For decades, Chuck has been using crack, meth and heroin. The 53-year-old regularly injects drugs to get high. He’s been to prison several times for crimes related to his drug use. He’s tried to stop using. But, he said, doing so results in “too much pain.”
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By TODD HEYWOOD
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7/27/23
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When Chris sits in his Narcotics Anonymous meetings, he’s often the only Black person in the room. He said when he tries to raise issues related to being Black, it makes people …
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By TODD HEYWOOD
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7/27/23
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Each year, City Pulse hosts a Top of the Town competition to allow community members to choose the businesses, restaurants, organizations, products and people they think represent the …
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By NICOLE NOECHEL
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7/27/23
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An Ingham County judge ruled in favor of a man who was shot by East Lansing Police outside a Meijer last year after the department received a 911 report of a masked man carrying a gun into the store. …
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By Nicole Noechel
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7/25/23
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FRIDAY, July 21 — The Michigan Court of Appeals sided yesterday with Lansing Township in upholding a ruling that stops the city of Lansing’s efforts to annex the Groesbeck Neighborhood …
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By TODD HEYWOOD
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7/21/23
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Chicago-based developer J. Paul Beitler is still ready to buy Lansing City Hall and renovate it into a hotel.
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By TODD HEYWOOD
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7/20/23
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Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office is handling the state prosecution of Rashad Trice, who allegedly kidnapped and murdered 2-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith of Lansing. Trice, 26, is being held …
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By NICOLE NOECHEL
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7/18/23
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FRIDAY, July 14 — Clinton Mireles, who lives on South Fairview Avenue on Lansing’s east side, took a chance Thursday when the early-morning storm slowed a bit to run into his backyard to …
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By TODD HEYWOOD
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7/14/23
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Brace for orange barrels on Michigan Avenue as the city and state not only “fix the damn roads,” but transform the main artery through the city into a more pedestrian- and bike and scooter-friendly road.
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Todd Heywood
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7/13/23
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Lorinzo Ervine Jr., 34, of Wayne County, was arrested in a sex sting when he allegedly met with a Lansing undercover officer posing as a 15-year-old girl, police said.
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By NICOLE NOECHEL
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7/13/23
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Eyesore of the week
642 S. Francis St., Lansing
This 1954 single-floor house has seen better days. Now, it serves as an unofficial refuge for the homeless.
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7/13/23
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The day last month that Curtis Hertel Jr. stepped down as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s legislative liaison — soon after steering an enormous $81 billion budget through the Legislature — Tom Barrett told the Capitol news service MIRS, “If I was responsible for that budget, I would have resigned, too.”
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By KYLE MELINN
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7/13/23
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The Race for the 7th congressional district is joined
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7/13/23
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Curtis Hertel Jr. has boxed up his Capitol office and is heading home.
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By KYLE MELINN
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7/13/23
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When Jessy Gregg decided to run for the East Lansing City Council in 2019, she had no idea the tumultuous ride she was in for.
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Todd Heywood
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7/13/23
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WEDNESDAY, July 10 —- Lansing’s Starlight Dinner Theatre has signed controversial director Guy Sanville, former artistic director of the Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea, to direct two …
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By TODD HEYWOOD
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7/12/23
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The first of what likely will be at least two suits has been filed in federal court against Lansing Community College over a data breach that may have involved more than 750,000 students, staff and …
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Berl Schwartz
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7/12/23
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FRIDAY, July 7 — Lansing and Detroit Police Department officials blamed today the Michigan State Police for providing incorrect information that led to an inaccurate news story yesterday …
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Todd Heywood
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7/7/23
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FRIDAY, July 7 — Lansing and Detroit Police Department officials blamed today the Michigan State Police for providing incorrect information that led to an inaccurate news story yesterday …
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Todd Heywood
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7/7/23
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THURSDAY, July 6 — The search for Wynter Cole-Smith of Lansing was hampered when the Detroit Police Department refused a request from the Lansing Police Department to check out a location where …
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Todd Heywood
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7/6/23
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