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Michigan State Representative Jewell Jones has been charged after a handcuff key was found on him as he was being booked into jail on a bond violation, AP News reports. Jones, 26, was changing his clothes at Livingston County jail on Tuesday when corrections officers discovered a key taped to the bottom of his foot. He returned to court […]
A Michigan man will spend years behind bar for his involvement in an alleged plot to kidnap his state’s governor. According to the New York Times, 25-year-old airline mechanic Ty Garbin was sentenced to 75 months in prison Wednesday for his role in the scheme against Democratic lawmaker Gretchen Whitmer. Garbin is the first defendant to be sentenced in the […]
Bianca Chambers didn’t hesitate to take the law into her own hands. According to Fox 2, the Detroit business owner spent days searching for her Mercedes Benz after it was stolen Monday from a retail store parking lot. Chambers said just hours after the vehicle went missing, she spotted an unidentified man driving it about 4 […]
As a carnival ride in Michigan began tipping over with passengers on board, onlookers at the carnival rushed to stop it from falling over completely. On Thursday night, attendees at the Traverse City’s National Cherry Festival sat down for the Magic Carpet carnival ride, which includes a swinging pendulum, before the entire unit began to tilt backward. As CBS […]
Health officials in Michigan have confirmed the state’s first human case of Sin Nombre hantavirus, an illness you can catch from rodents (specifically from their urine, saliva, or poop) but not from other people. According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) an adult woman had to go to the hospital for a serious pulmonary illness […]
One Michigan resident took a chance this week and it paid off big time. The 29-year-old man— who kept his identity anonymous— purchased a Lucky 7’s lottery ticket at a grocery store before picking up his kids, just a year after he lost “everything” in a devastating flood, according to a release from the Michigan Lottery. The $20 ticket […]
While Lil Yachty is from Atlanta, Georgia, the rapper is seeking inspiration from elsewhere for his highly anticipated new mixtape, Michigan Boy Boat. His first mixtape since 2016’s Summer Songs 2, and the follow-up to his 2020 album Lil Boat 3, Michigan Boy Boat sees Yachty team-up with some of Michigan’s best. Featuring collaborations with the likes of Tee Grizzley, […]
A Michigan man is suing Detroit police after the departments’s facial recognition technology falsely identified him as a shoplifting suspect. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the complaint on behalf of Robert Williams, a 43-year-old Black man who was wrongfully charged in a 2018 theft at a Shinola store. Investigators reportedly identified Williams as the thief by using […]
Austin Chenge, a GOP candidate for Michigan governor, is facing backlash over his stance on Black History Month. On Monday, Black Army veteran announced he would abolish the annual observance in the state if he’s elected, stating that the month was not only “unfair” it was also potentially illegal. “I will cancel #BlackHistoryMonth in #Michigan,” he wrote on social […]
A 26-year-old Michigan man was killed on Saturday in an explosion that occurred during a baby shower. According to ABC, the explosion was caused by a small cannon device set off during the gathering outside of Flint. The device was fired in a residential backyard by the homeowner, before it blew up and sprayed metal […]
