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 new coalition of formerly incarcerated women and family members of women held at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility is launching a statewide tour to amplify allegations of abuse, neglect, unsafe conditions, retaliation, and medical mistreatment at Michigan’s only women’s prison.

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is calling for sweeping public control over artificial intelligence companies, arguing that the rapidly growing technology should be governed by the people it will affect.

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Standing outside that detention facility, I couldn’t help but think about how easily their stories could have been my family’s story.

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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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Republican congressional candidate Michael Bouchard once worked for a Lansing lobbying firm run by a longtime political ally and former staffer for his father, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, records reviewed by Metro Times show.

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Mike Rogers has found a new position on the Gordie Howe International Bridge. All of them.

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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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Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is trying to bolster his blue-collar image as he runs for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, casting himself as a former autoworker who understands the state’s factory jobs.

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A Michigan drinking water expert who helped expose the Flint water crisis is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alleging she was fired for signing a petition critical of the Trump administration’s environmental policies.

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A former corrections officer at Michigan’s only women’s prison was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing prisoners, another sign of deep problems at a facility already plagued by allegations of unsafe conditions, medical neglect, deaths behind bars, and employee misconduct.

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Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has won the endorsement of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Michigan, adding another major labor union to her campaign for governor as she works to consolidate support among working-class voters and organized labor.

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Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers has spent years warning about national security threats, cyberattacks, and the need for tougher oversight of emerging technology.

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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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A new report on Michigan’s growing data center industry offers a mixed verdict on one of the state’s most controversial development issues, finding that the massive facilities are unlikely to drain the state’s water resources or crash the power grid but are also not the economic boon that boosters often promise.

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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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Federal prosecutors are portraying eight pro-Palestinian activists tied to the University of Michigan as extremists who carried out a coordinated campaign of threats and vandalism against university officials, businesses, and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

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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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