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Perez took her 15-year-old daughter, Amarianna Ramon, to Custom Creatures pet shop in Saginaw Township on Feb. 12 for its “Sloth Encounter Experience,” in which visitors can interact with a two-toed sloth named Sid for $49.99. But the teen quickly learned the dark side of hanging with a sloth when she entered his enclosure to feed him apple slices and he bit her upper right arm through her shirt, Perez said. Perez informed workers at the pet shop about the bite, treated her with antibiotics and took her to the hospital for preventative rabies treatment. The pet store’s owner, Kallan...

Saginaw Township Police Officer Jeff Koenig testified against career criminal Joshua Rosebush on March 7. Saginaw, MI – An armed fugitive issued a chilling greeting just before he shot a veteran Saginaw Township police officer in the face during a traffic stop in January. “Nighty night,” 29-year-old Joshua Rosebush said, as he fired the bullet at the unsuspecting officer’s head, according to MLive. Saginaw Township Police Officer Jeff Koenig recounted the harrowing events of the predawn traffic stop during Rosebush’s preliminary examination hearing on March 7. Officer Koenig, 48, testified that he was patrolling along Tittabawassee Road at approximately 2...

SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A Michigan gym patron looking for a WiFi connection found one named “remote detonator,” prompting an evacuation and precautionary search of the facility by a bomb-sniffing dog. The Saginaw News reports nothing was found in the search Sunday at Planet Fitness in Saginaw Township, about 85 miles (140 kilometres) northwest of Detroit.

Despite celebrity endorsements and controversy surrounding embryonic stem cell research, the best promise for medicine lies with adult stem cells, says Verne D. Hulce, executive director of the Field Neurosciences Institute in Saginaw Township. Politics too often trumps science, Hulce said this week in a talk to members of the Saginaw Club. Hulce leads and develops research at the institute using stem cells to treat traumatic brain injury and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. "Most people, including politicians and lawyers, know nothing about stem cells but all have an opinion, which can get in the way of science," he said.   President...