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1 day ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
DETROIT, Mich. (WILX) - A partnership between Michigan State University and Apple is giving another group of students the skills they need to take on the tech world. On Thursday, they celebrated the end of their training in the city of Detroit. “The academy, it’s changing my life,” said graduate Hamza Crichlow. Crichlow is a respiratory therapist by trade.
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2 days ago | 
wnem.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - State lawmakers are stepping in to help prosecutors navigate a major change to sentencing guidelines for 19- and 20-year-old murderers. People currently serving life in prison without parole for murders they committed when they were 18, 19, and 20 years old must be resentenced. It’s a Michigan State Supreme Court ruling that county prosecutors say they weren’t prepared for.
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3 days ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - State lawmakers are stepping in to help prosecutors navigate a major change to sentencing guidelines for 19- and 20-year-old murderers. People currently serving life in prison without parole for murders they committed when they were 18, 19 and 20-years-old must be resentenced. It’s a Michigan State Supreme Court ruling that county prosecutors say they weren’t prepared for.
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1 week ago | 
wnem.com | Riley Connell
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - For hundreds of years, the histories of enslaved people went untold and unheard. Now, a project out of Michigan State University is giving them a voice again. “Most histories of slavery in the United States talked about enslaved people as part of populations,” said MSU Professor of History Walter Hawthorne.
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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - For hundreds of years, the histories of enslaved people went untold and unheard. Now, a project out of Michigan State University is giving them a voice again. “Most histories of slavery in the United States talked about enslaved people as part of populations,” said MSU Professor of History Walter Hawthorne.
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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - People working in the world of substance abuse recovery say they’re fearing for the future of their clients. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said the state is at risk of losing roughly $93 million in drug recovery funding. The money is tied up in federal grants delivered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, but the agency is being shut down.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
JACKSON COUNTY, Mich. (WILX) - It’s a beloved landmark in the Jackson County village of Concord, but the Mill Pond Dam is more of an eyesore right now. After years of protecting a mill pond at the corner of N. Main Street and W. Jackson Road, the dam has broken, draining the pond as a result. “I moved up here 20 years ago,” said Concord resident Andy Blake.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) -There’s a fight to protect free breakfast and lunch for Michigan students is unfolding at the State Capitol. It’s one of several programs on the chopping block for Republicans in the House of Representatives. Members of the Democratic-led Senate are preparing to drop their own proposal for school funding. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair, Sen.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Growing tension between the United States and China is heading for a cool down. In a social media announcement, President Donald Trump said a trade agreement is just a signature away from being settled. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has maintained that both countries are putting in the work. “We both have our presidents behind us pushing us to make sure we take care of our respective sides,” he said.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - There’s another school year in the books for the Lansing School District. Superintendent Ben Shuldiner said it came with academic successes. “When I got here, the attendance rate was 70%, it was really low,” he told News 10. “Now, over the last three years we’ve raised it by 13 points.”Shuldiner said other strides were made regarding graduation rates and math and reading test scores. However, student safety concerns were raised a few short weeks before summer vacation.
