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Rewind: News from the last 7 days

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By STEVE UNDERWOOD

The Professional Employee Council of Sparrow Hospital-Michigan Nurses Association and UM Health-Sparrow reached a contract agreement in principle Tuesday, avoiding a strike planned for Monday. The deal includes wage increases of 20% to 32% for most members, extra late-shift pay, decreased healthcare costs with a plan equal or better to what the employer is ending, guarantees of replacing staff when employees leave and a ratification bonus. The previous contract expired last Oct. 30. The 2,000 union employees need to vote on ratifying it.

A resolution “reaffirming” Ingham County as a “welcoming community to immigrants” and sent to the rest of Michigan’s counties has prompted the Livingston County Board of Commissioners to reject the letter unanimously. One Livingston commissioner perceived the letter as pointed criticism of its September resolution, requiring its Sheriff’s Office to track all interactions with “illegal” immigrants “no matter the nature of the contact,” with suspects, victims and witnesses included to assess the impact of illegal immigration better. But the Ingham resolution didn’t mention Livingston and was sent to all 82 counties. The Ingham commissioners wanted to send a message that the county is welcoming as a new Trump administration comes into office, pledging mass deportations, Ingham chair Ryan Sebolt said.

New U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Charlotte, opened his Lansing office at 328 West Ottawa St. on Monday, welcomed by Mayor Andy Schor, State Reps. Angela Witwer, D-Delta Township, and Jason Woodford, R-Howell, and State Sen. Lana Theis, R-Brighton. He said he plans to open satellite offices around the district, covering Clinton, Shiawassee, Ingham and Livingston counties, and part of Eaton and Oakland counties.

WLNS-TV fired Mark Silberstein, 65, as a producer after the Eaton County Sheriff’s Office arraigned him on three felony charges: accosting a child for immoral purposes, third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person between 13 and 15 and using a computer to commit a crime. The Shaarey Zedek Congregation in East Lansing also fired him as an administrator. Silberstein began communicating with a detective who was posing as a 15-year-old boy in a “joint task force child predator operation” over a dating app for members of the LGBTQ+ community, court records said. He agreed to meet the boy in early January at Grand Woods Park in Delta Township. Silberstein was freed on a $2,500 bond and was scheduled to appear in Eaton County District Court this week.

Lansing police have identified a person of interest in the non-fatal shooting of three teen boys Saturday. The boys, two age 16 and one age 19, were shot near Oakland Avenue and Jenison Street. Police have not yet said where the victims, who sought treatment under their power for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, were from.

Potterville Public Schools will have a deficit of more than $900,000 by June 30, and the state will likely need to put the district on a deficit reduction plan, said Interim Superintendent Sam Sinicropi. With a budget of about $12.8 million for 2024-‘25, the district has a fund balance of about $283,000 — an improvement of where it was last June 30. However, flawed budgeting, like needing an additional $973,000 to pay teachers, meant the district is on track to spend more than $1.6 million than it had budgeted. Potterville’s budget shortfall was discovered in an audit this fall.

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Kerry Christian Heuhs of Holt, the owner of management companies that operate two family dental practices in the Lansing area, has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in U.S. District Court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. According to a plea agreement, he must pay at least $50,000 toward criminal penalties and might owe more than $325,000 in restitution. Heuhs faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. The IRS informed him during an audit that he mischaracterized personal expenses as business expenses and failed to report certain income in his personal tax returns, court documents said.

The impending trial of Reese Hammie, 23, who is accused of killing MSU student Oghenevwede (Wede) Okagbare (pictured), has been delayed again. No reason was reported for the rescheduling to May 12 of the Jan. 13 trial date in Livingston County’s 44th Circuit Court. The court had scheduled it initially for last September. Hammie was charged with first-degree home invasion and domestic violence last Aug. 11, the same day Okagbare was killed. The home invasion and domestic violence charges were for a separate incident that occurred Aug. 1. Then he was charged Sept. 6 with one count of open murder and one count of witness bribing/intimidating/interfering. The court is trying the two cases together despite their being separate incidents.

Public Safety:

Lansing police have identified Deandre Luckey, 36, as the man fatally shot on the 900 block of Belle Chase Boulevard in south Lansing Dec. 29. The second victim, a 25-year-old man, was expected to survive. Police have not reported why they waited to release Luckey’s name nor have identified any suspects.

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