News@Noon: Super Tuesday 3; the prosecutor and the prostitute

Today is Tuesday, March 15, 2016, and it's an important day in the Flint water crisis saga as several key players, including the former emergency manager and mayor, are testifying before Congress. That has inspired our question of the day: Does Gov. Rick Snyder need to resign over the scandal? Tell us in the comments section or tweet us @detroitnews.

Here's what else is going on today:

Super Tuesday the three-quel 

•  Up next in the 2016 presidential race: Ohio, Florida, three other big states and a great deal of hyperventilation.
• Republicans Marco Rubio and John Kasich are fighting for their political futures, desperate for wins in their home states to keep their White House hopes alive and complicate Donald Trump’s path to the nomination. 
• On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton can’t win enough delegates to wrap up the nomination in Tuesday’s elections, but she can nonetheless take a big step forward.

A brush with terror, twice

• Patrick Anderson knows what it’s like to experience an act of terrorism. On Sept. 11, 2001, the East Lansing economist escaped from the Marriott Hotel in World Trade Center Tower 3 when the first plane struck. On Sunday, Anderson found himself in another brush with terrorism.

Kalamazoo shooter admission

• Jason Dalton, the Uber driver charged with killing six people in a series of shootings near Kalamazoo, told investigators he was being controlled by the ride-hailing app through his cellphone. The admission gives police a better grasp on what motivated him to shoot at people he didn't know outside an apartment complex, a restaurant and at a car lot over a five-hour period.

'Racially intolerant language'

• A group of Grosse Pointe South High School students was suspended this week over a controversial photo posted on social media that officials say showed them with racial slurs scrawled on their bodies.

Prostitution and the prosecutor

• Longtime Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings was arrested early Monday and charged with 15 criminal counts, including engaging with prostitutes, pandering and willful neglect of duty. Dunnings allegedly paid to have sex with prostitutes hundreds of times between 2010 and 2015. He is also accused of convincing one woman to become a prostitute, prompting a charge of pandering, a felony which can result in up to 20 years in prison.

Happening in sports 

• It’s difficult to judge the outcome of an NBA game from the first minute. But on Monday the first 51 seconds foreshadowed the next 47 minutes, as the Pistons had one of their most lackluster performances of the season, against the struggling Washington Wizards. They ended up losing 124-81.
• It’s befuddling how hard Tigers left-hander Daniel Norris has to work to get through an inning sometimes. As good as his stuff was Monday in the Tigers’ 9-2 spring win over the Mets, it shouldn’t have taken him 53 pitches to get through two innings. 

• As regular-season games go, this one is definitely more important. The Red Wings visit Philadelphia Tuesday in what will be a crucial game in the Eastern Conference playoff chase. Detroit is hoping to get a boost after bringing up Anthony Mantha from Grand Rapids. 

Autos attention

• Join autos reporter Mike Martinez and take a tour of the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant, which is starting to deliver the Cadillac CT6 sedan to dealers after a years-long transformation. 
• General Motors Co. is collaborating with ride-sharing service Lyft to launch an “Express Drive” short-term rental program for Lyft drivers in select cities later this year.
• Ford is also betting big on next-generation mobility. Here's Daniel Howes' take. 

The lighter side

• The 500-year-old wreckage of Portuguese ship piloted by an uncle of explorer Vasco da Gama has been found off the coast of Oman, a discovery that included the recovery of an incredibly rare coin.
• The downtown firehouse, on the corner of Larned and Washington across the street from Cobo Center, could be open as a new hotel in time for the next Detroit auto show. 
• Two exciting new restaurants are opening in downtown: Katoi in Corktown and Grey Ghost in Midtown. 

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