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      <description>A longtime resident of Banks Township in northwest Michigan's Antrim County is seeking approval to build a 183-acre gravel mine on his property.</description>
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      <description>Arrested for allegedly suspicious behavior, Daniel Pentkowski of Midland was found dead in his cell two days after he was arrested in a Bexar County (Texas) jail in January 2023. Authorities changed the cause of death from medical issues to a homicide.</description>
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      <description>The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is accepting comments on what it should consider in an environmental assessment of the proposal to reopen the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Southwest Michigan.</description>
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      <title>Oxford school shooter Ethan Crumbley’s Miller hearing to resume this week</title>
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      <description>Crumbley’s defense attorneys argue he can still be rehabilitated since he was just 15 at the time of the shooting.</description>
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      <description>It’s been more than a year since a teenager killed four people and injured seven others at Oxford High School. He pleaded guilty to all of the 24 charges against him.</description>
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      <description>Prelim scheduled for October 27th</description>
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      <description>The parents of the teen accused of killing four classmates at Oxford High School last year face a court hearing today.</description>
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