WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023 |
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In today's newsletter, report on MSU’s response to Feb. 13 shooting, a late October warm-up and Ryan Kelley gets 60 days in prison for Capitol riot role. |
Want to attend a party made for stars? |
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is offering stargazers one last chance in 2023 to enjoy a guided look at the night skies. The park’s final star party of the year will be held on Saturday, October 21 from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Dune Climb. Reporter Emily Bingham says the event falls during the peak weekend for the annual Orionids meteor shower, increasing visitors’ chances of seeing “shooting stars” and possibly even fireballs. |
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An aerial image showing fall colors surrounding the Cut River Bridge in Mackinac County, Michigan on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (Drone Image by Joel Bissell | MLive.com) |
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2022 was less violent, but Michigan’s crime data remains above average |
Data: The state posted 461 violent crime offenses per 100,000 people last year. This was the lowest rate in three years, according to data released Monday, Oct. 16, by the FBI. Still, Michigan is far ahead of the national average of 380.7 violent crime offenses per capita. Info: Violent crimes listed in the annual FBI report include homicide, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery. Michigan reported fewer incidents of all four offense types year-over-year. More in public interest: For the third straight school year, Michigan students’ average score on the SAT declined, further illustrating the troubling outlook of the state’s education system post-pandemic. |
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Report says MSU’s initial response to Feb. 13 shooting was ‘correct’ but suggests improvements |
An outside review of Michigan State University’s response to the Feb. 13 mass shooting that left three students dead and five others injured found that the initial police response was “appropriate, timely, and correct.” From there, things went less perfectly: Local police agencies and agents from the FBI arrived on campus quickly, but MSU could have done more to “take control of self-dispatched police officers to avoid interagency confusion and public reports of unknown people with guns on campus,” Security Risk Management Consultants wrote in a 26-page report. An update: A judge on Friday, Oct. 13, denied a request from the parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley to attend their son’s sentencing hearing, records show. |
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Yo-yo weather pattern should bring us a late October warm-up |
Warmer-than-normal: The atmosphere is going to re-arrange again. Projections for the middle of next week are for temperatures to warm into the mid-to-upper 60s. This would be 10 degrees warmer than normal. In the now: As we head into the day, temperatures are about to take a warm turn, with dry conditions expected for parts of the state. Pick the tomatoes: While interior cold spots in Northern Michigan have had a light frost, southern Lower Michigan hasn’t come anywhere near a frost. We should have our first frost on the way early next week. |
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Ex-Michigan gov. candidate Ryan Kelley gets 60 days in prison for Capitol riot role |
Ryan Kelley, a one-time gubernatorial candidate and real estate broker, was sentenced to 60 days in prison, a year of probation and a $5,000 fine for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in federal court in Washington, DC Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Background: Court filings had documented Kelley beckoning rioters up the Capitol steps toward the building and removing police barricades as the building was breached by insurrectionists. Videos and photos collected by investigators showed Kelley ripping the covering off the inaugural stage on the Capitol’s western steps. Also in politics: As artificial intelligence remains on the cutting edge of technology, state lawmakers want to put Michigan on the cutting edge of fighting misinformation. |
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‘Carolina Reaper’ creator breaks world’s hottest pepper record with help of mysterious Michigan pepper |
Grab some milk: A pepper that recently claimed the record for hottest in the world was made with the help of a pepper from Michigan. Breaking the scale: Ed Currie, a South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the famed Carolina Reaper, is the man responsible for Pepper X, which was publicly named the hottest pepper in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records on Oct. 9. Sent over: Currie has been developing Pepper X for a decade. He told the Associated Press that the pepper, which provides “immediate, brutal heat,” is a crossbreed of a Carolina Reaper a “pepper that a friend of mine sent me from Michigan that was brutally hot.” |
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