Detroit Free Press Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will not be freed 21 years early, as his family and supporters said would happen, after the federal Bureau of Prisons on Tuesday announced they had denied his application for home confinement.A little-known non-profit called the Ebony Foundation set off a frenzy Friday morning that Kilpatrick would be released after serving just seven years of a 28-year sentence for public corruption.Michigan state representatives Sherry Gay-Dagnogo and Karen Whitsett, both Detroit Democrats who had personally appealed to President...…Detroit Free Press Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will not be freed 21 years early, as his family and supporters said would happen, after the federal Bureau of Prisons on Tuesday announced they had denied his application for home confinement.A little-known non-profit called the Ebony Foundation set off a frenzy Friday morning that Kilpatrick would be released after serving just seven years of a 28-year sentence for public corruption.Michigan state representatives Sherry Gay-Dagnogo and Karen Whitsett, both Detroit Democrats who had personally appealed to President...WW…

Detroit Free Press In the same week that George Floyd was killed, a cake decorated with a Black penis on it showed up in the conference room at the Macomb County Medical Examiner's Office.Not only was the cake offensive, says one investigator, but it highlighted a chronic problem at the morgue that has now cost three employees their jobs.The Macomb County morgue is buried in scandal involving allegations of all sorts: Employees mocked Blacks inquiring about loved ones' deaths, hung pornography in the office, bullied women who complained and recently...…Detroit Free Press In the same week that George Floyd was killed, a cake decorated with a Black penis on it showed up in the conference room at the Macomb County Medical Examiner's Office.Not only was the cake offensive, says one investigator, but it highlighted a chronic problem at the morgue that has now cost three employees their jobs.The Macomb County morgue is buried in scandal involving allegations of all sorts: Employees mocked Blacks inquiring about loved ones' deaths, hung pornography in the office, bullied women who complained and recently...WW…

Detroit Free Press A pandemic. Daily protests. No live sports and possibly no school.Like the rest of the world, Detroit is living in extraordinary times and facing novel challenges, though one thing that hasn't changed here is the gun violence.It's gotten worse.It's been a bloody summer in Detroit, just like most summers, with no sign that it's going to stop.  In just two months, 372 people have been shot in the city,  including 62 deaths —  that's at least one killing a day by gunfire.Homicides are up 30...…Detroit Free Press A pandemic. Daily protests. No live sports and possibly no school.Like the rest of the world, Detroit is living in extraordinary times and facing novel challenges, though one thing that hasn't changed here is the gun violence.It's gotten worse.It's been a bloody summer in Detroit, just like most summers, with no sign that it's going to stop.  In just two months, 372 people have been shot in the city,  including 62 deaths —  that's at least one killing a day by gunfire.Homicides are up 30...WW…

Detroit Free Press All it took was one packed bar. An infected patron. And a wild party afterward.This is the toxic combination that has led to a new wave of COVID-19 cases in the Grosse Pointe community, where at least 30 new cases in recent days have been tied to an outbreak at a popular East Lansing bar almost 100 miles away.Harper's Restaurant & Brew Pub saw shoulder-to-shoulder crowds after reopening earlier this month, including some college students from the affluent Grosse Pointes who unknowingly got infected and brought the virus back home. According to...…Detroit Free Press All it took was one packed bar. An infected patron. And a wild party afterward.This is the toxic combination that has led to a new wave of COVID-19 cases in the Grosse Pointe community, where at least 30 new cases in recent days have been tied to an outbreak at a popular East Lansing bar almost 100 miles away.Harper's Restaurant & Brew Pub saw shoulder-to-shoulder crowds after reopening earlier this month, including some college students from the affluent Grosse Pointes who unknowingly got infected and brought the virus back home. According to...WW…

Detroit Free Press In the same week that Michigan's coronavirus death toll hit 2,300, critics of the governor's stay-at-home order grew louder and louder, rallying in Lansing by the thousands, toting guns and protest signs on the Capitol steps and filing multiple lawsuits that claim their rights are being violated.A Northern Michigan man is upset that he can't visit his girlfriend, friends and family.An Oakland County tree and lawn care specialist says he has been unfairly forced to close and lay off 15 employees.Boaters are mad that they can't take to the...…Detroit Free Press In the same week that Michigan's coronavirus death toll hit 2,300, critics of the governor's stay-at-home order grew louder and louder, rallying in Lansing by the thousands, toting guns and protest signs on the Capitol steps and filing multiple lawsuits that claim their rights are being violated.A Northern Michigan man is upset that he can't visit his girlfriend, friends and family.An Oakland County tree and lawn care specialist says he has been unfairly forced to close and lay off 15 employees.Boaters are mad that they can't take to the...WW…

Detroit Free Press She showed up at the border in scrubs and a lab coat, the feds say, then got busted with a trunk full of weed.A Canadian nurse has been charged with sneaking more than 150 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. by using her medical credentials — including a work badge from Henry Ford Hospital — to cross the border into Detroit, which is only open to essential travel because of the COVID-19 crisis.“At a time when health care professionals are working overtime to keep us safe, it’s really shameful that anyone would exploit their status as a nurse to smuggle any...…Detroit Free Press She showed up at the border in scrubs and a lab coat, the feds say, then got busted with a trunk full of weed.A Canadian nurse has been charged with sneaking more than 150 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. by using her medical credentials — including a work badge from Henry Ford Hospital — to cross the border into Detroit, which is only open to essential travel because of the COVID-19 crisis.“At a time when health care professionals are working overtime to keep us safe, it’s really shameful that anyone would exploit their status as a nurse to smuggle any...WW…

Detroit Free Press Emergency room doctors at Beaumont Health, Michigan's largest hospital system, will see smaller paychecks after volunteering to have their hours reduced amid the pandemic, and their ER counterparts in pediatrics have agreed to take temporary leaves of absence, the Free Press has learned.The cuts and leaves are a response to the millions of dollars in losses that Beaumont —along with other hospital systems — has sustained in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis that has led to "substantial"  drops in overall emergency visits and elimination of services like...…Detroit Free Press Emergency room doctors at Beaumont Health, Michigan's largest hospital system, will see smaller paychecks after volunteering to have their hours reduced amid the pandemic, and their ER counterparts in pediatrics have agreed to take temporary leaves of absence, the Free Press has learned.The cuts and leaves are a response to the millions of dollars in losses that Beaumont —along with other hospital systems — has sustained in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis that has led to "substantial"  drops in overall emergency visits and elimination of services like...WW…

Detroit Free Press After four months of working in labs, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has started testing humans in the U.S. with a potential vaccine for the coronavirus  — a serum that could be mass produced at  Pfizer's Kalamazoo site depending on its success.The trial involves 360 volunteers across the country, and the first subjects have already been injected with their doses, Pfizer announced Tuesday. These volunteers are healthy adults ages 18-55. Older adults ages 65-85 will only receive the vaccine if the doses given to the younger group are shown to be safe and...…Detroit Free Press After four months of working in labs, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has started testing humans in the U.S. with a potential vaccine for the coronavirus  — a serum that could be mass produced at  Pfizer's Kalamazoo site depending on its success.The trial involves 360 volunteers across the country, and the first subjects have already been injected with their doses, Pfizer announced Tuesday. These volunteers are healthy adults ages 18-55. Older adults ages 65-85 will only receive the vaccine if the doses given to the younger group are shown to be safe and...WW…

Detroit Free Press With the blessing of British scientists, a Michigan bio-pharmaceutical company is hitting the market with an over-the-counter nasal antiseptic that it says has killed COVID-19 in lab tests.Neither the Center for Disease Control nor the FDA have conducted trials to know whether the antiseptic can actually kill COVID-19. And the makers stress: "It's not a cure."But scientists at BlueWillow Biologics in Ann Arbor believe they are onto something. This month, the company announced that laboratory studies by Public Health England show that their antiseptic has the ability...…Detroit Free Press With the blessing of British scientists, a Michigan bio-pharmaceutical company is hitting the market with an over-the-counter nasal antiseptic that it says has killed COVID-19 in lab tests.Neither the Center for Disease Control nor the FDA have conducted trials to know whether the antiseptic can actually kill COVID-19. And the makers stress: "It's not a cure."But scientists at BlueWillow Biologics in Ann Arbor believe they are onto something. This month, the company announced that laboratory studies by Public Health England show that their antiseptic has the ability...WW…