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Arts & Entertainment

Detroit’s bizarre romance with its very own RoboCop statue reaches happy ending, 15 years after love/hate crowdfunding campaign kicked it off

By Corey Williams, Mike Householder, and others

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‘You may not believe me, but I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield’: North Carolina motorist rocked by bird-feline freefall

By Corey Williams and The Associated Press

Mary Sheffield

Detroit elects first female mayor as City Council President Mary Sheffield defeats megachurch pastor

By Corey Williams and The Associated Press

Daniel Naroditsky

‘I feel like if I start doing well, people assume the worst of intentions’: Chess grandmaster rocked by cheating allegations shortly before untimely death at 29

By Hannah Schoenbaum, Corey Williams, and others

In this image taken from video released by Julie J, @Malkowski6April, Massive flames and smoke rise from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, about 50 miles north of Detroit, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025. (Julie J, @Malkowski6April via AP)

Gunman in truck smashes into Michigan church and opens fire, killing at least 4 and injuring 8

By Isabella Volmert, Corey Williams, and others

FILE – Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Ghislaine Maxwell ‘answered every single question’ in meeting with Trump’s DOJ, lawyer says

By Eric Tucker, Kate Payne, and others

Robyn Redding, from left, and Gianna Holliday plant a sequoia tree seedling as Andrew “Birch” Kemp brings mulch in Detroit, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Detroit’s eastside is being turned into a forest of sequoias native to California—the world’s largest trees

By Corey Williams and The Associated Press

FILE – The air traffic control tower stands at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Southwest Airlines flight forced to abruptly pull out of landing to avoid crashing into errant jet crossing Chicago runway

By Corey Williams, Kathleen Foody, and others

Assorted lottery balls filling the frame

Michigan couple among winners of $842 million jackpot elated at ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ event: ‘He was so stunned he dropped his phone’

By Mike Householder, Corey Williams, and others

Tracy Brooks, an auto worker retiree is interviewed as she shows off vintage photos of her family, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Romulus, Mich. She and her father, and grandfather and daughter all worked on assembly lines for one or more of Detroit’s automakers. “We told Britney Johnson (Brooks’ daughter), she’s representing our family,” Brooks jokes when speaking of her daughter who is among tens of thousands of the union’s Ford, General Motors and Stellantis employees who have walked off the job since the strike started Sept. 15. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

UAW strike especially important for Black workers carrying family legacies and middle-class futures: ‘It meant a lot, being in the union’

By Corey Williams, Aisha I. Jefferson, and others

Striking United Auto Workers picket at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., shortly after midnight Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

13,000 auto workers walk off the job at GM, Ford and Stellantis factories as UAW strike begins

By Tom Krisher, Corey Williams, and others

A pedestrian walks by graffiti on a downtown Detroit street

Decade after Detroit’s bankruptcy, city employees grapple with retirement insecurity and healthcare concerns

By Corey Williams and The Associated Press

In this aerial view from Air Force One, the US Capitol under hazy skies in Washington, DC, on June 28, 2023. Some 80 million people from the Midwest to the East Coast of the US are under air quality alerts due to smoke from Canadian wildfires sweeping the nation. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Canadian wildfire smoke is drifting over the Midwest and heading east with ‘hazardous’ pollution in one city and a warning to stay indoors

By Mike Householder, Corey Williams, and others

People stand with little social distancing to avoid the spread of COVID-19 on Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan on March 30, 2020. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

The home of Ford’s first assembly line has shriveled from 50,000 to under 9,000 people and is on the brink of bankruptcy

By Corey Williams and The Associated Press

Jackson House in Selma, Alabama

The Henry Ford Museum is buying the Alabama house where Martin Luther King Jr. planned a famous march and moving it to Michigan

By Corey Williams and The Associated Press