A federal judge has blocked Michigan’s effort to shut down the Line 5 pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac.

A federal judge has blocked Michigan’s effort to shut down the Line 5 pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac.

A federal judge has blocked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from revoking an easement that allows Enbridge to run an oil pipeline through a Great Lakes channel.

Federal prosecutors say a life prison sentence would be justified for the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A federal judge has denied a new trial request by two men convicted of conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

The second man to plead guilty in a kidnapping plot against Michigan’s governor has been sentenced to four years in prison.

A jury in western Michigan has heard from two key witnesses in the trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

A lawyer has raised concerns about a juror in the second trial of two men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan's governor.

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Three days and still no verdict.

Jurors deliberating at the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must answer a key question about whether the FBI engaged in entrapment.

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Jurors haven't come up with a verdict yet after two days of deliberations in the trial of four men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Jurors have gone home without reaching a verdict after the first day of deliberations in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A foster care director, a plastics plant manager and an IT employee are among the 12 jurors and four alternates hearing testimony at the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

The trial of four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will resume Thursday after a three-day break because of a COVID-19 case.

The trial of four men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been postponed until Thursday because an “essential” participant has tested positive for COVID-19.

A jury has been selected for trial of 4 men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Spring break could affect the makeup of the jury in the upcoming trial of four men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Records show another man charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has agreed to plead guilty.

A judge says he would postpone the Oct. 12 trial of five men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A federal judge has denied Michigan's request to halt his preliminary injunction that preserved a Catholic adoption agency's ability to refuse to place state wards with LGBT couples. Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids declined the stay Tuesday. It had been sought by state Attorney General Dana Nessel and the state Department of Health and Human Services, while the case is appealed. Nessel has denied having hostility toward faith-based agencies that contract with the state. She says Michigan law allows child-placing agencies to turn away families in private cases based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, but not when they place state-supervised children.

The injunction lets religious-based adoption and foster care agencies refuse to serve LGBT couples. LANSING, Mich. - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is asking a federal judge to halt an injunction that lets religious-based adoption and foster care agencies refuse to serve LGBT couples. The Democrat announced Friday that she filed an emergency motion for a stay. She contends U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker misinterpreted a 2015 law that allows child-placing agencies to turn away prospective families in private cases for religious reasons, but not when they are placing state-supervised children. Copyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

LANSING, Mich. - Religious-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan will be allowed to refuse to place children in LGBT homes under a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge Thursday. Michigan, like most states, contracts with private agencies to place children from troubled homes with new families. Instead, it will allow agencies to turn away same-sex foster parents who are able to provide supportive and loving homes for these children." Jonker, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, also declined to dismiss Nessel from the suit, saying she "targeted" St. Vincent. St. Vincent helped her and her husband, Chad, adopt five special needs children who were in the state's foster care system.