Elected officials in a conservative Michigan county who gave themselves bonuses of $65,000 with federal COVID-19 relief aid say they will return the money following days of criticism.

DETROIT – The Michigan appeals court threw out a man's conspiracy, theft and drug convictions and a six-year prison sentence after finding “true misconduct” by a prosecutor in a small county. When Mienkwic went to trial in 2018, Koerner was on the other side as an assistant prosecutor. AdThe appeals court last week threw out the convictions. It's a “rare occurrence of the prosecutor’s actions rising to the level of true misconduct,” the court said. And that's what we have here,” said appeals court Judge Brock Swartzle.