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The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.The Justice Department alleges the civil

A U.S. Army major employed as a nurse on a military base near Washington, D.C., has been charged with conspiring to provide financial and tactical support to separatist fighters in his native Cameroon, according to court records unsealed earlier this week.Maj. Kenneth Chungag, a nurse who lives and

Police are seeking information about a 13-year-old boy who went missing in Detroit.Darion Baldwin did not go to school on Friday (April 24) and failed to return home in the 19900 block of Fairport Str

The Trump administration's historic move to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug was cheered by some advocates but for others, it fell far short for the thousands still incarcerated on federal cannabis-related convictions.The executive order, which acting Attorney Gen

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals.WAYNE COUNTY – Asthma flare-ups, spring allergies, sinus

A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Lenawee County.The National Weather Service office in Detroit/Pontiac has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Lenawee County in southeastern Michiga

Robert Walls said he went to Home Depot for something simple: a paint roller for a new home. Instead, the 58-year-old Army veteran said he ended up tased, cuffed and in the hospital.“I want justice,”

A former reality television star is in the sixth year of his presidency. His Cabinet includes a former wrestling executive along with a onetime “Real World” cast member who was filmed decades ago dancing in nothing but a towel. More than a half-dozen stars from the “Real Housewives” franchise just s

Speculation about links among a handful U.S. scientists who have died or disappeared in recent years was largely confined to niche online communities less than two months ago. As of Friday, the number had grown to at least 12 and was at the epicenter of U.S. government, with both the FBI and Congres

Virginia Commonwealth University will spend $3.6 million on a memorial for dozens of people, most of African descent, whose bodies were stolen from their graves, dissected by medical students and then

As the trial continued on Friday in the murder of a Melvindale police officer, the defendant was escorted from the courtroom after making another outburst in court. Michael Lopez, 44, of Southfield, i

A former Michigan corrections officer accused of having sex with inmates has pleaded guilty to one charge.Former Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility Corrections Officer Joshua Lee, 22, of Wyand

The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said Friday. The Justice Department is also reauthorizing the use of single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital that

Law enforcement authorities in Florida say they have found the body of one of the two missing University of South Florida doctoral students on a bridge over Tampa Bay, and a roommate has been taken into custody.Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said Zamil Limon’s remains were found on the

Detroit has always claimed the tiger as its own - both the striped kind prowling Amur habitats and the baseball kind prowling Comerica Park. This Sunday, for the first time, those two worlds officially share a field.The Detroit Zoo is hosting Detroit Tigers Day on April 26, an immersive, baseball-th

Homeowners itching to tackle spring projects will find everything they need under one roof this weekend as the Novi Home and Garden Show opens at the Vibe Credit Union Showplace.The three-day event, running April 24-26, features more than 350 exhibitors showcasing products and services for interior

Two large wildfires burning in drought-stricken southeast Georgia have destroyed more than 120 homes and are threatening nearly 1,000 more, Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday.Kemp told reporters after touring the fire area that state officials believe the wildfires have burned more homes than any other in

Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in 1966 b

President Donald Trump's administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil.The move, a

An appeals court on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending asylum access, a key pillar of the Republican president’s plan to crack down on migration at the southern border