Former top state health officials Nick Lyon and Eden Wells are facing nine counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection to nine people who died of Legionnaires’ disease during the water crisis.
The two biggest questions we've heard the Flint community asking and made sure to ask Fadwa Hammoud -- why did it take 18 months to reinstate criminal charges and how come the former Governor is only facing two misdemeanors?
Fmr. top Snyder aide Richard Baird is one of nine indicted this week on criminal charges in connection to the Flint water crisis. One Flint family wasn't surprised to learn he'd been caught up in the investigation.
Genesee County Judge David Newblatt served as a one-man grand jury to file 42 charges against nine people, including former Gov. Rick Snyder and several of his top aides.
The hospital has maintained the outbreak was caused by the water source switch. But the CDC letter released Tuesday says the hospital has been a source of the legionella bacteria from 2008 through 2019 -- predating the water crisis.
The program has completed 13,500 referrals for health care, nutrition, early education, lead elimination programs and more since it was created in 2016.
Council members voted 6-1 around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday to allow the city’s insurance carriers to contribute the $20 million into the proposed settlement fund.
Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley said the bi-annual tests show Flint’s water quality is remaining stable with 90th percentile lead levels at six parts per billion.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency highlighted significant progress in responding to the Flint water crisis over the past four years during a press conference on Monday.
Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley said people affected by the water crisis would be paying to settle their own lawsuits if council members don’t approve the $20 million settlement.
African Americans are 60-percent of the population in Flint, but accounted for 85-percent of positive COVID-19 cases and nearly 100-percent of the COVID-19 deaths at the onset of the pandemic, but that has turned around drastically.
Flint is in the homestretch of digging down to water lines at more than 25,000 properties and replacing them if necessary, as part of a lawsuit settlement.
The lawsuit claims the financial institutions underwrote municipal bonds to pay for the ill-fated switch to drawing drinking water from the Flint river in April 2014.
Flint families may get nutritious food that can limit the effects of lead exposure during mobile food pantry hours set for September at locations throughout Flint.
As the state reaches a 600 million dollar settlement for Flint's youngest victims -- a boy born into the water crisis is four years old. Taylor's mother says they are finally seeing some justice.
More than 4 years and countless hearings later, a historic settlement has been reached with the state. Melissa Mays is reminding her community this is just the beginning.
Former Flint mayor Karen Weaver, Flint City Councilman Eric Mays and other community activists are collectively responding to the Flint water civil lawsuit settlement, offered up by the state.
