Ex-legislative leaders: Hike fuel taxes 47 cents for roads
LANSING (AP) — A bipartisan group of former legislative leaders says Michigan's gasoline tax should be increased by 47 cents a gallon over nine years to fix deteriorating roads.
The proposal unveiled Thursday calls for boosting the 26-cents-a-gallon tax by 7 cents in 2020, followed by annual 5-cent hikes through 2028.
Republican Ken Sikkema and Democrat Bob Emerson — former Senate leaders — say there is no question more must be spent on roads, and raising fuel taxes is the simplest way to do it.
Tax hikes would face resistance in the Republican-controlled Legislature.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who made fixing the roads a campaign issue, is expected to unveil a road-funding plan in March.
State official warns against propane price gouging
LANSING (AP) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is warning against propane price gouging during the winter deep freeze.
Propane is the primary heating fuel for about 320,000 Michigan households.
Prices are not regulated. But the Michigan Consumer Protection Act prohibits retailers from charging a price that is "grossly in excess of the price at which similar property or services are sold." Antitrust laws prohibit fuel providers from conspiring to arbitrarily fix prices.
The state monitors the propane market for what it calls irregularities that could cause supply or price disruptions.
Nessel says people should report suspected price gouging.
Police: Would-be robber gets cold feet
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts are looking for a woman they say intended to rob a bank but got cold feet and left without a penny.
Fall River police tell the Herald News the woman walked into the Fall River Municipal Credit Union on Monday afternoon and approached a teller.
Police say the woman hesitated, told the teller "give me a minute," and went to a counter and wrote on a piece of paper.
But she ripped up the note, dropped the pieces in the trash and walked out.
Bank employees pieced the note together and it said: "Give me the money."
Taking tune from “The Office,” man helps save woman’s life
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A classic scene from a decade-old episode of "The Office" helped an Arizona mechanic save an unconscious woman's life.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that 21-year-old Cross Scott found a woman locked in her car this month and broke in, finding she wasn't breathing.
He doesn't have any emergency training but thought of the show where Steve Carell's character does CPR to the tune of the Bee Gees' song "Stayin' Alive." The song has the correct tempo for chest compressions.
Within a minute, the woman was breathing, and she was taken to a hospital and later released.
Scott, who shares the last name of Carell's character Michael Scott, had help from two women who also stopped when they saw the car and called 911.
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