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The self-professed executive officer of the Genesee County Volunteer Militia was sentenced to more than four years in prison Friday for clobbering Capitol police with a baton he stole from one of them during chaos on Jan. 6, 2021.

One convicted conspirator in the failed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot was sentenced to prison Thursday and a second was given probation as the last two of the eight accused conspirators were adjudicated.

Ingham County Commissioners may hire a third party to create a criminal justice monitoring system to break down the decisions coming out of the county’s courts and prosecutor’s office by demographic groups.

A federal judge granted preliminary approval on Wednesday for an $8 million settlement in the Flint water crisis civil lawsuit from engineering firm Lockwood Andrews & Newnam (LAN).

The Michigan Supreme Court today clarified court rules regarding redacting personal identifying information (PII), in a case involving an Eastpointe woman who claims her mother’s death certificate contains inaccurate information provided by an “unethical attorney.”