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Feds rule Quicken Loans influenced home appraisals to their benefit, putting...
After seeing an online pop-up ad for Quicken Loans, Lourie Brown of Ohio County, West Virginia contacted the Detroit-based mortgage company hoping to refinance. At closing, she received a whopping...
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Gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed promises to forgo PAC contributions
Abdul El-Sayed is the 32-year-old Muslim American campaigning to be Michigan's next governor. El-Sayed's resume is impressive. He was a Rhodes scholar, has a Masters and Ph.D. from Oxford University,...
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Emagine adds Detroit 67: Perspectives trailer for ‘Detroit’
Emagine Entertainment has partnered with the Detroit Historical Society to create a new trailer for Detroit audiences. The vignette encourages people to visit the exhibition Detroit 67: Perspectives...
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Federal drug agents raid luxury Detroit apartment
Authorities from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency executed a search warrant in The Scott luxury apartment building in Detroit's Brush Park today. In an email obtained by Metro Times, the building's...
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Royal Oak rally to support transgender troops planned for Sunday
When Samantha Rogers heard President Trump announced via Twitter that he hoped to ban transgender people from serving in the military, her reaction was visceral."Nausea," she says of her initial...
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Eastern Market takes action after vendor displayed a Confederate flag
After a vendor at Eastern Market displayed a Confederate flag at their booth this past weekend, the market is changing its policy on signs that deal with offensive language and hate signs. The...
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Wayne County moving forward with Gilbert's jail swap proposal
Good news for Dan Gilbert: Wayne County is poised to move forward with his plan to build the county a criminal justice complex in exchange for the site of the "fail jail" on Gratiot Avenue near...
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Detroit Land Bank rejects Heidelberg Project expansion
Tyree Guyton, who grew up in a poor family with nine siblings in Detroit, was 32 when he decided to use art to combat blight, abandonment and violence that were consuming his east side neighborhood....
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Two Detroit rappers killed in drive-by- shooting on I-94
Two local rappers were slain yesterday following a drive-by shooting in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94 close to Livernois Avenue. Cops were first called to the scene early Sunday morning. The...
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan leads Coleman Young Jr. ahead of primary
State Senator Coleman Young Jr., who is running for mayor of Detroit, has been staying optimistic this election season despite polls that show him lagging far behind incumbent Mayor Mike Duggan. When...
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Michigan lawmakers need to get serious about guns and prisons
There is, in fact, some good news out there; the state prison population, and the violent crime rate, have both been significantly dropping over the past few years. But don't worry; the idiots in the...
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Savage Love: Crossed dressers
Q: My wife has been seriously ill for three years, and I have been her sole caregiver. The doctors here weren't getting the job done, so we made the difficult decision for her to move 2,000 miles away...
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Marijuana is a gateway drug — to get off of others
It was just a few years ago that now 30-year-old epilepsy patient Zara Abas tried her first medical marijuana on the advice of her doctor. Abas suffered seizures almost every day and took four...
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Meet the 13 candidates trying to unseat Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan
For those who've been paying cursory attention to the Detroit mayor's race, it may seem as if city residents have just two choices in this election: incumbent Mayor Mike Duggan and challenger State...
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Unlicensed dogs shot to death are 'contraband,' federal judge rules in...
A federal judge dismissed the case of a Detroit woman who filed a lawsuit against the City of Detroit after police shot and killed her three dogs — ruling that because the dogs were not properly...
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Developer and UFO Factory's contentious relationship raises questions about...
Late Wednesday morning, a construction crew working on the $150 million mixed-use Elton Park development in Corktown damaged the neighboring UFO Factory, a popular rock club and bar. The project's...
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Mayor Duggan blasts data showing Detroit vacancies on rise
When the Free Press sat down with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan ahead of the Tuesday primary and let him make the case for why he should be re-elected, Duggan reportedly called the notion that more houses...
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Soil tests at Detroit toxic waste facility are cause for concern
As we noted two years ago, when a neighboring business plans for an expansion, it isn’t always cause for rejoicing. Such is the case with the planned expansion of U.S. Ecology's toxic waste facility on...
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Group of mostly black Detroiters takes photo at site of controversial Bedrock ad
On Sunday, about two weeks after Detroit's largest developer made national headlines for plastering a downtown building with mostly white faces and the words "See Detroit like we do," a few dozen...
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