By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court has reopened a lawsuit against TikTok after the mother of a 10-year-old girl died after she took part in a viral “blackout challenge” in which users of the social media platform were encouraged to strangle themselves until they passed out. While federal law typically protects internet […]
Flint — Delegates to the Michigan Republican Party on Saturday declined to re-nominate two incumbent members of the university’s board of trustees to their posts. Among them was Ron Weiser, a former chairman of the state Republican Party and a longtime donor to the party. At an at times noisy convention that lasted about 12 […]
By Jonathan Stamp NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawyer for R. Kelly struggled on Monday to convince a U.S. appeals court to overturn the former R&B superstar’s sex trafficking conviction and 30-year prison sentence. Kelly, 57, is appealing his conviction by a Brooklyn, New York, jury in September 2021 on all nine charges brought against […]
ALLEGAN COUNTY – A local man has been sentenced to prison again for sexually abusing a minor. Kevin James Thorne, 52, was sentenced to 50 to 180 months in prison by Judge Margaret Bakker in Allegan County’s 48th District Court on Monday, Aug. 5. He was given credit for 881 days, just over 29 months, […]
