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The CEO for a Battle Creek nonprofit has been charged with welfare fraud of over $500, according to court documents.

WESTLAND, Mich. – A suspect has been taken into custody after a Salvation Army bell ringer was shot and killed at a Kroger store in Westland on Thursday, police said. The shooting happened at about 6:10 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, at the Kroger at 36430 Ford Road, according to a release from the Westland Police Department. When officers arrived, they found a Salvation Army bell ringer dead inside the store, with multiple gunshot wounds. Police said the suspect fled the store immediately after the shooting, but investigators identified and arrested the suspect early Friday. The suspect’s identity is...

MARTIN, MI –– Drag racing fans in Michigan, rejoice. The wait is over. For the first time in more than six decades, championship drag racing is set to return to the Great Lakes State. The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) announced it will host a national event at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan, from Sept. 18-20 via a release on Monday –– marking the first-ever NHRA national event at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park and the first NHRA national event held in Michigan since 1960. Michigan last hosted an NHRA national event when Detroit Dragway –– now defunct ––...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sherrone Moore, the lauded head coach of the University of Michigan’s storied football program, threw away his $30 million career when his affair with his assistant came to light — a scandal that was capped by his stunning arrest over allegations of assault. The 39-year-old married dad of three’s promising career quickly came to a crashing end Wednesday. He was booted as Michigan’s head coach that afternoon and, within the same hour, he was busted on criminal charges for allegedly breaking into the home of his executive assistant, Paige Shiver, with a knife in hand. Moore...

The Wolverines will undergo their second coaching change in three years, releasing Moore after eight years with the organization, including two as head coachMichigan fired coach Sherrone Moore for cause at the conclusion of his second season leading the Wolverines football program. Athletic director Warde Manuel said Wednesday the termination was the result of an inappropriate relationship between Moore and a staff member. "Sherrone Moore has been terminated, with cause, effective immediately," Manuel said in a statement. "Following a university investigation, credible evidence was found that Coach Moore engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. This conduct constitutes...

This week, a judge ruled Michigan’s new 24% wholesale marijuana excise tax can go into effect on Jan. 1. (Dec. 10, 2025) Michigan marijuana businesses brace for 24% tax on Jan. 1 | 2:21 WOOD TV8 | 261K subscribers | 1,181 views | December 10, 2025

VIDEOThe only thing worse than an incompetent FBI official is an FBI official who is incompetent on purpose so as to avoid identifying a suspect that he doesn't want to be identified. Such was the case with the former assistant director of the FBI DC field office Steven D'Antuono who LIED to Congress about the pipe bomber's cell phone data supposedly having been corrupted when it wasn't.So when will D'Antuono be indicted for LYING to Congress?

Dearborn, Michigan, was back in the national spotlight last month after a far-right protest spiraled into street clashes, a near-Quran burning, and the latest debate about religion, identity and political extremism in America's largest Muslim-majority city. The drama began when Jake Lang – a January 6 rioter, newly pardoned by Donald Trump, and now a long-shot Republican US Senate candidate in Florida – arrived in Dearborn with an entourage, cameras, and a self-styled 'anti-Sharia' crusade. He carried bacon in one hand and a Quran in the other, marching through the city center in combat gear and trolling locals, daring them...

n September the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division filed federal lawsuits against six states for failure to produce their statewide voter registration lists upon request: — California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. As the Globe said at the time, “That the DOJ is hauling California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania into court for hiding their voter rolls is monumental, and specifically the accountability Americans have been clamoring for.” Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division did it again, but filed federal lawsuits against six additional states — Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island,...

Elon Musk asked "why does the United States have the worst voter identification laws of any nation?" He went on to list more than 100 countries with stricter voter ID laws than we have in this country. He also pointed out that "both California and New York explicitly prohibit voters from showing their IDs in order to vote." He said "the only reason to do this is fraud." Newly declared Democrat candidate for governor of California Rep. Eric Swalwell holds the opposite view. "Look, we've already outlawed IDs for voting in California," he pointed out. "We need to take the...

The University of Michigan is supposed to be the pride of the Midwest. A 200-year-old college that has been dubbed a 'Public Ivy,' the school is steeped in tradition, pride and academic excellence. It is also the home of the Wolverines and the Big House, the largest stadium in America. Now, the beloved school is increasingly seen as a back door for Beijing - a soft target for Chinese operatives, covert networks and alleged plots involving genetically modified parasites and crop-killing fungi. And recent arrests show just how deep the rot may run. On November 5, federal agents charged three...

VIDEOAn Afghan who worked/WORKS for the CIA travels from Washington State all the way to Washington, D.C. to shoot two National Guardsmen just weeks after CIA Senator Elissa Slotkin predicted that exact scenario happening in a speech to the CIA connected Brookings Institution right in the middle of Slotkin and 5 other Democrat politicians proposed a CIA style color revolution in the USA by urging armed forces members to refuse to follow orders. And all the while there lurks the odious shadow of former CIA Director John Brennan who publicly urged Slotkin to "help derail the Trump train." The glowies...

Detroit Lions legend and Hall of Fame NFLer Lem Barney is alive and well, according to his family, despite widespread reports that he had died at the age of 80. The NFL's official website shared news of Barney's death on Saturday lunchtime, carrying a statement from Hall of Fame president and CEO Jim Porter paying tribute to his legacy. Remarkably, his son Lem Barney III has now told TMZ that reports of the Lions icon's death are incorrect - and he is instead 'alive and well'. Barney III even claimed he has spoken to his father today, with his around-the-clock...

Michigan is about to become ground zero in America’s immigration fight as federal enforcement operations and detention capacity expand. At the same time, President Trump unveils sweeping plans to permanently halt migration from Third World countries and reverse millions of Biden‑era admissions following the murder of a National Guardsman in Washington, D.C., allegedly by a refugee from Afghanistan. Earlier this month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials expanded the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan. The capacity more than doubled to over 1,200 detainees — up from about 500 during the summer months, according to a report from Michigan Live....

“Seditionist 6” member Elissa Slotkin predicted an incident with the National Guard in DC one month ago. This is sick and looking more and more like another Deep State color revolution against the American people. The Deep State went on full attack during President Trump’s first term and manufactured a color revolution in this country to remove President Trump from office. The media, Big Tech, COVID, BLM riots, and more culminated in the stolen 2020 Election. It was planned and produced by the Deep State. It was evil, corrupt, and an attack on the people of America again. There are...

The Campbell’s Co. said Wednesday it has fired an executive who was recorded making racist comments and mocking the company’s products and customers. Martin Bally, a vice president in Campbell’s information security department, was named in a lawsuit filed last week by Robert Garza, a former Campbell’s employee who said he was fired Jan. 30 after he reported Bally’s comments to a supervisor. The lawsuit was filed in Michigan, where both Garza and Bally live. Campbell’s is based in Camden, New Jersey. In the lawsuit, Garza claimed he met with Bally in November 2024 to discuss his salary. During the...

Campbell Soup Company is facing an employment discrimination and retaliation lawsuit in Wayne County Circuit Court after a former security analyst alleged he was fired for reporting inappropriate conduct by a senior executive. The complaint, Garza v. Campbell Soup Company, case number 25-018465-CD, was filed on November 20, 2025, by the Runyan Law Group on behalf of plaintiff Robert Garza. The defendants are Campbell Soup Company and supervisor J.D. Aupperle. The claims—centered on a secretly recorded tirade in which a senior vice president allegedly mocked the company’s products, its customers, and Indian employees—challenge the credibility of Campbell’s public values and...

MONROE, Mich. – A Campbell’s employee is suing the company because he said he was wrongfully terminated after he complained about an upper-level executive’s explosive tirade on the product and its customers. “He has no filter,” said Robert Garza, of Monroe, about his former supervisor at Campbell Soup Company and current Vice President Martin Bally. “He thinks he’s a C-level executive at a Fortune 500 company and he can do whatever he wants because he’s an executive.” Garza said he recorded an hour-long rant by the top Campbell Soup Company executive because he said he trusted his “instinct that something...

A criminal illegal immigrant sex offender who worked as a college professor in the U.S. is in custody thanks to the continued efforts of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to track down and remove criminal threats from America. ICE said in a statement that on Nov. 12 it arrested Sri Lankan national Sumith Gunasekera in Detroit, Michigan. Gunasekera reportedly worked as a professor of data science and analytics at Ferris State University, public school in Big Rapids, Michigan. 🚨 BREAKING: ICE agents arrested an illegal alien who was working as an associate professor at Ferris State University in Michigan,...

Michigan made $39.9 million in Medicaid payments to deceased enrollees over a two-year period a decade ago, with a total of $249 million spent across 14 states. This is according to a new report titled the “Welfare Walking Dead” from the non-profit the Foundation for Government Accountability, which looked at federal audit data from the Office of Inspector General, among other research. In an exclusive interview with The Center Square, Jonathan Bain said that every taxpayer should be concerned with these findings. Bain is a senior research fellow at the FGA and authored the report. “The average citizen should care...