| February 24, 2022 
 Attorneys for Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old Oxford High School sophomore accused of killing four classmates, are asking a judge to move the teen from an adult jail where he is currently held to a less restrictive juvenile facility. Crumbley is currently jailed separately from the adult inmates at the Oakland County Jail and is seeking to be relocated to the Children’s Village juvenile facility in Pontiac. Because Crumbley is a minor, the law requires the court conduct a hearing on whether the defendant should be lodged in a juvenile facility or adult jail pending trial. Oakland County Sixth Circuit Judge Hon. Kwamé L. Rowe, who presided over the hearing, said he expects to issue a written ruling on Crumbley’s placement next week. READ MORE ►“How do I get my fan mail?” Accused Oxford High shooter’s jail messages revealed in court  Gas prices are continuing to climb and could get “rather ugly” in the coming weeks, according to GasBuddy.com. The national average price of gas has increased 3 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.51. “With tensions still very high that Russia may invade Ukraine, gasoline prices kept moving higher, tugged by the rising price of oil as the market concentrates on possible outcomes from the situation that could affect global oil production amidst recovering demand,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. READ MORE  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a trio of bipartisan bills aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs Wednesday. The legislation establishes regulations to limit unfair practices by pharmacy benefit managers, middlemen who contract with a pharmacy on behalf of an employer, insurer or health plan. The new laws also require pharmacists to disclose generic prescription drug prices to patients and prohibit them from entering contracts with pharmacy benefit managers to guarantee the distribution of certain drugs. READ MORE ►'Hostile work environment' leads to resignation for Northern Michigan health officer  In our current weather pattern, the next snow is already waiting in the wings. The next snow should give accumulating snow to most of Lower Michigan. This won’t be a heavy snow, but it will be a steady 12-hour snow. The storm system arriving Thursday is coming into Michigan from the southwest. The southwest to northeast storm track is always a track we watch for heavy snow. In this case however, a lot of the moisture will be used up in heavy rain to our south in Kentucky and Tennessee. This keeps the abundant moisture from getting up into the northern cold side of the storm. ►Michigan's drought area is growing: 60% now abnormally dry  It took 49 hours and wore holes into the life jackets taped to his knees, but Bobby Holley successfully crawled from Battle Creek to downtown Kalamazoo. Holley’s crawl was a protest meant to call attention to gun violence. Holley, 76, set out on the journey on his hands and knees because he is begging for an end to gun violence and unsolved murders in Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and across the nation. “We’re not trying to get rid of anybody’s guns as far as the legal guns but most kids, they’re 14 years old and got a gun? No way,” Holley said. “15 years old and got a gun? They don’t give permission to kids like that. They’re too young.” ►VIDEO: Michigan man crawls over 20 miles to protest gun violence MLive All Digital Access
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