Michigan News from MLive

A Devos-backed education petition won’t submit signatures to get on the November ballot, the 200 millionth vehicle is expected to cross the Mackinac Bridge this month and a rare Michigan sighting of a black-bellied whistling duck draws a crowd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three candidates for governor file lawsuits to overturn disqualifications, Grand Rapids pastors are calling for a federal investigation into the killing of Patrick Lyoya and Aria Hutchinson wins Miss Michigan USA one month after her brother gets drafted by the Detroit Lions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan’s attorney general orders a tree service to cease and desist amid price-gouging accusations, lawmakers want to expand a tuition-free college program to adults 21 and up and strawberries sold at Walmart, Kroger and other stores are linked to a hepatitis A outbreak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan blocks five Republican candidates from the ballot in the race for governor, Michigan gas prices would drop 50 cents under a Senate-approved summer tax cut and MDOT is removing lane closures to ease Memorial Day traffic congestion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer orders state agencies to protect abortion access in Michigan, a judge from Michigan is confirmed to a federal appellate court and Michigan colleges experience the nation’s worst spring enrollment dive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A total of 18 candidates could be kept off Michigan ballots after the state determined they did not get enough valid signatures, the last coal-powered passenger steamship in the U.S. is looking to ditch coal and Michigan’s Adventure is set to open for the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

State investigators are sent to Gaylord to look into reports of price gouging following a deadly tornado, a judge in a Flint water crisis civil trial has dismissed a juror who twice tested positive for COVID-19 and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announces a $280 million tutoring plan for Michigan students. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Gaylord community is working to clean up after a deadly tornado touched down late last week, a new bridge at Tahquamenon Falls State Park will provide island access and the Coast Guard warns boaters not to use E15 gas this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gov. Whitmer wants to give $500 to working Michigan families, the Michigan House passes a bill to study adding new nuclear power plants in the state and the accused Oxford High School shooter will remain in adult jail, a judge again rules. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A state senator is among 15 candidates disqualified from Michigan’s primary ballots, the Kent County prosecutor says additional time is needed for a decision in the fatal shooting of Patrick Lyoya and auto insurance refunds totaling $3 billion have been distributed in Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan’s abortion ban is temporarily blocked by a state court, DNR offers a warning as a Northern Michigan wildfire is now 98% contained and Ann Arbor is the best place to live in Michigan, according to a new ranking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Northern Michigan wildfire is 75% contained, Michigan saw a small business boom in 2021 and South Haven can now close beaches and piers during unsafe conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lighting is the cause for a 2,700-acre wildfire in the northern Lower Peninsula, Michigan’s liquor tax could be slashed for small distillers and what you need to know about the avian flu outbreak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Ann Arbor teen dies after bridge-jumping into the Huron River, another lawsuit could halt Detroit’s entrance into the recreational marijuana market and a Pentagon reply to Michigan’s governor goes missing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bills headed to Gov. Whitmer’s desk would redefine borderlines between Michigan and Indiana, a Grand Rapids Starbucks will be the first in the state to count union votes and COVID-19 deaths are increasing in Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gas prices in Michigan hit another all-time high, state police expand an investigation into alleged voting machine tampering after the 2020 election and Michigan bans bird shows as avian influenza spreads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Michigan State basketball star Adreian Payne dies in a Florida shooting, Gov. Whitmer signs a law creating a statewide child abuse registry and Michigan’s attorney general says further action is needed to ensure humane animal testing in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dana Nessel says she won’t enforce Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban if Roe v. Wade is overturned, a 5-month-old wallaby goes missing from the Detroit Zoo and residents are advised to return to wearing masks in one Northern Michigan county. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michigan’s attorney general is calling on President Biden to cancel student debt, thousands of people flock to help a Michigan abortion-rights petition drive and a documentary about the Flint water crisis is showing at a Michigan theater. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TurboTax will return $3.5 million to Michigan tax filers in a settlement, how an abortion ban could impact Michigan economically and Michigan erases $431 million in pandemic unemployment overpayments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look at what could happen to abortion access in Michigan if Roe v. Wade is overturned, one in three Michigan roads are in “poor” condition and Michigan’s oldest woman dies at 114. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gov. Whitmer signs an executive order urging the state to find ways to increase voter registration, school-related COVID-19 outbreaks spike in Michigan and the University of Michigan’s men’s and women’s tennis teams win Big Ten titles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Masks remain optional in Michigan despite rising COVID cases, waivers for Michigan pandemic unemployment overpayments are still pending and Michigan State University will not require ACT and SAT scores for 5 years. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A police training bill is introduced in Congress after the killing of Patrick Lyoya, bird flu has been confirmed in another Michigan county and a Michigan school goes virtual as police search for men who entered the building to fight security and students. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A challenge from Democrats could disqualify top Republican candidates for Michigan governor, most Michigan families used extra Child Tax Credit cash to buy food and a project to create a self-driving lane on I-94 gets $130 million from Ford and others. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices