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Sen. Joseph Bellino Jr. (R-Monroe) said he is “doing great” two weeks following a kidney transplant to his brother-in-law. Bellino donated his kidney to Chuck Piotrowski after he posted he needed a donor on their family Facebook page last December.

Sixteen state House candidates have been referred to the Attorney General’s Office for not turning in their pre-primary campaign finance reports on time or not at all.

The embattled Kalamazoo County Republican Party is being ordered to redo its convention this Wednesday with the Michigan Republican Party (MRP) overseeing the affair after the latest flare up between two warring factions.

A Detroit judge who ordered a teenager to be handcuffed and detained for appearing to fall asleep in his courtroom has been temporarily removed from his docket.

A federal appellate court declined to hear Enbridge Energy’s petition for an en banc hearing challenging a ruling that the Attorney General’s lawsuit to shutter Line 5 be returned to the state court.