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VINCENT CHIN ASIAN AMERICANS VIOLENCE

Detroit honors Vincent Chin, the Asian American who was killed in 1982

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit is helping honor Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American man who was beaten to death 40 years ago by two white men who never served time. The memorial service comes as hate crimes against Asian Americans in the United States increase. The Vincent Chin 40th Remembrance & Rededication begins Thursday and focuses on civil rights efforts that began with his death in 1982. Chin was celebrating his bachelor party with friends at a strip club when a fight broke out with the two white auto workers. Federal authorities said auto workers blamed Chin for layoffs at Detroit auto plants over Japanese imports.

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POLICE SHOOTING – MICHIGAN

Michigan police officer charged with Lyoya’s murder fired

DETROIT (AP) — Officials say a Michigan police officer charged with murder after he shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head has been fired. Grand Rapids City manager Mark Washington said Wednesday that Christopher Schurr waived his right to a hearing and was fired effective last Friday. Schurr was an officer in Grand Rapids for seven years. Police Chief Eric Winstrom recommended Schurr’s firing after a second-degree murder charge was filed Thursday. Lyoya, a black man, was killed at the end of a traffic stop on April 4. He ran and physically resisted Schurr after failing to produce a driver’s license. Schurr, who is white, has claimed Lyoya was in control of his taser when he shot him. Defense attorneys say the officer feared for his safety.

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FLINT RIVER OIL

Several thousand gallons of oily material in Flint River

FLINT, Mich. (AP) – Authorities say several thousand gallons of an oil-based, dark black material smelling of petroleum were spilled into the Flint River in Flint. Jill Greenberg, a spokeswoman for Michigan’s Environmental Protection Agency, told MLive.com that the spill appeared to be 5 miles long. The agency says on Twitter that “booms are being deployed and investigators are working to identify a source.” Officials said drinking water was not threatened. Flint used the river for drinking water in 2014-15 before lead contamination caused the city to revert to a regional water utility. The US Environmental Protection Agency sends two on-site coordinators to Flint in response.

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AP-US-HEAT-WAVE

The heatwave has the Midwest and South firmly in its grip

CHICAGO (AP) — People flock to pools, beaches and cooldown centers in a strip of the Midwest and South stretching from north Florida to the Great Lakes as a heatwave pushed temperatures into the 90s and beyond and possibly has caused the deaths of at least two people in the Milwaukee area. The National Weather Service maintained an excessive heat warning through Wednesday night for most of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, which have been struggling with sticky humidity and soaring temperatures since Tuesday. And the heat warning for the Midwest and South stretched east to the South Carolina coast, covering an area home to about a third of the country’s population.

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BEATING DEATH MOTEL ROOMS

Man convicted of Detroit motel room murder

DETROIT (AP) — A 24-year-old Detroit man has been found guilty of hitting another man in an East Side motel room. The Wayne County Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that a jury convicted Jimmy Pickett of second-degree murder Tuesday. On February 11, 2020, police found the body of 56-year-old Bloomfield Hills resident Bashar Kallabat in a motel room. Kallabat’s property had also been stolen. Pickett’s sentencing is scheduled for July 13. The Fair Michigan Justice Project has been prosecuting the case. The program assists law enforcement officers and prosecutors in solving serious crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

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ELECTION 2022 GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN

Craig submits as a write-in for the Michigan GOP Governor’s Elementary School

LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig has run as a run-in candidate for Michigan governor after being kicked out of the Republican primary on Aug. 2. Craig filed an enrollment with the Bureau of Elections in Lansing on Tuesday, weeks after forged signatures submitted by paid circulators left him short of the voting minimum. Craig and his campaign filed a lawsuit in Kent County District Court on Monday against a company and circulators hired to collect the signatures. Craig is one of five Republican candidates who failed to submit enough valid nomination signatures.

MEIJER EXCESSIVE FEE

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The Meijer buyer charged $1,500 for a $68 purchase

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan shopper likes her new planter, but not enough to pay the price 23 times over. Casey DeBruyn is trying to untangle her finances after her debit card was repeatedly charged for a $68 purchase at a Meijer store in the Grand Rapids area. The blow to her bank account: $1,500. Meijer, the Michigan big-box retailer, has acknowledged that some customers have been overcharged for certain purchases lately. The company says the problem lies with Chase Bank, which processes debit and credit card payments. Chase says it is “working to fix all duplicate transactions.” Meanwhile, DeBruyn says reversing the charges was a slow process. She’s still $1,300 short.

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TODDLER DEAD POND

Police: 2 toddlers die after being pulled from Michigan pond

HAYES TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) – Two toddlers have died after being pulled from a pond in northern Michigan. According to state police, soldiers found her face down in the water around 5 p.m. Monday in Hayes Township in Otsego County, northeast of Traverse City. Despite life-saving efforts, they were later pronounced dead. The children – a 2-year-old boy from Elmira and a 2-year-old girl from Gaylord – had been missing about 40 minutes from a location across the pond. According to the police, no third-party fault is currently suspected.

STORM

While searching in Milwaukee, a boy’s body is swept away after a storm

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Searchers have found the body of a 10-year-old boy who was swept away in a drainage ditch in Milwaukee after heavy thunderstorms brought heavy rain and damaging winds to much of the Midwest and parts of the South. WITI-TV reports that the boy’s body was found Tuesday during a search of the city’s drainage tunnels, although the bodies of two men who were swept away Monday night trying to save him were not found. The water was deep and moving fast after the severe storms that also caused damage and power outages in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. The storms hit early Tuesday as they rolled into West Virginia, where numerous roads were closed by downed trees and power lines.