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5:15 pm UTC Dec. 24, 2020 Michigan as a battleground state took on a new meaning during the 2020 Presidential Election. Each campaign made multiple stops in Michigan with a flurry of back-to-back stops in the days and hours before voters hit the polls. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, voters cast absentee ballots in record numbers; while others waited in line to cast their votes in person on Election Day. The TCF Center gained national attention as Trump supporters gathered outside calling for th...

Michigan renters face eviction despite pandemic safety net: I dont want to be homeless Christine MacDonald and Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press © Sean Work, Special to the Free Press Detroit Eviction Defense volunteers Jim Dwight, and Soummer Crawford, center, discuss available resources with Detroit renter Nia Fitzpatrick during a follow-up visit at Fitzpatricks home on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. Meanwhile Fitzpatricks sons Anthony, 5, and Clifton, 4, chase each other around the ...

Black and Mobile, delivery app for Black-owned restaurants ramps back up in Detroit Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press As David Cabello tells it, the day after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, he and his twin brother Aaron dropped out of college to dedicate themselves to supporting Black-owned businesses however they could. © Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press The Jamaican Pot restaurant co-owner Rose Forrest-Cunningham takes a break while processing lunch or...

Toxic contamination usually gets this dramatic only in Hollywood. In the week before Christmas 2019, commuters on I-696 in Madison Heights were startled by a fluorescent green chemical ooze weeping from a concrete retaining wall along an earthen embankment, the substance puddling on the freeways shoulder. Tests later showed the ooze laden with hexavalent chromium, prolonged exposures to which can cause nasal and sinus cancers, kidney and liver damage. The source was obvious, straight up the...

Michigan Republicans Tried to Submit Fake Electoral Votes to Capitol On 12/15/20 at 6:45 PM EST On Monday, while Michigans Electoral College voters met inside of the states Senate building to cast their ballots for President-elect Joe Biden, a group of Republicans identifying themselves as the "GOP Electors" tried to persuade a state police officer to let them into the building so they could "do their constitutional duty" and join the electoral voters. "The electors are already here. Theyve bee...

Forecasters expected 2 feet of snow this week from the biggest East Coast winter storm in years, but students in many areas might not rejoice the same way they once did. Snow days, those celebrated breaks from school, are melting away during a time of virtual learning in the coronavirus pandemic.  In September, New York City said the nations largest school district wouldnt have snow days. If school buildings couldnt open, students would learn remotely. As the snowstorm bore down this week, ...