U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have become crueler, more aggressive, and more deceptive in Michigan, increasingly making arrests that draw less public attention and leave families blindsided, immigration attorneys say. 

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A mausoleum built for Oscar Rosenberger, the owner of the once-famous San Telmo Cigar Company, was ransacked at Detroit’s historic Woodmere Cemetery.

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A fundraiser this Friday will raise money for displaced Leland House tenants who remain in limbo more than a month after a major electrical failure forced residents out of the storied downtown Detroit building.

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A lawsuit alleging that disaster-recovery workers were put in unsafe, overcrowded conditions during early pandemic cleanup work in mid-Michigan has been resolved through a confidential settlement, the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice announced this week.

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The United Auto Workers on Wednesday condemned President Donald Trump’s “vulgar” response to a Ford worker who heckled him during a plant tour in Dearborn and said the union is backing the employee after he was suspended.

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A new analysis from the Citizens Research Council of Michigan examined the potential impact of a 1% sales and use tax in Detroit and found that the revenue may be too limited to justify the steps needed to adopt it.

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is urging state utility regulators to reconsider their approval of special power contracts for a massive data center planned in Washtenaw County, warning the fast-tracked decision could leave electric customers exposed to higher costs.

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Severe mold contamination inside an apartment at Alden Towers in Detroit left two adults and a baby seriously ill, forcing them to throw away nearly everything they owned and ultimately leaving them homeless with ongoing health problems, a family says.

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With proposals of large-scale data centers spreading across Michigan, U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Thursday released what he called “terms of engagement” aimed at protecting communities from higher utility bills, grid strain, and environmental harm.

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An internal assessment by the Michigan Department of Corrections contradicts the state’s public claims that conditions at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility pose little cause for concern, documenting widespread infrastructure failures that create ideal conditions for mold to grow and spread.

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Senior Detroit Department of Transportation officials abused their authority by shielding employees who disrupted bus service by having “a romantic interaction,” abandoned a running city bus, and violated workplace rules, a Detroit Office of Inspector General investigation found. The findings are detailed in a final OIG report that describes “employee misconduct and lapses in disciplinary […]

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For more than a decade, Krystal Clark has warned that mold inside Michigan’s only women’s prison is killing her.

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Mary Sheffield, a political phenom whose rise began when she was elected to Detroit City Council at age 26, made history Sunday when she was sworn in as the city’s first woman mayor. 

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A newly released tranche of Justice Department records tied to Jeffrey Epstein includes a handwritten letter addressed to Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor who sexually abused hundreds of young athletes over nearly two decades.

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Detroit has demolished roughly 27,000 abandoned houses and sold another 19,000 formerly vacant homes since Mayor Mike Duggan took office in 2014 and embarked on what became one of the largest residential blight-removal efforts in the country, city officials said this week.

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Tenants of Detroit’s historic Leland House plan to rally Saturday afternoon, accusing city officials of blocking them from retrieving their belongings after a sudden evacuation earlier this month and raising alarms about what they call a “hostile takeover” of the troubled and storied downtown building.

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A 56-year-old immigrant died this week at a newly opened federal immigration detention facility in northern Michigan, raising new questions about transparency and conditions inside one of the largest detention centers in the Midwest.

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A downtown Detroit restaurant and nightclub is facing a civil rights lawsuit after an employee says he was subjected to racist and homophobic slurs, physically assaulted by a coworker on the job, and then fired after complaining that management failed to protect him. The lawsuit, filed this week in Wayne County Circuit Court by Marko […]

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A Wayne County judge has rejected Detroit Thermal’s bid to shut down a lawsuit brought by residents of Detroit’s historic Lafayette Park neighborhood, keeping in place a court order that blocks the utility from running steam lines through the protected greenspace.

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