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National Weather Service officials were expecting southwest winds to gust up to 40 mph Saturday continuing as long as Monday into Monday night.

Politicians and journalists are being targeted with espionage attacks, the UK government is warning.

Some 89% of people in Henan province have been infected but visits to clinics have peaked.

KENT COUNTY, MI -- Ongoing snowfall and intense wind have combined to make Christmas Eve a hazardous time to drive in the Grand Rapids area, officials said. “Our message is, once again, do not drive unless you have to drive,” Kent County Road Commission officials advised in a news release on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 24. Low visibility continues with zero visibility in several rural areas in Kent County. Some areas have reported impassable conditions due to more than a foot of drifted snow on the road, officials said. Ongoing coverage will be placed on state roads and high-volume primary roads that were addressed overnight, but still suffer from hard-pack, icy conditions, officials said.

Officials in one of Southern California's largest counties will soon begin studying whether to break free and form a new state (Dec. 15) (AP video by Eugene Garcia)

After close encounters with residents and apparent attacks on two dogs, wildlife officials have captured the famed mountain lion, P-22.

Australian officials argued against UNESCO's recommendation to put the Great Barrier Reef on the endangered species list.

Officials are encouraging people to stay off the roads in many parts of western New York.

Officials are urging people to have enough food and water for the long duration event, and to stay off the roads once the storm starts.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's office said on Monday that there are currently not any plans to send buses full of migrants to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Several false and unsubstantiated rumours have circulated online during the US midterm elections.

While NASA officials stressed that Artemis 1 continues to be a challenging mission, they stated they are confident in the upcoming launch attempt on Nov. 14.

British officials say they have seized more than 880 pounds (400 kilograms) of cocaine from a boat in Caribbean waters

Christiane Amanpour refuses to cover her hair for an interview with Iran's leader in New York.

By early Tuesday evening, the plane hadn't arrived in the town of nearly 7,500 near Biden's vacation home. Flight trackers showed the plane instead went from Nashville to Teterboro, N.J.

On Saturday, Monroe County officials stated that a man who robbed a credit union near the Ohio and Michigan border is in custody.

Businesses are still sometimes forced to use the old-fashioned tech when dealing with government.

DETROIT – A couple died early Monday after a fire rent through their Detroit home, officials said. Flames didn’t reach the bedroom, but it was full of smoke, officials said. The couple was taken to a hospital where they succumbed to their injuries; it appears they died of smoke inhalation. The identities of the victims have not been released. READ MORE:Police identify Lake Michigan drowning victimDrunken crash in Birch Run Township leaves two hospitalized, one jailedOwosso man stable and alert after being shot twice by MSP trooper

“There should be more female officials, but we can say the same about officials overall without looking at gender,” referee Nichole Dowdall said. After the 2021-22 season, she moved to Arizona, where she intends to continue officiating high school games. The number of officials dropped to 8,090 from 9,254 when high school sports restarted in 2020, with the number of female officials dropping to 997 from 1,130. You see female officials not just in high school, but in college and the NBA. We’re not going to get 10,000 folks to sign up tomorrow, but if we increase our numbers 100 or so a year, we can get back.”Dowdall believes the responsibility to add future female officials belongs to current female officials.

A robbery suspect who tried to outrun a police horse has had his hopes dashed by an officer patrolling the streets on foot in New York City. Video released by the New York City Police Department shows the street chase and arrest. (July 19).

The Russian president goes on a rare overseas trip in our daily round-up of the Ukraine conflict.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Officials have ended their search for a woman whose 2-year-old grandchild was found alone last week in a locked car that stuck in mud on a rural Alaska road, authorities said. The search was changed from “active” to “reactive,” meaning that a search could be launched again if officials receive new information or evidence, the statement said. Authorities were searching for Wilson after her 2-year-old grandchild was found alone and abandoned on Thursday, July 14, 2022, in a locked car on a rural Alaska road. (Alaska State Troopers via AP)APWilson’s car was found Thursday on Stampede Road, off the Parks Highway just outside the small community of Healy. Wilson had been watching the child while the mother was working in rural Alaska.

Officials have ended their search for a woman whose 2-year-old grandchild was found alone last week in a locked car that stuck in mud on a rural Alaska road, authorities said. No clues to the whereabouts of Mary Dawn Wilson, 69, have emerged since her Ford Focus was found last Thursday with the child and personal items believed to belong to Wilson, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said in a statement on Saturday. Authorities believe the child was alone in the car for two days.

An official with the Palestinian Authority tells NPR an agreement was reached to share the bullet with the U.S.

A Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet made an emergency landing at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Hawaii on Monday afternoon, and the U.S. Air Force pilot who was flying the aircraft was taken to the hospital for treatment, U.S. officials said Tuesday. According to officials, the aircraft appeared to have problems with its landing gear and the pilot declared an in-flight emergency and landed. A netting barrier was used to slow and stop the plane, and the nose gear collapsed after contact with the net, officials said.

After the first year, the raises will be tied to inflation or 3%, whichever is lower.

SAGINAW, MI — Recreational water park enthusiasts can rejoice in news that Saginaw officials will open the city’s splash park this week. But they might want to make sure to take care of any urges to use a toilet before venturing there. While the splash pad at Frank N. Andersen Celebration Park will open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 28, bathrooms and changing areas there will remain closed to the public, officials said. The reason: City officials have yet to fill five coordinator position openings responsible for monitoring and upkeep at the site. The city opened the splash pad in 2010 at the site where residents once flocked to a water slide and wave pool beginning in the 1990s.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey is not “favorable” toward Finland and Sweden joining NATO, but he hasn't ruled it out.

ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor officials say they’re committed to diversity, but white men still dominate city government. The city’s staff is overwhelmingly male and disproportionately white, and so are those getting management promotions, according to an analysis of personnel records showing the race and gender of more than 800 city employees.

A Michigan community college has cancelled classes indefinitely following a ransomware attack over the weekend.

The video features people pleading for help over a lack of food and medicine in the city's strict lockdown.

The minister, who wants all civil servants to stop working from home, left a note saying "sorry you were out".

A massive manhunt had been launched following a shooting in a Brooklyn subway on Tuesday morning.

A woman has been arrested and is in custody in connection with a shooting in Oak Forest Sunday afternoon.

Tammy Wendt of the Board of Review hired cousin Todd Thielmann at a $150,000 salary.

Ukrainian officials have rejected a Russian proposal that their troops lay down their arms in the strategic southern port city.

Ukrainian officials have rejected a Russian proposal that their troops lay down their arms in the strategic southern port city.

Eight years after Russia seized Crimea, the event is being celebrated with a concert and in schools.

Vladimir Putin paves the way for foreign fighters to join the war, while Russia widens its attacks.

U.S. officials warned that Russia seemed to be launching more indiscriminate attacks and making small but strategic gains on key cities.

Officials are "very concerned" about the risk of war between Russia and Ukraine escalating.

The European Union is debating new sanctions against Russia — and this time they could hit the energy sector.

Culture and sport can be as effective as economic sanctions in isolating Russia, a minister says.

A Dearborn husband and wife have been charged by federal officials for declaring a false bankruptcy, wrongly receiving food stamps and evading taxes, authorities said.

Boris Johnson tells BBC that intelligence suggests Russia intends to launch an invasion encircling Kyiv.

DETROIT — Police here say residents should be wary of phone scammers recently claiming to represent the Detroit Police Department. In a post uploaded to the department’s Facebook page Wednesday, Feb. 9, officials described residents reporting receiving such calls. “We want you to know police officers will never call you claiming you need to pay a fine or warrant, or anything by phone,” the post read. “To avoid falling victim to a scheme, don’t answer calls from numbers you don’t recognize. If the number appears to be the police department’s number, you can call us to confirm the call did not come from us.”The Detroit Police Department can be reached at (313) 596-2200.

Neuman was flying with Nicola Bellavia, a skydiver and influencer from Belgium, Suspicious Antwerp sponsorship manager Tim Alings and pilot Haraldur Diego.

Dave Zvenyach, director of the GSA’s Technology Transformation Services, told The Post that the agency “is committed to not deploying facial recognition … until rigorous review has given us confidence that we can do so equitably.”

Moscow is amassing the military capability to carry out a full invasion, American officials say.

ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor officials say they’ve received no violation complaints in the first month of the city’s new ordinance requiring free menstrual products in public restrooms. For members of the public who notice restrooms without tampons or menstrual pads as required by law now — such as at a restaurant or other business — the city suggests first letting the establishment’s management know about it.

They urge additional investment, saying the risk of new variants remains high as long as billions of people are unvaccinated.

President Biden and his European counterparts are rushing to discourage Moscow from a renewed attack on Kyiv, which Britain's Boris Johnson warned could come in the form of a "lightning raid."

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit rejected a request from abortion providers to send the case back to a trial court judge who previously blocked the law.

U.S. officials are warning that international drug traffickers are going after children, especially teenagers, on social media in hopes of recruiting them.

A local woman says she and her family were forced from their home by Ann Arbor Township officials in October.

Federal officials say they have referred more than three dozen airline passengers for possible criminal prosecution this year, as airlines report a surge in the number of disruptions on flights.

U.S. officials are continuing to investigate two possible cases of so-called Havana Syndrome health incidents that delayed Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip from Singapore to Vietnam.

State officials are investigating the deaths of hundreds of adult common carp at an Oakland County lake.

Watch live coverage as Florida officials provide an update on the building collapse in Surfside near Miami Beach. The death toll is expected to rise with many people still unaccounted for.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer today joined a group of business, state, and local officials to celebrate the groundbreaking of Speedrack Products Group’s new manufacturing facility in Walker, thanking the storage systems provider for their continued investment in Michigan that will create 164 new jobs.

At least 13 people were injured in a downtown Austin, Texas mass shooting that happened early Saturday, officials say.

The Wisconsin man charged for his alleged participation in a domestic terrorism plot that included storming the Michigan Capitol and kidnapping elected officials has been arraigned, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday.

A fire that happened overnight Sunday in Monroe left four people dead, officials say.

FILE - Referee Tim Peel is shown during an NHL hockey game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Islanders in Philadelphia, in this Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021, file photo. The league on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, announced that Peel no longer will be working NHL games now or in the future. Every single hockey fan, new and old, probably already knew this was the mentality of NHL officiating, but to hear the proof so loud and clearly was shocking nonetheless. And then, if you think you might actually understand what will be called from game to game, everything will change again in the post season. As a former USA Hockey official, I can tell you NHL games are the farthest thing from what the USA Hockey rulebook and training classes instruct officials to do.

DETROIT – Officials said Tuesday’s soft opening of the COVID-19 mass vaccination site at Ford Field was a success. With the site officially opening Wednesday, officials are getting ready for everybody, including those with disabilities or limited English. “We’ve been trying to be really thoughtful when it comes to language access, and people with disabilities making sure we have enough accessible vaccine pods for people with wheelchairs,” said Michigan Lt. Gov. Read: Ford Field COVID mass vaccination site prepared to open to thousandsAround 70 vaccination pods are set up and people who received the vaccine Tuesday said it was a very quick process. More: Registration for COVID-19 vaccine at Ford Field now open -- How to registerRelated News

Police stand outside a King Soopers grocery store where a shooting took place Monday, March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)(Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Two men were charged by Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office for making threatening three high ranking Michigan public officials.

(AP Photo/Andy Wong)BEIJING — China has designated parts of Hebei province near Beijing as a coronavirus high danger zone after 14 new cases of COVID-19 were found. The other three COVID-19 cases were in the city of Yantai. Approximately 174 private clinics have also requested vaccines, State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said. County health officials fear the incoming Christmas and New Year’s surge. Superintendent Henderson Lewis said a spike in positive cases in the city prompted the “unfortunate but necessary” decision to go back to distance learning.

Federal officials became aware of the various alleged plots to kidnap Gov. Federal officials raided a mobile home in Hartland Wednesday belonging to Ty Garbin, who is one of those accused. Recruiting turned into in-person meetings, some federal officials said taking place in a basement of a vacuum store in Grand Rapids where one of the men, Adam Fox, lived. While there were suggestions of going to the State Capitol to take the governor, the men turned their attention to Whitmer’s vacation home in northern Michigan as the place to kidnap her from. The plan was then to take Whitmer to Wisconsin to stand trial for what the men viewed as treason.

WASHINGTON Israel and the United Arab Emirates will sign their historic deal normalizing relations at a White House ceremony on Sept. 15, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The officials said senior delegations from both countries will likely be led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Emirati Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Zayad, the brother of the UAE crown prince. The ceremony will come just a month after the agreement to establish full diplomatic relations was announced on Aug. 13. The The historic deal delivered a key foreign policy victory to President Donald Trump as he seeks reelection, and reflected a changing Middle East in which shared concerns about archenemy Iran have largely overtaken traditional Arab support for the Palestinians. That announcement has been followed by the first direct commercial flight between the countries, the establishment of telephone links and commitments to cooperate in numerous areas.

Officials say they haven’t been contacted about any plans to sends DHS officers to DetroitPublished: July 21, 2020, 6:38 pmPresident Donald Trump said he’s sending 150 agents from the Department of Homeland Security to Chicago because of the spike in violence in that city.

Officials are reporting an uptick in coronavirus cases in Michigan. If you need help with the Public File, call (313) 222-0566.

WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. – The invasive Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, has again been identified in Wayne County, officials from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and the Wayne County Health Department announced Friday. The Asian tiger mosquito was discovered in Michigan for the first time in 2017, in an industrial area of Livonia in Wayne County. In 2018, the mosquitoes were again found in Wayne County, in an industrial area of Romulus. These mosquitoes are widespread from tropical to temperate regions of the globe, including many parts of the U.S. This is likely how the mosquitoes have shown up in Wayne County.

GENEVA For Swiss federal officials, it's no more jetting to Paris for business: They'll need to go greener. Under new rules announced Thursday by the finance department, federal Swiss officials will have to take the train not a plane where available for work trips. The move puts into action a government decree last year that aims to help reduce federal officials carbon-dioxide emissions 30% by 2030. Starting July 1, all federal staffers will be required to take trains for official trips from the Swiss capital of Bern to places like Paris, Florence, Leipzig in Germany and Salzburg in Austria, according to an advisory list of affected cities provided by the department. In some cases, the officials will be required to take the train even though its slower than flying when check-in times and other factors are accounted for.

Officials said a 79-year-old woman found dead in a Bedford Township home Monday was beheaded by her step-grandson. If you need help with the Public File, call (313) 222-0566.

Officials ruled the death of a missing Southfield woman an accident. If you need help with the Public File, call (313) 222-0566.

Officials ruled the death of a missing Southfield woman an accident. If you need help with the Public File, call (313) 222-0566.

Detroit officials said the business tied to the sinkhole operated without a permit. If you need help with the Public File, call (313) 222-0566.