan man is accused of stealing 7,000 identities to get free Medicaid phones and a meteor shower this month could deliver extra bright meteors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New FBI crime statistics show homicides are down while overall crime is up in Michigan, the Michigan Redistricting Commission is facing money troubles and where to look for the huge full hunter’s moon this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wedding venue owners who say they won’t host LGBTQ wedding events get a civil infraction, an upgrade will help Consumers Energy store natural gas for winter and Condé Nast says two of the top hotels in the Midwest are here in Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan gas prices are up 35 cents in the past month, produce from a Michigan farm using untreated human waste is declared a public health risk and Gov. Whitmer signs off on a $1 billion investment into Michigan’s future economic development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So far 3% of Michigan residents have gotten the omicron-specific booster, a report says Michigan should make several renewable energy options mandatory and the world’s tallest cat lives here in Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roughly 1.3 million Michiganders can apply for student debt relief in October, the Michigan Senate passes bills that would force schools to filter drinking water and the so-called “cannibal killer” pleads guilty in the murder of Kevin Bacon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wolverine Worldwide and 3M will pay $54 million in a PFAS class settlement, a study shows 1 in 4 Flint residents suffered from PTSD linked to the water crisis and mail ballot preprocessing is possible for the November election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Videoed child abuse testimony may soon be the standard under a trio of House bills, a jury awards $100K to a health worker who said Flint blood lead data was falsified and the Detroit Lions skyrocket in national NFL power rankings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Michigan House and Senate are scheduled to meet for the first time since July, the Michigan Secretary of State is adding two more mobile offices and a rare white ‘spirit bear’ is spotted in the Upper Peninsula. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More Michigan counties report cases of monkeypox, a bike and pedestrian path is planned for a new international bridge to Canada and two Michigan towns are among those listed as the best destinations for the Halloween season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One in four millennials say they plan to be “forever renters,” fairgoers are urged to be cautious as Michigan reports its first 2022 swine flu case and the Michigan Supreme Court’s chief justice plans to retire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan voters will decide on abortion rights in November, the Michigan Supreme Court OKs a voting rights amendment for midterm ballots and a U.P. bear-dog retires after nearly a decade at a Michigan zoo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Michigan court has ruled the state’s abortion ban is unconstitutional, Michigan’s inmate population is at a 30-year low and Eastern Michigan University is asking the courts to order striking faculty members back to work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black bear numbers are at historic levels in Michigan, a new Michigan law bans fake urine used to pass drug tests and thousands of people participate in this year’s Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Promote the Vote asks the Michigan Supreme Court to approve its ballot proposal, Michigan’s monkeypox cases are outpacing the national rate and a group will test 100 locations in Flint amid new concerns about water quality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A $5 billion missile-defense contract was awarded to Boeing Huntsville; a sheriff wants his conviction thrown out; Dothan has a new charter school; longtime UPI journalist Bessie L. Ford dies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Michigan girl is among three to die in Monday’s storms, Amtrak suspends some Michigan trains due to a lack of resources and Michigan lawmakers are unsure of when they will return to Lansing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan could pause sales tax on back-to-school products, the DNR is investigating a possible large cat sighting in Manistee County and why you might have gotten fewer mosquito bites this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices