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  1. Occupy Detroit protesters gathered in Grand Circus Park today after walking through Detroit as part of nationwide May 1 protests. More than 300 took part in the Detroit rallies. Niraj Warikoo/DFP

    Occupy Detroit protesters join in May Day rallies

    About 300 to 400 protesters with Occupy Detroit and supporting groups walked through Detroit today as part of worldwide May Day rallies.

    • 8:18 PM
  2. Kwame Kilpatrick speaks with media after his speech on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at Eastern Michigan University.  The speakers series sponsored by EMU student organization BLACK (Black Leaders Aspiring to Critical Knowledge) was about second chances and redemption of which Kilpatrick spoke of frequently.  "Second chances is really not a real notion," said Kilpartick, "but when you're Kwame Kilpatrick, you're on your 12th and 13th chance." JARRAD HENDERSON/Detroit Free Press

    Kilpatrick makes good on first $500 restitution payment, right at the deadline

    According to Michigan Department of Corrections, Kilpatrick made his first newer and higher payment online.

    • 2:12 PM
  3. Motel guest arrested when trying to pick up forgotten bag of drugs, police say

    A male guest at a Motel 6 in Ann Arbor left a lot more than his briefs behind during a recent stay: he forgot his duffel bag full of cocaine, marijuana, and a loaded gun, records show.

    • 5:25 PM
  4. Farmington Hills man who ran adult websites sentenced to prison for unpaid taxes

    A Farmington Hills man who made millions in the adult entertainment industry is going to prison for six years for unpaid taxes, the U.S. Attorneys office announced today.

    • 4:43 PM
  5. Taxpayers on hook for $425,000 to settle lawsuit against DPS

    Taxpayers are on the hook for $425,000 to settle a federal lawsuit against the Detroit Public Schools over the death of a special education student.

    • 6:25 PM
  6. About 70 volunteers from two metro Detroit Lowe's stores team up with staff from the U.S. Probation Office of Eastern Michigan, to help clean-up the area behind the YWCA Interim House on Detroit's westside, Tuesday, May 1, 2012.  Lowe's donated $4,000 in equipment to build a playground for the children living at the interim housing facility for domestic abuse survivors. Mike Brookbank/Detroit Free Press

    With video: Dilapitated playground at women's shelter gets refurbished thanks to donations, volunteers

    Now a volunteer at YWCA Interim House on the city’s west side, Williams, 30, of Detroit smiled today as about 70 volunteers put a new roof on the playhouse, installed a new playset and rebuilt the picnic table where she plotted out her new life in July 2011.

    • 6:19 PM
  7. Police question 2 persons of interest in deaths of 4 women found in trunks

    On two occasions in December, women were found dead in car trunks — first cousins Renisha Landers and Demesha Hunt and then friends Natasha Curtis and Vernithea McCrary. Police have said three of the women had ties to Backpage.com.

    • 4:36 PM
  8. Paul Huxley, a Detroiter who is board chairman at Strategic Staffing Solutions, asked to be removed from consideration for appointment to a crucial financial oversight board for the City of Detroit. Handout

    Detroit financial oversight board candidate withdraws bid

    Paul Huxley, a Detroiter who is board chairman at Strategic Staffing Solutions, asked to be removed from consideration, City Council President Charles Pugh said during the council’s meeting late this morning.

    • 4:20 PM
  9. Amanda Clayton holds her $1 million lottery check. Clayton, who continued to get food stamps after winning a $1 million lottery jackpot, has been charged with welfare fraud. The Michigan attorney general's office announced two felony charges Tuesday, April 17, 2012, against Clayton of Lincoln Park. She was arrested Monday and was expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Lincoln Park's 25th District Court. AP PHOTO

    Michigan lottery winner who continued to collect food stamps gets new hearing date

    A key court hearing has been postponed for a Detroit-area woman who authorities say continued to get food stamps despite winning a Michigan lottery jackpot.

    • 12:45 PM
  10. Judge tosses 1st-degree murder charge against Southfield man accused of choking wife

    But Oakland County Circuit judge Nanci Grant let stand a second degree murder charge in the case of Rahim Lockridge, 38, accused of killing his wife of 12 years, Kenyatta Lockridge, 32 as the two struggled in the family home last September. Their daughters, 17, 14 and 9 were present.

    • 3:59 PM
  11. State to begin preliminary financial review of Pontiac School District

    The Pontiac district, with a $24 million deficit, has struggled recently. State Superintendent Mike Flanagan last month rescinded his approval of the district’s deficit elimination plan – an act that led to the withholding of the district’s April state aid payment of $1.25 million.

    • 1:12 PM
  12. Former Wayne County chief operating officer Bella Marshall has died. 1997 Free Press file photo

    Bella Marshall, longtime city of Detroit official, has died

    Marshall was found this morning at her home near the Detroit Golf Club. The cause of death was not immediately clear.

    • 12:28 PM
  13. Occupy Detroit protesters holding rallies throughout city today

    They planned to begin at noon at Clark Park in southwest Detroit and then walk to schools, a bus station, and the McNamara Federal Building in downtown Detroit before ending at Grand Circus Park, the site of the group's encampment last year, at about 3:45 p.m., organizers said.

    • 12:02 PM
  14. The Brecksville-Northfield Bridge that spans the Cuyahoga River between the cities Brecksville and Northfield, Ohio. Five self-described anarchists have been arrested in a plot to blow up the bridge near Cleveland, Ohio,  the FBI said today. Michael Schwartz/Getty Images

    FBI: 5 men arrested, wanted to blow up bridge near Cleveland

    Five men, at least three of them anarchists, plotted to blow up a bridge near Cleveland, but there was no danger to the public because the explosives were inoperable and were controlled by an undercover FBI employee.

    • 11:05 AM
  15. Aileen Dannelley holds her baby, Savannah, at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill. The one-month-old baby is being treated with methadone for withdrawal while she and her mother both fight addiction to powerful prescription painkillers. The number of U.S. babies born with signs of opiate drug withdrawal has tripled over a decade because of a surge in the use of illegal narcotics and powerful prescription painkillers among pregnant women, researchers say. AP PHOTO

    More babies being born addicted to prescription painkillers

    An increased reliance on prescription painkillers and the resulting addiction has now shown up in the most vulnerable patients -- America's newborns.

    • 7:03 AM
  16. $19.6M in federal grants announced to improve health care for poor

    The funds are part of a national effort to increase access to health care for an additional 860,000 patients nationwide, including an estimated 23,521 Michiganders.

    • 3:58 PM
  17. Waterford Police said a 2000 Chevy Blazer being driven by a 37-year-old Waterford man was traveling north on Sashabaw late Monday night when it crossed the center line into the path of a 1995 Ford F-350 box truck traveling south. The driver of the Chevy Blazer died; the driver of the Ford truck was taken to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Photo courtesy Waterford Township police

    1 dead in second fatal Waterford Township car crash in two days

    A 37-year-old Waterford man died in a head-on crash at about 11 p.m. Monday on Sashabaw Road near Meigs Avenue, according to a statement issued today by the Waterford Township Police.

    • 9:57 AM
  18. Fred Dally Photo courtesy Associated Food & Petroleum Dealers

    Detroit convenience store owner killed during robbery; $50K reward offered

    The former chair of the Associated Food and Petroleum Dealers was gunned down during an apparent robbery outside his Detroit liquor store.

    • 2:48 PM
  19. Oakland County woman with 30 cats returns to condemned house, but removed again

    A 50-year-old woman who was ordered out of her house last week after police found her living with three dozen cats in ankle-deep pet feces was back at the house today — and “was removed from the residence,” Waterford police Sgt. Chester Bartle said.

    • 5:15 PM
  20. Record high temps possible for metro Detroit this week

    Metro Detroit could see record high temperatures this week, after the region's April temperatures proved cooler than March for the first time in recorded history, according to the National Weather Service.

    • 7:18 AM
  21. New Midtown bank opens with focus on the under served

    The bank was created to take over the assets of the failed ShoreBank, the Chicago-based lender long known for offering loans and banking services in distressed Rust Belt communities like Detroit. Urban Partnership Bank’s stated aim is to provide responsible low-cost services to students and young adults, customers of high-cost payday lenders and currency exchanges, small businesses, and faith-based and non-profit organizations.

    • 11:37 AM
  22. Jasmine Hernandez-Cruz, 22, sits on her new bed with her mother, Virginia Hernandez, 56. The Holly residents received beds from the Furniture Bank of Southeastern Michigan. It is not known how many people go without beds. KIMBERLY P. MITCHELL/Detroit Free Press

    Michigan's bad economy, bedbugs, sleepless nights putting residents in danger

    The effects of not getting a good night's sleep range from emotional and behavior problems in children to adults drowsing off while driving or at work, experts say.

    • 1:42 AM
  23. The iFrogz Boost NearField Audio speaker amplifies the volume on your media player. iFrogz

    iPhone tools get fingerprints, get loud and get you charged up

    In today's world of touchscreens, each generation has gotten better but they all seem to be magnets for fingerprints and smudges. The iEraser cleaning block is about the size of a deck of cards and has what the company website calls "a stable and uniform cleaning surface" on one side to clean your screen.

    • 1:35 AM
  24. Early warning: I-96 will close for repairs in 2014 from Telegraph to Newburgh

    The state has a hugely disruptive reconstruction project on the books for I-96 in Wayne County and is giving motorists and residents a two-year warning that a long stretch of the expressway will close down. The Michigan Department of Transportation said Monday that it will rebuild seven miles of I-96 between Newburgh and Telegraph roads in Livonia and Redford Township starting in early 2014.

    • 1:26 AM
  25. Rahim Lockridge is charged with choking his wife to death in front of his three daughters in the family's Southfield home. Photos by WILLIAM ARCHIE/Detroit Free Press

    Daughter testifies about parents' fight in her father's murder trial

    A sixth-grader took the witness stand Monday and testified against her father, Rahim Lockridge, describing how he put her mother in a chokehold during an argument in the family's Southfield home in September. When he released Kenyatta Lockridge, 32, she dropped to the ground and died moments later, according to testimony.

  26. Mason County Prosecuting Attorney Paul Spaniola holds up a photograph of missing baby Katherine Phillips Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in 51st Circuit Court in Ludington, as he makes his opening statement to the jury in the case against the baby's father, Sean Phillips. Baby Katherine has been missing since June 29, 2010. Ludington Daily News / AP PHOTO

    Search for missing Ludington baby still turns up nothing

    Authorities say the latest search by volunteers for a West Michigan baby last seen in June turned up nothing of importance.

    • 6:26 AM
  27. Police look for former U-M student reported missing

    Police are looking for a former University of Michigan student who was reported missing after failing to show up at the school's weekend graduation ceremony.

    • 10:42 AM
  28. 13-month-old boy hit by truck in driveway, dies

    Authorities say a 13-month-old suburban Detroit boy has died after being struck by a pickup truck that pulled into a mid-Michigan driveway.

    • 5:45 AM
  29. Wildlife federation: Enbridge oil spill didn't spur change in regulations

    Nearly two years after an Enbridge Energy Partners pipeline ruptured in Marshall, laws covering pipeline safety are inadequate, according to a new report released by the National Wildlife Federation.

  30. After 42 years, a new $17-million home to open for Community Heath and Social Services Center

    CHASS provides primary health, dental and wellness care to Detroit’s uninsured and underinsured. The new building replaces one the facility opened in 1975 and that closed to patients last week.

    • 4:49 PM
  31.  Domino's Pizza

    Domino's 1st-quarter profit falls

    Pizza-delivery chain Domino's Pizza said today its first-quarter profit fell 24%, hurt by lower revenue and costs related to a debt recapitalization completed during the quarter.

    • 8:17 AM
  32. Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson

    Detroit City Council: We must consider residents for financial board

    Several City Council members, wary that none of the appointees so far to the board that will oversee Detroit's troubled finances lives inside the city, said Monday that residency will weigh strongly as they consider candidates for the council's two picks on the oversight panel.

  33. Oakland County Commissioner Nash to run for water resources post in August

    When the county commission maps were redrawn and approved last month, Nash, D-Farmington Hills, was drawn into the same district as Commissioner Janet Jackson, D-Southfield.

    • 1:24 PM
  34. Mayor Dave Bing, on his first day back at work after surgery in March, appears Monday at the Rosa Parks Transit Center in Detroit. Photos by Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free Press

    Detroit Mayor Dave Bing back at work, heads to transit center

    Mayor Dave Bing said Monday that he is encouraged by early signs that changes to bus service levels are helping stabilize the city's troubled bus system.

  35. Should members of Detroit's financial advisory board live in the city?

    As members of the financial advisory board that will oversee Detroit's restructuring are appointed, so far no one lives in the city. Several Detroit City Council members said on Monday that the board should have someone who lives in the city limits.

    • 1:22 PM
  36. Lansing police investigate death of boy, 2

    Lansing police say they're investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy that was reported as suspicious.

    • 8:28 AM
  37. 2 Detroit Housing Commission employees charged with fraud

    In a new public corruption case unfolding in federal court, two Detroit Housing Commission employees were charged Monday with stealing government vouchers designed to help needy families pay for affordable housing. The government ended up paying roughly $25,000 to help pay the rent for one of the defendants and her brother, records show.

  38. Elias Abuelazam

    Jury selection begins in trial of Elias Abuelazam, who is charged with series of deadly Flint stabbings

    Jury selection is set to begin today in the first murder trial of a Flint man who is accused of killing and wounding several men in a series of stabbings in 2010. Elias Abuelazam is going on trial in the stabbing death of Arnold Minor, 49, who was killed in August 2010 in front of a motorcycle shop on South Saginaw near Barton on Flint's south side.

  39. Kim Komando: How to share your videos privately

    QUESTION: I like to record videos with my phone and share them with my family and friends. However, when I upload them to YouTube, strangers leave mean comments. Is there any way I can share my videos privately?

    • 1:22 AM
  40. Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. talks with Victor Muuhammad before a community report Monday at Triumph Baptist Church. WILLIAM ARCHIE/DETROIT FREE PRESS

    Detroit police: Homicides down, other crime up slightly

    Homicides in Detroit are down compared with last year, but other major crimes have seen slight increases, according to statistics released Monday by the Detroit Police Department during a quarterly report to the community at Triumph Baptist Church. As of Monday, there had been 98 homicides in Detroit, compared with 102 by the same time in 2011.

  41. Many infants still too small, but report says health is improving

    A continuing increase in underweight babies threatens the health of the youngest Michiganders, according to a report released Monday. Almost 10,000 low birth-weight babies are born each year in the state -- a trend that worsened by 7% between 2000 and 2010, according to the report by KidsCount in Michigan.

    • 1:39 AM
  42. Microsoft infusion sends B&N; up

    Books and bits united Monday as Microsoft provided an infusion of money to help Barnes & Noble compete with top electronic bookseller Amazon. In exchange, Microsoft gets a long-desired foothold in the business of e-books and college textbooks.

  43. Lottery results for Apr. 30

    Lottery results for Michigan and Ohio games

  44. Pharmacies to pay to settle claims

    ANN ARBOR Two Ann Arbor pharmacies have agreed to pay $500,000 to settle claims that they unlawfully sold prescription pain pills on the Internet, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Monday.

  45. More low birth weight babies born in Michigan, report shows

    Almost 10,000 low-birthweight babies are born each year in the state — a trend that worsened by 7% between 2000 and 2010, according “Right Start in Michigan and Its Counties – 2012” by KidsCount in Michigan.

    • Apr. 30, 2012
  46. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing talks to the news media about public transportation at the Rosa Parks Bus Terminal in Detroit, on Monday. Andre J. Jackson/ Detroit Free Press

    Bing back on the job, says DDOT bus service is improving

    Mayor Dave Bing said he was encouraged by early signs that changes to bus service levels provided are helping stabilize the city’s troubled bus system.

    • Apr. 30, 2012
  47. Michigan PACs bring in $22.2M for 2012 elections

    Fund-raising by Michigan political action committees is up from two years ago but still lags behind the peak reached in the 2006 election cycle, a watchdog group reported today.

    • Apr. 30, 2012
  48. Scott Boberg of the Detroit Institute of the Arts talks about the details of a paper coat made by Cass Tech student Alondra Lopez. Renowned fashion designer Tracy Reese participated in the exhibit as a student. Photos by JESSICA J. TREVINO/Detroit Free Press

    DPS student art exhibit opens at DIA

    Boys in hoodies look at a U.S. flag from behind a wrought-iron fence in a stark photo snapped at Golightly Career and Technical Center titled "We are Trayvon Martin." Stars meet in an eye-catching tangle of hues on a huge canvas painted by kindergartners.

    • Apr. 30, 2012
  49. 2 Ann Arbor pharmacies pay $500K to settle charges of prescription drug scheme

    Prosecutors said the two companies, The Prescription Shop and The Prescription Shop II, filled more than 17,000 prescriptions of the painkiller hydrocodone through a Florida-based internet scheme that let customers order drugs online without a prescription. Instead, they said, customers completed an online questionnaire and paid for the drugs with a credit card.

    • Apr. 30, 2012
  50. Orange barrels and traffic backups will be a familiar scene to drivers on a stretch of I-96 in early 2014. This construction site is from 2001 on a portion of Northwestern Highway. Detroit Free Press file photo

    Beware: Long stretch of I-96 to close for overhaul in 2014

    The Michigan Department of Transportation said this morning that it will rebuild seven miles of I-96 between Newburgh and Telegraph roads in Livonia and Redford Township starting in early 2014.

    • Apr. 30, 2012

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