Trending News August 28, 2025

Our top trending stories for this Thursday August 28, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's morning News. Steve Kelly, Brett Pikita.
That's Laurence Smith at It's Thursday, August twenty eighth, twenty
twenty five. This segment our Trending segment, brought to you
by Consumers Energy, dedicated to Michigan and the communities we serve.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Online and what Talk Now at Wood Radio.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Duckhow This is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well as you had been hearing this morning during top
and bottom of the hour news, may have heard breaking
news yesterday, people gathering in morning after two killed, seventeen
injured in a shooting at the church, and annunciation of
Catholic School in Minneapolis, congregants singing as the service began
yesterday seven forty five. This morning, outside of top and

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bottom of the hour news, we will talk about it
with Rory O'Neill, NBC News Radio National correspondent in longer form.
US Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Junior, joining Texas Governor Greg
Abbott as he signed legislation to make his state healthier.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
This yesterday, we are poisoning sixty percent of our kids.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
We're getting food.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
Slams the poorest kids the kids who can at least
afford to get sick, and.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
We are poisoning them.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
We're giving them diabetes, and then we're paying for it
upfront with food stams.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
We're paying for it again with Medicaid.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
One of the bills also aims to promote healthy living
by embedding nutrition education across twelve through K through twelve schools.
Earlier this month, President Trump announced he was going to
take over the Metropolitan Police Department to help limit crime
by deploying over eight hundred National Guard troops in the
nation's capital. Here is the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department,

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Pamela Smith.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
We do have offices deployed in all of our areas
and within all seven districts. The plan initially was to
ensure that we looked at various locations around our city
where we were seeing a spike and crime.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
You'll find more online now at woodradio dot com.

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Also trending this morning. Thirty three days, four boats, four
hundred and eleven miles later, but the Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial
Swim made its way to the finish line in Detroit yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
This is event director Jim Dryer calling it victory Day.
But it came with some bittersweet happiness.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Dal We've got mixed feelings because we've had such a
great time. It's been such a great adventure. We don't
really want it to end. But man, we're gonna have
done this thing. So it's monumental task and we're thrilled
with that.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Almost seventy swimmers participated in this. And then today is
when a memorial service will be held at the Mariner's
Church of Detroit. The church's bell will ring thirty times
for each of the twenty nine Mariners and once for
all who have passed on the Great Lakes.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
We talked to Jim just as the thing was being planned.
So cool, and I can't believe they were able to
pull that off well.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
Like Schimidi's events on Thursday, I thought it'd be kind
of fitting to let you know who's kicking off this
weekend as far as college football locally as well as
in the Big Ten. It starts, of course, tonight, Farris
State defending National champions Division two, ranked number one preseason
this year, hosting number nine Pittsburgh State six o'clock up
at Big Rapids Top Tigart Field. Also, you have tomorrow

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night Michigan State taking on Western and interstate rivalry seven
o'clock on FS one. I don't forget five thirty. On
the radio side, Michigan State fans, you can catch that
one on Big one to one point three FM. You
also have number fourteen Michigan opening up on Saturday. It's
gonna be a night game seven thirty on Wood TV
eight and also on the Peacock Network. They'll take on
the New Mexico Lobo six thirty with pregame coverage from

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the Big House. We'll have that right here on Wood
Radio Central. Michigan at San Jose State will be Friday night,
late night on the West Coast, that'll be ten thirty
televised an FS one nine to thirty. CMU football could
be heard all season long on Talk twelve thirty AM.
And then, of course GVSU can't forget about the Lakers.
They will open up at home at Lubbers Stadium. It's

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a one o'clock Saturday game, not night game, and they
will take on Lincoln, Pennsylvania. So enjoy the college football
wherever you might be going to whoever you are a
fan of. But here we go for twenty twenty five