MICHAEL CLARK

Republicans who supported former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election lost bids for statewide offices that play key roles in overseeing voting in the six states that decided the last presidential election.

The Colorado city of Idaho Springs said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $7 million to a 75-year-old man who said an officer used a stun gun on him without warning and dragged him from his apartment after a dispute with a neighbor, causing a stroke that left him with permanent injuries. Michael Clark alleged in the federal civil rights suit filed last year that he suffered numerous health problems after Officer Nicholas Hanning used a Taser on him in his home in Idaho Springs, causing Clark to lose consciousness, fall and strike his head. Hanning, who was fired after the May 2021 encounter, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor third-degree assault and relinquished his right to serve as a law enforcement officer in Colorado.

The deadly flooding that hit the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky is making some stalwart residents who have hung on through disappearing jobs and the opioid crisis consider leaving their small towns.

BENTON HARBOR, MI – One person was killed early Saturday in a shooting that saw a man with a rifle open fire on fleeing bystanders. The man fatally wounded in the shooting was a 41-year-old resident of Dowagiac, according to Michael Clark, the deputy director of the Benton Harbor Department of Public Safety. The first man approached a group of people and intentionally aimed and fired at the Dowagiac man, Clark said. A second man came from a flanking position and opened fire with a rifle toward the group of fleeing bystanders, Clark said. People can also provide or provide information anonymously via the TIP411 app located in the app store by searching Benton Harbor DPS.

Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network.

A 75-year-old man who suffered a cascade of health problems after a Colorado police officer used a Taser on him without warning has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the officer of also putting a knee on his neck.

Body camera footage shows police officer, who has been charged with assault, firing without warning

A police officer in Colorado used a Taser on a 75-year-old man without warning less than a minute after he answered the door holding what authorities described as a sword-like weapon, which he had put down before being shocked, according to a court document released Tuesday. A neighbor in Michael Clark’s apartment building called police on May 30 to report that Clark had punched his female roommate in the face, according to an arrest affidavit outlining the evidence against Idaho Springs Officer Nicholas Hanning. Hanning, who was with another officer, knocked loudly on Clark’s door twice just before 11 p.m. without announcing he was a police officer, the document said.

WOODHAVEN, Mich. - Cameras are now up at Woodhaven railroad crossings where drivers often get stuck for long periods of time. Trains sometimes block the three crossings for hours at a time. Now, drivers can check the cameras to see if a crossing is blocked. Cameras have been installed at the West Road and Allen Road crossings. A camera is coming soon to the Van Horn Road crossing.