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Photos: Hurricane Milton brings devastation across Florida
Oct 10, 2024 — Getty Images. In this aerial view, Flood waters inundate a neighborhood after Hurricane Milton came ashore on October 10, 2024, in Punta Gorda, Florida. The storm made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in the Siesta Key area of Florida, causing damage and flooding throughout Central Florida.
Kalamazoo and Portage School Board Candidates Explain Why …
Oct 26, 2018 — An Interview With KPS Board Candidate Tandy Moore. Community organizer Tandy Moore says that if she's elected to the Kalamazoo Public Schools Board of Education, she'll work to fight "implicit bias." "I…. WMUK reached out to each of the candidates running for Board of Education in Kalamazoo and Portage. Here you can listen to interviews with ...
Why's That: Who are the Melon Heads? - wmuk.org
Oct 11, 2024 — Children, abandoned by their parents, kept in an orphanage, asylum or hospital, experimented on by a deranged doctor. The story plays on stereotypes of mental illness and orphans. Equally insulting, the Melon Heads are purported to have sharp fangs and large, bulbous heads. With a feral appetite for flesh, especially of the human variety.
NASA spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter's Europa moon
Updated October 14, 2024 at 12:23 PM ET. A spacecraft that will study one of Jupiter’s moons launched Monday on a journey of more than six years to discover if the moon has the ability to support life. The solar-powered spacecraft Europa Clipper ascended above clear skies through Earth’s atmosphere on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA ...
The man killed by officers in Kalamazoo has been identified
Oct 9, 2024 — The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety said Wednesday that Timothy Kurt Holden, 60, was shot by police after he reached for a gun in his car when confronted by officers near Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Park on North Rose Street on Tuesday. Holden later died from his injuries at Bronson Hospital. KDPS spokesperson Zach Hamelton, said ...
Professors' union at WMU reaches a tentative agreement with the …
Oct 3, 2024 — Western Michigan University’s faculty union, the WMU chapter of the AAUP, made the announcement of a tentative agreement online Thursday. On Facebook, the union said the agreement was the product of “a grueling fight extending a month beyond the negotiation deadline.”. AAUP was negotiating to bring compensation in line with inflation ...
The stakes are high in the race for control of Michigan’s Supreme …
Oct 11, 2024 — On this week’s It’s Just Politics newsletter, Zoe Clark and Rick Pluta share what you need to know about the race for control of Michigan’s Supreme Court; plus, the race between former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers and Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat heats up with a debate. And, Morning Edition highlights Michigan elections all-week ...
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