MITCH SMITH

Barry Croft planned to use guns and explosives to abduct Michigan’s governor, prosecutors said. He was the final federal defendant to face sentencing.

Jurors convicted Adam Fox of scheming to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 in what federal prosecutors described as a threat to American democracy.

Many police chiefs say staffing levels have not rebounded from a wave of resignations that started with the pandemic and the 2020 unrest.

Subzero temperatures and blizzard conditions are expected across much of the Midwest, making life harder for workers on the front lines of the weather.

The trial in state court followed mixed results in federal court for others accused of scheming to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Several significant discoveries have started with a construction worker unearthing a bone and calling in an expert.

A state board had previously said the issue could not appear on the ballot because of word spacing problems on the petitions.

Abortion rights supporters gathered more than 750,000 signatures, but the petitions they circulated had formatting problems.

The trial came months after a different federal jury did not return any convictions in the case, one of the country’s highest-profile domestic terror prosecutions.

Two men are charged with conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. But a first trial ended with no convictions, and questions about the F.B.I.’s tactics.