Governor orders flags lowered for mass shooting victims
LANSING (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered U.S. and Michigan flags be lowered to honor the victims of the weekend mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
Whitmer said Sunday the flags should be displayed at half-staff on all state buildings, grounds and facilities until sunset on Thursday. She also encourages local governments, businesses, residents and others to do the same.
In all, 29 people were killed and about 50 injured in less than 24 hours.
Whitmer called gun violence “a public health crisis” requiring “action to make sure firearms don’t end up in the hands of someone who wants to hurt themselves or others.”
Man who spiked wife’s coffee sentenced to 60 days
MOUNT CLEMENS (AP) — A man convicted of poisoning his wife by spiking her coffee with an antihistamine has been sentenced to 60 days in jail on weekends.
Therese Kozlowski was suspicious of Brian Kozlowski and put cameras in the kitchen of their Macomb Township home. The coffee spiking occurred in 2018 while the couple’s divorce case was pending. They are now divorced.
Therese Kozlowski says she felt tired and sick and had blurred vision after drinking the tainted coffee. She told a judge she considered the poisoning “attempted murder.”
Brian Kozlowski, who apologized in court, pleaded no contest to a poisoning drink charge in June. Attorney Brian Legghio says his client has “profound remorse” and was going through an “ugly divorce.”
Transit agencies get federal grants for electric buses
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Department of Transportation and the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation will receive $2.6 million in grants to buy up to six electric buses and charging infrastructure.
Funding is through a federal transit grant program. The award offers each agency opportunities to partner with DTE Electric and all-electric bus manufacturer Proterra.
The agencies submitted a joint application in March for funding to replace older and mileage-eligible diesel buses with all-electric buses.
The new buses are expected to hit the streets in 2021.
No perfume, please: Viennese against scented subway air
BERLIN (AP) — Vienna subway travelers have decided that they don’t want their train rides to be scented.
The Austrian capital’s transport authority tried out four scents, including hints of green tea, grapefruit, sandalwood and melon, in the ventilation systems of four trains on two of the network’s five lines last month. It asked subway users to deliver their verdict online.
The authority said Monday that 21,000 people decided they would prefer to live without scent as they commute, while 16,000 supported extending the project.
It said that the air quality in subway cars has already been improved by a ban on eating on trains that was introduced on all lines in January.
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