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Lansing — The Michigan House voted Tuesday to change the date of Michigan's 2024 presidential primary to the fourth Tuesday in February, moving the bill to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at the deadline set by the Democratic National Committee. Though the legislation clear the House on a 56-53 vote,...

Lansing — Michigan Democrats have been weighing in recent days a plan to tie targeted tax relief to a funding scheme for economic development in what would be a controversial move to disrupt a looming automatic cut in the state's personal income tax. Facing pressure to sign proposals to...

Hillsdale — Kathy and Gerald Dihle were at a loss over what to do with their 15-year-old son. Brandon was refusing to come home from his friend's house, and the friend's mother told Kathy her son was not there. He was disobedient to his parents, struggling in school and was vaping, Gerald said.

Michigan lawmakers are fast-tracking legislation this week that would allow senior citizens not to pay any income tax on most of their pension and 401(k) retirement income by 2026. But under the legislation, a 70-year-old who is still working a job — be it salaried or hourly — will still...

A plastics manufacturing company agreed to clean up PFAS pollution at the site of its former facility in Brighton, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Monday, marking the first settlement to result from a series of PFAS lawsuits she filed in 2020. As part of a Jan. 12 consent decree filed...

Washington — Detroit will receive $24.8 million to improve safety on the most dangerous roads in the city, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Wednesday. Detroit has one of the worst traffic fatality rates in the nation, according to the agency, and the per capita fatality rate rose 88% between 2017 and 2020. Wayne County has had nearly 16 times more traffic deaths than the average U.S. county since 2016.

Detroit — Tyrone Wheatley, the former Michigan football star and one of the greatest athletes ever born in Michigan, has signed a four-year contract to be the next head coach at Wayne State. Under terms of the deal, revealed via a Freedom of Information Act request by The News,...

Detroit — Mayor Mike Duggan on Monday walked Detroiters through the steps to access $100 million in job training opportunities during his annual citywide community meeting. The American Rescue Plan Act-funded $100 million in scholarships is available through Detroit at Work, the city's workforce development center. Duggan said despite...

The Detroit City Council last week unanimously appointed four members to serve on the city's first Reparations Task Force's Executive Team. Two Detroiters who spearheaded the Reparation Task Force, Lauren Hood and Keith Williams, were elected co-chairs. Alongside them are two working coordinators: the Rev. JoAnn Watson and Dorian Tyus, who have a long histories in advocating for reparations at the state and national level.

Oxford — Dan D'Alessandro bears the brunt of public vitriol as president of Oxford's school board, serving a district traumatized by a mass shooting, battling widespread litigation from the attack and under fire by its constituents. But D'Alessandro said he respects the fact that people are angry after the...

Detroit King had a handful of players sign during the early-signing period in late December, including standout quarterback Dante Moore with UCLA, receiver/cornerback Jameel Croft with Kansas and defensive end Kenny Merrieweather with Iowa. And, while Moore, Croft and Merrieweather inked their deals less than a month after helping King...

Detroit — The Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority will vote next week whether to pass along the proposed tax captures for the $1.5 billion District Detroit project, including $616 million in buildout reimbursements to developers. A DBRA meeting Monday offered more details about the District Detroit Transformational Brownfield Plan, which...

For Armani Kelly, 2023 was shaping up to be a major year. Months after his early release from prison on an armed robbery charge, the 27-year-old Oscoda resident was working, taking college classes, laboriously pursuing rap music and planning a wedding. "He really turned his life around," said his fiancée,...

As Joey Hauser said, Michigan State’s loss at No. 1 Purdue on Sunday was an opportunity missed. “Every Big Ten road game is tough,” Hauser admitted after the Spartans were overwhelmed by Boilermakers big man Zach Edey, who scored a career-high 38 points. “Obviously, we had an opportunity against the No. 1 team in the country today and just didn’t do what we were asked to do.

Lansing — Belinda Fitzpatrick lived with 27 chickens, eating, sleeping and bathing with them. The one thing she didn’t do was neglect them, she said. And yet, last year, she was charged with failing to adequately care for the animals, a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison.

Nothing burned in America this time around, thankfully. Maybe Memphis stayed peaceful because authorities there took swift action against a sinister gang of cops who apparently beat a handcuffed man to death simply because they were upset. City leaders, to their credit, did not hide behind legal gobbledygook and tortured contractual considerations.

Detroit — In a boost to downtown Detroit's convention and tourism business, Huntington Place will be renovated and an attached hotel with several hundred rooms built under a deal between a developer and the authority that manages the event center. The Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority board voted Tuesday...

A day after a missing 15-year-old Ann Arbor Pioneer High School student was found dead on the campus grounds, law enforcement and district officials issued statements about the actions taken in the case amid concern from some in the community. “We know there’s a lot of unanswered questions, as well...

Detroit — An Islamic State soldier from Dearborn captured on a Syrian battlefield five years ago faces at least 10 years in federal prison after a jury Monday convicted him of providing material support to a terrorist group. Jurors spent about four hours deliberating after a nine-day trial before...

Michigan State Police are investigating a shooting Monday on the Lodge Freeway in Detroit that left a driver injured. The incident was reported in the southbound M-10 lanes at West Grand Boulevard around 4:30 p.m., said First Lt. Mike Shaw, a spokesman for the agency. A 38-year-old Detroit man driving...