Boil-water advisory lifted in Detroit amid auto show
DETROIT (AP) — Officials have lifted a boil-water advisory for downtown Detroit and nearby areas following a weekend water main break.
The affected area included hotels and the Cobo Center, where the annual North American International Auto Show opened Monday for news media from around the world. Drinking fountains at the convention hall were turned off Sunday and those at the show drank bottled water.
The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department and the Great Lakes Water Authority announced Tuesday that the advisory had been lifted following two rounds of testing that showed no bacterial contamination.
The 42-inch water line belongs to the Great Lakes Water Authority, a regional water agency.
Parents charged after toddler dies from fentanyl poisoning
CLINTON TOWNSHIP (AP) — A Macomb County couple has been charged in the opioid overdose of their 18-month-old daughter who died on Christmas Day.
Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith told the Detroit Free Press an autopsy showed Ava Floyd had ingested up to 15 times the amount of fentanyl authorities had seen in the county's last 30 overdose deaths.
Smith's office says 28-year-old Antonio Floyd and 27-year-old Shantanice Barksdale have been arraigned and jailed on second-degree murder charges.
Smith says the couple was producing fentanyl in their Clinton Township home, and authorities believe the baby drank something containing the drug.
Ava was taken to a grandmother's home where she stopped breathing.
High court will hear drunk driving case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a Wisconsin drunk driving law that has parallels in other states.
Wisconsin law says law enforcement officials can draw blood from an unconscious driver without a warrant if they suspect the person was driving drunk.
The case the court has agreed to hear involves Gerald Mitchell, who was arrested in Sheboygan but was too drunk to take a breath test and became unconscious after being taken to a hospital. His blood was then drawn without a warrant. Mitchell was ultimately convicted of driving while intoxicated.
Mitchell says the blood draw was a search that violated his constitutional rights, but Wisconsin’s Supreme Court upheld his convictions. Mitchell says 29 states have similar laws.
Chocolate spill creates sweet hot mess on Arizona highway
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in northern Arizona had a sweet hot mess on their hands after a tank trucker's trailer detached from the truck and rolled on its side on slick pavement, spilling a river of liquid chocolate onto westbound lanes of Interstate 40.
The Arizona Daily Sun reports the wreck Monday about 11 miles east of Flagstaff required cleanup crews to pour most of the 40,000 gallons of chocolate into the highway median to lighten the damaged tanker so it could be towed away.
The chocolate was liquid because it was being stored in the tanker at 120 degrees.
Officials say there were no injuries and the driver was not cited.
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