Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees voted to raise President Kevin Guskiewicz’s salary by more than $1 million in a special Sunday night meeting.
The move, which is subject to the finalization of an amended employment contract, would raise his salary from $1,029,000 to $2 million and increase an annual unvested employer award he receives from $200,000 to $250,000.
WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - A marijuana cigarette was discovered in Washtenaw County Sheriff Alyshia Dyer’s county-issued SUV last year, triggering county officials to hire outside attorneys to investigate.
An employee reported finding the cigarette on the driver’s seat when the sheriff’s office-assigned SUV was turned in to exchange it for another vehicle in June 2025, according to three sources familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly.
LANSING — A former Lansing police lieutenant who pleaded no-contest to a misdemeanor embezzlement charge last year likely committed "additional criminal acts" while working for the city, an internal investigation found.
Ryan Wilcox made numerous "questionable purchases" with city tax dollars, falsified overtime, conducted "unauthorized searches" using a police database of his ex-wife, her new boyfriend and that man's family, and used a city vehicle for personal travel inside and outside Michigan, according to a summary of an internal investigation by Lansing police. And in addition to mowing lawns for his private business on city time, which an earlier Michigan State Police investigation confirmed, the report said he also worked another job without proper city authorization.
The city released a four-page Lansing Police Department "Citizen/Police Complaint Form" in response to a State Journal public records request for the report from the internal affairs investigation, which went on for a year after Wilcox's criminal case ended. The city denied the release of any other documents, saying doing so "would divulge internal affairs investigatory techniques and have a substantial chilling effect on participation in future investigations."
On the night of Oct. 18, 2024, every single resident on the 300 hall of Optalis Health and Rehabilitation of Grand Rapids didn’t receive needed medication.
A nurse would later tell state inspectors that, after Optalis purchased the facility, it had gone from staffing three nurses per hall to just two, according to a federal inspection report. She said she was exhausted.
On that particular night, the agency nurse who was supposed to relieve her didn’t show up, she said.
Inspectors found at least four days that month when residents at the south Grand Rapids nursing home hadn’t been given their prescribed seizure medication, insulin, blood thinners.
But the assistant director of nursing told inspectors that staffing wasn’t an issue, saying according to an inspection report that, “We were at state minimums.”
Optalis executives did not respond to multiple requests to discuss the incident.
Michigan’s staffing rules for nursing homes require each resident to receive just 2.25 hours of nursing care each day, 2.31 hours if the calculations includes the contributions of a home’s director of nursing. Advocates say that needs to change.
“It’s been at the same level since 1978,” Sarah Slocum, Michigan’s former state long term care ombudsman and a public policy advocate with the Michigan Elder Justice Initiative told the state Senate Oversight Committee at a hearing Wednesday.
Lawsuit says a judge from Oscoda County who is also a Republican candidate for Supreme Court was texting with a juror who was also the judge's cousin during a trial about a child sexual assault. And the woman who reported it got fired.
Judge admits the juror was her cousin but says she didn't text him during the trial.