Suspect in murder of Indiana teen girls wins prison transfer

April 17, 2023

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, will be moved to another facility that will accommodate his medical, physical and psychological needs, the Journal & Courier reported, citing a court order signed Friday. Since shortly after his arrest in the 2017 killings of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, Allen has been held in ...

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

April 15, 2023

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

April 14, 2023

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

April 13, 2023

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

April 12, 2023

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

April 12, 2023

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 ...