Ex-state governor charged in Flint water crisis
Washington (AFP) - Ex-Michigan governor Rick Snyder is among a number of former state officials charged over the Flint water crisis, authorities said Thursday, the latest development in a years-long health scandal that has come to symbolize social injustice in the US. Prosecutors allege that Snyder willfully neglected his duty to protect residents of the decaying former industrial city that switched its drinking water source to the polluted Flint River to cut costs in 2014. Officials failed to add corrosion controls to the new tap water source, allowing lead and other contaminants to leach fro...