California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to people. The ban on shock gloves will take effect next year and remain in place until 2030. It comes weeks after U.S. Immigratio...
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This story also appeared in Chalkbeat Detroit The Detroit School Board race might be the most important race in the midterm elections. Five of seven seats on the Detroit School Board are up for election this November. That means Detroit voters are choosing a new majority. Why doe...
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Fat Stax, on Telegraph Road in Carleton recently shut down and the owner, Barb Little, was spending the day cleaning it out. Little says they were open a month and doing well. "The Burger Review" came out recently, tried a burger and gave it a 9.3 out of 10. However, Little says ...
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She says immediately after the crash, dozens of men living in the neighborhood came out, removed the 18-year-old driver from her car and then turned their attention to her, verbally insulting her and threatening to attack her with a baseball bat while she waited for police to arr...
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews during a meeting at the White House aimed at addressing Americans' fears about the techno...
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South Lyon has become the latest Metro Detroit community to end its contract with Flock Safety, as the City Council voted 5-2 Monday night to reject renewing the agreement. The council also ordered police officers to stop using the cameras immediately and directed that the camera...
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A $10 million road improvement project is underway in Sterling Heights, bringing safety upgrades and infrastructure improvements to a 4.5-mile stretch of Clinton River Road between Van Dyke Avenue and Hayed Road. The Clinton River Road project, which broke ground last week, inclu...
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One of them, Kretzschmar, is from Casco Township in St. Clair County. He played football for the Marine City Mariners while in high school, according to a 2021 article from Times Herald in Port Huron....
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The U.S. National Security Agency and other military intelligence and cybersecurity forces will guard election systems during the November midterms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday. Military cybersecurity experts have routinely helped monitor systems and deter potentia...
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A 41-year-old Detroit man has been arraigned on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the death of a man following a dispute at the County Line Flea Market in Warren. Zarick Lamont Johnson was arraigned Tuesday (Sept. 29) in 37th District Court. Prosecutors allege Johns...
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David McPherson, 40, was sentenced to 20 to 40 years for the murder of Haleigh Pace. Despite claiming the 24-year-old committed suicide in June of 2025, a jury didnt buy it. During his sentencing, he doubled down on that claim. Haleigh's mother, Ella Pace, told the judge, Im aski...
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A group of Farmington Hills mothers say they were scammed by the organizer of a competitive cheerleading team, and police are now investigating. The mothers say the Diamond Cheer All Star Team launched last year. They paid thousands of dollars for their daughters to participate, ...
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Why does nearly every freeway in Metro Detroit have a weird trench section? The answer is the Davison Freeway, America’s first urban below-grade freeway in the United States. Leave it to the Motor City to innovate when it comes to cars, right? The design is called a depressed fre...
