The Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the stateβs universities, voted against Santa Ono, who was most recently president of the University of Michigan.
The Michigan Supreme Court had dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021. The order ends efforts to hold employees partly responsible for the mass shooting.
Christopher Schurr fatally shot the Congolese immigrant in the back of the head after a tumultuous traffic stop. Schurrβs trial ended with a hung jury.
Federal authorities say they arrested a 19-year-old man who is accused of planning an attack on a U.S. Army site in Michigan on behalf of Islamic State.
Jurors have struggled to reach a unanimous verdict on whether former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr was justified when he shot and killed Patrick Lyoya in April 2022.
State prosecutors have dropped felony charges against seven people accused of trespassing and resisting police a year ago during the break-up of a pro-Palestinian camp at the University of Michigan.
The Justice Department is suing four states over climate action. The DOJ says plans by Michigan and Hawaii to take legal action over climate harm would infringe on the federal governmentβs authority.
Government lawyers said the federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students after lawsuits across the country, including in Michigan.
President Donald Trump is expected to rally in Macomb County, where Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has pushed for a new fighter jet mission at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
Arborists are hoping to transform vacant land on Detroitβs east side by planting giant sequoias, the worldβs largest trees. Detroit is the pilot city for the Giant Sequoia Filter Forest.