DETROIT — When Tray Little heard that Detroiters, like people across the country, were gathering in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, he knew he had to show up.As an African American man who’d felt unsafe around police, he wanted to speak out for racial justice and condemn acts of violence by police…
CLOSEAs warm summer days descend upon metro Detroit, you can forgot about taking a cool dip in the municipal pool or even at the one operated by your neighborhood association. Under orders issued Thursday by local health departments, all licensed public and private swimming pools in metro Detroit are to remain closed until further notice because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Health…
Detroit police have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection to an assault of a nursing home patient that was captured on video.A lawyer for the Westwood Rehabilitation Nursing Center said the suspect in the May 15 attack on the 75-year-old man was a temporary resident there for rehabilitation and recovery, according to NBC affiliate WDIV.Let…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…