Linebacker Junior Colson was a fixture for Jim Harbaugh in the middle of Michigan’s defense for all three consecutive Big Ten titles. Now he’s joining Harbaugh in the NFL. The Los Angeles Chargers selected Colson in the third round with the No. 69 overall pick on Friday. The...

ALLEN PARK -- Brad Holmes is pouring his top draft resources into improving the defensive backfield. The Detroit Lions drafted Missouri cornerback Ennis Rakestraw Jr. at No. 61 overall in the second round. Rakestraw was ESPN’s top-ranked player left on the board when the Lions made their pick, so the...

Position switches don’t always pan out, but this one did for Mike Sainristil. The three-star athlete showed up to Michigan in 2019 wanting to be a receiver. Sainristil had played both sides of the ball in high school and the Wolverines needed help on the outside, so the coaching staff obliged.

ANN ARBOR, MI - A salary dispute was resolved between the University of Michigan and its lecturers union, likely ending a potential strike during finals week. Leaders for the Lecturers’ Employee Organization, comprised of about 1,800 lecturers on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses, reached a tentative agreement with the university Friday evening, April 26. The union still has to approve the contract in a vote next week to ratify it.

While Michigan searches for help in the transfer portal, it got some Friday on the special teams front. Kicker Dominic Zvada, who spent the last two seasons at Arkansas State, publicly announced his commitment to the Wolverines on Friday. In a social media post announcing the move, the 6-foot-3, 174-pound...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Chants of “Justice for Samuel” and “Grand Rapids, stand up” rang out Friday as about 60 community members gathered inside a local church. It was an all too familiar scene for former Kent County Commissioner Robert S. Womack. Different names but similar demands in the wake of another Black resident killed following an encounter with a police officer.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Former congressman Peter Meijer has dropped out of the Republican primary race for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, saying the “fundamentals of the race have changed significantly” since he launched his campaign in November. “Without a strong pathway to victory, continuing this...

LENAWEE COUNTY, MI - Two closures are coming to stretches of US-127 and US-223 in Lenawee County for repair work. The closures will be in effect from 7 a.m. Monday, April 29 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation. The intersection of US-127 and...

ALLEN PARK -- Terrion Arnold wants to bring Deion Sanders level of excitement to Detroit on his quest to reward the Lions for trading up to take him in the first round of the NFL draft. That’s not an easy bar, no doubt. But Arnold isn’t shy of setting the...

EAST LANSING, MI – Ingham County prosecutors expect to refile charges in a Michigan State University hazing death after dismissing charges against six of nine defendants. The dismissals came Friday, April 26, in East Lansing District Court where the defendants were scheduled for a preliminary examination to determine if their cases should be bound over for trial in Ingham Circuit Court.

ANN ARBOR, MI -- Because of Keith Kwiecinski, her children will never meet their grandmother. “My mother did not deserve to have her life extinguished without her consent,” said Illiana Falkenstern. “…My mother did not deserve to miss out on years of family birthdays, Christmases, weddings and grandchildren.”

A cold front banging into very warm air could produce a few severe thunderstorms this weekend in Michigan. Right now the most likely area for severe thunderstorms would be northern Michigan. Saturday will warm into the 70s across all of Lower Michigan, and the humidity will increase. The fuel for...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI -- Hundreds of people from across Michigan will learn how to curb violence at a Washtenaw County summit. The second annual Washtenaw County Community Violence Intervention Summit on Monday, April 29, will highlight for attendees different models for stopping retaliatory street violence in their own communities. The...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – Lincoln high school students will prepare for careers that do not require four-year degrees through a new technical program focused on manufacturing. The main goal of the program is to get students skills they need for advanced manufacturing, which can lead to jobs in the auto, energy and medical industries, among others, and fuel the local workforce.

NEW YORK (AP) — The students at Columbia University who inspired pro-Palestinian demonstrations across the country dug in at their encampment for the 10th day Friday as administrators and police at campuses from California to Massachusetts wrestled with how to address protests that have seen scuffles with police and hundreds of arrests.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Although she was only at the microphone for one minute, First Lady Jill Biden was the keynote speaker at the First Lady Luncheon hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. The first lady greeted the crowd with a raspy voice and told them she was...

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MI -- Officials say the man who was charged Thursday in connection with a fatal explosion that happened last month was attempting to flee the U.S. prior to his arrest Saturday. According to the Associated Press, Noor Kestou, 33, of Commerce Township, was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport by U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A former Kent County gymnastics coach has been convicted of nearly two dozen criminal charges after he was accused of sexually assaulting multiple girls in the 1990s to 2010s. A jury on Friday, April 26 found Shannon Guay guilty of 22 counts of criminal sexual conduct...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- A woman was arrested for drunken driving after a crash that caused her car to land vertically. The 24-year-old woman from Ypsilanti was driving with three other women early Friday, April 26, near Lincoln Avenue and Wells Street in Ann Arbor when she struck a cable attached to a pole, Ann Arbor police reported in a release. The car then crashed and landed vertically on a street sign.

NFL draft experts speculated whether the Minnesota Vikings would have to trade into the top five to select Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy. Instead, they only had to trade up one spot to No. 10 to land the national championship-winning signal-caller. ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. named Minnesota among his first round draft “winners” for getting McCarthy and trading up again to No. 17 to take Alabama edge Dallas Turner.