Category — Detroit, Michigan

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Street racing is being blamed for a deadly accident in Detroit. An elderly man is dead, and police are searching for several people who were involved.

He is gracious in victory, a 12-year-old tasting this first drop of celebrityand thanking his chess coach, his grandmother and all who made possible his title as Michigan junior high school champion.

Detroit — A giant, 20-foot-high replica of the 2010 census questionnaire was unveiled Monday at Campus Martius in hopes of inspiring Detroiters to step up and get counted. The inflatable went up the same day census forms went out in the mail. Detroit Councilman Andre Spivey, who is leading turnout efforts in Detroit, said the census equates to “power and money.”

Washington — The nation’s top education official called Monday for broad changes to accountability in troubled systems like Detroit’s public schools, and warned the lowest-performing districts unable to improve would face losing district-level control over Title I funding.

Detroit — Seven weeks after giving testimony in the Tamara Greene case, Attorney General Mike Cox has not moved to unseal the transcript of his deposition, as a spokesman said he would.

In a case police call “outrageous and disturbing,” the parents of a 3-year-old could face child abuse and abandonment charges today after reportedly leaving the toddler at Caesarland on Saturday following his birthday celebration.

Detroit — Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb revealed his vision for a leaner Detroit Public Schools on Monday night by closing 45 schools this year and building new athletic facilities, a new campus for special needs students and reviving a closed high school site. This rebuilding, he said, will require another bond measure beyond the $500 million voters approved in November to remodel …

The Swedish automaker once owned by GM is moving to one of Detroit’s most popular suburbs.

Brighton Township — A 62-year-old Madison Heights man was charged Monday with fatally shooting his mother-in-law in her Brighton Township home during an apparent robbery.

Clarkston — A woman who discovered a charred cross on her lawn in Oakland County’s Independence Township last summer told a judge Monday she found the symbol scary.

A security sweep at Avondale High School following the discovery of a threatening note did not turn up any weapons, police said Monday.

Sterling Heights — A TV Warren producer pleaded no contest Monday to allegations he used city equipment to make bootleg polka party DVDs and pocketed the profits.

A $540 million plan for Detroit Public Schools released Monday night calls for a 98 percent graduation rate, 100 percent pass rate on state standardized tests and 100 percent acceptance of college applicants from the chronically underperforming district.

Students at Avondale High School began the school week under tighter security Monday following the discovery of a threatening note in a school bathroom last week.

A Michigan tax-break for music producers that could help put Motwon back on the music map has been available for two years, but no one has taken advantage of it.

A Brighton Township woman is brutally murdered in her own home. Police say her son-in-law killed her, and the crime was staged to look like a break-in.

The Wolverine State has lost its only known wild wolverine. The body of the 28-pound female was found Saturday along a trail in Michigan’s Thumb. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment is conducting tests on the body.

Street racing is being blamed for a deadly accident in Detroit. An elderly man is dead, and police are searching for several people who were involved.

Colorful, plastic Easter eggs are known to hold sweet treats, but what some people found inside some of those eggs has them terribly disturbed. Vile messages of racism and hate were printed on a flier stuffed into the eggs. They were distributed in neighborhoods in Auburn Hills.

Spending an entire day at a pizza playhouse sounds like a child’s dream come true, but for one three-year-old it turned into a nightmare. The child was left at Caesarland in Warren alone.

A Wayne County deputy remains in the hospital after being run over by his own patrol car in Inkster. His name is Corporal Christopher Carlson. He has now been upgraded from critical to stable condition.

It was a frightening scene inside a Romulus party store as gunmen were committing a robbery. That’s when a customer and his fiancee walked in and the man took the law into his own hands.

The emergency financial manager for Detroit’s Public Schools says enrollment is projected to continue dropping over the next five years to fewer than 60,000 students.

Perfume has a sweet smell, but it hit a sour note in one Detroit office, and pretty soon fragrances will be banned in some city buildings.

Officials plan to lay off 57 police officers in Flint by the end of the month, a move that has some people concerned about public safety.

AAA Michigan says gasoline prices are up 2.5 cents per gallon over the past week to a statewide average of $2.75.

A 62-year-old Madison Heights man was charged today with fatally shooting his mother-in-law in her Brighton Township home during an apparent robbery.

Detroit — Susan Sherer, who served as executive director of the Detroit Super Bowl XL Host Committee, has been named head of The Heat and Warmth Fund, or THAW.

Sterling Heights — A longtime Warren communications department employee pleaded no contest today to allegations he used city equipment to make bootleg polka party DVDs and pocketed the profits.