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Video: 10-Year-Old Allegedly Steals SUV to Visit Mother, Leads Police on Swerving Interstate Chase

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Police apprehended a 10-year-old boy who allegedly stole an SUV and led officers on a chase down a Michigan interstate, MLive and Michigan State Police reported.

The Buick Encore driven by the child was stolen from a residence on Hess Avenue in Buena Vista, Michigan, state police from the bay region’s third district said in a release on social media.

The boy, who had apparently been staying with relatives, had hoped to go to visit his mother over Memorial Day weekend, police told MLive. Buena Vista is only about eight miles from Detroit. . .

The Trooper drove behind the juvenile for about a mile with lights and sirens activated while the vehicle was being disabled remotely.

The silent, 31-second video provided by MSP’s Third District shows the car swerving from lane to lane with its hazard lights flashing. The video was captured on the troopers’ dash cam.

(Read more from “Video: 10-Year-Old Allegedly Steals SUV to Visit Mother, Leads Police on Swerving Interstate Chase” HERE)

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‘Extraordinary’ Boy Thwarts Abduction of 8-Year-Old Sister by Shooting Kidnapper With Slingshot: Police

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A Michigan boy is being heralded as a hero for allegedly using his slingshot to save his little sister from being abducted from their backyard, according to police.

The 8-year-old sister was reportedly hunting for mushrooms on Wednesday in the backyard of her home in Alpena, Michigan. Suddenly, a 17-year-old suspect emerged from the woods, covered the girl’s mouth, grabbed her around the waist, and attempted to drag her into the woods.

The girl’s 14-year-old brother was inside the family’s home when he witnessed the attempted abduction. The boy sprung into action by grabbing his slingshot and running outside.

“He was able to grab his slingshot and was able to slingshot something that hit the suspect right in the head. And that caused him to let go. The girl was able to struggle and get away, and he shot another one hit the suspect in the chest, and then fled the scene,” said Alpena Post Commander Lt. John Grimshaw.

Michigan State Police released a description of the suspect, and he was quickly located – hiding at a nearby gas station. The suspect had injuries on his head and chest, which authorities said helped identify that he was the alleged kidnapper. (Read more from “‘Extraordinary’ Boy Thwarts Abduction of 8-Year-Old Sister by Shooting Kidnapper With Slingshot: Police” HERE)

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University’s Woke Guideline Basically Bans Words

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The latest “inclusive language” guide offering comes from Michigan State University where now even words like “bunny,” “gift” and “nickname” are considered offensive.

The guide, courtesy of the school’s Brand Studio, states that “in alignment with strategic efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion […] Michigan State University values communications practices that support belonging for all Spartans.” . . .

Under the guide’s Gender and Sexuality section, officials recommend avoiding terms like “female” (“reduces women to their assumed biological anatomy”), “sex change” (“gender transition” is better) and “nickname.” In this age of gender fluidity and gender pronouns, using “nickname” could “imply that a person’s name is a substitute for their legal name.”

In the Race and Ethnicity section, terms to avoid include “Blacks” (allegedly derogatory), “Caucasian” and “racial minority” (reasons not explained), and “at-risk.” The latter supposedly puts the onus of responsibility on the individual rather than “structural” factors.

The section on disability deems all of the following terms “ableist”: “crazy,” “insane,” “bonkers,” “nuts,” “psycho,” “demented,” “senile,” “loony,” “lunatic,” “psychotic,” “addict,” “invalid,” “vegetable,” “paralyzed,” “lame,” “madhouse,” “tone-deaf,” “spazzing out,” “braindead” and “blindly.” (Read more from “University’s Woke Guideline Basically Bans Words” HERE)

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Democrat Posts Obscene Message on ‘Thoughts and Prayers,’ Calls for Gun Control

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A top Democratic lawmaker in Michigan derided offering “thoughts and prayers” while pushing stricter gun regulations after a shooting at Michigan State University on Monday.

State Rep. Ranjeev Puri, the majority whip in Michigan’s Democrat-controlled House, issued a statement just after midnight on Tuesday after, according to police, a 43-year-old gunman killed three students and wounded five more. The suspected gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

“Today, we begin to collectively heal from the horrific events which transpired, tomorrow we work,” Puri said in his early morning post on social media. “My official statement regarding the Michigan State University shooting is below: F*** your thoughts and prayers.”

In a longer statement attached to the post, Puri called thoughts and prayers “meaningless” without “action and change” before calling for stricter restrictions on firearms.

“What happened in East Lansing is unfortunately far too common,” Puri said. “Going to school in America, whether it’s pre-school or college, means risking your life every day to the threat of a mass shooting. Yet all we have offered up are empty solutions – traumatizing active shooter drills and bulletproof backpacks.” (Read more from “Democrat Posts Obscene Message on ‘Thoughts and Prayers,’ Calls for Gun Control” HERE)

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Gen. Milley: First U.S. Missile Fired at Object Over Lake Huron Missed Target

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A U.S. Sidewinder missile fired at a high-altitude object over Michigan missed its target on Sunday and landed in Lake Huron, the U.S. military’s top general revealed Tuesday during a press conference at NATO headquarters.

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was asked about the incident during the latest meeting in Brussels Tuesday of the “contact group” of allies supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia.

“The first shot missed [but] the second shot hit,” Gen. Milley said. “The missile landed harmlessly in the water. We tracked it all the way down.”

The U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command, known as NORAD, detected the still-unidentified airborne object shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday while it was in Canadian airspace about 70 miles north of the U.S. border. It entered the airspace over Montana and drifted eastward before being taken out by the Air Force F-16, officials said.

Each AIM-9X Sidewinder missile costs about $400,000, meaning the U.S. spent almost $1 million to take out an object described in press accounts as a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it.” (Read more from “Gen. Milley: First U.S. Missile Fired at Object Over Lake Huron Missed Target” HERE)

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CNN Anchor Left Out Key Detail for MSU Shooting Suspect While He Was at Large

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CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota was on the air when news was breaking about the shooting at Michigan State University Monday evening, she provided details about the suspect after police released information about him but she left out the man police were actively looking for was black.

Camerota referenced a tweet from MSU Police, but did not show it on the screen, and said, “Campus police tweeted that the suspected gunman is a short male with a mask. That’s basically all we know.”

Except that was not “all we know.” MSU Police’s tweet stated the following: “The suspect description is a short male with a mask, possibly Black. Please continue to shelter in place. We are still receiving multiple calls of an active shooter on campus.”

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Man Called Local Police in Panic, Claimed FBI, CIA Were After Him Because of 9/11 Discoveries, Now Entire Family Missing; Listen to the Call

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A Michigan family mysteriously vanished from their home over the weekend and has not been heard at all in a case that is baffling investigators.

Anthony and Suzette Cirigliano, both 51, and their two sons, Brandon, 19, and Noah, 15, disappeared Sunday and are believed to be in a silver 2005 Toyota Sienna minivan, authorities said.

There has been no activity on the couple’s credit cards or bank accounts, and Anthony’s phone is turned off. Suzette’s and the boys’ phones were found in their home, officials said. A series of search warrants turned up no clues, Rodwell said. . .

There were signs of trouble the night before when Anthony called 911 in distress just after midnight. “Anthony was complaining of some elaborate issue in regard to the Sept. 11 attack,” Rodwell said. “He was displaying to my officers paranoia and some concerns in regard to the FBI and CIA. . .”

“They seem like really good people who were taking care of their family,” he said. “No one has had any problems with them.” (Read more from “Man Called Local Police in Panic, Claimed FBI, CIA Were After Him Because of 9/11 Discoveries, Now Entire Family Missing” HERE)

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Listen to the Redacted 911 Call Here

By Click On Detroit. According to the [Police] report, officers spent around 45 minutes to an hour talking to Tony Cirigliano and his wife. Family told News 8 that they do not believe Tony Cirigliano would hurt his family, and believe that he may be trying to protect [them].

They said he was troubled over the weekend and believed “bad things” were going to happen.

(here’s the redacted phone call with 30 seconds removed:)

Tony’s brother, Paul Cirigliano, told Local 4 it’s unlike them to be out of touch.

“They usually wouldn’t even go so far as like Walmart without letting somebody know, so it’s very unlike them,” said Paul Cirigliano. “It’s certainly not an abrupt vacation by any means.” (Read more from “Listen to the Redacted 911 Call Here” HERE)

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Police Seek Answers for Family that Disappeared, Elderly Mother Left Unattended

By Grand Haven Tribune. The Fremont Police Department and detectives from the Michigan State Police Hart Post are trying to locate a family of four that, family members say, have not been seen since Sunday.

“On Sunday, Tony was exhibiting paranoid behaviors,” Michelle Robinson of the state police said in a press release. “Since that time, their cellphones have been turned off, they left family pets and a family member who requires full-time care unattended.”

The parents are described as Anthony “Tony” John Cirigliano, a 51-year-old male who is 5-feet, 6-inches tall, weighs 180 pounds, and has brown hair and no facial hair; and Suzette Lee Cirigliano, a 51-year-old female who is 5-feet, 9-inches tall, weighs 120 pounds, and has blonde hair and wears glasses. (Read more from “Police Seek Answers for Family that Disappeared, Elderly Mother Left Unattended” HERE)

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Gov. Whitmer-Appointed Board Approves $715 Million Contract for CCP-Affiliated Company

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The Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) board, appointed by Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, approved $715 million in grants and tax exemptions on Wednesday for a battery manufacturer with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The SMF board, chaired by Quentin Messer and comprised of 11 members appointed by Whitmer, reportedly approved the Renaissance Zone tax exemption request and handed $175 million in state grants to a China-based company named Gotion Inc, and its billionaire chairman, who has deep ties to the CCP, in order to build a $2.4 billion electric vehicle battery parts facility in the outer part of Big Rapids.

In total, as the Detroit News reported, the $715 million in grants and tax exemptions include:

The property tax exemption granted by the board for the Michigan Economic Development Corp. will save the company $540 million over a 30-year period, according to estimates. The approval comes after three local government boards last week unanimously approved the Renaissance Zone request for the project that’s expected to create 2,350 jobs over the next decade [Emphasis added].

The $175 million in grant funding is made possible through new programs the state Legislature created at the end of 2021 to spur economic development in the state.

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CEO Arrested Just 1 Day After NYT Profiled His Firm as the Victim of an ‘Election Denier’ ‘Conspiracy Theory’

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Twenty-four hours after New York Times reporter Stuart Thompson attacked an “election denier” claim about an election software firm as a “conspiracy theory,” he was forced to report on its CEO’s arrest on suspicion of stealing data from poll workers and storing it in China.

On Monday, Thompson published a sympathetic portrayal of a Michigan election software company called Konnech and its CEO in an article with the title and subtitle, “How a Tiny Elections Company Became a Conspiracy Theory Target: Election deniers catapulted a Michigan firm with just 21 U.S. employees to the center of unfounded voter fraud claims, exposing it to vicious threats.”

Thompson, a technology reporter “covering misinformation and disinformation,” attacked what he called a “conspiracy theory” from “a group of election deniers” over the claim that Konnech has ties to China.

“Using threadbare evidence, or none at all, the group suggested that a small American election software company, Konnech, had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had given the Chinese government backdoor access to personal data about two million poll workers in the United States,” Thompson wrote.

One day later, Eugene Yu, the founder and chief executive of Konnech, was arrested for “suspicion of theft” of poll worker information that was found to be stored in China. (Read more from “CEO Arrested Just 1 Day After NYT Profiled His Firm as the Victim of an ‘Election Denier’ ‘Conspiracy Theory’” HERE)

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UMich Coach to Players: Don’t Have Abortions, ‘I Will Take That Baby’ if You Can’t Raise Them

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Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh, a Catholic, is not backing down from his public pro-life stance, saying over the weekend that he and his wife Sarah would help raise a child if anyone in his personal circle, including his players, were thinking about abortion.

Harbaugh recently made headlines for speaking at the Plymouth Right to Life event in Michigan, where he emphatically stated, “I believe in having the courage to let the unborn be born.”

“Let’s discuss it,” Harbaugh expanded on his pro-life views to ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski. “I’ve told [them] the same thing I tell my kids, boys, the girls, same thing I tell our players, our staff members. I encourage them if they have a pregnancy that wasn’t planned, to go through with it, go through with it. Let that unborn child be born, and if at that time, you don’t feel like you can care for it, you don’t have the means or the wherewithal, then Sarah and I will take that baby.”

At the pro-life charity event, Harbaugh said each human — born and unborn — has value.

“In God’s plan, each unborn human truly has a future filled with potential, talent, dreams and love,” the football coach said, The Daily Wire reported. “I have living proof in my family, my children, and the many thousands that I’ve coached that the unborn are amazing gifts from God to make this world a better place.” (Read more from “UMich Coach to Players: Don’t Have Abortions, ‘I Will Take That Baby’ if You Can’t Raise Them” HERE)

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