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Judge on Michigan’s top court getting mental-health care

DETROIT — A Michigan Supreme Court justice announced Tuesday that he is getting mental-health treatment outside the state and will not hear a case next week. “I encourage everyone who struggles to seek the help they need,” Richard Bernstein said in a statement released by the ...

See the EVs eligible for tax credits – and why most aren’t

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT — Ten electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles will be eligible for a $7,500 U.S. tax credit, while another seven could get $3,750 under new federal rules that went into effect on Tuesday. But under the Treasury Department rules and other provisions of ...

House where King planned Alabama marches moving to Michigan

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DEARBORN— A lot was happening in March 1965 in the bungalow in Selma, Alabama, that then-4-year-old Jawana Jackson called home, and much of it involved her “Uncle Martin.” There were late-night visitors, phone calls and meetings at the house that ...

Suspect in murder of Indiana teen girls wins prison transfer

DELPHI, Ind. — A judge has ordered a man charged with killing two teenage girls in Indiana transferred to a different state correctional facility after the suspect’s attorneys argued that his physical and mental health is deteriorating after months in isolation. Richard Matthew Allen, 50, ...

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 ...