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Rx Kids provides a cash stipend to expectant mothers and then a monthly stipend during a child’s first year of life.

In a federal court filing Friday, Special Master Deborah Greenspan wrote the payments would range from approximately $100,000 to $1,000.

The city is offering cash rewards for information that leads to an arrest for illegal dumping.

Starting in 2014, tens of thousands of people living and working in Flint were exposed to lead and other contaminants in their drinking water. The exposure began after the ill-fated decision to change the source of the city’s tap water.

The Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on whether to expand — and make retroactive — an earlier decision that struck down one-judge grand juries.

Flint, Michigan, is nearly finished replacing lead pipes 11 years after the water crisis. Financial struggles still cloud the water system's future.

A recent series of unrelated shootings left five people dead in Flint in one week.

A new study found that the Rx Kids program substantively reduced pre-term births and low birth weights, and prevented neonatal intensive care unit admissions.

“Our scholars deserve to be taught in a building that’s state of the art. They deserve that,” said Kevelin Jones, Flint Community Schools superintendent.

In South Africa, as taps run dry in Johannesburg, Africa's richest city, a tone deaf remark by a senior politician there unleashes fury.