LANSING — A Detroit lawmaker is dropping out of the race to represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate, he announced Friday, leaving three Democratic front-runners to compete in the primary. State Rep. Joe Tate, who was the first Black speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, told The ...
NEW YORK — With deep knowledge of Stephen King's books and curiosity about their inspirations, writer Sharon Kitchens began a journey around Maine. As she learned about the real-life settings and people behind such fiction as "IT" and "Salem's Lot," she arranged them into an online map and ...
DETROIT — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan spent his political career as a Democrat, leading Michigan's largest Democratic stronghold. But now, he's become a target of his former party, whose leaders are furious about his decision to run for Michigan governor next year as an independent. Detroit ...
DETROIT — It was September 2012 and dozens of residents looked on as police cordoned off the area around a shed just northeast of Detroit. Low whispers about what — or who — officers were searching for grew to more excited chatter when the name Jimmy Hoffa started floating around the ...
FLINT — A procession of mothers wearing red sashes, pushing strollers and tending to toddlers made their way last Friday to a little festival in Flint, where families received diapers and kids played. It was called a "baby parade." The sashes indicated the women were participants of a ...
TRAVERSE CITY — Authorities said Sunday they are seeking to file terrorism charges and 11 charges of assault with intent to murder against a 42-year-old man accused of carrying out a knife attack at a Walmart store in Michigan. Chaos unfolded at the Walmart on Saturday after the suspect ...