Michigan

Life in Plastic, the Art is Fantastic: Michigan store gets creative

The Plastic Bag Store is a part of No Safety Net, a bigger exhibit by the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan. Plastic soft drink bottles and plastic foot packs are placed on racks to raise awareness of the long-term effects of single-use plastics

US: Muslims don’t want LGBTQ+ books in schools, say 'If democracy matters, we're in majority'

Scores of protesters packed a Michigan school board meeting and expressed anger over certain LGBTQ+ books, saying they are 'too sexually explicit for children'

Watch: US medical students walk out of induction ceremony after anti-abortion keynote speaker takes stage

The university stated that Kristin Collier was chosen as the keynote speaker by members of their medical school’s Gold Humanism Honor Society and that ‘the White Coat Ceremony is not a platform for discussion of controversial issues’

Michigan police officer charged with murder in Lyoya shooting

Grand Rapids Officer Christopher Schurr fired the fatal shot while Lyoya was on the ground, demanding that the 26-year-old refugee from Congo 'let go' of the officer’s Taser

Michigan police officer to be potentially charged on Thursday for killing a Congo refugee

Lyoya, 26, a refugee from Congo, was killed by Grand Rapids Officer Christopher Schurr after a traffic stop on 4 April

US: Dog stranded on floating ice chunk on frozen river rescued; here's how it happened

The local police were able to shift the ice chunk closer to the riverbank and an officer grabbed the dog around its neck with the help of a 'catchpole'

Michigan teenager charged with murder and terrorism for Oxford High School shooting

Ethan Crumbley was charged as an adult with two dozen crimes, including murder, attempted murder and terrorism causing death.

Michigan school shooting: Three dead, eight wounded in Oxford after 15 year-old opens fire

It was the deadliest school shooting so far this year, according to Everytown For Gun Safety, a group which keeps statistics of mass shootings and lobbies for gun control

After pandemic year, a weary world looks back, and forward

A year later, some are dreaming of a return to normal, thanks to vaccines that seemed to materialise as if by magic. Others live in places where the magic seems to be reserved for wealthier worlds.

TOPS sanctions extension of Olympic-bound Bajrang Punia's US camp by one month

Punia, who qualified for the Tokyo Games in the men's freestyle 65kg category, has been training at Cliff Kean Wrestling Club in Michigan since 4 December.