Lakeview High School in St. Clair Shores was vandalized with racist graffiti over the weekend, and some residents are questioning why school officials failed to inform parents about the nature of the message.  In a recent email to families, Principal Scott Kapla said the school contacted police and is working to ensure the campus remains safe and respectful.

The University of Michigan has fired a full-time employee and suspended four others from campus jobs over their alleged involvement in a pro-Palestinian protest, according to the TAHRIR Coalition, a group that has called for divestment from Israel. The university has not commented publicly on the actions, but the terminations and suspensions were disclosed by the coalition in a news release Monday.

Former state Sen. Adam Hollier on Monday launched a Democratic primary challenge against U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar, renewing his bid for the 13th Congressional District seat that represents Detroit. This marks Hollier’s third campaign for the seat since 2022.

More than 40 current and former student-athletes are suing the University of Michigan, alleging that former football coach Matt Weiss exploited systemic data security failures to steal their intimate images and private information, according to an amended lawsuit filed Friday. The plaintiffs, including former Grambling State softball star McKenzie Johnson, accuse the university of failing to protect sensitive data stored by a third-party contractor, Keffer Development Services, which Weiss allegedly used to access private cloud accounts, emails, and social media profiles of at least 3,300 female athletes.

A Detroit resident has been charged in the brutal stabbing of a dog, the second disturbing case of animal cruelty in the city in recent months. Jordan Love, 29, faces up to seven years in prison on a felony charge of second-degree animal torture and cruelty to multiple animals.

Wayne State University is under fire again after campus police confronted pro-Palestinian students during a peaceful demonstration inside the Student Center, the latest in a series of increasingly aggressive crackdowns on dissenting voices. The April 2 protest, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, called on the university to divest from companies profiting from the war in Gaza.

Planned Parenthood of Michigan will close three clinics and cut staffing by 10% as it restructures operations in response to what the organization described as escalating threats to reproductive health care and federal funding. The Jackson, Petoskey, and Marquette health centers will permanently close April 30, with final appointments scheduled for April 25. In Ann Arbor, two health care centers will be consolidated by May 5.

A new round of billboards in Lansing and Detroit is calling on Michigan lawmakers to outlaw painful dog experiments at Wayne State University and pass legislation known as Queenie’s Law. The campaign, funded by the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, includes five billboards near the state capital and one on I-75 in Detroit.

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow — a rising Democratic star known for her viral rebuttal of right-wing attacks and sharp criticism of President Donald Trump — is running for U.S. Senate in 2026, hoping to succeed retiring Sen. Gary Peters. In a two-and-a-half-minute campaign announcement video released Wednesday, McMorrow cast herself as part of a new generation of Democrats ready to push back against the influence of Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, while criticizing the Democratic establishment for failing to meet the urgency of the moment.

The father of a 3-year-old boy whose body was found in a freezer in Detroit is suing 13 Michigan child welfare employees, accusing them of repeatedly ignoring clear signs of abuse that led to the child’s death. The federal civil rights lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division, alleges that workers in the state’s Child Protective Services division failed to protect Chayce Allen, despite documented injuries that included broken lips, burns, and trauma that left him permanently blind.

Michigan stands to lose more than $400 million in economic activity and $72 million in tax revenue over the next decade if federal refugee resettlements remain on hold, according to a new report. The study, produced by Global Detroit and Businesses and People for Immigration in partnership with Public Policy Associates, warns of lasting economic damage after the Trump administration indefinitely suspended refugee settlements starting in January.

A jarring, ear-splitting emergency alert that startled many metro Detroit residents awake at 6 a.m. Monday was mistakenly sent to cell phones across the region, the Detroit Fire Department acknowledged.

A Detroit cop was charged Thursday with stealing sneakers from fellow officers. James Clark Davis III, 27, is accused of taking multiple pairs of athletic shoes from a shared locker room at the Detroit Police Department Downtown Services location on the 20 block of Atwater Street.

A former Highland Park cop was charged Wednesday with three felonies in connection with a 2020 assault of a 36-year-old man outside a Burger King on Woodward Avenue. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy on Wednesday announced charges against Dammeon Lamark Player, 51, who was working as a Highland Park officer when the incident occurred.

Wayne State University prevented a group of peaceful pro-Palestinian activists, including students and professors, from gathering at a campus site, the latest example of the college cracking down on opponents of Israel’s relentless killings in the Middle East. Organizers were surprised when campus police told them on Friday they were not allowed to hold their vigil and pop-up clinic in front of the Mazurek Medical Education Commons on East Canfield, less than two months after they got permission for their biweekly gatherings.

A Detroit police lieutenant who was suspended last year for making inappropriate remarks at a pro-Palestinian protest has quietly returned to duty, drawing condemnation from a police accountability coalition. Lt. Brandon Cole — who was removed from active duty in May 2024 after telling a protester to “go back to Mexico” — was reinstated in November and assigned to the Firearms Inventory Unit, with 60 days back pay, DPD confirmed to Metro Times on Thursday. The Coalition for Police Transparency and Accountability (CPTA) denounced his return, calling it a failure of accountability.

A Macomb County man accused of strangling his father’s dog to death was sentenced to 63 days in jail and ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation. William John Kucharski Jr., 48, was initially charged with killing an animal in the third degree, a four-year felony, and was classified as a habitual offender after police found him with his hands around the dead labrador retriever in the Richmond home he shares with his dad.

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office has cleared six Michigan State Police troopers of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of Eric Michael Fiddler, a fugitive who killed a Hillsdale County sheriff’s deputy before being gunned during a manhunt last summer. State prosecutors determined the troopers acted in self-defense when they opened fire on the 34-year-old man on June 27, 2024, in a wooded area near Jonesville in southern Michigan.

Articia Bomer is no stranger to Detroit voters. She ran for mayor in 2016, state representative in 2018, Congress in 2020, governor in 2022, and Wayne County sheriff in 2024.