| June 30, 2021 
 According to state law, Michigan residents can light off fireworks now through Sunday, July 4. You might have seen some fireworks lighting up the skies last night -- those were above board, too, no matter what your local laws say. But once Monday, July 5, arrives, those ordinances for your local municipality will go back into effect. Until then, if you want to know what exactly is allowed and what is not allowed as far as personal fireworks go, we have a list of the rules in Michigan. While we are talking about the Fourth of July holiday, we also have a look at the holiday weekend weather forecast (spoiler alert: it's looking good!) and some events you can attend for Independence Day in the links below. READ MORE ►Forecast: Fourth of July weather should be a crowd-pleaser  Employees and volunteers who work for Henry Ford Health System will need to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Sept. 10 or face termination, the organization’s chief operating officer said Tuesday. “Vaccination will be a condition of employment in the same way that we have with the annual flu shot,” Bob Riney, Henry Ford’s president of healthcare operations and chief operating officer, said at a press briefing. The system has hospitals in Detroit, Wyandotte, West Bloomfield, Macomb and Jackson. About 68% of Henry Ford workers and volunteers have been vaccinated so far. READ MORE  Erika Prock left Michigan at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10, with her son. She drove all night while the 18-month-old slept, and then picked up her husband at her in-laws’ home in north Alabama. After a two-hour visit, they started back toward Hillsdale, Mich. When police responded to a complaint at the restaurant where they were eating lunch, an officer smelled marijuana on Prock's husband's breath. Todd Prock told police he had marijuana in the trunk of the car. Then they arrested both adults and placed the child in foster care – trapping the family inside a nightmare for possessing a substance that’s legal in their home state. READ MORE ►Business, education grants in Muskegon will go to those convicted under old marijuana laws
 Brandin Hawthorne has had some negative experiences with police, but his prevailing memory is a childhood friend’s father not just protecting the community but immersing himself in it. Hawthorne’s dream job was sidelined while he pursued a football career. Now he’s living it. A linebacker for Michigan from 2009 to 2012, Hawthorne has made a career in law enforcement. He’s in his fifth year as a deputy in the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orlando, Florida. “I’m out here bridging the gap between law enforcement and the community,” Hawthorne said. MORE  In the final hours of Phuong Trinh’s life, friends from all corners of the planet called the 22-year-old’s hospital room, knowing it would be the last time they would speak to her. The Vietnam-born college student couldn’t talk back. A car crash in Kochville Township sent her into a coma 22 days earlier, and the end — in the end — was inevitable. When word of her approaching death spread, loved ones congregated to her hospital room from far away via cell phone signal. Over video chat apps, they spoke words they hoped might melt through the cold silence of Trinh’s state of unconsciousness. READ Get your local news 24/7 Connect with MLive
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