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The last three men to stand trial in connection with a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer have been found not guilty on all counts.Eric Molitor and twin brothers William Null and Michael Null were among the 14 men charged in state and federal court over the alleged plan to kidnap the governor at her vacation home in Antrim County in 2020, largely over the Democratic governor's strict COVID-19 shutdowns.Molitor, 39, and the Null brothers, both 41, had pleaded not guilty to state charges of providing material support for terrorist acts and illegally possessing firearms.

More than two years after the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was foiled, criminal cases against alleged perpetrators are still working their way through the court system. The Antrim County County Circuit Court has approved two motions from the state in the trial of five alleged co-conspirators charged with providing material support in the plot to kidnap Whitmer. Judge Kevin A. Elsenheimer approved the motions on Wednesday, which asked that the cases be joined for trial and that the court allow the admission of co-conspirator statements. The federal government foiled the plot in October 2020, calling it the...

How will he react to the call? Paul Molitor isn't sure. Nobody can ever be sure until they actually get a call like the one Molitor should get Tuesday. Sometime around noon, the telephone in his Hopkins home should ring, and on the other end there will be a voice telling him what fewer than 260 men have ever heard: "You've been elected to baseball's Hall of Fame." At that point, Molitor can only guess what he will do. "There are a few things that happen in your career, and people talk about it being kind of out-of-body, and you...