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Perp on the leftThe Flint Board of Education held an emergency meeting on Wednesday to oust the school board president after she physically attacked the board’s treasurer over who gets to control the $150 million in federal and state COVID assistance money. The six board members voted unanimously to remove Danielle Green from her role as president for assaulting Laura MacIntyre, the board’s treasurer, earlier that day."A school board may meet … without complying with the notice requirement of OMA (Open Meetings Act) if it becomes necessary to deal with a severe and imminent threat to the health safety or...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Former Notre Dame basketball player Danielle Green lost her left hand during an attack in Iraq (news - web sites) while serving in the Army. Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said she got a call from a friend of Green's on Wednesday saying Green had been injured. "It was just a shock to hear she had been injured because she had said that her job was going to keep her on the sidelines," McGraw said. The athletic department at Chicago State, where Green was an assistant women's coach in 2002, said Thursday she lost her hand...