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Elderly Woman Dies In House Fire; Husband Injured
YPSILANTI TWP. (WWJ) An 85-year-old woman has died in an Ypsilanti Township house fire that also injured her 86-year-old husband. Washtenaw County sheriff’s spokesman Derrick Jackson says the woman was...
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House Committee Votes To Scrap Pricing Law
LANSING (WWJ) - It’s a big step forward for a bill to get rid of Michigan’s law requiring a price tag on every item. A House committee in Lansing has voted to eliminate Michigan’s long-standing item...
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Mich. House Passes Bill Eliminating Item Pricing
LANSING (WWJ/AP) – The Michigan House has passed a bill eliminating the practice of putting price tags on every item. The measure passed Wednesday on a 69-41 vote. As it stands now, nearly every item...
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State Worker Same-Sex Benefits In Jeopardy
LANSING (WWJ) - Same sex benefits for state workers are on the line in Lansing. The Michigan Senate voted to kill a healthcare benefit for state workers who have live-in friends and their kids. State...
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Michigan Senate Votes To End Item Pricing Mandate
LANSING (WWJ/AP) - Michigan’s law requiring individual price tags on most retail items appears headed for extinction. The Republican-led state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill by a 24-13 vote that...
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Protesters Won’t Leave When Capitol Closes
LANSING (WWJ) – As many as 150 protesters say they intend to stay inside the State Capitol all night if necessary. Lance Eberle, a laid off teacher said he’s leading a group who intend to set up camp...
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House Bid To Reject State Employee Benefits Stalls
LANSING (AP) – Republicans in the Michigan House are having trouble getting enough Democratic votes to overturn a decision to extend health coverage to same-sex partners or other adults living with...
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Differences Emerge In Michigan Budget Plans
LANSING (AP) – Gov. Rick Snyder would like to complete work on the next state budget by May 31, a significant departure from recent years when budget negotiations have stretched until the Oct. 1 start...
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Bill Would Eliminate Minimum Age For Hunters
LANSING (WWJ) – A Michigan House committee has approved legislation that would eliminate the minimum age for hunters, while creating a mentored youth hunting program. “Under this proposed leglsiation…...
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House Committee Tackles Mortgage Fraud
LANSING (WWJ) – Mortgage fraud, blamed in part for the housing meltdown, was front and center in Lansing, Wednesday. Oakland County register of Deeds George Bullard and others around the state went...
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State House Passes $33B Budget Bill
LANSING (WWJ/AP) – The Michigan House has passed a $33 billion budget bill that covers state spending for everything except education. Lawmakers were deeply divided, Wednesday, on the measure, which...
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State House Approves Education Budget
The Michigan House on Thursday narrowly approved legislation that would cut state aid to public schools, community colleges and universities for the budget year that begins in October. The measure...
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Same-Sex Benefits An Issue In Budget Battle
LANSING (WWJ) - A controversial proposal in Lansing would cut funding for colleges that give benefits to same-sex partners. Working on the budget last week, House Republicans added to the higher...
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It’s The Ultimate Detroit Red Wings House!
Credit: WWJ Photo/Bill Szumanski LIVONIA (WWJ) – With 11 Stanley Cups on the front lawn, and a massive winged wheel alongside a giant octopus on the roof – it’s pretty difficult to miss. In Livonia,...
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Michigan Measure May Shift Health Costs To Workers
LANSING (WWJ/AP) – Republicans who control the Michigan Senate are continuing their push to require public employees in the state to pay at least 20 percent of their health insurance premiums. The...
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Guide To Movement Electronic Music Festival
(credit: paxahau.com) If you didn’t know … Detroit is the birthplace of Techno. Head to Hart Plaza over Memorial Day weekend to experience The Motor City’s electronic music prowess. In the past there...
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Police: Car Driven Into House Was Stolen
SHELBY TWP. (WWJ) – Police are calling it a bizarre turn of events in Shelby Township, where it turns out a car that crashed into a house and caught fire had been stolen earlier in Detroit. The...
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Michigan Senate Sends Final Budget Bills To Snyder
LANSING (WWJ/AP) - The Republican-led Michigan Legislature has finished approving a new state budget that will cut state aid for education and many state departments, sending the measures to Governor...
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Michigan House Approves Detroit Population Bill
LANSING (WWJ/AP) – Michigan lawmakers have begun taking steps to reflect Detroit’s declining population in state law. A bill passed 56-53 in the House on Wednesday could allow Detroit to continue its...
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Mich. Lawmakers Debate Domestic Partner Benefits
LANSING (AP) – Republicans in the Michigan Legislature may make another attempt to block the offering of taxpayer-paid health insurance to domestic partners or other unrelated adults living with public...
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