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The Michigan Court of Appeals again has put the brakes on a case that threatened to derail or delay a deal reached between the city of Detroit and a state-appointed financial review team.

Gov. Rick Snyder says the approval of a deal between the state and the city of Detroit is a "positive opportunity" for the city and the entire state of Michigan.

Randy Lewis of Alma has played in amateur golf tournaments for decades, hoping to earn a berth in The Masters.

The Masters gives automatic invitations to the winners of several national tournaments every year.

In September, Lewis won the U.S. Mid-Amateur Tournament of golfers age 25 and older, and with it, a ticket to play this week at Augusta National.

At age 54, he became the oldest-ever winner of the U.S. Mid-Amateur.

Beginning in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a 40-year medical study of African-American men in Tuskegee, Alabama.  The government studied men who’d contracted syphilis years earlier.  The researchers falsely told them they were receiving treatment for their disease, when in fact they were actually given placebos.  A similar study was conducted in the 1940’s in Guatemala.

Dr. Susan Reverby uncovered the facts of the Guatemala case.  Reverby is the chair of Women and Gender Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.  She’ll speak Thursday at Michigan State University about her work.  She told WKAR’s Anna Schroen how the American government justified lying to the volunteers.

A federal judge says he won't get involved in a dispute between Detroit city unions and Gov. Rick Snyder.

The Michigan Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in a case that questions the constitutionality of a Michigan State University ordinance. 

More than 65 elected officials from all over Michigan are supporting proposed state legislation to give gay and transgendered stronger legal protections. 

A prominent Lansing clergyman is calling on an Ingham County judge to be lenient in his sentencing of a juvenile convicted of murder.  The pastor and the teen’s mother say Charles T. Lewis, Jr. should not receive life without parole.