A fire broke out at the iconic Maccabees Building on Woodward Avenue in Detroit on Wednesday afternoon, sending plumes of smoke through Wayne State University’s campus. 

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Detroit Department of Transportation Chief of Staff Jennie Whitfield was fired Friday, a week after Metro Times reported that she was accused of showing up drunk at the Rosa Parks Transit Center, berating employees, assaulting a security guard, and chasing a pigeon through the building. Whitfield’s departure was announced internally by DDOT Director Robert Cramer, […]

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A Wayne County judge has granted a new trial to a man who has spent nearly nine years in prison for a Westland mobile home fire after attorneys argued his conviction relied on outdated and unreliable fire science.

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