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White Lake Man Dies in Fire, Walled Lake Teen Says Classmate Forced Her to Perform Sexual Act

There was plenty of news around Fenton this week.

Here are the top five most interesting stories that happened around Fenton this week.

1. Joe Kowall, a 52-year-old White Lake resident, , reported White Lake Patch. Kowall, who brother Sen. Mike Kowall called jokester, had been battling cancer.

2. Rochester Patch reported on the The Statesmen, a world-renowned dwarf basketball team, which pulled off in a back-and-forth showdown in a charity game Sunday at .

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Actor and Zach Roloff from Little People Big World play for the Statesmen, and they host charity games against local sports players and media personalities to benefit the Coalition for Dwarf Advocacy (CODA).

3. A Walled Lake Western 17-year-old female said a male classmate demanded that she perform a sexual act while the two were alone in a computer lab this past week at Walled Lake Western High School, ClickonDetroit reported.

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4. A Michigan State Trooper was shot Wednesday morning in Flint while investigating an altercation outside a party store, according to the Flint Journal.

5. The ran an informative article about all the recent and upcoming changes to the city of Linden.

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