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Life in prison for cleaner at GM plant who killed co-worker

ORION TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A cleaning service employee has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for beating a co-worker to death last summer at a General Motors assembly plant near Detroit. Astrit Gjon Bushi, 48, was sentenced Thursday after a jury convicted him in March of first-degree premeditated murder in the killing of Gregory Lanier Robertson, 49, of Pontiac, WDIV-TV reported. The two men were employed by a cleaning service contracted by GM and were working at the automaker’s assembly plant in Oakland County’s Orion Township, north of Detroit, when the fatal ...

Black chiefs to meet about diversity and inclusion

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press DETROIT — Over his 32-year police career in Dallas, Terrance Hopkins has seen tremendous changes in the profession. For rookie Black officers in a predominantly white and conservative field, he said, the prevailing feeling used to be that you were ...

Michigan researchers find 1914 shipwrecks in Lake Superior

CHICAGO — Michigan researchers have found the wreckage of two ships that disappeared into Lake Superior in 1914 and hope the discovery will lead them to a third that sank at the same time, killing nearly 30 people aboard the trio of lumber-shipping vessels. The Great Lakes Shipwreck ...

Ford to convert Ontario plant into electric vehicle complex

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. says it will spend $1.34 billion ($1.8 billion Canadian) to convert an SUV factory in suburban Toronto so it can build next-generation electric vehicles. The roughly 3,000 workers at the plant in Oakville, Ontario, are expected to keep their jobs depending on market conditions, the company said Tuesday. But some production workers will be furloughed during a six-month construction process to begin in the second quarter of 2024. Ford wouldn’t say which models will be built at the 487-acre (197 hectare) site, which will be renamed the Oakville Electric ...

Three arrested in connection with Monroe woman’s death

DETROIT (AP) — Police have arrested three people in connection with a Monroe woman’s death. Twenty-three-year-old Kayla Sedoskey’s body was found March 3 in the abandoned Boysville Juvenile Center in Frenchtown Township. WXYZ-TV reported Monday that Michigan State Police announced the arrests. Two of the suspects have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit homicide, the television station reported. The third is awaiting arraignment. Paullette Pashenee, who adopted Sedoskey when Sedoskey was a child, said in March that she believed Sedoskey’s ex-boyfriend had been ...

Tesla cuts prices on all models, 3rd cut this year

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT — Tesla cut prices on its entire U.S. electric vehicle model lineup for the third time this year in an apparent effort to lure more buyers amid rising interest rates. The largest of the cuts that appeared Friday on Tesla’s website were $5,000 per vehicle for the company’s slower-selling more expensive models, the S large sedan and the X big SUV. The company lopped $2,000 off the price of the Y small SUV, its most popular model, and added a lower-cost dual-motor version priced at $49,990. The 3 small sedan saw a $1,000 price cut. The ...