Kate Wells
Kate Wells is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and co-host of the Michigan Radio and NPR podcast Believed. The series was widely ranked among the best of the year, drawing millions of downloads and numerous awards. She and co-host Lindsey Smith received the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Judges described their work as "a haunting and multifaceted account of U.S.A. Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s belated arrest and an intimate look at how an army of women – a detective, a prosecutor and survivors – brought down the serial sex offender."
Wells and her family live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Emergency Department visits are up nearly 40-percent in Michigan from last September. Some hospitals say a lot of those patients coming in are "high acuity," meaning more seriously ill, than before the pandemic, and it's not just COVID patients.
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Michigan's top doctor says having a universal mask mandate for schools would reduce COVID cases.
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A new policy will limit how often Ingham County charges people with felony possession of a firearm.
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Several of the state's largest school districts say they won't require kids to wear masks this fall.
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During the pandemic, 15 children's hospitals reported that admissions for eating disorders doubled, on average. A Michigan teen shares her story about getting diagnosed with anorexia nervosa.
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Millions of Michiganders live in counties where COVID transmission rates have risen to "substantial" or "high" levels. That's the threshold where the CDC is recommending that even fully-vaccinated people wear masks indoors.
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The state government is lifting its mask and indoor gathering restrictions on June 22nd, just over a week earlier than planned.The reasons for this are…
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Former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Brian Kolodziej has taken a plea deal, after admitting to an inappropriate relationship with the victim in a…
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In Georgia, Michigan and Ohio, it's now been a few days of kids between the ages of 12 and 15 getting vaccinated. Each state has also had a different reaction to new CDC guidance on masks.
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Michigan is grappling with high rates of COVID-19, with younger adults and children being hospitalized. To deal with the influx of patients, hospitals have opened overflow tents.