SW Michigan

LANSING -- The Department of Human Services budget was bounced, cut, restored and still up in the air after two hearings Tuesday in Lansing. Two vastly different versions were passed by the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees.

EPA officials plan to dig up soil laden with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, on the edges of the Allied Paper landfill in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood and pile that waste on top of other contaminated soil on the site. The EPA plans to cap the 90-acre site and monitor it.

There were few opportunities for girls when Albania's civil war ended in the late 1990s, so Resilda Karafili's parents put her on a plane to Metro Detroit when she was 10 to live with relatives and get an education. It was years before Karafili realized that she had been sent to the United States without proper documents.

A Battle Creek police officer was arraigned Tuesday on two misdemeanor charges after investigators alleged she was intoxicated while working. Jennifer Appl, 26, appeared before Calhoun County District Court Judge Holmes shortly after 9 a.m. Holmes told her she is charged with driving under the influence of liquor and possession of a firearm while intoxicated.

LANSING -- Gov. Rick Snyder got a polite reception at a conference of municipal leaders Tuesday, despite unhappiness about state funding cuts that have squeezed the ability of Michigan cities to provide basic services.