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Birmingham bans short-term rentals city-wide
Just under six months after a shooting incident took place at a short-term rental property on E. Lincoln in Birmingham, city commissioners moved on Monday, October 19, to permanently ban rentals under 30 days city-wide, with the changes to take effect the next week.
Cranbrook Schools to forfeit gridiron games
The varsity boys football team at Cranbrook Kingswood has been forced to forfeit three of its games, all victories, this season over a ruling by the Catholic High School League (CHSL) due to failure to file necessary forms on two of its players.
Resident arrested for false terrorism threat
Bloomfield Township police made an arrest of a local resident on Monday, October 19, on a charge of making a false threat of terrorism.
Same suspect sought in two Lowe’s incidents
The Bloomfield Township Police Department was contacted by a representative of Lowe’s, located at 1801 South Telegraph Road, on Monday, October 12, regarding two separate retail frauds with the same suspect.
Police field calls about theft of election signs
Complaints about theft of election signs are showing up on the incident records for the Bloomfield Township Police Department.
Far below Michigan waters operates a disposal system
The trucks arrived in Michigan carrying liquid waste from another state’s disaster – the 2023 Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Their destination was an industrial site in Romulus, where pumps could send the cargo more than half a mile underground. The shipments were legal, tracked by hazardous-waste manifests and bound for a permitted facility. Yet they surprised many state and local officials, exposing a contradiction that turned an obscure disposal system into a public question – when waste vanishes beneath Michigan, what keeps it there?
OVER AND OUT?
With time running out until Election Day, Republican gubernatorial candidate John James has lost national funding support and has been focusing on building “word of mouth” support at campaign stops and social media to get his message out. Along with that messaging comes numerous reports that James, who currently represents the U.S. House district for southern Macomb County, along with Rochester and Rochester Hills, but chose not to run again to aim for the governor’s mansion, has scrubbed a lot of his website and socials of any signs of President Donald Trump, including a picture of the prez on the website home page.
