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Michigan's hospitals are extremely concerned they might be overrun with Michigan's fourth surge of COVID-19. Then, fake property owners in Detroit are scamming desperate home buyers. And Detroit is revising it's inspection rules for lead.

The lawsuit seeks financial compensation and ongoing health support for residents exposed to lead in the drinking water.

Mayor Marcus Muhammad says many of the "deficiencies" found in recent inspections were due to disinvestment in the water system under a state-appointed emergency manager

Tests of the drinking water in Benton Harbor have shown elevated levels of harmful lead going back to 2018. Regulators say they found more than a dozen violations at the city's water plant.

The threat itself is nothing new. It’s just newly known to the public, the result of a rule change that forced water suppliers to start looking harder for the neurotoxin in their water delivery systems starting in 2019.

The legacy of the Flint water crisis has ripple effects felt in communities like Benton Harbor.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order to distribute bottled water to residents until further notice, three years after elevated lead levels were first detected in Benton Harbor’s drinking water.

The city of Benton Harbor reckons with high lead levels in residents’ water. Also, nurses and doctors are working marathon shifts to care for COVID patients. Sometimes the hours aren’t the hardest part of the job. Plus, what conditions are like at one U.P. hospital experiencing an acute staff shortage.

There was lead in the drinking water in 2018. There was lead in the water in 2019 and 2020. This summer, after a sixth round of testing, there was still…

It’s just before 6 p.m. on a breezy Wednesday evening in Little Village, a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. Department of Water Management staffers…