Plymouth Township is moving toward a total ban on kratom products after the Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to advance a new ordinance amendment that would prohibit the sale of the substance. Kratom products are currently sold at locations throughout Plymouth Township. If the ordinanc...
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Polls have shown the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Texas is in a dead heat.
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The 67-page civil rights complaint was filed on Oct. 9 in U.S. District Court in Detroit. It is alleged that Monroe Public Schools, the Michigan High School Athletic Association, and school leaders violated ‘Title 9’ back on Sept. 9, 2025 when Monroe required its varsity girls vo...
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A father in Monroe is suing a Metro Detroit school district over a volleyball game who says his daughter played in it, but parents were not notified about everyone on the court....
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What to know: A local union leader says a supervisor activated machinery while a maintenance worker was underneath it on two occasions this year. Steve Wood, president of the American Postal Workers Union’s 480-481 Area Local, said the incidents occurred in May and early Septembe...
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A group of Monroe-area men are proving that age is no barrier to having fun for a good cause. The Monroe Center for Healthy Aging has unveiled its 2027 fundraiser calendar, titled "Naturally, The Other Half," featuring male volunteers who posed in playful, tasteful photographs to...
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A plane crashed in a densely wooded part of Sauk County, Wisconsin, on Tuesday evening, killing all six people on board, including one child.
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As Van Buren Township's Planning Commission prepares to consider final site plan approval for a proposed Google data center, some residents who live near the project say they remain frustrated by ongoing construction activity and believe their concerns have not been adequately ad...
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What to know: Two boys, ages 6 and 4, were found safe in Ohio after being taken from Inkster, Michigan. Police say their father, Brandon Deandre Lee, 36, allegedly assaulted and restrained their mother during a domestic violence incident, then left with the boys in her vehicle. T...
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Grief and outrage are rippling across Detroits east side following a tragic drive-by shooting that took the life of a 16-year-old girl who had already endured an unthinkable amount of personal tragedy. Police say 16-year-old Kaliyah Embery was gunned down Tuesday evening in a dri...
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A desperate search for two children from Inkster has come to a close on Wednesday after the kids were found safe across state lines. Watch the story in the video player below: 2 missing Inkster boys found safe in Ohio after multi-state search Police say a father assaulted the mot...
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The U.S. Department of Justice has threatened California with possible legal action over what it says are noncitizens believed to have received mail ballots for next months midterm elections. A letter sent Tuesday to Secretary of State Shirley Weber from Trent McCotter, the actin...
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A group of Commerce Township residents wants to link the pathways already in place with about nine miles of new trail – including a connection to the Michigan Airline Trail. The plan is on the ballot in the upcoming election. John Buller and his fellow cyclists have spent years r...
