Eight months after residents were abruptly forced from the historic Leland House in downtown Detroit, a new fight is brewing over what remains of the money from the building’s sale.

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National Democrats are ramping up their support for Christina Hines’ campaign to flip Michigan’s 10th Congressional District, a closely watched race that could help determine control of the U.S. House.

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Michigan health officials reported two deaths linked to cyclosporiasis, marking the first fatalities in the U.S.’ largest outbreak of intestinal illness

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The 2026 Metro Times Best of Detroit readers poll is officially open, inviting readers to vote in 263 categories covering nearly everything that makes this region worth exploring.

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The ‘teen takeover’ story tells us more about the media than Detroit youth.

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A Detroit benefit concert this weekend will raise money to provide prosthetic limbs, rehabilitation, and long-term medical care for Palestinians injured in Gaza and the West Bank.

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Detroit officials are demanding that federal immigration agents stop high-speed chases through residential neighborhoods after two recent pursuits left two immigrants seriously injured and damaged a resident’s property.

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A young woman with a developmental disability was sexually harassed, abused, and discriminated against while working through a supported employment program at a Krispy Kreme in Allen Park, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Wayne County Circuit Court.

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A federal jury has ordered the Detroit Club and its owner to pay more than $6.25 million to three former employees who said they were punished after speaking out about racist treatment of Black guests and workers at the historic downtown private club.

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Decades after a student occupation helped create Wayne State’s African American Studies department, alumni are fighting to preserve the vision they say the university promised.

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When Quinton Jones-Whitaker was sent to prison at 20 years old, no physical evidence tied him to the carjacking and robbery that upended his life.

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After Mike Duggan left office as mayor of Detroit, one of his appointees landed a newly created six-figure job at the Detroit Department of Transportation, even though employees say he lacked traditional transit experience and the position was never posted online.

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About 85% of the rental properties in Detroit are owned by landlords with no legal right to collect rent, a discovery that could upend thousands of eviction cases, according to a coalition of housing attorneys and tenant advocates. 

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Michigan health officials failed to properly oversee a network of public hotlines that hundreds of thousands of residents rely on each year for help with food, housing, health care, mental health crises, gambling addiction, and domestic violence, according to a new state audit.

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A Monroe County man who suffered a stroke during a traffic stop was violently pulled from his vehicle, slammed to the ground, handcuffed, and mocked by Livingston County sheriff’s deputies, even as his medical condition worsened, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.

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United Democracy Project, an outside political group backed by the controversial American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is spending more than $2 million on ads supporting U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. 

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Court records describe years of abuse by Ashley Hoath's ex-boyfriend, Jeremy Barron, who she said repeatedly abused her physically and sexually.

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A Wayne County judge has permanently blocked Detroit Thermal from using property owned by the historic Mies van der Rohe townhome associations in Lafayette Park to run steam service to a nearby high-rise, handing residents a major victory in a yearlong legal fight over easements, trespass, and historic preservation.

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Fired Fox 2 Detroit anchor Taryn Asher is suing the television station in federal court, alleging she was retaliated against and forced out after complaining that male colleagues were treated more favorably.

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