Lansing Families Gather for 5th Annual National Crime Victim’s Rights Week Event

   Vivian Bodiford and Jimmiel Bodiford, Amias James (not shown), Tamara Jones Bills (not shown) have attended every TNCPCAN dinner and ceremony since its inception.  Family member James “Jay” Jones III, was murdered along with his fiancee', Miranda Garza, in a double homicide in May of 2008.  
Photo by Joshua Gillespie

 

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Tri-County Students “LEAP” Into Business Start Up Competition

  Stephonz and Delvonz Flamand (left to right) – a twin brother business team from Everett High School – used their baking and business skills to showcase and “pitch” their home based bakery business. “DADA’s Bakery.” Their cupcakes were very delicious and were gobbled up by judges and other participants quickly!

 
Photo by Howard Spence 

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TEEN TALK: Q&As With Christopher Loring

 By Christopher Loring

 
Jyrese Thompson is 10th grader at Lansing School District’s J.W. Sexton High School.
 
LORING: What is the most important thing you've learned in high school?
JYRESE: I've learned to stay to myself and that you don't have to be friends with everybody.

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PET WORLD: ‘Leave it’ solves a host of doggie transgressions

 By Cathy M. Rosenthal

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  Dear Cathy,
 
  I have some new neighbors that moved in with an outdoor cat. The cat uses our yard as her potty box. Our two dogs have found this cat poop delectable and they eat these deposits before I can remove them from the yard. Is there something I can do to dissuade my dogs from eating this poop? Thank you in advance for any insights. – Wendy Rutland, Pensacola, Fla.

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Celebrating Donate Life Month

 

Reminding residents of the more than 3,500 people in Michigan awaiting a potentially life-saving organ transplant, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson today recognized April as Donate Life Month during a visit to St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit.
 

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Michigan Launches New Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to Help Prevent Opioid Abuse

  Prescribers now provided with enhanced real-time information through state-of the-art technology

 
As part of Michigan’s multi-faceted strategy to prevent opioid abuse, the state has launched a new Michigan Automated Prescription System (MAPS). Appriss Health’s PMP AWARxE, replaces the old MAPS and puts Michigan at the forefront of prescription drug monitoring technology.
 

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Teacher resignation letters paint bleak picture of US education

 EAST LANSING, MI — As teacher resignation letters increasingly go public — and viral — new research indicates teachers are not leaving solely due to low pay and retirement, but also because of what they see as a broken education system.

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Researchers find promising lead that reduces autism symptoms and more

 EAST LANSING, MI –Fragile X syndrome is the most common cause of autism. Even though the single gene that’s responsible for it was discovered in 1991, and the disease is detected by a simple blood test, there’s no treatment or cure.

 

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