Ten years have passed since Delrhonda Hood’s promise to God. Having made a name for herself in Detroit’s drug game, and having become a legend in the process, her reign in the streets hit a brick wall: In prison for the third time after a 2012 conviction, she contracted an MRSA infection. Combined with another […]

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Desmond Burks pleaded guilty this week to second-degree murder in the killing of Detroit neurosurgeon Dr. Devon Hoover, abruptly ending a case that had been moving toward a lengthy jury trial. The plea came just two days into jury selection, cutting short proceedings that were expected to last several weeks and bringing resolution to a […]

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