Letter among clues in fatal hit-and-run cold case in Michigan
MIDLAND (AP) — Police in a central Michigan county are seeking the public’s help in solving a 1991 fatal hit-and-run crash. One of the few clues: An anonymous letter of apology sent years later by someone who claimed to be the driver.
The Midland Daily News reports the Midland County sheriff’s office wants information about the crash that killed 24-year-old Gregory McRoberts nearly three decades ago. The Midland man was riding a bicycle, and his body was found about a month later in a ditch.
McRoberts’ relatives received a letter in 2005 from someone claiming to be the driver. It included an account of the crash as well as an apology.
The sheriff’s Facebook page says the family seeks “closure to years of speculation and grief by connecting with the letter writer.”
Another Michigan brewer pays unpaid school lunch bills
WHITEHALL (AP) — Small beer companies are helping students eat lunch.
Fetch Brewing has paid $5,500 to erase unpaid lunch bills in Whitehall and Montague schools, near Muskegon in western Michigan. Co-owner Jen Hain says she and her husband were inspired by the generosity of Mitten Brewing, which paid debts in the Suttons Bay and Fennville districts.
Hain tells WOOD-TV it’s a “significant amount” for Fetch Brewing in Whitehall. But she says communities in the White Lake area have supported their business.
Hain hopes some parents who didn’t owe much still will make a payment that could help other struggling families in Whitehall and Montague as the new school year begins.
States sue over rollback of child immigrant protections
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nineteen states are suing over the Trump administration's effort to alter a federal agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra says the rule change puts children at risk. He’s leading the lawsuit alongside Massachusetts AG Maura Healey.
A decades-old agreement known as the Flores settlement says immigrant children must be kept in the least restrictive setting and generally shouldn’t spend more than 20 days in detention. The Trump administration says it plans its own set of rules to allow longer detention of immigrant families.
A judge must OK the proposed changes in order to end the Flores agreement.
Danish city puts Vikings at crossing signals
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — It’s safe to cross when the green Viking is walking, but stop when the red one is standing.
That’s the message to pedestrians in Aarhus as it unveils new crossing signals to celebrate the history of Denmark’s second largest city.
City council member Buenyamin Simsek, in charge of technical matters, Monday unveiled the first of 17 traffic signals featuring Vikings holding axes and shields, but no horned helmets — there is no evidence that Viking helmets really did have horns.
The lights will form a circle around downtown Aarhus, which was founded by the Vikings in the 8th century and became a bustling harbor city.
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