Dustin Dwyer
Reporter / ProducerDustin Dwyer reports enterprise and long-form stories from Michigan Radio’s West Michigan bureau. He was a fellow in the class of 2018 at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. He’s been with Michigan Radio since 2004, when he started as an intern in the newsroom.
He left the station in 2010-2011 to be a stay at home dad, and returned to be part of the Changing Gears project, a collaboration between Michigan Radio, Ideastream in Cleveland and WBEZ in Chicago. From 2012 – 2017, he was part of the team for State of Opportunity, and produced several radio documentaries on kids and families in Michigan. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife and three kids.
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The Attorney General's office says a California-based company bought out the local company responsible for the contamination, and it hasn't complied with orders to clean it up. -
Gotion Inc, a subsidiary of a Chinese EV battery manufacturer, says it will invest $2.4 billion in the factory, and create more than 2,000 jobs.
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Government officials say the move doesn't meant the pandemic is over, and encourage travelers to still take precautions against the virus.
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The settlement is the latest from a string of lawsuits stemming from the contamination discovered in 2017.
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If all goes well, organizers say construction on the first phase of the Grand Rapids Whitewater project could begin next summer.
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City leaders say it would be the seventh rate increase in 10 years for the water system, and more rate hikes are expected.
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Attorneys for Adam Fox and Barry Croft say their convictions should be overturned because the judge in the case called defense arguments "crap," and they claim the judge failed to fully investigate claims of a biased juror.
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Attorneys for Barry Croft and Adam Fox say they want a chance to present evidence that one of the jurors in the federal trial had a bias against their clients from the start.
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A preliminary hearing wrapped up Thursday for five men accused of helping with the alleged plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Michigan Radio's Dustin Dwyer joined Doug Tribou for a breakdown of what happened this week in the state case.
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Dale Bryant says his dog King was tangled in a lead line and could have been injured. So he called 911. The city took his dog, and he fought for four months to get him back.
