DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ) The Blue Bird Inn, a historic jazz club on Detroit's west side, is being restored and is expected to reopen as a live music venue, community space, and archive. The nonprofit Detroit Sound Conservancy purchased the Tireman Avenue venue in 2018 after it closed in the early 20...
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A jury has awarded roughly $897 million to a family of a child severely injured when a high-speed vehicle crashed into a guardrail during a 2023 field trip at a test track in Auburn Hills. The verdict came more than three years after what was supposed to be a fun and educational ...
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Delenia Howell has spent the last three years trying to rebuild a life that was nearly destroyed. “After incarceration, a lot of people don’t see us, they don’t hear us, they don’t know what our issues are,” Howell, 36, said. “They don’t care.” She’s a peer leader with Nation Out...
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Everything is more expensive these days — and more people are turning to credit cards to get by. A recent WalletHub report looked at 182 U.S. cities, and Detroit came in dead last for credit scores. The city’s average credit score is 570. Compare that to Chicago at 630 and Grand ...
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Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals. WAYNE COUNTY – Seasonal allergies, colds, influenza, scooter & e-bike injuries, respiratory illnesses, asthma flare-ups, stomach viruses...
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Families of missing and murdered people who have been waiting for answers, sometimes for decades, are seeing a new push for results. Michigan State Police said they have around 200 open cold cases at any given time, and with September being National Cold Case month, they’re worki...
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DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ) A new athletics complex opened Thursday at Communication and Media Arts High School, giving students their first home field after years of competing at other schools. Students and district leaders gathered Thursday to celebrate the opening of a brand new ath...
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The University of Michigan Marching Band is preparing for what its director calls a once-in-a-lifetime performance a halftime show featuring world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and music from "The Lord of the Rings." The performance is set for this Saturday during the Iowa-Michigan g...
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The family of Jaquoya Wix is still reeling after she was fatally stabbed by an assailant outside her place of business in Detroit. Police also promised more patrols while the integrated health network emphasized the mental health resources that are available....
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Detroit police are stepping up patrols downtown following the fatal stabbing of Jaquoya Wix, a Chipotle worker killed in an alley behind the restaurant near Congress and Woodward where she worked. Wayne County's public mental health authority is now investigating a potential syst...
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A new report questions how ICE is spending taxpayer dollars. Investigators say the agency wasted millions of dollars on detention centers that were poorly planned, including unused tents at Guantanamo Bay and empty warehouses to hold detainees that never housed anyone. The report...
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Mayor Mary Sheffield was at a ribbon-cutting for new affordable housing. Lately, a lot of the talk of the town has been a handful of controversies, from pictures of her and ex Marvin Walker circulating online,...
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A former Detroit nurse was found guilty of two criminal sexual conduct counts and not guilty on three other counts following a jury trial.
