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.
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About 300 to 400 protesters with Occupy Detroit and supporting groups walked through Detroit today as part of worldwide May Day rallies.
According to Michigan Department of Corrections, Kilpatrick made his first newer and higher payment online.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 State Superintendent Mike Flanagan last month rescinded his approval of the district’s deficit elimination plan – an act that led to the withholding of the district’s April state aid payment of $1.25 million.
Marshall was found this morning at her home near the Detroit Golf Club. The cause of death was not immediately clear.
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.
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.
An increased reliance on prescription painkillers and the resulting addiction has now shown up in the most vulnerable patients -- America's newborns.
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.
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.
The former chair of the Associated Food and Petroleum Dealers was gunned down during an apparent robbery outside his Detroit liquor store.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authorities say the latest search by volunteers for a West Michigan baby last seen in June turned up nothing of importance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lansing police say they're investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy that was reported as suspicious.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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