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America’s Northeast and Midwest cities are rebounding slightly from years of population drops — especially Detroit, which grew for the first time in decades — though the South still dominates the nation’s growth, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday. Detroit, Michigan’s largest city, had seen an exodus of people since the 1950s. Yet the estimates released Thursday show …

A man pleaded no contest to manslaughter on Friday for fatally shooting a Detroit police officer during a 2019 domestic violence incident at the suburban home they shared, prosecutors said. Eddie Ray-Jr. Johnson of Garden City, Michigan, was originally charged with first-degree murder and felony firearm for the June 2019 killing of Detroit Police Sgt. Elaine Williams. But Wayne County …

A man who dropped a Detroit-area teenager’s body in a dumpster “left behind a trail of digital evidence” implicating him in her death, despite a fruitless, extraordinary search to find the remains in a landfill, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. Jaylin Brazier, 25, is on trial for second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Zion Foster, whose body hasn’t been …

General Motors plans to move its iconic Detroit headquarters to a new downtown office tower and redevelop its home office site, a person briefed on the plans said. The company has scheduled a news conference Monday afternoon with the Bedrock real estate firm to announce the plans, the person said. In addition, Bedrock, which owns multiple office buildings downtown, will …

A dog missing in California since the summer turned up more than 2,000 miles away in suburban Detroit. Police in Harper Woods responded to a call about a stray dog last week, picked up the terrier mix and contacted an animal welfare group. The Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society said it quickly discovered that the dog, named Mishka, had an …

A sophisticated Chilean crime ring is terrorizing one of Michigan’s wealthiest counties once again, looting several homes last week while their occupants were away on spring break vacations, the Oakland County Sheriff warned this week. Burglars in groups of three to six have targeted cash, safes, jewelry and high-end handbags in the reported break-ins, Sheriff Michael Bouchard said at a …

Michigan Republicans could “seize” on illegal migrants committing crimes, a local editor warned on Monday. Detroit News politics editor and columnist Chad Livengood argued that the GOP has “found the crime they were seeking” in the recent murder of Michigan woman Ruby Garcia allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend, illegal migrant Brandon Ortiz-Vite. This crime, he claimed, could inspire …

Jake Bates played three college football seasons as a kicker, but he was used exclusively on kickoffs. That meant, even as a kicker, he never attempted an extra point or field goal in college. So, naturally, he drilled a 64-yard field goal with just two seconds left to give the UFL’s Michigan Panthers an 18-16 win over the St. Louis …

As the U.S. economy continues to falter under President Biden’s tenure, pawnshops nationwide are seeing an uptick in customers seeking to pawn rather than redeem their items, former “Hardcore Pawn” star and Detroit pawnbroker Les Gold told Fox News. Gold, who starred in the hit TruTV series between 2010 and 2015 along with his adult children and fellow pawnbrokers Ashley …

Five people were wounded outside a bar in Detroit after a disagreement over a parking spot, police said. The Detroit Police Department Assistant Police Chief Charles Fitzgerald said during a press conference that the fight broke out at about 2:45 a.m. on Friday at Chicago Blu’z Bar & Grill. “Senseless, ridiculous,” Fitzgerald said. “Five people to be shot over a …