By JAIMIE DING Associated Press Eight people, including six children, were found dead in a Michigan home after a fire, some with gunshot wounds, law enforcement said Friday. Police and fire authorities responded just before noon to a house fire in Grand Haven Township, on the eastern ...
By ED WHITE, JOEY CAPPELETTI and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Friday, in a race with Abdul El-Sayed that has become a focal point for the party's fight between its ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — Senate candidate Haley Stevens talks often about manufacturing, taking on President Donald Trump and why she's the Democrat best positioned to win Michigan. The congresswoman has far less to say about the pro-Israel group ...
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan woman accused of leaving three children alone for years in a house of squalor pleaded no contest Thursday to child abuse in an agreement that carries a six-year prison sentence, authorities said. Conditions at the Pontiac home were so offensive that police ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is backing progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, breaking with party leadership and intensifying a battle over the party's direction in one of the most important Senate ...
By JANELLE D. JAMES/Bridge Michigan Bridge Michigan Federal and state lawmakers are calling on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to intervene at Michigan's only women's prison after a third inmate in less than a month died Saturday, intensifying scrutiny over conditions and medical care at the Huron ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — As students banged on desks and stomped their feet inside a packed lecture hall at the University of Michigan, someone decades older stood in the back, quietly taking in the scene. Debbie Dingell, a longtime Democratic ...
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Lynette Hooker bounced around the deck of the docked Soul Mate, smiled into the camera and proclaimed: "We're finally leaving Kemah," referring to a Texas port town. "It's only been four months," she said as her husband, Brian, tugged on some rigging as ...
By LAURA HERBERG/Bridge Michigan Hunters are divided over a proposed "one buck rule" that some hope would help balance the buck-to-doe ratio, curb overpopulation in the Lower Peninsula and make deer hunting better for future generations by leaving more prize bucks on the table. The ...
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press WESTLAND, Mich. (AP) — It was cloudy with a chance of marshmallows at two Detroit-area parks Friday as kids raced to collect thousands of the gooey treats dropped from a helicopter. The annual Marshmallow Drop, hosted by Wayne County Parks, took ...
By JENA BROOKER/BridgeDetroit Over the last decade, Michigan municipalities have given more than a billion dollars in local tax breaks to industrial companies to keep the air clean. But the reductions often haven't fully materialized: The companies receiving the tax breaks have been cited by ...
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — The man who drove his pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue was described as suicidal in a 911 phone call to police by his former wife that day, a TV station reported Monday. The call to Dearborn Heights police came around the same time last Thursday that ...
By ISABEL LOHMAN/Bridge Michigan One of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's signature initiatives has been to expand the availability of early childhood education. But efforts like offering free pre-kindergarten and providing grants to open new classrooms have not resolved a central problem: Attracting ...
By JULIA FRANKEL AND BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The man who attacked a Michigan synagogue was the brother of a Hezbollah commander killed earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike, Israel's military claimed Sunday. Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in the March 5 strike in ...
By ED WHITE AND ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press The Michigan synagogue that came under attack this week when an armed man drove his car into the building had for months been strengthening its security apparatus by hiring a seasoned police lieutenant as its security director and holding ...
The Associated Press Communities were left reeling from attacks that unfolded less than two hours apart at a Michigan synagogue and at Old Dominion University in Virginia, violence that officials said would have been bloodier without intervention from residents. In Virginia, a former Army ...
By ROBIN ERB/Bridge Michigan In lockdown and confusion and fear following an attack at nearby Temple Israel, the staff at Soul Café made pizza — cheese, mushroom, and margherita. As dozens of police cars and fire trucks and ambulances screamed outside and bomb detection teams arrived at ...
By COREY WILLIAMS and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — The armed man who rammed his vehicle into one of the nation's largest Reform synagogues Thursday has been identified as a 41-year-old naturalized citizen born in Lebanon, according to federal ...
By PETER SMITH Associated Press The Michigan synagogue that came under attack Thursday is part of Reform Judaism, the largest branch of the religion in North America, which emphasizes progressive values such as social justice and gender equality. According to the Union for Reform Judaism, ...
ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — A man was found guilty Tuesday of killing his wife, whose body was found in a empty farm tank in rural Michigan in 2024, three years after she disappeared. Jurors heard evidence of a troubled marriage between Dee and Dale Warner, though defense lawyers emphasized that ...