MICHIGAN

Officials have maintained that they are not suggesting the water is contaminated.

Federal authorities have urged residents of the Michigan city to get their water supplies checked for lead.

The companies further urged the public to donate to nonprofits aiding the Michigan city in the grips of a public health crisis.

Residents of the Michigan city of 100,000 people had complained for months about discolored water, but officials moved slowly to address the problem.

News of the possible water crisis in Sebring, Ohio, came as protests over contaminated water erupted in Flint, Michigan.

While Flint does damage control over its toxic water scandal, the state is watching three other schools for similar issues.

The departure of Susan Hedman, effective Feb. 1, came on the same day that President Barack Obama announced $80 million in federal aid to Flint, Michigan.

The petition rails against Canadian utility company Ontario Power Generation, which wants to store the waste in a deep limestone vault that would be drilled beneath a nuclear power plant.

Rick Snyder is expected to testify on Capitol Hill on Feb. 3 in connection with a water-contamination crisis in the Flint area.

The former Detroit mayor and Michigan state representative was convicted of multiple charges in 2008.

The president traveled to the state Wednesday to get a closer look at the contamination problem in Genesee County.

Gov. Rick Snyder accepted major responsibility for Flint’s contaminated water crisis, and laid out short-term plans to address it.

The lawsuit requests that customers in the Michigan city not be required to pay past or future bills for “useless and harmful water."

The Michigan city’s desperate water situation also figured as a topic of discussion during the Democratic presidential candidates’ debate Sunday.

Excess lead has made the city's water undrinkable, the governor has declared a state of emergency and relief agencies are calling for donations.

From June 2014 to November 2015, at least 87 residents of Genesee County developed the disease, resulting in 10 deaths.

Refaai Hamo was featured on the popular photo blog Humans of New York as "The Scientist," and his story caught the eye of the first family.

The city’s system must start paying $26 million per month and will run out of cash by the end of the school year.

Kevin Matthews, an unarmed black man wanted for a probation violation, was killed by police in Dearborn two days before Christmas.

The first-year head coaches can cap positive runs with a postseason victory.

A marijuana advocacy group in Michigan is staying vigilant in the quest to gather 252,000 signatures before a June deadline.