×

Michigan News

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 ...

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 lucky ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

US probes crash involving Tesla that hit student

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. road safety regulators have sent a team to investigate a crash involving a Tesla that may have been operating on a partially automated driving system when it struck a student who had just exited a school bus. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Friday that ...