🌱 Why was the shooter in a Rochester Hills firefighter’s death resentenced?
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- Why was the shooter in a Rochester Hills firefighter’s death resentenced?
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- Tuesday: Some brightening; not as cold, with a high of 32 and low of 28 degrees.
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📰 News we're reading
• Man who fatally shot intoxicated firefighter resentenced in Oakland County (theoaklandpress.com) — A Rochester Hills firefighter killed after a 2021 road-rage confrontation in Troy is again in the spotlight as the shooter, a Detroit man, has been resentenced after winning an appeal. The new sentence, for voluntary manslaughter, credits him for time already served while detailing how jury instructions on self-defense were mishandled in the original trial. 
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Toddler Classes - Little Eagles
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First Congregational Church , 1315 N. Pine Street , Rochester
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