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Michigan State lands record $401M from donor couple, mostly for football and athletics Michigan State announced Friday a commitment of $401 million from East Lansing's Greg and Dawn Williams.

BREAKING: Michigan State lands record $401M from donor couple, mostly for football and athletics

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05.12.2025 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

DTE-funded group wrote six-figure checks to aid these Michigan leaders last year A new tax filing from a DTE Energy-funded group reveals $3 million in political giving that was previously secret.

NEW: DTE Energy-funded group wrote six-figure checks to aid these Michigan leaders last year

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05.12.2025 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Mich. Supreme Court asked to consider chimps held at U.P. zoo as persons The suit urges the court to reverse an appellate decision that affirmed chimps do not have the right to liberty under state laws that allow challenges to detention.

Michigan Supreme Court asked to consider chimps held at Upper Peninsula zoo as persons

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05.12.2025 04:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bedrock eyes marina at RenCen, starting demo work after 2027 Final Four One idea under study is constructing a marina in a new public space where two of the Renaissance Center towers would be torn down.

BREAKING: Dan Gilbert’s real estate development company is eying a marina at Renaissance Center, starting demo work after Detroit hosts the 2027 Final Four

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05.12.2025 00:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Trump unveils eased fuel economy rules, touts boost for affordability Trump is touting new fuel economy standards as a tool to lower vehicle prices and align rules to market realities.

Auto industry news:

Trump has slashed average fuel economy requirements from 50 mpg by 2031 to 34.5 mpg

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03.12.2025 22:19 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

ICE releases Hmong refugee in Michigan after bipartisan push for his freedom The release came weeks after Gov. Whitmer had pardoned Lue Yang in an effort to remove the criminal record that made him a target for deportation.

BREAKING: ICE releases Hmong refugee in Michigan after bipartisan push for his freedom, ⁦‪Whitmer‬⁩ pardon

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03.12.2025 22:11 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Peters pushes bill that responds to misconduct at Detroit VA hospital Sen. Gary Peters reintroduced a bill that he crafted in response to the 2022 findings of misconduct at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit.

NEW: ⁦‪Sen. Gary Peters‬⁩ pushes bill that responds to misconduct at Detroit VA hospital

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03.12.2025 11:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pat Fitzgerald could make up to $54 million as MSU football coach Fitzgerald's deal could run eight years and is laden with performance bonuses.

NEW: Pat Fitzgerald could make up to $54 million as MSU football coach

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03.12.2025 00:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Holtec gets $400M federal grant for small nuclear reactors at Palisades The Department of Energy is awarding Holtec up to $400 million to develop two small modular reactors at a nuclear power plant along Lake Michigan.

NEW: Holtec gets $400M federal grant from Trump administration for small nuclear reactors at Palisades on the shores of Lake Michigan

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02.12.2025 20:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Complaint filed over Michigan House speaker's Lions tickets from team's lobbyist Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall has refused to provide proof that he paid a lobbyist fair market value for tickets to a Lions game last month.

NEW: Complaint filed over Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall's Lions tickets from the team's Lansing lobbyist

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02.12.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

City to announce plan for former Packard Plant on Monday The announcement marks a milestone for the plant, which once was the site of luxury automaking but whose deterioration had once become a symbol of Detroit in decline.

Detroit to announce plan for redevelopment of part of former Packard Plant site

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01.12.2025 13:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Right-wing host sued for defamation over 'illegal immigrant' claims "Trucker" Randy Bishop sought bankruptcy protection weeks after he was sued by a northern Michigan business over comments he made on his radio show.

NEW: "Trucker" Randy Bishop, the outspoken right-wing radio host from Antrim County, has fled to bankruptcy court after being sued for defamation by a northern Michigan business for claiming they employ "illegal immigrants"

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01.12.2025 11:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know we’re not supposed to question the teachings of the Church of College Football, but paying a man $33.55 million for the next six years for wining nine games in two seasons seems — what’s the word I’m looking for? — obscene.

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30.11.2025 21:03 — 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 1

Michigan State fires football coach Jonathan Smith Michigan State hired Jonathan Smith to revive its football program. It’ll hire someone else to finish the job.

Michigan State fires football coach Jonathan Smith -- but the Spartans will still be paying him into the next decade.

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30.11.2025 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'Political lightning rod': Michigan Supreme Court scraps unit's DEI references A Democratic Party-nominated Michigan Supreme Court justice acknowledged, "‘DEI’ is now a polarizing concept in American life."

'Political lightning rod': Michigan Supreme Court scraps DEI name for a commission

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30.11.2025 13:24 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

49 years later, Michigan Supreme Court to decide if man's sentence was 'cruel and unusual' The Michigan Supreme Court will reconsider a 49-year-old murder sentence where, the defendant argues, there was no showing of malice.

49 years in, Michigan Supreme Court to decide if man's sentence was 'cruel and unusual'

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29.11.2025 12:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Metro Detroit expected to get 4-7 inches of snow Saturday Snow accumulation Saturday night will be heavy, the National Weather Service said.

Metro Detroit expected to get 4-7 inches of snow Saturday

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28.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Suspect in shooting of National Guard members now facing a first-degree murder charge The charges are now first-degree murder after the death of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom.

Suspect in shooting of National Guard members in D.C. now facing a first-degree murder charge

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28.11.2025 16:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eminem, Jack White collab released as single, Tarik Skubal weighs in The pair's Thanksgiving performance at Ford Field is now on streaming services, as Detroit Tigers pitcher logs a request for the newly minted duo.

Eminem, Jack White collab at Ford Field released as a single, Tarik Skubal weighs in

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28.11.2025 14:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lions fans, here’s that famous Daniel Mears photo of Lions star receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown doing a headstand at Lambeau Field last November, custom cropped to be your phone’s wallpaper.

Download it and marvel, compliments of @detroitnews.com.

#OnePride

27.11.2025 16:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tips in missing Morenci brothers case begin anew Publicity over the disappearance of three young brothers from Morenci in 2010 has sparked renewed interest in the case.

Tips in 15-year-old missing Morenci brothers case begin anew

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27.11.2025 13:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sellers with disabilities launch online market with aid of retired DTE exec A Michigan-based group is launching an Etsy-like platform for people with disabilities to sell their art and handmade goods to a wider customer base.

Sellers with disabilities launch online market with aid of retired ⁦‪DTE Energy‬⁩ executive

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27.11.2025 12:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Two West Virginia National Guard members shot in DC have died, the state's governor says Governor Patrick Morrisey confirmed their deaths in a social media post.

UPDATE: Two West Virginia National Guard members shot near the White House have died, the state's governor says

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26.11.2025 20:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

City Council advances plan by Detroit City FC to build stadium, parking deck, housing A 15,000-seat stadium, parking deck and apartment building are planned to go up on the site of former Southwest Detroit Hospital.

#Detroit City Council advances plan by Detroit City FC to build stadium, parking deck, housing

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26.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Michigan House speaker gets Lions tickets from lobbyist while blocking open records bill House Speaker Matt Hall won't say how much he paid a lobbying firm for Lions tickets. He's opposing bills that could shine light on the details.

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall, a self-styled ethics reformer, scored Lions tickets from a Lansing lobbyist — and he won’t say how much he paid for them.

And he’s blocking a FOIA bill that would shine new light on lawmaker-lobbyist relationships.

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26.11.2025 13:20 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Whitmer, MEDC pitched in at 'donor reception' supporting her travel The revelations, which came in a batch of documents obtained through an open records request, shine new light on the tangled web of relationships.

NEW: ⁦‪Gov. Gretchen Whitmer‬⁩, a dozen-plus Michigan Economic Development Corp. employees pitched in at 'donor reception' for private foundation funding her travel

MEDC acknowledges using the state’s Great Seal for a non-state government function

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25.11.2025 04:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

White House Christmas tree rooted in Michigan for first time since Reagan This will be the third time on record that a Michigan grower is supplying the official White House Christmas tree.

White House Christmas tree rooted in Michigan for first time since Reagan

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22.11.2025 12:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Howell Township puts pause on data centers after hundreds protest Howell Township trustees Thursday unanimously voted in favor of a six-month pause on data center applications.

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21.11.2025 11:42 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2

Jeff Daniels to open new music venue and restaurant in Chelsea JD's Stage and Bistro will have a state-of-the-art live room, a restaurant and private dining spaces.

Jeff Daniels and his son and daughter-in-law to open new music venue and restaurant in downtown Chelsea

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21.11.2025 02:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

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20.11.2025 19:45 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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