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  • American musician Aretha Franklin performs on stage at the Park West Auditorium, Chicago, Illinois, March 23, 1992. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)Personal Finance

    Aretha Franklin’s home is awarded to her sons based on a handwritten will signed with a smiley face and found between couch cushions

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • Samantha WollPolitics

    Police say they have no suspects but several ‘people of interest’ in stabbing killing of Detroit synagogue leader

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • Students hug at a memorial at Oxford High School.Politics

    Parents of Michigan school shooter to stand trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter, accused of providing a gun and ignoring the mental health of their ‘feral child’

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • Aretha FranklinLifestyle

    The paper found in Aretha Franklin’s couch is a valid will in the state of Michigan, jury finds

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • FILE – In this Dec. 4, 2008 file photo, Aretha Franklin performs during the 85th annual Christmas tree lighting at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. A Michigan judge narrowed the issues Monday, July 10, 2023 in a dispute over Franklin’s estate, saying the only task for jurors is to decide whether a 2014 document handwritten by the Queen of Soul and found in couch cushions can be accepted as a valid will. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)Finance

    Aretha Franklin’s sons are contesting which will counts—the one from the cabinet or the other discovered in the music legend’s couch

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • Aretha FranklinLifestyle

    Aretha Franklin’s sons are fighting in court over the Queen of Soul’s 2 wills, one that was found in couch cushions

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • JuneteenthLifestyle

    Americans adjust to new national holiday Juneteenth in many different ways, from parties to quiet reflection to pondering essential strangeness

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness, Ed White, and others
  • FILE – Rick Johnson chairs the committee as it meets before a capacity crowd in Lansing, Mich., June 26, 2017, at the first open meeting of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Board. Federal authorities said Thursday, April 6, 2023, that Johnson, the former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board, accepted more than $100,000 in bribes and has agreed to plead guilty. (Dale G Young/Detroit News via AP, File)Lifestyle

    A former Michigan marijuana official just pleaded guilty to accepting more than $100,000 in bribes

    By Joey Cappelletti, Ed White, and others
  • FILE – Rick Johnson chairs the committee as it meets before a capacity crowd in Lansing, Mich., June 26, 2017, at the first open meeting of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Board. Federal authorities said Thursday, April 6, 2023, that Johnson, the former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board, accepted more than $100,000 in bribes and has agreed to plead guilty. (Dale G Young/Detroit News via AP, File)Lifestyle

    A businessman just pleaded guilty to bribing the head of Michigan’s marijuana board with thousands of dollars in cash and private flights

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • Rick JohnsonPolitics

    The former Republican head of Michigan’s medical marijuana licensing board just pleaded guilty to taking $110,000 in bribes

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • The Novel ReaderSuccess

    Detroit art museum settles a case over a Van Gogh that it mysteriously secured from Brazil. It’s not saying who owns it.

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • Photo of Flint residents transporting bottled waterHealth

    Federal judge approves $626 million Flint water crisis settlement

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • A Jeep Cherokee assembly line in 2014. Federal prosecutors say 100,000 of the Fiat Chrysler SUV, and Dodge trucks from 2014-2016 were affected by an emissions-manipulation scandal.Politics

    U.S. Details Fiat Chrysler Engineer’s Emissions Scheme

    By Ed White and The Associated Press