The president of a synagogue in Detroit was found brutally killed near her home, though the authorities have not yet established a motive. The president, Samantha Woll, 40, who led the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, was the victim of a homicide, Dana Nessel, the attorney general, said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.…
James Craig, a former Detroit police chief, announced on Tuesday that he was running for the Senate seat in Michigan being vacated by Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat who is retiring after more than two decades in the position. In an interview, Mr. Craig, 67, described himself as a conservative populist who would look to work…
Jurors in northern Michigan acquitted three men on Friday who were accused of providing support to a plot to kidnap the state’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. The verdict was likely to be the final chapter in a sprawling and closely watched domestic terrorism case, and it was a significant defeat for prosecutors, who have gotten…
On the early morning of May 11, 1881, Capt. John Higgins and his eight-man crew scurried onto a lifeboat and caught a final glimpse of their schooner, Trinidad, as it disappeared into the icy waters of Lake Michigan. After 142 years, its wreckage has finally been discovered. In July, the shipwreck hunters Brendon Baillod and…
In front of a sold-out crowd on Sunday evening in Novi, Mich., former President Donald J. Trump lamented the decline of the automobile industry under Democratic rule and said he “stood up to China” to save thousands of manufacturing jobs. It was a speech he might have given in 2020. But then the script changed.…
On the back of a door in a home in Flint, Mich., there hangs a black Trailmaker backpack that belongs to Jaxon Williams, a third grader at Freeman Elementary. It hasn’t been moved for nearly a week. “It’s officially retired, like a jersey,” said his mother, Ladel Lewis, a City Council member. That’s because Jaxon…
At least one person has died and nearly 100 people have gotten sick in a rare fungal outbreak at a paper mill in Michigan, the health authorities said, prompting the plant to temporarily close as local and federal investigators try to identify the source. The outbreak of blastomycosis at the Billerud paper mill in Escanaba,…
Another utility in the state, Consumers Energy, estimated that power would be restored in most areas by Sunday, but possibly as late as noon on Monday for some locations. About 36,000 of the company’s customers are without power throughout southern Michigan, including in Kalamazoo. For some riding out the winter storm, this is the second…
LANSING, Mich. — Trump loyalists are expected to cement their takeover of Michigan’s Republican Party during its leadership vote on Saturday, most likely elevating one of two election deniers whose failed bids for office in November were emblematic of the party’s midterm drubbing in the state. Matthew DePerno, an election conspiracy theorist who is under…
The violence at Michigan State University on Monday was the latest episode in a string of mass shootings on college campuses in the United States over the past few decades. Here are some of them: November 2022: Charlottesville, Va. Three University of Virginia students, who all played on the football team, were killed when a…