Bureau reviewing request for check of El-Sayed’s candidacy
LANSING (AP) — Michigan election officials are reviewing a letter that requests an investigation into Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s eligibility to run for governor.
The state Bureau of Elections recently received a letter from Pamela Nelson.
The DeWitt resident cited questions over whether El-Sayed will have been a registered and qualified Michigan voter for four years before the election.
El-Sayed, one of three Democratic gubernatorial candidates, studied and worked in New York until moving back to Michigan in 2015.
Nelson says she filed the complaint so the issue is resolved before August’s primary. The deadline to challenge a candidate’s nominating petitions is today.
A spokesman said the elections bureau is reviewing the letter and “will decide what the next steps, if any, are.”
El-Sayed has called the eligibility issue a “manufactured controversy.”
State’s top court turns down appeal in exotic swine case
MARQUETTE (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal in a dispute over exotic pigs in the Upper Peninsula.
A Marquette County judge in 2016 said 10 pigs violated state restrictions on Russian boars and should be destroyed. The appeals court affirmed that decision, and the Supreme Court won't intervene.
The Department of Natural Resources designated Russian boars and other exotic swine as an invasive species. The state says they’ve escaped from hunting ranches and small farms and ravaged the environment.
Lawyers for game ranch owner Greg Johnson of Negaunee Township say the pigs can be traced to domestic breeds.
Woman charged with stealing butterfly from Ohio exhibit
CINCINNATI (AP) — Police say a woman who stole a butterfly from an Ohio botanical garden exhibit has been arrested.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Springfield Township police on Friday arrested 36-year-old Jamie Revis, of Springfield Township. She’s charged with theft for stealing a blue morpho butterfly from Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati two weeks ago.
The theft was recorded by a surveillance camera, prompting police to seek the public’s help in finding the butterfly thief. Court documents say police used information from an Instagram account to arrest Revis.
Blue morpho butterflies are native to Central and South American rainforests and have life cycles lasting about 115 days.
Pelicans crash California graduation, one lands on red carpet
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — A pair of pelicans crashed a graduation ceremony at Pepperdine University in the California beachfront community of Malibu over the weekend.
The long-beaked birds flew in Saturday as the class of 2018 was receiving diplomas outdoors on a lawn overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Video broadcast by KABC-TV shows one of the big birds landed among seated observers who managed to toss it back into the air, only to have it land on a red carpet at the center of the ceremony.
The pelican resisted efforts by several men to get it to move along.
It finally waddled away.
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