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The Powerball jackpot has grown again. Wednesday’s drawing will now be worth at least $1.5 billion. In Michigan, people have bought 7.1 million tickets for the Powerball drawing. 3.2 million tickets were sold on Tuesday alone, at a clip of 275,000 tickets an hour. The size of the jackpot could …

A collection of four state water resource teams spent Tuesday trudging through the snow to deliver bottled water, water testing kits and water filters to people living in Flint. Tuesday marked the first day of door-to-door visits, which is part of the state’s stepped-up effort to get clean drinking water …

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) says the state may need to increase the number of school nurses and special education staff in the wake of the Flint water crisis, but the head of the state board of education questions whether the governor’s administration would want to …