Dustin Dwyer
Reporter / Producer, Michigan PublicDustin Dwyer reports enterprise and long-form stories from Michigan Public'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 Public 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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Attorneys have presented all their evidence in a Jackson County trial of three men accused of helping in the plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. -
After a seven-year legal battle, the state of Michigan finally says it's willing to pay $20 million in legal damages to people who had money taken from them because of false claims of fraud.The case dates to 2015, when three men sued the state after being accused of defrauding the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency. -
A jury in Jackson County will hear more testimony this week in the trial of three men accused of assisting in the plan to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
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Kaleb Franks, one of the men who pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer, was sentenced to four years imprisonment today for his role in the plot.Franks received a dramatically reduced sentence because of his guilty plea, and continued cooperation with prosecutors in both the federal and state criminal trials over the plot. -
The Michigan Attorney General’s office has filed a lawsuit to try to force a company to clean up contamination from harmful PFAS chemicals in West Michigan. The lawsuit is over pollution at nine sites that were formerly owned by the Keeler Brass Company. -
Local leaders in Big Rapids approved tax breaks for a proposed $2.4 billion electric vehicle battery plant this week. And more incentives for the project could be on the way from the state. -
A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $54 million settlement to homeowners affected by PFAS contamination in northern Kent County. -
Two men are asking a federal judge for a retrial after being convicted of conspiring to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. -
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. -
The next phase of the prosecution against a group of men accused of plotting to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer is scheduled to begin this week in northern Michigan.
