State to build new veterans home in Macomb County
CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP (AP) — Michigan plans to build a new veterans home at the site of a former military housing complex in suburban Detroit.
The Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency recently announced the state purchased the site known as Sebille Manor in Macomb County’s Chesterfield Township for $820,000 from the U.S. Defense Department.
The 103-acre site will be the location of the Southeast Michigan Veterans Home.
A work group in 2016 recommended the construction of seven new veterans homes over the next 10 years across Michigan.
The property is located near Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
Judge tosses lawsuit challenging cutbacks in EMU sports
YPSILANTI (AP) — A judge has rejected a challenge to Eastern Michigan University’s decision to drop four athletic teams.
Critics say EMU violated the state’s open meetings law when the school eliminated wrestling, men’s swimming, softball and women’s tennis. But Court of Claims Judge Stephen Borrello ruled in favor of EMU last Thursday and dismissed the case.
EMU says it argued that it didn’t violate the open meetings law because eliminating sports programs was an administrative decision that didn’t require approval from the Board of Regents.
The decision to drop the four teams was announced in March. Separately, a federal lawsuit challenging the elimination of women’s teams is pending.
Man faces charges after shooting at ‘ghost’
TOLLAND, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man who told police he was a paranormal investigator faces several charges after firing shots in his house at what he told police may have been a ghost.
Christain Devaux, 25, of Tolland is due in court on Sept. 11 on charges including the illegal discharge of a firearm, making a false statement to police, second-degree reckless endangerment, misusing an emergency call and disorderly conduct.
Police say Devaux put two bullet holes in his wall on July 26, initially reporting the incident as an attempted break in.
He later told police he believes the intruder was actually a spirit.
State police said Devaux had made a similar report back in 2011.
Thief in Mexico tries to steal hearse, with body inside
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in central Mexico they caught a man who made off with a hearse — complete with a corpse inside.
The Tlaquepaque police department said on its Facebook page that the hearse had been readied to take the body of an 80-year-old man from a hospital in neighboring Guadalajara to a funeral home.
Police say a 40-year-old man has admitted seeing the keys left in the vehicle and deciding to take it late at night Officers were alerted and soon spotted the hearse along a highway and detained the suspect, whose name was given only as Annibal Saul N. Police said he had been turned over to prosecutors.
Both the hearse and the body were recovered.
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