Ross Jones
Investigative Reporter at WXYZ-TV (Southfield, MI)
@wxyzdetroit Investigative Reporter | [email protected] | (248) 827-9466 | “News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.” -WRH
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2 weeks ago |
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DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ) — A University of Michigan researcher was back in federal court Thursday, days after being criminally charged over smuggling what the FBI says is “a potential agroterrorism weapon” that can be damaging to food crops. Yungqing Jian, a researcher at U-M, is accused of helping to smuggle fusarium graminearum through Detroit Metro Airport last July with the help of her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu. The pathogen can cause “head blight,” a disease that can be devastating to crops.
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2 weeks ago |
wxyz.com | Ross Jones
CPS cleared Michigan mom months before she set fire to home with daughters inside The home at Avondale and Eastern Avenue in Grand Rapids was already engulfed by the time the first call came into 911. See Ross Jones' full investigation in the video below“I hear some people and some kids screaming,” said one neighbor who called police.
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1 month ago |
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SANFORD, Mich. (WXYZ) — Five years since hell broke loose in the lakeside village of Sanford, just about everything is on its way back. Everything except the lake. "I’d really like to see the water back," business owner Linda Shephard said earlier this month, staring into the former lake that she could now walk across.
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1 month ago |
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LANSING (WXYZ) — Under the capitol dome in Lansing, earmarks have been a long-held tradition that few lawmakers wanted to talk about, but almost every lawmaker wanted to seek. “The way it worked was: we’d find out what (the earmark) was about a year later when (reporters) told us,” said Speaker Matt Hall last month.
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1 month ago |
wxyz.com | Ross Jones
FLINT, Mich. (WXYZ) — The deck was stacked against Kassius Lofton from the day he was born. The Flint toddler, known as Kass, suffered from Down syndrome and was developmentally delayed. At almost 3 years old, he could not walk on his own and was non-verbal. So when bruises started to appear all over his body, family members feared the worst and Kass couldn’t tell them where they came from.
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