The Michigan governor made the remarks to a reporter on Thursday morning. Later, she sounded less definitive. Ms. Whitmer has been viewed as part of a field of possible Democratic candidates.
Richard Werstine was detained in Panama City last month after more than 30 years on the run, according to the authorities. He is accused of murdering Rodney Barger of the Detroit band Cold as Life.
Across the country, police and city officials are trying to crack down on sometimes violent youth gatherings, but the teens themselves say they need some way to socialize and blow off steam.
Police officers detained a young person after chasing him down a street amid rumors of a “teen takeover” in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago last month.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky spoke at a gathering of party insiders in Detroit, fueling presidential speculation.
Workers in Cheboygan hurried to shore up a dam in danger of being overtopped, part of a “slow-moving disaster” threatening communities across the state.
A team of municipality workers cleared debris from the Boardman River Weir that was blocking the flow of the flooded Boardman/Ottaway River in downtown Traverse City, Mich., on Wednesday.
The man who rammed his vehicle into the synagogue was purposely targeting the Jewish community, officials said on Monday, detailing his days of planning.
Days before the antisemitic violence, an imam recalled seeing Ayman Mohamad Ghazali at a service for his relatives who had been killed in the war in Lebanon.
Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who officials said was killed after driving a car into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., had stopped showing up to work in the days before the attack.
“I didn’t breathe until I knew all of the kids were OK,” one teacher recalled after a truck crashed through the doors of a Michigan synagogue this week.
The man, a U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, lost family members during an airstrike there last week. The attack on a Michigan synagogue rattled Jewish communities across America.
For the second time in about six months, a driver rammed a vehicle into a house of worship in Michigan. Four people died as a result of last September’s attack in Grand Blanc Township.
The number of assaults and threats against Jews has increased in recent years, with anxiety growing further since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
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