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Oakland County commissioners interviewing 5 candidates for executive job
Oakland County commissioners on Wednesday are interviewing five candidates vying to replace L. Brooks Patterson as county executive. An evaluation committee of two Democrats and one Republican...
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Royal Oak police launch internal probe after Black man stopped for 'looking...
Royal Oak police are conducting an internal investigation after a viral Facebook video showed cops stopping a Black man for “looking suspiciously” at a white woman Tuesday evening. The department’s...
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Michigan isn't ready for another recession
For a brief time on Wednesday morning, the bond market experienced a so-called "inverted yield curve," where yields on two-year Treasury bonds were higher than those on 10-year ones; in other words, a...
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Israel bars US Reps. Tlaib and Omar from visiting
Israel is barring Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country due to their support for boycotting the Jewish state. “Israel has decided — we won’t enable the members of Congress to...
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Illegal machine gun conversion kits found in Detroit
Illegal gun conversion kits that can turn firearms into machine guns are showing up in Detroit. The devices, which can convert any firearm into a fully automatic weapon, are linked to a Chinese...
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Mystery solved — we figured out what Bernie Sanders and Cardi B were talking...
We are here for the blooming friendship between Cardi B and Bernie S. We previously wrote about how we noticed that Bernie Sanders and Cardi B met at Detroit's TEN Nail Bar on July 29, but at first we...
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Michigan's immigrant families face green card hurdles under federal rule change
Local experts say the latest changes to federal immigration laws would have damaging ripple effects on Michigan's immigrant families.…
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Israel allows Rep. Tlaib to visit grandmother, but Tlaib says she now won't...
After initially barring Rep. Rashida Tlaib from visiting the country, Israel reversed course and now says it will allow the congresswoman to visit her 90-year-old grandmother — so long as she promised...
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Royal Oak police disciplines an officer, apologizes for encounter with Black man
Royal Oak police on Thursday disciplined an officer and apologized to a 20-year-old Black man after he was stopped and forced to show his identification for allegedly “looking suspiciously” at a white...
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Black man's murder conviction overturned after juror used n-word
A Macomb County Circuit Court judge last week overturned a first-degree murder conviction for a Black man after it was revealed that a juror used the n-word during deliberation. Terry Wilson, 26, will...
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Ferndale Mayor Coulter replaces L. Brooks Patterson as Oakland County executive
Oakland County is about to have its first Democratic county executive since the office was created in 1974. The Oakland County Board of Commissioners voted 11-10 on Friday to appoint Ferndale Mayor...
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State AG's office launches investigation into Royal Oak police's treatment of...
The Civil Rights Division of the Michigan Attorney General’s Office is investigating Royal Oak police’s treatment of a Black man accused of “looking suspiciously” at a white woman. AG Dana Nessel...
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Ex-Ferndale Mayor Dave Coulter sworn in as Oakland County's new executive
Former Ferndale mayor Dave Coulter on Monday was sworn in as the first Democrat to serve as Oakland County executive."I'm excited to get to work," Coulter said to applause after the brief swearing-in...
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Reps. Tlaib, Omar pledge to fight Trump, Netanyahu 'until we take our last...
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib broke into tears Monday as she recalled her family's decision last week to reject Israel's conditional offer to let her visit her 90-year-old grandmother. "We all decided as a...
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Nearly 12,000 Detroit homes lost water over delinquent payments since April
The city of Detroit shut off water to more than 11,800 homes for delinquent payments since April, and most of those houses are still without running water. City records, first obtained by the online...
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US Steel to lay off hundreds of workers in Michigan, citing 'market conditions'
U.S. Steel Corp. will temporarily lay off hundreds of workers in Michigan, following the company’s decision to halt production at its Great Lakes facility. According to a Worker Adjustment and...
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Siwatu-Salama Ra's criminal convictions reversed in court of appeals
Siwatu-Salama Ra — the Detroit activist who was forced to give birth in jail last year after she was sentenced to prison for brandishing a registered, unloaded firearm to defend herself — had her...
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White nationalist propaganda cropping up in Detroit and its suburbs
Propaganda for a white supremacist group is increasingly appearing in Detroit and its suburbs. In the past week, propaganda for Patriot Front has been found on light poles in Detroit and Roseville.…
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QLine to join DART payment system to help riders connect between streetcar...
The QLine will join DART — metro Detroit’s regional transit payment system — to make it easier for travelers to get to their destinations using a combination of both the street car and buses. Joining...
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As the Archdiocese of Detroit awaits its judgment day, it plays hide-and-seek...
While the local Catholic Church promotes its efforts to protect children today, it's been busy protecting its financial assets as a day of fuller reckoning for past sexual abuse survivors draws closer.…
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