David Sackrider

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FENTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - A Fenton Township couple is warning others to be careful, after they were almost scammed out of $100,000. The couple, who asked not to be identified, said their bank, the State Bank, just went through a merger with ChoiceOne Bank, so they've been getting a lot of messages about their account lately. But on Sunday, while they were in line at the bank drive-thru to make a withdrawal, they received a suspicious text message. "I saw it.

2 weeks ago | abc12.com | David Sackrider

WASHINGTON D.C. (WJRT) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer delivered an address in Washington D.C. Wednesday morning. The Governor's remarks focusing on finding bipartisan solutions to create more manufacturing jobs. It comes as much of her own party doesn't want to find any middle-ground with the Trump Administration. Just last weekend thousands of them gathered across the state to express that feeling. But Governor Whitmer has repeatedly insisted that she has to be a Governor for the whole state.

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MUNDY TOWNSHIP, MIch. (WJRT) - As runners get ready to lace up their shoes for the summer racing season, finding those shoes may be more difficult this year. The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America estimates that 99 percent of the shoes sold in the US are imported from another country, something that could be impacted by President Trump's latest round of tariffs. "We don't know which way the prices are going to go," said Carlos Benton at Bauman's Running Shop in Mundy Township.

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CARO, Mich. (WJRT) - Michigan has now officially decriminalized surrogacy contracts, becoming the last state in the country to do so. The change, which took effect this month, was part of a nine-bill package signed by the Governor last year. Nicole Horneber is already starting the process to become a surrogate. She currently has 4 kids of her own, but she says there was a time when it looked like that wouldn't be possible.

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SAGINAW, Mich. (WJRT) - With new tariffs increasing the price to bring metal into the country, you would think that local suppliers would be seeing better prices on the metal that's produced right here in the United States. David Rifkin with Rifkin Scrap Iron and Metal Co. says that's not the case. "Just in the past few days alone, we've seen an implosion in pricing. In particular, copper, LME, aluminum," he described.