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Events from the year 2016 in Michigan.
The Detroit Free Press (DFP) and Lansing State Journal (LSJ) both published year-end recaps of the year's top news stories. The only story to appear on both lists was Donald Trump's narrow electoral victory in Michigan by 11,000 votes (and the recount requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein). Other top stories included:
- Criminal charges against four city officials in the Flint water crisis (DFP);
- The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal involving former Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar (LSJ);
- The 2016 Kalamazoo shootings in which an Uber driver killed 6 persons (DFP);
- A massacre in which Gregory Green of Dearborn Heights killed his four children and step-children and tortured his wife (DFP);
- A federal criminal investigation into Detroit's blight demolition program (DFP);
- Investments by Detroit's Big Three in self-driving automobiles (DFP);
- The Detroit Pistons' return to Detroit and the opening of Little Caesars Arena (DFP);
- Conviction of Detroit TV anchor and city council president Charles Pugh for having sex with a minor (DFP);
- Death of 12 persons in a Flint outbreak of Legionnaire's disease (DFP);
- A corruption scandal involving officials in Macomb County and trash giant Rizzo Environmental Services.
- ^ "Top Stories of 2016". Detroit Free Press. January 1, 2017. pp. 4A, 12A – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "2016: The year's top stories". Lansing State Journal. January 1, 2017. pp. 1A, 4A.