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SCHOOL SHOOTING-MICHIGAN

Judge to rule if Michigan school shooter stays in adult jail

Prosecutors hoping to keep a 15-year-old boy charged with fatally shooting four fellow students at his Michigan high school held in an adult jail say he also wrote of raping and killing a girl at the school. Text messages to a friend and journal items were offered by prosecutors Tuesday as reasons to keep Ethan Crumbley from being transferred to a juvenile facility. Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor Markeisha D. Washington said Crumbley “outlined a plan to stalk, rape, torture and ultimately kill a female classmate.” Crumbley is charged as an adult with first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder, terrorism and gun charges in the Nov. 30 shooting at Oxford High School.

ICE STORM-MICHIGAN

Ice storm leaves roads treacherous in northern Michigan

GAYLORD, Mich. (AP) — An ice storm left road conditions treacherous Tuesday in the northern Lower Peninsula. The National Weather Service posted an ice storm warning for several counties Including the cities of Traverse City, Kalkaska and Grayling through midnight Tuesday night. It says motorists should “plan on ice covered roadways impacting the evening commute” and “travel may be nearly impossible at times in some areas.” Michigan State Police said on Twitter that “vehicles are sliding off the roadway even when stopped.”

THREE SLAIN-DETROIT

2 teens arrested after couple, son fatally shot in Detroit

DETROIT (AP) — Police say two teenage males have been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of a couple and their 5-year-old son in their Detroit home. Police say the suspects, ages 16 and 17, knew the victims. Detroit Police Cmdr. Michael McGinnis said Tuesday the teens were arrested Monday and lodged in the Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility while police prepare warrants seeking murder charges. He says tips from the community led police to the two suspects. Police haven’t released a motive for the slayings found Sunday.

HURON RIVER-CONTAMINATION

Crews investigating contamination reported on Huron River

FLAT ROCK, Mich. (AP) — Emergency crews are investigating an apparent chemical leak or spill into the Huron River in a Detroit suburb, months after that community faced a fuel spill into its sewer system. The Flat Rock Fire Department responded Monday evening to reports of a chemical-like sheen on the Huron River. The department, along with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was working Tuesday to contain the contamination, determine its source and what it is. EGLE spokeswoman Jill Greenberg tells the Detroit Free Press that firefighters have installed boom barriers in the river in an attempt to contain the sheen.

COUNTRY-CLUB-FIRE

Fire-damaged Oakland Hills golf clubhouse to be rebuilt

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The Oakland Hills Country Club’s century-old clubhouse, devastated last week by a fire, will be rebuilt and plans call for a replica of the stately white, pillared building that housed artifacts of some of golf’s biggest stars at the suburban Detroit course. Rick Palmer, president of the Oakland Hills Country Club, said Monday board members who met Saturday “unanimously made an easy decision to determine that the restored, rebuilt clubhouse will be a replica of what the iconic clubhouse was before the fire.” A fire that started Thursday morning in clubhouse’s attic space spread quickly throughout much of the 90,000-square-foot facility. The clubhouse was built in 1922.

MOTORIST DEAD-DRAINAGE DITCH

Missing Michigan woman found dead in car submerged in ditch

MANCHESTER, Mich. (AP) — Police say a Manchester woman reported missing over the weekend has been found dead in her car, which was discovered submerged in a southern Michigan drainage ditch. Michigan State Police say the body of 36-year-old Rebecca Reynolds was discovered Sunday in her vehicle, which had crashed into a Washtenaw County drainage ditch near her Manchester home. The Ann Arbor News reports that officers discovered the vehicle and Reynolds’ body as they were investigating a missing persons report made by one of her relatives in Bridgewater Township. Police said that while her cause death has not yet been determined, it is not believed to be suspicious.

OBIT-LEVY WILLIAMS

Roy Levy Williams, aide to 3 Michigan governors, dies at 83

GROSSE POINTE WOODS, Mich. (AP) — Roy Levy Williams, a former auto executive who also worked for three Michigan governors, has died at his suburban Detroit home. He was 83. Williams’ family says Monday in a release that he died Feb. 11 in Grosse Pointe Woods following a brief illness. They said Williams served as an aide under governors William Milliken and John Engler, both Republicans, and Democrat James Blanchard. He later started a management consulting firm and spent nearly two decades with the then-Chrysler Corp. where he oversaw community relations. He also was president and chief executive of the Detroit Urban League and a member of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners.

BOTCHED BAPTISMS-MICHIGAN

Like in Arizona, botched baptisms roiled Michigan church

DETROIT (AP) — Thousands of Arizona Catholics recently learned they may have been improperly baptized with the wrong words. In Michigan, a separate but similar controversy has been ongoing since 2020. For years, a deacon at St. Anastasia Church in suburban Detroit used the words “we baptize” instead of “I baptize.” The Vatican says that phrase makes the sacrament invalid. The Detroit Archdiocese says it found about 200 baptisms were done properly, and 71 people so far have been baptized again. But 455 people haven’t responded. One person who was affected was a priest, the Rev. Matthew Hood. He was quickly baptized and ordained again as a priest in 2020.

CHARGING STATIONS-MICHIGAN UTILITY

Consumers Energy to add electric vehicle charging stations

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — Consumers Energy plans to add 200 new electric vehicle charging stations — including 100 fast chargers — across Michigan by the end of the year. The Jackson-based utility says Monday that the stations are part of its commitment to powering one million electric vehicles in its service areas by 2030. Consumers Energy has installed more than 1,500 electric vehicle chargers for homes, businesses and along roads across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. The utility says its Clean Energy Plan calls for eliminating coal by 2025, eliminating energy waste and adding renewable energy sources. Consumers Energy provides natural gas or electricity to 6.8 million people in the Lower Peninsula.

SEWAGE DISCHARGE-FLINT

Equipment failure sends raw sewage into the Flint River

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Officials have issued a health advisory for the Flint area after equipment failed at a municipal pumping station, sending an unknown amount of raw sewage into the Flint River. The Flint Journal reports that Genesee County Health Department officials recommended Sunday afternoon that people avoid bodily contact with the Flint River due to the untreated sewage. The health advisory was particularly aimed at the Flint River west of Mill Road Bridge at Flushing Road in Flint Township because that area is downstream from where the sewage was released. The sewage release happened around 1:25 p.m. Sunday at Flint’s Northwest Pump Station.