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The U.S. Department of Transportation has approved American Airlines' petition to the Federal Aviation Administration for an exemption to bring back a round-trip flight between Lansing and Washington, D.C.

The announcement comes five months after Sun Country Airlines stopped offering the service.

Congressmen Mike Bishop and Tim Walberg conducted a hearing today, to hear from witnesses on why a new policy by the Department of Labor, could be restricting to the ever-changing workforce.

Uber, Lyft and Air B&B are all self contracted jobs, and they are growing in popularity, but this new policy could be the end of these new start up businesses.

More than 70 years later, U.S. Marine Corps veteran Lyman Cory still remembers seeing the American flag raised on Mount Suribachi during the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.
Wounded in that battle, Cory recalled that time again Friday when he was presented with his own American flag.

Standing before an audience of mostly family, he had to pause, trying to control inevitable emotion, as he recalled a soldier he knew only as Able.

Able took a fatal shot in the neck as he moved to support Lyman Cory, a young private in the U.S. Marines fighting in his first battle, Iwo Jima, during World War II.

A decade ago, heroin use in Lenawee County was rare, according to law enforcement personnel.

Today, said Detective Lt. Aaron Hunt from the state police's Region of Irish Hills Narcotics Office, the drug that claims lives can be found nearly everywhere.