As a result of governmental negligence, millions of people across the United States are fighting for long-term disability benefits to which they have wrongfully been denied access.
Two nurses are suing the county after they were fired for exposing the terrible conditions at the facility in Detroit.
A Michigan Appeals Court panel issued a 2-1 ruling on Thursday that found former Grand Rapids Police Officer Christopher Schurr was appropriately charged with murder for killing Lyoya on April 4, 2022.
The Grand Rapids Public Schools board of education is meeting on December 18 to vote on a plan, dubbed “Reimagine GRPS with Us” that calls for the shutdown of ten public schools in the coming decade.
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health has announced a plan for a “joint venture” with Ascension Michigan, a division of St. Louis, Missouri-based Ascension Health, that would bring eight Ascension hospitals in southeast Michigan under the leadership of Henry Ford.
A total of 250 workers in the SEIU began walkouts on October 10 and 11.
Workers recently voted by 99 percent to authorize a strike, decisively rejecting the hospital’s latest contract offer.
Nurses at the hospital, in the Detroit suburb of Rochester, in Oakland County, are represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU).
The Democratic-controlled state government has only recently released documents about the nursing home deaths in 2020, after stalling for years to protect the owners and Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
While more than 1,000 workers at 13 nursing homes voted for strike authorization in January, the SEIU has limited the strike to only 70 workers at one facility.
UM Health, run by the University of Michigan regents, took over Lansing-based Sparrow Health last month.
In a probable cause hearing that was delayed three times, US District Court Judge Nicholas Ayoub ruled on Monday that the former police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Congolese refugee, would stand trial for murder in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The district judge overseeing the trial of Christopher Schurr, the former Grand Rapids police officer who shot Patrick Lyoya execution-style on April 4, agreed on August 19 to once again postpone the preliminary examination, this time without setting a new date.
Nagle's family is still looking for answers five weeks after he was shot and killed by an Allegan County sheriff’s deputy on June 16.
The preliminary examination hearing of former officer Christopher Schurr, who murdered Patrick Lyoya execution-style in Grand Rapids, has been rescheduled for August 30 “due to a large amount of discovery in the case.”
A vigil for Joseph Nagle was held by family and friends on the evening of June 30 at the location where he was shot and killed by an Allegan County Sheriff’s deputy on June 16.
Nagle, a FedEx driver, community college student and former state high school wrestling standout, was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop on a rural road south of Grand Rapids. Police have declared that there is no video of the fatal encounter.
Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker announced a second-degree murder charge against Grand Rapids police Officer Christopher Schurr for the execution-style shooting of Patrick Lyoya on April 4.
It has been eight weeks since Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of the head and killed by Grand Rapids police Officer Christopher Schurr, and the Kent County Prosecutor’s Office has yet to make a decision on any charges against the policeman.
East Lansing police belatedly released in-store surveillance video that shows DeAnthony VanAtten buying corn and macaroni and cheese at the checkout of a Meijer grocery store before he was chased, shot at in the parking lot by two officers and struck twice non-fatally by one of them.
