Morning 4 is a quick roundup of stories we think you should know about to start your day. So, let’s get to the news.
Detroit woman says family witnessed military operation in Venezuela
A Detroit woman has family who live just a few minutes away from Nicolás Maduro’s home in Venezuela. They watched the military operation unfold from their window.
The family is celebrating -- they say their dreams, long delayed, have now been delivered.
“Lots of emotions,” Jessica Gutierrez said on Saturday. “Emotions you didn’t even know you had.”
Gutierrez’s family owns El Rey de las Arepas in southwest Detroit. For her family back home in Caracas, last night was long and scary.
Minimum wage increase in Michigan brings relief for workers, challenges for restaurants
Starting Jan. 1, Michigan’s statewide minimum wage increased to $13.73, up from $12.48.
Workers earning minimum wage will notice a little extra cash in their paychecks this month.
At Norm’s Diner in Detroit, the minimum wage hike has little impact since employees are already paid above the state average, but co-owner Danielle Norman says it’s a big deal for many others.
“I think that they deserve it,” Norman said. “I think they deserve more.”
The new minimum wage also affects tipped workers, who will now earn at least 40 percent of the minimum wage.
Woman charged in deadly hit-and-run crash in Westland on New Year’s Day
Westland police have arrested a woman responsible for a deadly hit-and-run crash on New Year’s Day.
Officers responded around 4 a.m. Jan. 1 to a report of a man down in the roadway near Grand Traverse and Belding Court.
They found a 61-year-old Westland man unconscious in the street.
Despite life-saving efforts, the man later died at the hospital.
The driver, Jasmine Wynn, 37, of Westland, fled the scene but was located shortly after at her residence and taken into custody.
Is Michigan’s ‘Boy Governor’ actually buried in Capitol Park?
Before Lansing was chosen as Michigan’s capital, our Capitol Building used to stand in Detroit, roughly where State Street and Grand River Avenue meet Griswold Street.
The area is now home to Capitol Park, a small triangle of land that’s been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999, as are nearly every building surrounding it.
It currently features a dog park, a large “WE (heart) DET” sign, picnic tables, and a statue of Stevens T. Mason, also known as the “Boy Governor.”
Sunday marks 183 years since Mason died.
Weather: One more chance for snow across Metro Detroit before a warm-up moves into the region
We are tracking another chance of snow working into the region by the late evening and early overnight hours tonight.
The next chance of snow that rolls in throughout the weekend, it will be late Sunday night into Monday.
This system looks to be a little more potent, as the bulk of the moisture works north of metro Detroit.
The best chance for seeing any kind of accumulating snow Sunday night into Monday morning will be a long and north M-59, which would impact the morning commute heading back to school and work on Monday morning.